The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

Myrtle Wilson’s glowing red hair, Nick Carraway’s gleaming smile and Daisy’s flowing white dress all coupled with the roar of that supercharged engine of Gatsby’s yellow car astounded Nick time and time again. How could I forget those peering eyes in the dark, dirty, and polluted Valley of Ashes? James Gatz hidden behind the name of Jay Gatsby was a “destined man” according to Nick. The bond market on Wall Street frustrated Nick and doctor visits were a daily for Carraway, which gave him the opportunity to write about his admirations of Jay. The luscious parties, endless alcohol, “beautiful little fools”, and well Nick Carraway ‘s company made for the summer of 1922 in West Egg. Jay Gatsby, a man of superior wealth and somewhat loneliness was searching for his lost love of Daisy Buchanan. Statured in West Egg, Nick was Gatsby’s neighbor, who let’s put it this way, lived in a miniscule house for rent of eighty dollars per month. Graduated from Yale with origins in the Midwest, Carraway had his mindset straight and could not cease to stop staring at Jay Gatsby’s marvelous Gothic mansion. One afternoon, Carraway received an invitation to one of Gatsby’s parties. He had never met Jay or questioned his wealth, so he was delighted to attend. As the people of West Egg, East Egg and New York City arrived to the music, dancing, and drinking, Nick was astonished and fit right in with the people who paraded their wealth and those that only dreamed of the West Egg lifestyle. When Nick

The green light is one of the most well known symbols in The Great Gatsby. Its purpose in the story is to display Gatsby’s longing for Daisy’s love. This is shown when he is introduced in the very first chapter, when he “stretched out his arms towards the dark water” in the direction of “nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock” (Fitzgerald 20-21). Him reaching out towards the light represents him reaching out for

The Jazz Age, marking to be an era of great change. After World War I ended in 1919, the post-war seemed to make life so much better. People began to become wealthy, which was a tremendous financial change, at least for the upper class, from having a time of corruption. With all of the new wealth, people began buy more. When people begin to buy more, that means profits grew, more goods were manufactured, which makes people earn more money. With all of this money, they began to buy consumer goods- cars, radios, telephones, etc.

In order to achieve her desires for power, Daisy portrays innocence, requiring her to take action to preserve the image; ironically, to save the sanctity of her marriage, Daisy must forsake purity for security.

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

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.

The American Dream is defined as the ideal that every citizen of the United States has equal opportunity to achieve success through hard work and motivation. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald shows the corruption in the idea of the American Dream. George and Myrtle Wilson fail to acquire their dreams because of moral corruption in themselves and society. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald presents the American Dream as unattainable through Myrtle and George Wilsons’ struggles to achieve their individual dreams because of the flawed American society.

“The Great Gatsby” is a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. This novel takes place in the early 1900’s and consists of five main characters – Jay Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan, Nick Carraway, and Jordan Baker. The plot is that Gatsby tries to get Daisy from Tom; Daisy denies Gatsby because he was a bootlegger. This story signifies Gatsby trying to achieve The American Dream. Jay Gatsby is one of the most celebrated characters in twentieth-century literature. Carlyle Van Thompson proposed an argument in the year of 2000 that Gatsby was a black man. Thompson explains his analysis and provides numerous facts from the “The Great Gatsby.” He shows how it is nearly impossible for an individual to say that Jay Gatsby was not a black man although he passes for a white man. Fitzgerald uses countless symbols throughout his novel, which can lead one to certainly agree with Thompson’s theory. Was Jay Gatsby a black man?

The novel, The Great Gatsby was written by F.Scott Fitzgerald during one of the most glorious decade of America -- the 1920s. After World War I, America was in midst of an economic boom which fueled the belief that anyone could become rich on the streets of meretricious States. It was the time when people start to pursue more leisure and seek for better future. Ironically,The Great Gatsby harshly indicted and critiqued the idea of American Dream which was initially about discovery, individualism and pursuit of happiness. Through the lenses of the narrator, Nick Carraway, who witnessed the tragic experiences and endings of each character, the fantasies about America in the 1920s shattered apart. American dreams in the novel were corrupted

Nick has a cousin who lives in East Egg, a fashionable area of Long Island, which is home to the established upper class. He drives out one night to meet his cousin, Daisy Buchanan, and her husband Tom for dinner. There, Tom and Daisy introduced Nick to Jordan Baker with whom Nick begins a romantic relationship. Jordan tells Nick that Tom has a lover named Myrtle Wilson who lives in the valley of ashes. Nick then attends a vulgar, gaudy party Nick attends with Tom and Myrtle. At the party, Myrtle taunts Tom about his marriage to Daisy and Tom responds by breaking her nose. Nick finally gets invited to one of Gatsby’s extravagant parties where he meets Jordan again. The two meet Gatsby, who asks to speak to Jordan alone. Nick later learns through Jordan that Gatsby met Daisy in Louisville in 1917 and fell in love with her. Gatsby was then enlisted into the army and asked Daisy to wait for him but she eventually married Tom instead. Gatsby wants Nick to arrange a meeting between himself and Daisy. Nick invites Daisy to his house without telling her that Gatsby will be there. After an awkward initial reunion, they two find their connection again and begin an affair. Tom soon realizes the truth of his wife’s actions and that Gatsby is in love with her. Tom becomes outraged that his wife would be unfaithful to him, even though he is also involved in affair.

The classic novel The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald gained much fame and phenomenon which caused screenwriters to adapt it to a screenplay. With much success the screenplay was recreated twice. Despite having a similar story line, each movie had its own particular aspects, as both directors tried to capture their ideas and convey their thoughts in a variety of ways. While most people preferred screenwriter Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974, version as a more accurate description of the novel; it’s important to take into account how accurate the roles of the characters are portrayed. Baz Luhrmann’s version of The Great Gatsby clearly and distinctively conveyed the characters true self. The 2013, adaptation of The Great Gatsby screenplay written by Baz Luhrmann most accurately depicts the roles of the main characters as described in Fitzgerald’s novel.

The novel The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a less expensive representation of universal themes of morality, ethics and how money inevitably corrupts those ideas. expensive is well represented by the beginning paragraph from The Great Gatsby:“In my younger and more vulnerable years, my father gave me some advice that I 've been turning over in my mind ever since. “Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone... Just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.” F. Scoot Fitzgerald (1,1)

Post World War I, during the Roaring Twenties, women in The Great Gatsby such as Daisy, Myrtle, and Jordan, display the new ideology of women while attempting to reach the American Dream. Women embody the new flapper era and are expected to work for their own money and gain more independence after earning the right to vote. Flappers were seen as significant figures during the Roaring Twenties, as they helped define a new generation for young women who are trying to achieve the American Dream, “[Flappers] were also seen by many as the ideal young woman and was described by author F. Scott Fitzgerald as ‘lovely, expensive and about nineteen’”(Sauro 88). While all three of these women come from different backgrounds, they all yearn for the same thing: status, money, and power. Jordan Baker, Myrtle Wilson, and Daisy Buchanan all represent different portions of the American dream.

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.

“The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald starts out by introducing the narrator, Nick Carraway, who has just recently moved to West Egg. Nick’s cousin Daisy, who is married to the wealthy Tom Buchanan, happens to live across the island on East Egg. Next door to Carraway lives Jay Gatsby, the mysterious man who throws extravagant parties each week exhibiting extreme hospitality to his numerous guests.