The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Never has symbolism played such a crucial part in the very foundation of a novel as it does in Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, The Great Gatsby." Harold Bloom has written about this book. The author used several types of symbolism in The Great Gatsby. The colours are probably the easiest to be recognized and guessed what they symbolized. According to the definition “symbolism” is "the practice of representing things by means of symbols or of attributing symbolic meanings or significance to objects, events, or relationships."

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.

Many consider The Great Gatsby a beautiful love story. A literary review site, for example, says about Fitzgerald’s most famous work: “The Great Gatsby is probably F. Scott Fitzgerald 's greatest novel […] Gatsby is really nothing more than a man desperate for love”(The Great Gatsby Review). Popular opinion paints Gatsby as such: A man desperate for love, devoid of any evil. But a closer look uncovers a new side of Jay Gatsby because Gatsby, underneath his glorious façade, is a sociopath.

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.

Life is a very abstract entity that humans can interpret and perceive in many different ways. Usually, the way one looks at life is a direct reflection of their character and their beliefs. The way one looks at life also determines their level of perspective, or whether they have it at all. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald compares and contrasts the different ways humans can perceive life. Tom, a cocky and rigid ex-football player, is selfish and looks at life through a single perspective, zoomed in on him. Gatsby, an extremely mysterious and wealthy man, also looks at life through a single window, but contrary to Tom, his viewpoint is fixated on the love of his life, Daisy. Nick, the common narrator of the story, looks at life

The 1920s, also known as the roaring 20’s was a time of great prosperity and happiness for many middle and upper class people. This was a time also of prohibition, a time which alcohol was banned for it was known to be poisonous to one’s health. Still, industries were booming and people were buying fancy cars and were truly enjoying their lives. The upper and lower classes tried to achieve this myth of the American Dream, something that doesn’t actually exist, but has been invented by people from generations before to keep people’s hopes up for a better life. This myth known as the American Dream could never be achieved as the inequality during that time between gender, class, and race prevented that dream from ever coming true. The

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is considered a great literary work depicting the Roaring Twenties and the American Dream. The American Dream was once a beautiful ideal of equality and success, and was a central quest in the Twenties. In The Great Gatsby, the protagonist, Jay Gatsby, ends up dying for an action that was not his own and the antagonists, the Buchanans, walk away free of consequences for their criminal actions. It would seem, in the Great Gatsby, that the American dream has been corrupted by carelessness, selfishness, and greed.

Dance has shaped the way we look at many different things throughout history. It has shaped how people socialize, what music people listen to, and even whole eras. One such era is the roaring 1920s. How did people socialize in the 1920s? They danced the evening away. What music did people listen to? Jazz music that they could listen to while they danced the evening away. Dance was a huge part of what made up the glorious Jazz Age. So, when a book was written to describe the 1920s scene, no doubt there had to be dance, and lots of it. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the energy level of the parties, music, and dancing to represent a vast array of emotions within the characters.

"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.

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.

A novel’s opening is a crucial foundation for any work of fiction as it prepares before the reader a roadmap for the remainder of the story. One of the great Twentieth-century American novels, F. Scott Fitzgerald questions the reliability of a first-person narrator operating as a character within the story. When Nick Carraway sits down to write about his experiences living in the East and the man who “gives his name to this book (1),” Nick consistently attempts to establish himself as a credible narrator of The Great Gatsby. Carraway exposes the unrestrained hypocrisy and moral emptiness surrounding the materialistic wealth while attempting

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald chronicles the life of Jay Gatsby, a self-made man, narrated by a social outsider named Nick Carraway. The story takes place in New York during the Roaring Twenties. In this decade, American’s lives were characterized by a fascination with new technology, great wealth, and an increased emphasis on social activities and leisure. In addition, many Americans engaged in binge drinking despite Prohibition laws which made the consumption of alcohol illegal. In order to avoid arrest, Americans would smuggle illegally purchased alcohol into private social events and there consume it in excess. This dangerous behavior, in the context of secrecy and exclusivity, caused many Americans to re-evaluate their life

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.

F. Scott Fitzgerald is one of the most recognized names in American Literature. This is true because of his book titled The Great Gatsby. This work of his seemed to cast a shadow over the rest of his novels and short stories. Although many people may not know about a story called Babylon Revisited, it is definitely one of Fitzgerald’s finest stories and one that is worthy of praise and further analysis.