The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Jazz Age, a provocative era coincides with the mysterious lives in the novel, “The Great Gatsby,” by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Jazz Age embodies wealth, parties and dreams, as does TGG. Nick Carraway, a humble man living in West Egg narrates the lifestyles of his intriguing neighbors. Nick guides the reader through experiences of hidden lives and secrets of his acquaintances and friends. Tom and Daisy Buchanan, an affluent couple, Myrtle Wilson an average woman longing for love, and Mr. Gatsby, a glorified, inexplicable man illustrate how they must resort to hidden lives and secrets to indulge

In The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald has a running theme that excessive wealth and materialism will lead to carelessness, corruption, and destruction. Most of the characters in the book reflect this theme, like Tom and Daisy as they were careless to run away from their difficulties because they have the money and leave their mess for someone else to clean it up. However, some characters go against this theme, like Jay Gatsby. He came from a poor family, but grew to become a gentleman, and used that to lead another life, become rich, and one day would get the girl of his dreams. He uses that money on parties for the people and trying to get Daisy to go with him. Then there is someone else in real life that goes against this theme named Elon Musk. He found his money through the internet as he started his career founding companies, one of them being Paypal. He now uses this money to prolong humanities survival with companies such as SpaceX and Tesla Motorsports. The American Entrepreneur Elon Musk and Jay Gatsby goes against Scott Fitzgerald’s theme of excessive wealth and materialism will lead to carelessness, corruption, and destruction by using their money generously.

Colors can invoke feelings for people. Certain colors are attached to moods. Red can represent anger, green sometimes represents envy and blue can represent calm or even melancholy. Much art, music, and literature is dependent on color to convey the intended mood of the artist. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby, a man with wealth, power, and possessions is on a quest for the dream that he will never attain. He cannot have all that he already has plus the true love of Daisy. Fitzgerald creates his own unique motifs surrounding certain colors and uses these colors to emphasize the futility in Gatsby’s quest for this dream. Through the use

At its most simplistic form, nostalgia is a sentimental longing for the past. It is a subtle phenomenon that is associated with a person or place. Fitzgerald plays this concept into his novel The Great Gatsby, which is narrated by a character named Nick Carraway. Nick tells of his neighbor Gatsby, who goes to extreme lengths to reclaim a lost love. Throughout the novel, Gatsby serves as a conduit for humanity’s nostalgic depictions of the past. He accumulates massive amounts of wealth and even changes his identity in efforts to relive something that has already passed. Fitzgerald draws from this, and conceptualizes how nostalgia distorts a person’s overall perception of being.

(A major theme in The Great Gatsby is the pursuit of what you make of the American dream.)

To be Nick Carraway is to be an unreliable narrator. An unreliable narrator is a narrator, who, has little to no credibility and simply cannot be trusted. These narrators are often in first-person and “seem to have limited knowledge, to be mistaken in his or her understanding of people and events, or even to be deliberately misleading the reader.” (Margree par. 1). The well-known novel The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald, introduces readers to a story where everything may not be necessarily true. The beauty of this novel is that the readers actually get to decide what they want or do not want to believe. This is all due to Nick Carraway, the narrator of The Great Gatsby. Nick is prejudice and has various faults like dishonesty and being oblivious to himself. A character/narrator like this during the 1920s in New York City seems to fit in just fine, after all it was an age of “vitality, sapping out genuine emotion in favor of the artificial,” (Wolok 1). However, Nick’s faults have a major effect on the background stories and events taking place in The Great Gatsby. He picks and chooses his narrations forcing readers to not get only half the story. Along with this, Nick Carraway from The Great Gatsby is an unreliable narrator because he constantly contradicts himself, is biased towards Gatsby, and attempts to use other characters as primary sources.

Tom Buchanan and Jay Gatsby are rivals within F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book The Great Gatsby. Throughout the entire story, Tom and Gatsby fall in love with the same person but in the end Daisy has to choose one of them. Gatsby knew Daisy from when he was enlisted in war. Though Daisy did not have the patients to wait for Gatsby, and the fact that he did not have much money did not make it any easier. He was starting to realize that because of it he would not be able to win her over. Once Tom showed up into her life everything changed. She left Gatsby and decided she wanted to pursue her life with Tom. Even though Daisy chooses Tom instead of Gatsby, Gatsby would have been a better choice.

The idea of the “American Dream” seems to change from generation to generation. Our grandparents believed in working hard to make money to support your family. Our parents believed going to college and getting a good education so you can succeed in the world. Today’s generation- Well they believe in traveling and being free and seeing everything there is to see before you truly begin your life at around 30 years old.

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

Gatsby lives in the past, he doesn’t realize that Daisy has moved on. She now is married and has a child He is holding back to that love they once had together and now wants to recreate it. The green light is a representation of Gatsby’s hopes and dreams. In chapter one, Gatsby reaches for the green light this symbolizes that the light is guiding him to his ultimate goal which is winning Daisy back and being able to recreate the past . Daisy’s home is across from Gatsby’s home and the fact that Gatsby lives far away from her it means that he’ll never be able to be with her because of his class of being “New money” and Daisy being “Old money” and how he won’t necessarily be accepted by the old money class. Making this a sad dream that won’t come true. I believe that the American Dream is an elusive fantasy because of how Americans in today’s society are using the wrong ways of being able to attain their dream by selling drugs or robbery and much more. In order to attain the riches that he had, Gatsby involved himself into becoming a bootlegger which made him the person that he was, a wealthy, partying rocking man in the category known as “New” money. He did it because his dream was to be with Daisy and the only way he could reach that goal of his was

During the 1920’s, most Americans cared about their wealth and social standing. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald displays the characters striving for happiness, love, and wealth, in which none of the characters can have all of the options in the life they have. He does this to explain his own struggle with his American dream by never having a lot of money, never being a very successful writer, and losing his golden girl. Fitzgerald portrays his pessimistic view on the struggle of fulfilling the American dream by portraying different types of people trying to achieve their own dreams with the obstacles of social status, and the influence of reputation getting in the way of their individual dreams.

Most Americans work hard to be better than others, achieve perfection, and hide their imperfections. Americans will do anything to hide their imperfections. This idea is present in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby and in Tennessee William’s play, A Streetcar Named Desire. In The Great Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan, Jordan Baker and Jay Gatsby appear to be living the wealthy and perfect American lifestyle compared to Nick Carraway, a man who was born and raised in the midwest and is renting a small house in West Egg, Long Island. However, Nick realizes that these innocent looking people use white to cover up their corruption and moral dishonesty. This is similar to when Blanche shows up at her sister’s doorstep wearing all white in A

In a capitalistic country like America, money plays a huge part in your life and can classify you into a certain social status, depending on whether or not you have it. The United States is an attractive destination for foreigners because of the chance of finding fortune. The American Dream was derived from the idea that living in the United States of America promises prosperity and ultimately lead into a better life. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby’s is heavily influenced by his greed due to his journey from poverty to luxury. The wealthier Gatsby gets the more manipulative and controlling he becomes towards people around him. His pursuit towards the American Dream causes him to become lost in his own fortune and

Daisy Buchanan was possibly considered as one of the most controversial characters from the novel The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The author characterized Daisy in the beginning of the novel as an innocent victim torn between her two lovers-Tom Buchanan and James Gatsby. However, she gradually changes as the novel progresses into a manipulative and shallow character that corrupted Gatsby and became the primary cause of his tragedy. Being obsessed with wealth, Daisy allows herself to be spoiled by the two other characters because of her desire for money and power -which are the two most critical values in Daisy’s life. In fact, Gatsby himself has described that these aspects are mainly apparent through her voice. In this essay I will therefore aim to show how her materialistic nature and greed was depicted through the voice and Gatsby’s motive for gaining her affections.

America’s Roaring Twenties were a time of pivotal social change. After World War I, wartime factories were adapted to mass-produce commodities for the middle class, including some, like the radio, that many had never encountered before. For men who had previously lived simple lives on farms in the country, the contrast of experiencing the horrors of “The Great War” and returning to live and work in factory cities of technological wonder shook their assumptions about social and cultural norms – it was a new and exciting time; things were uncertain, but they were alive. For women, many of whom had worked in the factories during the war, the 1920's were a struggle against the oppression of the old culture, dominated by males, that left few roles for women other than submitting to their husbands while staying at home. They had had a taste of freedoms they were not about to give up, but few knew how to fight or what victory would even look like. Winning the right to vote and pushing into social circles by seizing behaviors that were previously exclusively male (or at least previously more outrageous for women) signaled a big change in social norms, but culture was slow to make sense of what a desirable role for women would and should be. This period of lively upheaval and confusion, not without its cynics, is illustrated by F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Regardless of their relationship to the different men in the novel, the women of The Great Gatsby all struggle