The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

Throughout The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald reveals more and more rumors about Gatsby and what he has done. However, this all just speculation, as nobody knows the real truth behind Gatsby. Therefore, Gatsby is best represented by the color black. Grok describes black as “the color of mystery, of things not yet revealed.” There is definitely a mystery surrounding Gatsby regarding his past.. His party-goers tend to be the ones that concoct and spread these rumors: “‘he killed a man once’… ‘it’s more that he was a German spy during the war’” (44). Gatsby is generally a reclusive character; he tends not to tell others much about his personal life. The party-goers (generally rich) speculate about how he has the money entertain all of these

Throughout human history, race has been an integral part in understanding how humans interact. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is no different. During the 1920s, race relations were much different compared to today. In The Great Gatsby, the story is presumably dominated by the Caucasian race. Also, Tom seems to represent some the racial ideology of the time period. It is very possible that Jay Gatsby was in fact African-American in The Great Gatsby. We can see this by his mannerisms and the way he interacts with other characters.

The story of The Great Gatsby is a novel that consists of a historical American context during the Harlem Renaissance. This was an excellent novel published in the 1920’s and was considered one of the best novels of its time. The author F. Scott Fitzgerald was an incredibly talented poetic author. Fitzgerald was able to emphasize and create the mood of the generation in a political time. The novel The Great Gatsby is a remarkable novel but also a very sad one. The novel took place during an age or era known as the “Roaring Twenties” which was a time of American wealth. Politics and corruption at the time is possibly what made Gatsby to be the business man he was.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s works deliver the most vivid depictions of life in all literary history, and those explored by his 1925 novel The Great Gatsby are no exception. Fitzgerald plays with colors to quite literally paint the town of New York and its surroundings. These colors suggest things about his cast of characters that one might have otherwise missed. Fitzgerald cleverly weaves color into Jay Gatsby’s life to delineate his chase of Daisy, Daisy’s character development, and the reality of life.

The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is set in the 1920s, and the characters can be found spread about New York. The novel is narrated by Nick Carraway, and it is centered around Jay Gatsby’s obsession with Daisy Buchanan. Daisy is married to Tom Buchanan, and which is why the conflict within the story arises. The wealthy characters of The Great Gatsby are illustrated to be living lavish lifestyles, until things take a turn for the worst. Throughout the novel, there are many colors that are used to symbolize common traits amongst the characters. From those colors, the most prominent one is white. The color white is used to symbolize a number of things, such as class, innocence, and even a lack of innocence.

Gatsby was a person who was consumed with changing who he was and try to repeat the past when it came to his love life. Gatsby felt he could change the past, I feel he had the God complex “He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father’s Business, the service of a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty.” (Fitzgerald, 104) At a young age he felt he was meant for great things in life not being a son of a poor farm. Since he did once from being a poor farm boy to the money he has now. I also feel that since he resents

An issue that is widespread in culture today and sometimes completely misconceived, feminism is simply the idea that all people should have equal rights and opportunities, no matter their gender or race. This paper will look into two cultural texts from different time periods and analyse them through a feminist perspective, discussing the producers’ use of women in the works and feminist or anti-feminist ideas.

To what extremity would one go to pursue love? Are those actions justified? Or does love and passion simply bind one’s self from the immorality and repercussions caused by one’s actions? These types of questions directly encompass the character, Jay Gatsby from the novel, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The actions taken by Gatsby support one of the major themes prevalent in the novel: immorality. Immorality at the time this novel takes place-- the 1920’s-- seems to reflect not only the characters in the book, but also relate to the changing social dynamics of society which even further the extremity of Gatsby’s self-indulgence and questionable acts at the time.

The Great Gatsby is Fitzgerald’s masterpiece, which was considered as one of the most perfect work relating to art forms in American novels after James. The publication of The Great Gatsby prompted T. S. Eliot to write, in a letter to Fitzgerald, "It seems to me to be the first step that American fiction has taken since Henry James ...".The reason why it is one of the greatest novels all over the world is not only because of its showing the cruel social reality in America during 1920s and the selflessness and merciless of human nature at that time,but also the novel 's unique narrative angle that Fitzgerald wrote the novel from the first person perspective. Fitzgerald com posed the figure “Nick Carraway” as the narrator of the story

He is a mysterious character, as we do not get much information about him until late in the story. The other characters know of him, but do not know anything about him or his background. It is revealed that Gatsby grew up in poverty, and that he always longed for wealth. He met Daisy while stationed at a military base, falling in love with her. He lied to her about his background, claiming that he was from a wealthy family (Caldicott, 2005). Gatsby believed that this was the only way to win her over. After the war he was dedicated to winning Daisy back. He engaged in organized crime, selling illegal alcohol to make millions. He also began throwing extravagant parties to capture her attention. F. Scott Fitzgerald himself identifies with Gatsby. He too idolized the lifestyle of the wealthy, and fell in love with a rich girl while stationed in the military. Unlike Gatsby, he made his fortune by writing, not engaging in illegal activities (Marchand, 1986).

The Great Gatsby refers to a story written by American author F. Scott and it mainly concerns the youthful and perplexing tycoon Jay Gatsby and his farfetched energy and fixation for the astounding previous debutante Daisy Buchanan. The author utilizes several stylistic devices and themes within the book. Among the notable themes apparently clear within the books are themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change and social cataclysm just to mention a few. Essentially, this is a novel of triumph and catastrophe, noted for the noteworthy way Fitzgerald trapped a cross-segment of American culture. It is imperative to note that in the story, Gatsby fits the generalization of the deplorable legend since he emerges to a high position, realizes his defeat, and he meets a disastrous destiny.

Gatsby would be unlikely to achieve the level of success he did in the roaring 20s if he were black, and some of the upper-crust white folk would be likely to notice or take issue with his race, so it 's only a plausible theory if he were able to pass himself off as white. There is evidence for this,

Children are constantly berated for their behavior. They are told it is time to grow up— time to act like an adult. But the issues in this world are not caused by children. The blame lies in the hands of the very adults that adolescents are taught to model after. Adults get away with unacceptable behavior, claiming that being older also makes them wiser. F. Scott Fitzgerald explores the complex interactions of the wealthy elite during the 1920s, an era of raging parties and reckless abandon, in his novel The Great Gatsby. Tom and Daisy Buchanan’s already strained marriage is shaken up by the reappearance of a flame from Daisy’s past, Jay Gatsby, who has managed to remake himself into wealthy businessman since they last met. Nick Carraway, Daisy’s cousin and Gatsby’s neighbor, watches as their irrational actions force their lives to intertwine. The selfish decisions and careless actions of Tom, Daisy, and Gatsby prove that the behavior of adults is not always acceptable.

The novel, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald takes place in a time where parties and relationships meant everything. Gatsby and Nick are very good friends, but there are some problems with their friendship. Gatsby is in love with Nick’s cousin Daisy, but she is married. Nick is not happy with his friends and is starting to become disgusted with them. Fitzgerald uses irony, imagery, and characterization to show Nick’s disgust towards his friends.

Discuss Modernist views of ONE of the following themes or concepts as it is presented in EITHER The Great Gatsby OR To the North: