The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

First of all Fitzgerald embodies Gatsby as a failed American dream during the time period by presenting Gatsby as a person who achieves happiness and materialism with money. Gatsby wants to

F Scott Fitzgerald was one of the most influential authors of the 20th century. Although his last finished work was more than 60 years ago, today they are enjoyed with more enthusiasm and acclaim than they were when they were written. His works are cited as an influence for many other authors. Fitzgerald saw his writing as a reflection of his own life. His works are closely based on his experiences at Princeton, in World War 1 and his love life. Although he was not overly popular at the time of his death, today, he is regarded as one of the best authors of the modern era.

Gatsby is practically famous from the parties he throws but none of that matters to him. Gatsby tries to use his wealth to attract Daisy, and it seemed to work, but that's not how love and fellowship is supposed to be earned. A connection between two people shouldn’t be reliant on wealth, especially when carelessness is also a factor. This inevitably resulted in the car accident. Too many characters were wrapped up in what they believed was important. Fitzgerald weaved satire into the actions of nearly every

"Never has symbolism played such a crucial part in the very foundation of a novel as it does in Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, The Great Gatsby." Harold Bloom has written about this book. The author used several types of symbolism in The Great Gatsby. The colours are probably the easiest to be recognized and guessed what they symbolized. According to the definition “symbolism” is "the practice of representing things by means of symbols or of attributing symbolic meanings or significance to objects, events, or relationships."

Many consider The Great Gatsby a beautiful love story. A literary review site, for example, says about Fitzgerald’s most famous work: “The Great Gatsby is probably F. Scott Fitzgerald 's greatest novel […] Gatsby is really nothing more than a man desperate for love”(The Great Gatsby Review). Popular opinion paints Gatsby as such: A man desperate for love, devoid of any evil. But a closer look uncovers a new side of Jay Gatsby because Gatsby, underneath his glorious façade, is a sociopath.

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is an American classic. Fitzgerald tells the story of a wealthy businessman of the 1920s through the eyes of whom one could consider his best friend. The story includes young love, wealthy individuals, death, and focuses on the idea of the American dream for the 1920s. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses parts of his own life as the bases for a few of his characters.

Throughout The Great Gatsby many themes are displayed to correlate moral corruption to each character. The Great Gatsby is basically a story about moral and the absentence of morals within the society of the 1920’s. Most characters in the book as only concerned about how society views them and what can they do to be the most rich and famous person that everyone is talking about. Tom, Daisy and Myrtle are three characters in The Great Gatsby who take no responsibility for their actions, in which the lives of others are destroyed and demonstrate how the corruption of the 1920s can ruin one’s life.

James Gatz or as he is known Jay Gatsby who was raised in a poor farming family in North Dakota, ran away and took an opportunity to learn from the rich man he had saved by staying with him and learning how to act “rich” to make himself rich and to live in his dream world. Gatsby took the opportunity and went into the drugs business or in other words bootlegged and turned from rags to riches. Just like that Gatsby represents the American dream which according to James Trusio Adams from The Epic of America is, “ that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller of every man, with opportunities for each according to his ability or achievement.” We are given an opportunity to get a 4 year college degree and to achieve

The Jazz Age, marking to be an era of great change. After World War I ended in 1919, the post-war seemed to make life so much better. People began to become wealthy, which was a tremendous financial change, at least for the upper class, from having a time of corruption. With all of the new wealth, people began buy more. When people begin to buy more, that means profits grew, more goods were manufactured, which makes people earn more money. With all of this money, they began to buy consumer goods- cars, radios, telephones, etc.

In order to achieve her desires for power, Daisy portrays innocence, requiring her to take action to preserve the image; ironically, to save the sanctity of her marriage, Daisy must forsake purity for security.

Written in 1925, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald follows Jay Gatsby in his quest to win back Daisy Buchanan, the love he lost five years earlier. Gatsby’s endeavor leads him from poverty to wealth, and eventually to death. The novel presents a clear picture of 1920’s culture in America, where people’s idea of the American Dream is simply riches and fame. The American Dream is the fundamental force which drives most characters in The Great Gatsby, but, in a dream driven by money, the characters are led to tragedy instead of success. Through his characters, Fitzgerald asserts his disapproval of the evolving meaning of the American Dream as social and moral values disintegrate within an increasingly materialistic and capitalistic nation.

Set in the early 1920’s, The Great Gatsby (1925) written by F. Scott Fitzgerald is narrated by Nick Carraway, a young man returning to Long Island, New York to seek his fortune as a bond salesman. The glamorous tale follows Jay Gatsby and his burning desire to be reunited with striking Daisy Buchanan, the love of his life. The various settings in The Great Gatsby (1925) primarily serve to provide the reader with an understanding of the characters’ ideals and novel context. The profound contrast between suburbs, East Egg and West Egg, reflect the values of Tom and Daisy Buchannan, Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway. Tom and Daisy are superficial characters, living in a suburb of incredibly wealthy and egotistical people. Jay Gatsby is represented as a hopeful young man, aspiring to achieve his dream of marrying Daisy, through the setting of West Egg and it’s portrayal. New York City represents the diverse population of America, filled with immorality and carelessness. Here characters are presented under pressure, with no contemplation of consequences for their reckless actions. The Valley of ashes reveals the significant downfall of characters and effect of the ‘American Dream’. The context of the ‘roaring twenties’ in this novel is portrayed through setting aesthetics. The apparent contrast between each setting is essential in reflecting and determining character ideologies, symbolic imagery and the novel’s context.

The celebrated American author F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote, “An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.” In his seminal novel The Great Gatsby, set among the decadence and excess of New York society during the Roaring Twenties, Fitzgerald accomplished all three. Though the work achieved limited commercial success during Fitzgerald’s lifetime, the subsequent critical acclaim garnered after his early death propelled The Great Gatsby to extraordinary commercial and literary success. The novel has continued to grow in popularity and impact, earning it a place on the short

This literary work became known as of one the greatest novels of all time in America. The Great Gatsby is a novel that tells a story of a man named Jay Gatsby that is pursuing the American dream and he’ll take any measure to get there to help him woo the love of his life Daisy.Strangely enough, this story strongly resembled the life of Fitzgerald. For example, Gatsby and Fitzgerald both pursued the American dream, not just for a better life, but to woo the woman of their dream. Also, they both western backgrounds from families not of wealth. (History Kitchen).“With its beautiful lyricism, pitch-perfect portrayal of the Jazz Age, and searching critiques of materialism, love and the American Dream, The Great Gatsby is considered Fitzgerald's finest work.” (A&E Television Networks).

succeeded. Francis Scott Fitzgerald was a talented writer; his only flaw was that he liked the combination of alcohol and the nightlife (Coale 190). He spent his life writing and trying to be happy with his wife, Zelda Sayre. His life served as a resource for his novels. Perhaps writing about his life helped him deal with his grief.