The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

The American Dream is a philosophy based off of starting from nothing and achieving family, fortune, and fame. The belief that self-determination and hard work will lead to the attainment of the American Dream is strongly tied with the American culture. This philosophical idea, however, is not portrayed in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, which is often referred to as one of the “Great American Novels” to date. In terms, a “Great American Novel” should portray an honest and well-remembered character, rather than a character such as Jay Gatsby who achieved his fortune through illegal business and dies without recognition towards the end. Although Gatsby lives a lavish lifestyle that many people fantasize about, Gatsby’s American Dream is never fully fulfilled due to his failure of not having a family, successfully obtaining money the righteous way, and leaving a legacy; therefore, the novel The Great Gatsby, should not be entitled as the “Great American Novel” today.

Society has an obsession with money. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, wealth is portrayed in two different classes called the new money and the old money. New money refers to those who have recently made their own fortune within their own generation. Old money refers to those who have inherited money from their wealthy families in the past generations. The new money people are more extravagant with their money in order to flaunt their wealth, while the old money people are more conservative with their money because they have been around for longer and people already understand their wealth. The difference between new and old money is not

F. Scott Fitzgerald showcases characters illusions in the novel The Great Gatsby. Each of the characters gets wrapped up in the dream that they all wanted to live. The Great Gatsby is a novel about the American dream and the illusion is that one can be happy through wealth, power or fame. Gatsby, Myrtle, and George all had an illusion thinking they can live the american dream.

To this day and age, nearly 100 years into the future, the 1920s are seen as a decade of good music, outrageous parties, and beautiful people. However, in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, the degeneration of society and people during that time due to their immaculate wealth and their glamorous lives is captured perfectly. The entire book seems to revolve around one major theme: the decline of the American dream and the perfect society that supposedly came with it. This is set apart from the other themes in the book because instead of being mentioned directly, it is hinted at by means of oratorical words and phrases. Throughout The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald successfully condemns the corruption of the jazz age through the use of

In the wake of the Great War, women’s possibilities opened up considerably. In spite of these advances, women still depended on men for finances, activity, and social standing. Women in the 20s struggled to create their own social roles separate from the men surrounding and defining them, revealing the one-sided control in a morally corrupt society. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, juxtaposes the women’s subjective experiences to prove that given the limited scope of their patriarchal realities, the ideal of female freedom is unachievable.

Fitzgerald, in the Great Gatsby, shows that the 1920’s was a time period crammed with the desire to change oneself into something they are not. Many people longed for their dreams to come true and craved for an opportunity to fulfill those dreams by obtaining the necessities to turn them from dreams into reality. This could include dreams to become rich, to become very moralistic, or even the dream to be with that special someone. Humans thirst for their American Dream so much that they will do anything to attain it. It was a common thought that the only necessity in order to obtain these dreams or aspirations was working hard enough to attain them. However, Fitzgerald, through the development of characters Daisy, Gatsby, Myrtle, and Nick, claims that if we are not born into the right circumstances, including family, social class, or the acquired amount of riches, then we will never be able to obtain our real dream we so desire. In other words, what circumstances we are born in define us and reveal the limited options of what life we can live.

Money is not the only factor involved in gaining social status and happiness. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is set in 1922, a time of social climbers and the need for money to have a sense of happiness and security in society. The common characterization throughout the novel portrays the common idea that money is a main priority, even before the character’s happiness. For example, the security of marrying into money and social status is often seen as more important than true love. The idea that wealth is a necessity for social class begins to develop. Also present is the contrast between “new money” and “old money.” This is shown through the

“We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality”. (Iris Murdoch). How had Jay Gatsby left such an imprint on Nick’s life? Jay Gatsby’s greed and imagination had left his efforts blinded, from the undying need to win Daisy back. However, most people have surrounded themselves with respect on their ethics and morals. Gatsby along with the other citizens of the West and East Egg had constructed their lives around their philosophy and opinion of a good life. The 1920’s had been an era in which been corrupted by the American Dream. The American Dream had been the willing to want, that anyone could make material success, everlasting love, and political power, by hard work and dedication. The Roaring Twenties had created this irrelevant idea that the people could put up facades and mask what they truly were. In the novel The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, tells a story of the depths and problems that surround wealth and the society of the West/East Egg. Gatsby was great because the idealism of wealth and the American Dream was great, however his intentions were tragically too idealistic, which ultimately caused his death. Jay Gatsby blinded by many materialistic needs, had been under the impression that life is stricken in a rewind of an illusion.

Dance has shaped the way we look at many different things throughout history. It has shaped how people socialize, what music people listen to, and even whole eras. One such era is the roaring 1920s. How did people socialize in the 1920s? They danced the evening away. What music did people listen to? Jazz music that they could listen to while they danced the evening away. Dance was a huge part of what made up the glorious Jazz Age. So, when a book was written to describe the 1920s scene, no doubt there had to be dance, and lots of it. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the energy level of the parties, music, and dancing to represent a vast array of emotions within the characters.

The American Dream has been around for years, and is forever changing. However, its basic principles of determination and purpose have always been around, except during the 1920s when they had become corrupted. This idea was shown throughout The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The story gives great insight into what life was like during the 1920s from the characters’ perspectives. Through Gatsby’s lavish lifestyle, the readers get to see what the ultimate goal was for the American people at the time. However, what he had was not enough for him since all he ever wanted was to earn Daisy’s love. Gatsby’s dream was symbolized through the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock, which he use to stare at night. Fitzgerald uses the green light to compare Gatsby’s hopeless quest for Daisy’s heart to the unobtainable, corrupted American Dream. He does this by showing how obsessed the characters are with having a life like Gatsby’s, and by having him die at the end of the novel without having achieved his dream.

In the novel The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the main character, Jay Gatsby, is portrayed by Fitzgerald as a tremendous romanticist who, throughout the entire novel, tries to win over the love of his life. When Gatsby and Daisy are reunited, they start spending more time with one another behind Tom Buchanan-Daisy 's husbands, back. Daisy and Gatsby are enjoying one of their meet ups at Gatsby 's mansion one afternoon when Gatsby comes close to obtaining Daisy, however, he and Nick share some worrisome beliefs that perhaps, Daisy is falling too short of Gatsby 's illusion, which is the perfected vision of Daisy that Gatsby creates about her. Throughout the analysed passage, Fitzgerald demonstrates that dreams idealised in ones mind can never truly be attained and are better off being simply dreams.

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald chronicles the life of Jay Gatsby, a self-made man, narrated by a social outsider named Nick Carraway. The story takes place in New York during the Roaring Twenties. In this decade, American’s lives were characterized by a fascination with new technology, great wealth, and an increased emphasis on social activities and leisure. In addition, many Americans engaged in binge drinking despite Prohibition laws which made the consumption of alcohol illegal. In order to avoid arrest, Americans would smuggle illegally purchased alcohol into private social events and there consume it in excess. This dangerous behavior, in the context of secrecy and exclusivity, caused many Americans to re-evaluate their life

Frances Scott Key Fitzgerald, born September 24, 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota, is seen today as one of the true great American novelists. Although he lived a life filled with alcoholism, despair, and lost-love, he managed to create the ultimate love story and seemed to pinpoint the American Dream of his time in his classic novel, The Great Gatsby. In the novel, Jay Gatsby is the epitome of the self-made man, in which he dedicates his entire life to climbing the social ladder in order to gain wealth, to ultimately win the love of a woman: something that proves to be unattainable. As it turns out, Gatsby’s excessive extravagance and love of money, mixed with his obsession for a woman’s love, is actually the autobiographical portrayal of

As Karl Marx once said, “religion is the opiate of the masses”. Marx viewed religion as a drug which gives people the comfort and happiness they need. Just like money, he believed that religion is a destructive force which puts people under a spell to maintain control over them. During the Jazz Age, America had an economic growth which swept americans to become part of a “consumer society”. Throughout this period of time, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote many modernist novels, including The Great Gatsby, in which he critiques the downfall of the 1920’s society through religion and consumerism.

The narrator and protagonist, Nick Carraway, moves from the mid-west to New York to pursue the bond business during the summer of 1922. He rents a modest house in West Egg, a suburb full of the “new rich,” next to a gigantic Gothic mansion belonging to a millionaire by the name Jay Gatsby.