The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby a, novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald, follows a cast of characters abiding in the town of East and West Egg on affluent Long Island in the summer of 1922. Each of the characters, while part of the same story line, have different priorities and agendas, each character working towards achieving what they think would benefit them the most. As The Great Gatsby’s plot thickens the characters constantly show their discontent of the American Dream that they are living, always expressing their greed for more, three particular offenders of this deadly sin are Tom, Daisy and Gatsby himself. The characters motives stem from a mixture of boredom, a need and longing for the american dream, and simple selfish human

Tom Buchanan is a wealthy man, a brute, and an athlete. Tom attended Yale with Nick, he professes his to love Daisy but has had affairs throughout their relationship. He has had a long-term affair with a woman in New York, who turns out to be Myrtle Wilson, the wife of the man who Tom knows. Tom tries to make himself seem intelligent, but in reality, he is quite ignorant. He believes that the white race should always possess power over all minority races and worries that African-Americans have gained too much standing in society. At the end of the story, he reveals that he has discovered that Gatsby is a bootlegger and then realizes that Daisy and Gatsby are having an affair. After Gatsby and Daisy ran over Myrtle in a car, he and Daisy,

Take a look around you, and you will find a myriad of different colors in which you might not think much of, but in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald colors represent different ideas. Fitzgerald utilizes symbolism in the colors of certain objects throughout the novel to reveal a deeper meanings and to enhance the reader’s experience. Fitzgerald introduces Gatsby while he is reaching his hand out to a green light across the bay; the color green stands for something unattainable yet desirable. Colors are also symbolized through the outfits the characters wear in certain parts of the novel. Another prevalent symbol in the novel is Gatsby’s car, which is originally a cream color representing false purity but changes to an arresting yellow, symbolizing death and corruption.

All of these characters are trying to create the perfect image for themselves. However, this never happens and whatever they wanted is at no time achieved. Money was the biggest factor with Gatsby, Myrtle, and Daisy. They all strived for money, power and wealth and when it was accomplished, they desired more. They didn’t want to be known as the individual they actually were. They just wanted to be perceived as the image they portrayed and acted upon. This misconception became the downfall for all of

Throughout the novel “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nick uses the “I” in a past tense as he, the narrator, tells his story and at the end makes the realization that Gatsby and Nick share a commonality in life, therefore, Nick changes his world standpoint to include Gatsby, thus the “We” connection. In the beginning Nick starts off by telling us of the advice his father gave him (“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one, “he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”). From his father’s teachings, Nick learns about what morality is, to be tolerant of the under privileged resulting in his identifying with the wealthy, which begins his “I” perspective. Thereupon, at

To add with Tom, Daisy is the most immoral person in the novel. In the beginning of this novel, she is portrayed as a sweet and innocent girl from Louisville. Throughout the story, she develops into the character that is needed in order to convey the meaning of moral decline. Daisy is immoral because she runs over and kills Myrtle, and she is careless about her crime. The “Death Car”, as the newspapers called it, didn’t stop; it came out of the gathering darkness, wavered around the next bend” (139). She is losing her values because she is using Gatsby to get back at Tom for cheating on her. At the end of the novel, she goes as far as leaving town with Tom; she doesn’t even attend Gatsby’s funeral nor leave any flowers. Daisy is just a complete immoral character all-around.

Greatness is defined as “wonderful; first-rate; very good; being such in an extreme or notable degree; remarkable; exceptionally outstanding; important; highly significant or consequential” (dictionary.com). So, using that criteria as judgment, is Gatsby actually great? Historical figures that are considered “great” add perspective to the controversy of that question, making a model or guidelines for someone to be thought of as “great”. Jay Gatsby shares the title “great”, as these leaders do, yet may not fit the mold. Why? That is a sticky subject. Formerly known as James Gatz, Gatsby is “great” in that he pursues a dream until his death, something many people can’t do; however his “greatness” truly lies in the fact that he is defeated by his desire for a girl that did not belong to him anymore. He chases a dream that isn’t in reaching distance. This great failure is Gatsby’s legacy that makes him The Great Gatsby, but what makes Gatsby, or any man for that matter, “great”?

"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven 't had the advantages that you 've had” (Fitzgerald 3). Many people are born into bad statistics for being able to achieve the American dream. Nick reveals this very early on in The Great Gatsby with this thought provoking quote. Not all people are born with the same advantages as others. There are many factors that have held people back from attaining their goals in our great country.. Despite the perception that Americans can move from rags to riches to live the American Dream, the trials and obstacles that underserved and minorities have to overcome reveals that the American Dream is a false hope.

It can also be seen that she is very mature as Jordan states, “She went with a slightly older crowd—when she went with anyone at all” (81). This willingness to go with individuals with more “experience” and therefore, more maturity, show how important collecting status is to her. Her past ultimately reveals that she has always aimed for a sophisticated lifestyle and strived to be a respectable figure in society. When Gatsby is introduced, he threatens the image that Daisy upholds in society as it would have forced her to disregard the three years of marriage and the child that she had with Tom. Therefore, Daisy’s choice to leave Gatsby, both while he was at war and after Tom confronted the two about their love, demonstrates how she is fixated on collecting status for herself. It may seem that Daisy collects men rather than status, but Nick disproves this when he describes Daisy and Tom’s marriage: “They weren’t happy … and yet they weren’t unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture” (155). Although Daisy may not be happy with Tom, he provides her with the proper status that she needs for others to regard her properly. Therefore, Daisy does not collect men specifically as she focuses more on the status and influence that men provide rather than the men themselves. By marrying Tom, she collects both stability and status in order to fulfill her desire for sophistication in society.

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.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, an influential writer in the 1920’s writes the American classic novel The Great Gatsby, following the rekindling of a past love between Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan through the perspective of Nick Carraway. Nick observes as the couple reconnects despite Daisy’s cheating husband, Tom Buchanan, and Gatsby’s obsessive manner. He then witnesses as Gatsby takes the blame for Daisy’s mistake of killing Myrtle Wilson and later Gatsby’s death. Myrtle Wilson a minor character in the novel who is also the mistress of Tom Buchanan, along with the person Daisy kills. Notably, Nick Carraway “feels a palpable repugnance for the Myrtle Wilsons of the world” (Voegeli). Set in 1922, Myrtle embodies the failure of the American Dream during the roaring twenties; furthermore, Myrtle and her husband George Wilson “preside over the valley of ashheaps” (Telgen), and George has a meager job working for Tom Buchanan. Because Fitzgerald develops the character Myrtle Wilson as a catalyst to Jay Gatsby’s death, a foil to Daisy Buchanan, and an archetype for temptation, he constructs a minor character with a significant presence.

Fitzgerald wrote one of his most famous books The Great Gatsby, during the Age of Disillusionment. He focuses on the idea that everyone wants love, money, social class superiority,happiness, etc. The main American Dreams that Fitzgerald writes about are love and money. He shows that through his character 's hopes and dreams. For example, Gatsby’s dream of being with Daisy and Nick’s hope for becoming rich; even though to Fitzgerald they are only myths. The American Dreams are to find love and get rich, however Fitzgerald believes that The American Dream can not be achieved.

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

Dreams are an escape from reality to a world of imagination that is ideal for someone. However, we get overwhelmed with our fantasies, we lose touch with reality. In the text, “Is The Great Gatsby the Most Overrated Literary Novel of All Time,” Daniel Honan argues that the classic American novel, The Great Gatsby is an overrated novel in his opinion. Honan challenges his claim on the novel by questioning, should his book be considered an American classic? Author, F.Scott Fitzgerald, portrays his novel The Great Gatsby with a unique writing style, structure, and captures life in the 1920s realistically. Fitzgerald demonstrates the theme of illusion vs. reality by showing life in the Roaring 20 was not as glamorous it seemed to be through his character’s lifestyles. With such a decorative and fast pace life the characters start to lose touch with reality, therefore tricking them into mistaking their illusion as reality. Fitzgerald was able to tie in the theme of illusion vs. real into his novel effectively due to how he used his characters to connect to people in that time period and even now. Therefore making The Great Gatsby a true American novel and making Honan claim invalid.

When initially thinking of the 1920’s, people envision a time of grandeur and secrecy that developed as a result of the prohibition movement. People were finally alive following a time of great nationwide tribulation, and constantly dancing to the tune of jazz music throughout the big cities of the country. The affluent were living in more excess and luxury than ever before, while the poor were steadily rising towards socio-economic change. The music, the art, and the literature were at the peak of creativity and from the inception of this roaring decade, came the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925), later turned into a movie by Baz Luhrmann (2013). Fitzgerald’s imagination, and Luhrmann’s twenty-first century revamp, takes the reader into the life of a young man named Nick Carraway, newly arrived in New York City to make a life for himself as a bonds salesman, despite his underlying desire to become a writer. Over the course of his first, and last, summer on the east coast Nick reconnects with his wealthy, flirtatious cousin Daisy Buchanan and her husband Tom, learning that even the most elite members of New York society have their secrets and insecurities. Along with these new revelations comes the introduction of Nicks illusive neighbor Jay Gatsby, a man of immense suspicion and new wealth. As the summer draws to its conclusion affairs are revealed, and a final collision changes the fates of all of the key characters for the rest of their lives