The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

Myrtle yearns to be with Tom and live in his wealth but is prevented from doing so by Tom and Daisy. For instance, when Daisy tries to leave Tom for Gatsby, Tom does not exactly dismiss Myrtle, “…but there is no question that she would eventually be discarded” (Donaldson). Myrtle is so infatuated with Tom, she forgot that he can just as well choose Daisy over her. He has the upper hand, as a rich man with control over women especially when it comes to his relationships. While to Tom, Myrtle’s gender has made her just one of his possessions, to Myrtle, Tom’s rich and high status as a man has made him her only path to a higher class. Due to her infatuation with Tom, she often becomes jealous and possessive when she finds a threat to their relationship. Myrtle is so overcome with desire for Tom that she cannot stand the thought of him with another women. Even when she sees Tom in the car with Jordan Baker, Myrtle’s, “… eyes, wide with jealous terror, were fixed not on Tom, but on Jordan Baker, whom she too to be his wife” (Fitzgerald 125). Myrtle is so convinced that Tom is hers, when in reality, she is really Tom’s. Myrtle has almost forgotten the fact that as an inferior women, she has little control over the situation. The reality is that Tom was in control of the relationship and used Myrtle for his lustrous desires. Tom’s rejection of Myrtle causes her to become overrun with jealousy. In

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.

She realizes that about herself, but continues to think of herself very highly. She knows what she is but she hides her insecurities with a mask that has to do with her self-image. This mask hides her insecurities from the desires she wants her life. Myrtle is a married woman to a man named George. Myrtle initially got with George in hopes of him having money. When Myrtle finds out he does not she wants to back out but it is too late. Myrtle only wants people to think she has money, we see her doing unimaginable things to get this image. One of the levels of wrong is treating her husband poorly, but her lowest action is cheating. She commits adultery with Tom Buchanan, who is also a married man. Tom is an extremely wanted and high rank man with extensive amounts of money. Myrtle thinks she would be good enough for Tom by giving him what she wants. Myrtle sees an opportunity to have the life she has dreamed of with Tom. You see Myrtles jealousy and desire for Daisy’s life when she chants “Daisy! Daisy! Daisy!" to Tom. (Fitzgerald 41). In reality Tom is just bored and has to real desire to be with Myrtle. Some people think Myrtle could be recognized as a “gold-digger”, but in actuality she has trained herself to think that her mask is actually her true self. Myrtle truly believes that her happiness comes from

For instance, Daisy is fully aware of her husbands infidelities, yet she does not say or do anything about it. She lives in this way because Tom has money and power and she benefits from these things and in turn is willing to deal with his affairs. Daisy portrays her selfish, cruel character when she treats her daughter as an object and wishes her to be a “beautiful little fool,” demonstrating Daisy’s perspective that the only way to make it in the world is through wealth and beauty (17). Even Gatsby, the one who loves Daisy most, states that her voice is “full of money” and it is the main focus in her life (120). Daisy has always lived a life of money, and when the time came, she had to marry into money to maintain her status and lifestyle. This is strongly reflected through her mannerisms with Gatsby. She continues to live with this facade, which provides her with some sense of security. Although Myrtle is a character representing the lower class, it is evident that she wishes to play the same role as Daisy. Myrtle constantly tries to come across as a very wealthy woman and wants others too see her as a member of the upper class. She gains entry into the elite social world through her secret affair with Tom where she finds the power and dominance she lacks in her everyday life. Myrtle longs for an easy life and believes that money can bring her that. Her world is framed by her narrow

People handle the two matters of love and avarice interchangeably; however, there is a significant difference between them. In his 1925 novel of The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald describes Jay Gatsby’s pursuance of Daisy Fay and the immorality of her husband, Tom Buchanan, delving into distinctions between love and avarice. Love carries along a sense of care, worry, and responsibility, whereas avarice is an expression of greed for opportunity and privilege. A person with economic stability and longevity has a secure life, not having to worry about making enough money to survive, find shelter, and pay for food. These people live grand luxurious lifestyles. The author portrays the main characters’ pursuit of economic stability and longevity through his play on words and interpretations of a person’s class, wealth, and reputation, ultimately suggesting that one of a lower status will use another’s social standing to achieve material gains.

Despite the Roaring Twenties generally characterized as a time of prosperity and success, Fitzgerald casts an ominous atmosphere in The Great Gatsby and reveals the crumbling foundations upon which such prosperity was built. As the moral foundations of American society begin to decay, so do the foundations of the American Dream itself. By having characters from all social classes share a common sentiment of discontent, Fitzgerald suggests that instead of having a common American Dream, society only has a common discontent. Seeking ways to quench such insatiable desires will ultimately lead to moral depravity, suggesting that the roots of the American Dream have also deteriorated to only just a lie.

In the novel The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the main character, Jay Gatsby, is portrayed by Fitzgerald as a tremendous romanticist who, throughout the entire novel, tries to win over the love of his life. When Gatsby and Daisy are reunited, they start spending more time with one another behind Tom Buchanan-Daisy 's husbands, back. Daisy and Gatsby are enjoying one of their meet ups at Gatsby 's mansion one afternoon when Gatsby comes close to obtaining Daisy, however, he and Nick share some worrisome beliefs that perhaps, Daisy is falling too short of Gatsby 's illusion, which is the perfected vision of Daisy that Gatsby creates about her. Throughout the analysed passage, Fitzgerald demonstrates that dreams idealised in ones mind can never truly be attained and are better off being simply dreams.

Michael Jordan, one of the best basketball players to have ever played the game, once said, “there is no such thing as the perfect player and I don’t believe there is only one greatest player either.” As time has taken a toll on professional sports, they are becoming more and more corrupt. Players are not realizing the truth behind Jordan’s statement and more and more players are starting to believe that its necessary to cheat in order to keep them a step ahead of their peers. Fans are also putting more pressure on these athletes by gambling. These star athletes now not only feel like they need to beat their opponents but they have to beat them enough to also win the spread. Based on various research and the novels, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Boost by Kathy Mackel sports are being corrupted by players cheating, players not being able to stay out of trouble, and fans gambling more frequently as time goes on.

Furthermore, the affairs represent the ambition of fulfilling the american dream which eventual leads to the character 's downfall. Myrtle has an affair with Tom because she wants to abscond the Valley of Ashes and live a luxurious life, which is her american dream. Myrtle says, “ The only crazy I was was when I married him. I knew right away I made a mistake. He borrowed somebody’s best suit to get married in, and never told me about it, and the man cne after it one day when he was out: “Oh, is that your suit?” I said. “This is the first I ever heard about it.:” (Fitzgerald 37) Here it attest that Myrtle had an obnoxious marriage and she wants to escape her marriage to be with Tom. It also shows how materialistic she is and that she didn’t admire that George couldn’t afford his own suit. Unfortunately, trying to escape to her american dream lead to her death. Wanting to live the upper class life, provoked her to have an affair leading to the loss of her moral value love as she used Tom to get to the upper class life; doing wrongdoings even though it is wrong, to achieve the good. On the other hand, Gatsby wants Daisy in order to actualize his american dream. However, he doesn’t discern that he only wants the idea of possessing a glamourous young girl. Gatsby states, “ Daisy’s voice is full of

Nick also helps Gatsby realize that no one truly cares but only care about his parties and of course, his money. Jay Gatsby is another main character in the story. The symbolism in the story is about his quest for Daisy, which later he is shot taking the blame Daisy, saving her life.

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is the compelling story of the lengths one man goes to in order to try and win back the love of his youth. In order to do so, the titular figure of the novel, Jay Gatsby, reinvents himself from the hardscrabble soldier of his younger years into an enigma of a millionaire; during his time living at West Egg, Gatsby is revered by all, but known by none. Despite the lavish lifestyle which has made him ever so well known for, Gatsby is never able to win back Daisy, the girl who has for so long represented the culmination of all of his desires. In his novel The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses Gatsby’s desperate struggle to ingratiate himself into Daisy’s life to illustrate how one can never overcome the socio-economic barriers placed upon them at birth.

The 1920’s, a pre-depression age of jazz and modernism, were a retreat from traditional ideas and values. On the east coast of New York, the setting of Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby”, Fitzgerald shows an economic disparity in Long Island. The different “eggs”or rich neighbourhoods on Long Island, sit on either side of a “Valley of Ashes”. That being the poor neighbourhood between the “Old Money” and “New Money”. Besides the warring social classes, Fitzgerald touches on another important, typically overlooked, issue: Gender Roles. In the Great Gatsby, women are treated as fragile beings that need to be cared for by a man. Even though women are submissive, their submission is less because they are inferior, and more because they’re

While most novels that are read for school typically use physical objects and maybe even characters as forms of symbolism to convey a deeper meaning within that is not in the same realm as the main plot, The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald is notable for using different colors as symbols to display deeper themes. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses various colors to describe the qualities of different characters and the circumstances of events that take place within the story. Three colors and their symbolic meaning in the novel come to mind with this topic: green is used mainly to convey a meaning of perhaps unreachable hope or desire, the color grey is utilized as an indicator of lifelessness or otherwise a sense of “boredom”, and the color yellow is generally a strong descriptor of death and corruption. Whether or not they showed up for a prolonged period of time, all three of these colors are quite important at different points in the novel.

The craving for a lush life is what tempts Myrtle into having an affair with Tom. This choice harms her marriage with George, which leads to her fatality and defeat of true happiness. Myrtle has the optimism and want for an ideal, flush and prominent type life. She takes pleasure in reading gossip magazines which embodies her optimism for the life

Myrtle Wilson is one of the characters who chases empty dreams. She has a strong desire to escape what she feels to be a lower class lifestyle and enter the ranks of the upper class. Furthermore, she is obsessed by appearances and unaware of realities, as is shown in her excessive concern of clothing. She attempts to impress the upper society while looking down upon the members of her class. "Myrtle raised her eyebrows in despair at the stiflessness of the lower orders, “These people! You have to keep after them." (Fitzgerald 36)