The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

The novel Great Gatsby and the short poem America go great together both describing their views on America during this crazy time period of change. Great Gatsby was written by a man named F Scott Fitzgerald he wrote this book in 1925 during Great gatsby was written by a man named F Scott Fitzgerald he wrote this book in 1925 during the times when the American dream was the same for everyone.The 1920’s were the age of miracles Fitzgerald had said: "it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire." Fitzgerald loved to write books about love and greed like his book The Beautiful and Damned and This side of Paradise. Claude Mckay grew up loving writing and making poems. He was known for his during the Harlem

[OPENING STATEMENT] The Great Gatsby does not clearly yield to either poem or prose causing it to be considered as a lyrical novel rather than the more common narrative. Poetic devices and techniques used by author F. Scott Fitzgerald are more commonly seen with poetry. Yet it is these techniques that give meaning to his work of fiction; how Fitzgerald states his ideas becomes more important than the ideas themselves. Poetic devices he uses are called litotes, which express a positive statement by using its opposite negatives. To say “the ice cream was not bad” would be an intentional understatement, when instead one could say the ice cream was “good.” Litotes are used for irony, which is “using words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning.”1 Also commonly found throughout the novel, litotes are used for emphatic effect to benefit setting, plot, and character development.

The American Dream is a philosophy based off of starting from nothing and achieving family, fortune, and fame. The belief that self-determination and hard work will lead to the attainment of the American Dream is strongly tied with the American culture. This philosophical idea, however, is not portrayed in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, which is often referred to as one of the “Great American Novels” to date. In terms, a “Great American Novel” should portray an honest and well-remembered character, rather than a character such as Jay Gatsby who achieved his fortune through illegal business and dies without recognition towards the end. Although Gatsby lives a lavish lifestyle that many people fantasize about, Gatsby’s American Dream is never fully fulfilled due to his failure of not having a family, successfully obtaining money the righteous way, and leaving a legacy; therefore, the novel The Great Gatsby, should not be entitled as the “Great American Novel” today.

In the book “The Great Gatsby,” by F. Scotts Fitzgerald the author uses two of the main characters, Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby to express the hopes, feelings, and aspirations of himself and other characters the by using one theme : color. In the book Fitzgerald use Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby as a representation of himself. Everything that happened in the book is from Nicks observation. Nick also used color to express things that can not even be put into proper words or phrases.

Is the American dream accessible to all? In the Jazz age/Modernist novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald suggest through Jay Gatsby, a new-money millionaire with a mysterious past, that its impossible for one to achieve his/her american dream. Fitzgerald narrates the novel through Nick Carraway, a old-money stock broker who has moved out to West Egg, “the less fashionable of the two” for the summer of 1922. The other “Egg”, named after their strange shape, East Egg, is where the old-money rich reside, and where Nick’s cousin, Daisy and her husband Tom Buchanan live. Fitzgerald reveals that although there are people that live other American’s American Dream, it is impossible for one to achieve their dream if they are not born into it, by using motifs of the Social Hierarchy and using rhetorical devices such as imagery and symbolism.

The American Dream, a concept coined at a time when wealth, power, and prosperity was the ultimate goal. In, The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald illustrates a situation where the dream in the end turns into a complete nightmare. Jay Gatsby’s love of Daisy contributed to his hunger for a wealthy lifestyle, which finally brings Gatsby to his failure.

“Daisy, Daisy, Daisy!” It is all Gatsby thinks about, doesn’t it get annoying? No, suck it up because the next 787 words are all about Daisy and her association with symbols, her use of symbols, and herself as a symbol. How’s that possible, she’s 100% human in The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald? Don’t worry, the vacuous space upstairs will soon be filled. So, let’s dive in, like a dead “Gatsby” in a pool.

In the Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald shows that there is different types of love throughout the book. Using different characters to show how love works with certain people. The relationship between Daisy and Gatsby is what I am going to call the imaginary kind of love. He also shares that there is a unconditional/ Obsessed kind of love between George Wilson and Myrtle. Then last but not least the love of one 's belongings, or the love of materialistic things. Using multiple different characters throughout the book to display the love for material things.

The Great Gatsby is known for very many things. Many people loved the novel and the movie. It’s known for several things such as; rich people, the prohibition, fabulous parties thrown by Gatsby himself, and last but not least…. Marital issues and affairs!!! Some keep their personal business hush hush and others just don’t care if their spouses know about their mistresses. Cheaters, liars, and affairs are happening everywhere.

In the wake of the Great War, women’s possibilities opened up considerably. In spite of these advances, women still depended on men for finances, activity, and social standing. Women in the 20s struggled to create their own social roles separate from the men surrounding and defining them, revealing the one-sided control in a morally corrupt society. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, juxtaposes the women’s subjective experiences to prove that given the limited scope of their patriarchal realities, the ideal of female freedom is unachievable.

The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, provides a dark and pessimistic outlook into the American life style in 1922. Jay Gatsby, an American wealthy social identity, appears to have it all. But wealth, stature and an extravagant lifestyle seems not to be enough for Gatsby; he still yearns for his old idealistic love Daisy. In an ideal world this has the making of a great love story with a happy ending, but Fitzgerald chose to carry the story as a reflection of the American era the book is set in. An era consumed by appearances and excess and overall pursuit of the American dream.

The students that read the Great Gatsby, read it amidst the Islamic revolution, thus their views towards the book were completely different compared to those who had read it previous to them. Revolution in general, radically changes the views of the people involved. In Iran this was no different, the people of Iran that were supporting the revolution, mostly younger men, were extremely radicalized. The Islamic revolution in Iran had brought with it a negative feelings toward the Western countries, mostly the United States. The hatred towards western countries came mostly because of differences in culture, and the student’s refusal to accept other cultures. The Gatsby, to them, was the typical American dream, it even contained all of the adultery, betrayal, and other immoral things that propaganda had spread about Americans. A book, a form of expression, was taken as something completely different just to meet their revolutionary views. They used the Great Gatsby to concrete their ideas about their enemies.

In the novel The Great Gatsby, J. Scott Fitzgerald introduced Jay Gatsby and used him as the mean to comment on the American dream. Although other characters in the story were also built to depict the author’s comment on the American Dream, Gatsby is still the most appealing example amongst any other. In order to entirely expressing his criticism, Fitzgerald used the variety of contrasting ideals and definitions on the American dream itself through out the novel. Most importantly, by focusing on Gatsby’s characterization, putting his character in the perfect setting as well as presenting suitable symbols, the author indicated his despise on the corruption of the American dream and how badly the mere concept of it had been distorted.

Tom Buchanan shows several color connotations associated with wealth. He first shows off his wealth with his “cheerful red and white Georgian colonial mansion overlooking the bay”(6)which glistened as a bright white, shining over the waters, but the interior was a crismon. Red appears as wealth as Gatsby stands on a wine colored rug in his mansion. At the apartment party, scraps of red shades were hung on the walls.