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.

Tom Buchanan and Jay Gatsby are rivals within F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book The Great Gatsby. Throughout the entire story, Tom and Gatsby fall in love with the same person but in the end Daisy has to choose one of them. Gatsby knew Daisy from when he was enlisted in war. Though Daisy did not have the patients to wait for Gatsby, and the fact that he did not have much money did not make it any easier. He was starting to realize that because of it he would not be able to win her over. Once Tom showed up into her life everything changed. She left Gatsby and decided she wanted to pursue her life with Tom. Even though Daisy chooses Tom instead of Gatsby, Gatsby would have been a better choice.

“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.

Jay Gatsby is one of the most crucial characters in the book of The Great Gatsby and throughout the book he isn’t happy at all because he lacks the ability to deeply look at other options other than just his love and dream, Daisy. He invariably fails to look at other ways to be happy because in his eyes, his only option that he observes is the option to get Daisy Buchanan back as soon as possible, but he has one problem; Tom Buchanan who isn’t willing to let go of Daisy. Gatsby 's only way to happiness is having Daisy back so that he could recreate the past. Gatsby had the opportunity to attend Oxford and get a heavy education with a great promising future ahead, instead his wish to get back home and reunite with Daisy again. He never saw

In a capitalistic country like America, money plays a huge part in your life and can classify you into a certain social status, depending on whether or not you have it. The United States is an attractive destination for foreigners because of the chance of finding fortune. The American Dream was derived from the idea that living in the United States of America promises prosperity and ultimately lead into a better life. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby’s is heavily influenced by his greed due to his journey from poverty to luxury. The wealthier Gatsby gets the more manipulative and controlling he becomes towards people around him. His pursuit towards the American Dream causes him to become lost in his own fortune and

“Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone...just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had” (Fitzgerald 1). The first line of The Great Gatsby illustrates a heartfelt sentiment of treating others respectfully and not judging a book by its cover. However, as the chapter continues, the narrator Nick Carraway, suggests this propensity of tolerance is better used as leverage to entice more people to trust you and tell you their secrets. Nick is privy to the secret lives and untold truths of many rich and powerful people of New York because he could be trusted, whether he wanted to be or not. This is a constant theme throughout The Great Gatsby -- the internal struggle of F. Scott Fitzgerald, portrayed through his characters, of being a kind, honest person content to live his own life versus a grotesquely rich and selfish person who only cared about himself and living the illusive American Dream. The characters created by F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby strongly reflect influences of people and events in his life, and demonstrate facets of his personality that dictated how he viewed the world, friendship and love.

The author of The Great Gatsby, Scott Fitzgerald was raised in a Catholic Church, which influenced much of his work. Religion, love, and romance were a few of Fitzgerald’s largest influence in writing. Fitzgerald uses several big symbols and the action of his characters, to express his feelings and thoughts on certain topics.

Throughout the novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald addresses the morality of the people he saw as representative of his time through the behaviors of the characters in the novel and how these characters react to various situations. The 1920s were an era marked by money, cars, and breaking down social barriers. While certain characters, who are not always led by their moral compasses, are able to question the morality of the actions of other characters, nearly all of the characters in the novel evolved to change the shifting views of the time. Various characters throughout the novel, including Gatsby, Daisy, and Tom, used their money as a shield to protect them from taking responsibility for their actions.

In his novel, “The Great Gatsby,” F. Scott Fitzgerald creates a main character that catches the attention of his readers. This character surrounds himself with expensive belongings and wealthy people and goes by the name of Jay Gatsby. He is the protagonist who gives the name to the story. Gatsby is a newly wealthy Midwesterner - turned - Easterner who orders his life around for one desire: to be reunited with Daisy Buchanan, the love he lost five years earlier. His quest for the American dream leads him from poverty to wealth, into the arms of his beloved and, eventually, to his death.

Satisfaction does not comes easy nor does it occur right away. Those who live a prosperous life and those who don’t are seen as different in society, but both may crave more in life to become satisfied. The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald is narrated by Nick Carraway who lives in the East Egg of New York. Nick has only lived in New York for a short period of time and starts to become fascinated with his notorious neighbor, Gatsby. Shortly after becoming acquainted with Gatsby, Nick discovers that Gatsby is madly in love with his cousin Daisy, who is married to Tom Buchanan. Tom trusts Nick immediately since he is Daisy’s cousin and allows Nick to meet his mistress, Myrtle. Even though it may seem as if Tom lives the perfect

The Great Gatsby illustrates the possible poor ways to achieve something so sought after such as being, in a general sense, successful. The American Dream in this sense is overwhelming, unobtainable to some and futile in some senses. The second decade of the 1900’s was a period of peak interest in pursuing the American Dream. “Fitzgerald, who named and chronicled that brash, schizophrenic decade, was now stranger to the dissipation of values and the pursuit of sensation in the Jazz Age of the 1920’s.” (Callahan P. 376). The essential evidence of one having achieved the “dream” was having the nuclear family, some sort of financial wealth, a large home and an automobile. It was widely understood that the financial aspect of this was the most important. This was a goal that drove the protestant work ethic of lower, middle and newly immigrated Americans. This dream also promoted the idea of delayed gratification found in a large capitalist country like in the United States. Protagonist, Jay Gatsby, does achieve the American Dream but the course changes his character and he ultimately encompasses what one would imagine a person with this ambition to be, truly unfulfilled. “Fitzgerald embodied in his tissues and nervous system the fluid polarities of American experience: success and failure, illusion and disillusion, dream and nightmare.” (Callahan P.374).

The promise of riches and success that comes on the back of hard work: the American Dream. Did it wither away? Was it lost in a sea of greed and mendacity, the roots of its vision forgotten amidst material success? Furthermore, if the American Dream is stripped away of its tangible aspects, acquired solely upon wealth; one is simply left with an idealistic concept that is unattainable. Such are the big questions posed to the reader in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby. Published in 1925, the novel tells the story of a cast of socialites in there 20s and early 30s in the fictional town of West Egg, Long Island. Narrated by a character named Nick Carraway, who provides insightful descriptions of the men and women he finds

Often referred to as “the playground of the wealthy”, New York City’s culture in the 1920s plays a crucial role in the development of many of the characters of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. New York City increasingly gains attention, and it soon becomes known as “the city that never sleeps” during the 1920s. As massive skyscrapers begin to transform the city’s skyline, the automobile industry experiences a boom in auto sales; thus contributing to New York City’s modernity. Meanwhile, business is making a significant impact on the lives of everyday folks. No longer is it only the interest of the wealthy, because more and more commoners feel the need to get involved with economics. Thus, it can be

The story of “The Great Gatsby” is told through the narration of Nick Carraway. It is apparent from the first chapter of the book, that the events Nick writes about had a profound impact on him and caused a tremendous shift in his views of the world. Nick Carraway is as much a symbol as the green light or blue eyes. Nick Carraway is unreliable because Fitzgerald intended him to be, he is heavily biased, extremely dishonest and a hypocrite.

The classic novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a story that uniquely captures the transformational period of the 1920’s in America. It elegantly flows between conflicts of new money, young love, and care-free parties, illustrating the diverse issues of these influential times into captivating characters, all of whom gossip and live in the drama of the age. Most of the time, the drama is centered around money and wealthy people, because nearly every character in the book identifies people by their wealth rather than their personality. This materialistic view constantly creates conflict and tension between characters, which leads readers to see that people should be assessed based on their core qualities rather than their luxuries. However, in the 2013 film adaptation directed by Baz Luhrmann, this theme is obscured, particularly in the portrayal of the relationship between Daisy and Gatsby, and various cinematic techniques. From the novel to the film, the ironic conveyal of the theme of material wealth should not define a person’s worth more than their character was lost, thus weakening the prominence of the theme throughout the film.