The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

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.

The Great Gatsby is the novel that is based on how rich people were back in the old days. This Novel takes us through the early 1900’s where the narrator, Nick Carraway meets secretive Mr. Gatsby who is a Trimachio which means that he once was a poor young kid who believed in a greater future and by the time he gets older he becomes this very wealthy man who hosts lavish banquets. We are following Mr. Gatsby’s journey to the love of his life, Daisy who is Nick’s cousin. Since Gatsby has been gone for almost 5 years Daisy got married to another man called Tom. The novel ends with Gatsby being shot to death and no one was there to his funeral besides reporters and photographers, who Nick angrily chases out.

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

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.

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.

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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.

While learning about The Great Gatsby preface, I learned that the Gatsby is not an uplifting story, its just a classic. I learned that F. Scott Fitzgerald was an alcoholic, and not the best of role models. I also learned that The Great Gatsby contains many memorable characters and that I may run into a lot of situations that reference this story, so I should read it.

You can’t change the past the outcome will be different each time. There’s no guarantee that the outcome is going to be what you want or like, because each time the circumstance have changed. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, tells of a man name Gatsby who came from a poor upbringing believed he was destined for greatness, and set out to obtain the American dream, and wanted to be acceptance by the rich society. While in the military he met Daisy Buchanan, who ended up symbolizing everything he wanted wealth, class, and being part of a high society. She was like gold to him, and the idea of her inspired him to pursue his dreams of having it all. I disagree with Gatsby who believed he could change the past, it’s okay to remember the past, but when it consumes the future then he is stuck hoping for something that has long passed him by, or no matter how hard he tries he cannot duplicate it.

Do people think Jay Gatsby truly loves Daisy Buchanan or her wealth? In The Great Gatsby, a book written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, it explores the love fantasies and realities through the character Jay Gatsby. Most of the characters in The Great Gatsby employ others for their own benefits, including the hero Jay Gatsby. Jay Gatsby was a very poor man when he met Daisy five years before. It is clearly shown in the book that Gatsby adores Daisy’s wealth and the way that she uses it. This is proven when Gatsby asserts to Nick Carraway, the narrator of this novel, that “Her voice is full of money” (Fitzgerald, 120). He always considered Daisy to be represented as the epitome of wealth and respect. This is the reason for Gatsby’s desire for

F. Scott Fitzgerald 's The Great Gatsby and Toni Morrison 's JAZZ both tell the

Every individual has a unique perspective of the world. To people in the twentieth century United States, this perspective was largely influenced by the American Dream, the assumption that each person, no matter what their origins, could succeed in life on the sole basis of his or her own skill and effort. When people heard about this American Dream, they sought new opportunities to change their lives. While many struggled to achieve it, others corrupted it. In his novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald shows what happened to the American Dream in the 1920s. The old values that built it were corrupted by the vulgar pursuit of wealth. The value of a dollar meant little to people, and they slowly began to take advantage of all the new things around them. People not only worked to receive a paycheck, but to also show off on account of how much money they were making. We are still able to witness these things happening in our world now. In the book, Tom, Daisy and Gatsby must all have the latest and most glamorous items in order to feel worthy and content. On the other hand we have Nick who is completely content with what he has.

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

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Nick – the narrator – is an incredibly observant and perceptive young man who is quick to notice the subtext hidden under people and their relationships. Nick uses the imagery of windows frequently in his descriptions of significant people and decisive events to express his observations of the unspoken truths these people and events hold. Because Nick is interested in having deep insight and observation into the lives other people lead, he often uses the imagery of windows in his narrative, allowing him to demonstrate his ability to see through people’s inner lives, particularly Tom and Daisy Buchanan’s.

“The Great Gatsby” and “Washington Square” are both novels that greatly depicted their time period and how society viewed men and women. “The Great Gatsby” is about a young man named Gatsby who tries to reignite an old relationship with his new found wealth. Gatsby essentially dedicates his entire life to get Daisy back while she has long moved on. “Washington Square” is about a young girl named Catherine who tries to find love with a man named Morris, but has to deal with the strict control of her father. Catherine’s aunt, Lavinia Penniman, was meddlesome in Catherine’s life which also greatly ruined Catherine’s and Morris’ relationship. These books focus on image, illusions and relationships. I will be focusing on various relationships in both novels.