The Great Gatsby Character Analysis

The social status is a main theme in The Great Gatsby , take the exemple of Tom and Gatsby they are both rich but use their money differently they are also not the same type of rich. Gatsby is part of the nouveau riche he spends his money irresponsibly and Fitzgerald shows that by describing his mansion where only himself lives in “It was Gatsby’s mansion.Or, rather, as I didn’t know Mr.Gatsby,it was a mansion, inhabited by a gentleman of that name” (5) and his fancy car but in reality all of this is to impress everybody especially the women he always loved Daisy. Gatsby wasn’t always rich he comes from a poor family and earned his money from crimes and bootlegging. Tom on the other side always had money and never worked to have it because his family always had it “His family were enormously wealthy even in college his freedom with money was a matter for reproach” (6) and is more responsible with his money then Gatsby he tries to save it. He likes to spend money for himself whereas Gatsby

    Many argue that F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is an example of the "great American love story", but it is not. The Great Gatsby is not a tale about perfect love; it is a tale of love and lust corrupting individuals in their lives, and of an American dream that is never fulfilled. Throughout the story, we follow multiple relationships, but focus is on the single relationship between Gatsby and Daisy. This relationship, however, fails to fulfill many requirements that would make it a true love story, and thus, while some hardship is to be expected, this relationship encounters an excessive amount. To determine if The Great Gatsby is a "great American love story", it is necessary

In the great Gatsby, There are 2 different classes being shown between characters. Tom and Gatsby are the 2 most wealthy people in the story. Socially , Gatsby hides his origins, he pretends he has a higher status. This highlights the distinctions made in American society between ‘old money’ and the ‘new money’ or ‘newly rich’ such as Dan Cody and Gatsby . In chapter 6, Tom clearly recognises the social distinction, while Gatsby does not, causing him to be excluded from the supper party. Gatsby's wealth is more about criminal things, throwing parties and driving nice cars and over all having the “American Dream”, and based off Gatsbys definition of it, most americans

The Great Gatsby is a story is about a man named Jay Gatsby who revalves his life around getting his one true love back, Daisy. Gatsby lived an eventful life by going from poverty to wealth and then eventually to death. This story is based on the thought of the American dream that hard work can lead you from rags to riches especially when you have something to work for. Throughout the story to prove this it is demonstrated by the use of foreshadowing, flashback, similes, and metaphors. All these played a role in developing the story along with making things interesting.

There is a fine line between love and lust. If love is only a will to possess, it is not love. To love someone is to hold them dear to one's heart. In The Great Gatsby, the characters, Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan are said to be in love, but in reality, this seems to be a misconception. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald portrays the themes of love, lust and obsession, through the character of Jay Gatsby, who confuses lust and obsession with love. By the end of the novel however, Jay Gatsby is denied his "love" and suffers an untimely death. The author interconnects the relationships of the various prominent characters to support these ideas.

Throughout the novel The Great Gatsby, there is a constant theme present: social class. Fitzgerald makes a connection between the theme of social class, and the settings in the novel for example The Valley of Ashes which is described as a “desolate area of land” (p.21) and a “solemn dumping ground” (p.21) which is where the poor people live. The Valley of Ashes is situated between West Egg and New York, West Egg being the place where the aspiring classes are situated, which is the “less fashionable of the two” (p.8), this is where Gatsby lives. West Egg is the place of ‘new money’, Fitzgerald shows this by the idea of the main character Jay Gatsby, rumoured to be selling illegal alcohol (prohibition) which means he is quickly making vast

One of the major topics explored in The Great Gatsby is the sociology of wealth, specifically, how the newly minted millionaires of the 1920s differ from and relate to the old aristocracy of the country’s richest families. In the novel, West Egg and its denizens represent the newly rich, while East Egg and its denizens, especially Daisy and Tom, represent the old aristocracy. Fitzgerald portrays the newly rich as being vulgar, gaudy, ostentatious, and lacking in social graces and taste. Gatsby, for example, lives in a monstrously ornate mansion, wears a pink suit, drives a Rolls-Royce,

In the period of the 1920’s, there was a certain status of wealth that was difficult to achieve. There were two societal classes consisting of those with wealth from prior generations, and those who worked to earn it themselves. Tom, Daisy, and Nick, who represented the old money society did not have to work hard, unlike Gatsby which he represented the new money and they had to work to earn money. People like Gatsby, who gained their wealth on their own often fought for the approval from the upper class who inherited their wealth. Rather than having new money and old money, people who tried achieving the American Dream and ended up in failure usually they end up like George and Myrtle Wilson In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the notion that social norms in the upper class depict the idea that being apart of it was impossible unless they were born in it was expressed through Daisy’s rejection of Gatsby because of the corrupt way in which he gained his wealth, making his American Dream unattainable.

The social hierarchy is influenced by the amount of money one owns which determines whether one can attain their dream. By creating apparent social classes within ‘The Great Gatsby’ – old money, new money and no money, Fitzgerald strongly suggests that American society is intensely stigmatised. Daisy, Tom and Jordan represent the elite social class of society where despite their problems and failures they are always protected and immune by their wealth. Tom refers to Gatsby as ‘Mr Nobody from nowhere” and a “common swindler who would have to steal the ring he put on her finger” as he boasts about his hereditary wealth compared to the other distinct elite group of society who acquire their wealth through business deals, which are sometimes corrupt. Although Fitzgerald mainly attacks the rich, by making them look judgemental, superior and selfish, evidently the lower class of society are vulnerable within American society. This is shown where so many, like Myrtle,

Although it is the repercussions of their deceptive fantasies that Gatsby and Lester fall victim to, it was their continued search for love that leads them to these. Love is the principal value in The Great Gatsby and is illustrated best by the contrast of Gatsby’s idealized romantic love for Daisy with Daisy’s “love” for wealth and status, a love which is common to the majority of their irresponsible society. F Scott Fitzgerald emphasizes Gatsby’s “romantic readiness” through this contrast as well as Gatsby’s fall from grace that results in him becoming lost in “the colossal vitality of his illusions” (pg. 92). Daisy characterizes the power of a love of money in the Great Gatsby and is used by Fitzgerald in condemning Gatsby’s hedonistic society as well as his own. However it is the absence of love –rather than the presence- that is most prominent in American

There are several social classes referenced in The Great Gatsby. There is a distinction between the wealthy who live in West Egg, and those who live in East Egg. People who were born into wealth reside in East Egg, while people who were born into a lower class but were able to become rich by their own means reside in West Egg. While the “old” money and the “new” money are similar in terms of wealth alone, they are completely separate classes. People from old money often dislike those from new money and see new money as beneath them because they had only acquired their money recently. Tom, Daisy, and Jordan are part of the old money class, while Gatsby and Nick are new money. Meanwhile, Myrtle and Wilson are part of the lower class. The rift between the ideals of the different classes is evident through the observation of the relationship between Gatsby and Daisy, as well as the relationship between Tom and Myrtle.

First of all, Nick Carraway, who acts as The Great Gatsby’s narrator, is disillusioned with the wealthy upper class and constantly criticizes the people around him. Although he is from a wealthy family in the West, Nick was raised with values so he is not taken in by the selfish behavior of the people in East and West Egg. At the very beginning of the novel, he says that when he was young his father gave him this important advice that he still follows: “‘Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone... just remember that all people in this world haven’t had the advantages you’ve had’” (Fitzgerald 1). In short, he is stating the morals which he upholds where he does not judge people less privileged than him. On the other hand, when he sees how the upper class people surrounding him always seem to be dishonest, he says, “I am one of the few honest people that I

The Great Gatsby provides a window of the mentality of the average person through the actions of Gatsby. If Gatsby is placed in a lower economic class with his money staying relative to the average income of such class, we see that his traits and characteristics more closely resemble that of a lower class citizen rather than a money-thirsty hardworking billionaire. Though not entirely true, there

The "new money" people cannot be like them, and in many ways that works in their favor — those in society's highest echelon are not nice people at all. They are judgmental and superficial, failing to look at the essence of the people around them (and themselves, too). Instead, they live their lives in such a way as to perpetuate their sense of superiority — however unrealistic that may be. The people with newly acquired wealth, though, aren't necessarily much better. Think of Gatsby's partygoers. They attend his parties, drink his liquor, and eat his food, never once taking the time to even meet their host (nor do they even bother to wait for an invitation, they just show up). When Gatsby dies, all the people who frequented his house every week mysteriously became busy elsewhere, abandoning Gatsby when he could no longer do anything for them. One would like to think the newly wealthy would be more sensitive to the world around them — after all, it was only recently they were without money and most doors were closed to them. As Fitzgerald shows, however, their concerns are largely living for the moment, steeped in partying and other forms of

The Great Gatsby presents different social groups to embody and transmit the idea that each class has it’s own problems to prevail over and unhappiness transcends over all the social classes. The problems in each group, despite the social stratification, reveal the instability of the world they live in. The three classes are old money, new money, and no money in which all three believe their own rules of survival in society and enforce boundaries between social classes. Fitzgerald uses the similarities between the poor and the rich to reinforce his opinion and his characterization of the upper class.