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.

Jay Gatsby is portrayed as a man who has many admirers, which may lead people to believe that he is an admirable character of a “Great American Novel”. However, if taken into deeper account, Gatsby is a very isolated man without a family. In the past, Gatsby and Daisy had a romantic alteration, however, Gatsby had to leave for the war and was not financially stable. When Gatsby comes back from the war with great wealth, Gatsby is determined to restore the relationship they once had. Daisy, in the end,

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

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

How does reckless driving affect one's outlook on life? and in what way does it affect others? A lot of characters possess the trait of reckless driving in Fitzgerald’s book “The Great Gatsby”. They make mistakes, and do not think about how the outcome will affect them later. Some of them try to run or hide from their mistakes; they let other people fix it for them.

“To do two things at once is to do neither”(Syrus). As Publilius Syrus suggests, in an age where multitasking is more common than the ideals concencentration, it is important to reconsider the capabilities of man. The idea of taking on multiple tasks underlines man’s capabilities in that it often gears the mind in two opposite directions with equal power. In this regard, though it may seem efficient, it is actually vile for man to attempt to sustain multiple projects that gear toward opposite directions. This idea is confirmed by F. Scott Fitzgeralds’ The Great Gatsby, a novel in which the protagonist Jay Gatsby illustrates why man isn’t capable of taking on two equal and opposite projects at the same time. Gatsby fails to conquer Daisy

mind of who they want to be and how they want to lead their lives. These ideas are usually very different from the actual identity of a person. Throughout the novel The Great Gatsby , by F. Scott Fitzgerald the search for identity is continuos. The main characters are on a rollercoaster of uncertainty trying to protect the images that they have created for themselves.

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

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.

"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven 't had the advantages that you 've had” (Fitzgerald 3). Many people are born into bad statistics for being able to achieve the American dream. Nick reveals this very early on in The Great Gatsby with this thought provoking quote. Not all people are born with the same advantages as others. There are many factors that have held people back from attaining their goals in our great country.. Despite the perception that Americans can move from rags to riches to live the American Dream, the trials and obstacles that underserved and minorities have to overcome reveals that the American Dream is a false hope.

Gatsby’s personality is the representative of eternal hope and perseverance. This is also the primary moral of the American dream: If one is willing to work hard and be persistence, he could achieve succeed. This goes way back to the young James Gatz, whom since he was little had aimed to become a great man; he even has a journal of his program for self- improvement to the smallest details. Gatsby’s father, who witnessed all of his effort, professes. Too obsessed with his desire, James Gatz even risked having to change his entire identity to gain acceptance. Unfortunately, after all his years of improvement and hard work, Gatsby fails to accomplish his biggest dream – Daisy, who chooses Tom in the last minute. Even more unfortunate, he gets

Many historians considered the 1920s as a transitional period that shifted Americans society from traditional values to a new era of modernization. During this time, the economy boomed, which made the 1920s one of the most prosperous era in the U.S. The Roaring twenties was associate as the era of consumerism, the prohibition and the disillusionment with the American dream. Many historians and Literature scholars recognized F. Scott Fitzgerald 's novel, The Great Gatsby, as the iconic book of the 1920s. In the novel, F. Scott Fitzgerald used setting, symbol and character to convey his critique of American society. The symbol of green light, detailed description of the party at Gatsby 's house and the character of Myrtle all serve to show

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.