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Material items and possessions may give temporary satisfaction, but after that fleeting moment, the cravings for more start anew. The Fisherman and His Wife and The Great Gatsby both show examples of how a person can never be satisfied with the amount of possessions they have. Satisfaction cannot be achieved unless that person is happy with themselves. Happiness should not depend on possessions, but rather self-satisfaction.

The imperfections that hinder Nick Carraway include being extremely censorious, egotistic, conceited, self-deluding, self-absorbed, and socially inept. Despite Nick viewing himself as unprejudiced “The Great Gatsby” contains multiple instances that prove to be contrary to Nick’s morals. “They’re a rotten crowd. You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.” (Fitzgerald 154)

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Another significant factor that contributes to this aspiration is seen through Daisy Buchanan. In Daisy's case, it is seen that she does not thrive for happiness and is handed all the wealth and beauty without putting in the effort. For her social class, however, she was only given one job which was to be a vision of beauty with a perfect husband and children despite not being truly happy. When Daisy marries Tom, she does so not because she loves him, but because he can promise her a more comfortable and reliable life than Jay Gatsby can. She is stuck between true happiness and being blinded by wealth and comfort. Even though Gatsby want her there for him she is so enclose by Tom’s wealth that she is blind to her true

“...I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” p. 4

Towards the middle of the book Nick finally got to know Mr.Gatsby a little better. Gatsby had made it clear to Nick that he shouldn’t believe the rumours that he heard because Gatsby doesn’t want Nick to get the wrong impression of him. The reason behind this is because he knew that Nick had a closeness with Daisy so he was trying hard to impress those surrounding Daisy’s family life because

The motif of carelessness plays a very important role in The Great Gatsby. Tom and Daisy were very careless with their relationship, their money and a bunch of their other daily activities. Gatsby was very unconcerned with his money. Gatsby also only thought about his own dreams. Fitzgerald utilizes the motif of carelessness in order to prove that money does not equate to happiness.

The society our nation lives in today has developed morals and principles through the lessons experienced from the past. The Roaring Twenties was a time of change and a chance to pave a path for the person you wanted to become. Morals and principles served as guidelines rather than rules and were merely preached that practiced. Thus, the severity of the immoral actions taking place created opportunities for lessons to be learned. In his novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald illustrated various moral lessons through the downfall and corruption of various characters based on their immoral actions. The narrator, Nick Carraway is a young man who throughout the

Although he has flaws, Fitzgerald reveals Gatsby’s great capacity for hope, and his kindness toward Nick, while holding onto the hope that he will win back the love of his life, Daisy, despite coming to the incredulous conclusion that they are from two separate worlds: old and new money. In this unpleasant happening he feels “far away from her” and comes to understand not all hopes can come true (109). Nevertheless, he still desperately clings to the fantasy of winning back Daisy. His fantasy is especially exemplified when he says “can’t repeat the past?... Why of course you can!”(110) This belief comes from the idea that his ‘new money’ world will win Daisy from Tom’s ‘old money’ paradigm. Although in the end he is killed because of his love for Daisy, keeping her safe after she murdered Myrtle, yet through all this Gatsby remains kind toward his friend Nick. Starting with the invitation to his “little party,” Gatsby tries to earn Nick’s

F. Scott Fitzgerald once said “No amount of Fire or Freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart”. This is opposing the idea of the American dream, the surplus of materials will make you happy. The American dream is the ideology proclaiming anybody can go from being unwealthy to being an elite member of the high class society. The American dream is something everyone all over the world want to participate in, many are coming to the promised land to achieve their American dream. In the novel , The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald states that the American dream is materialistic through his description of wealthy characters.

In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald utilizes many universal and timeless themes to make the novel a classic. He emphasizes that most people lack insight and can not see the truth. To the majority of the society, the reality is an illusion that they create in their minds. The characters, events, setting, symbols and imagery contribute to establishing this theme.

Today we are here together to say goodbye to James Gatz but we all know him as Jay Gatsby. I know he would of hoped more people of come because of all the parties and people he knew, the good and the bad ones also. He told so many lies about his whole life. Not even a few days ago before he died when I called him. Gatsby was killed by George Wilson and then Wilson killed himself when I called Gatsby to check up on him. I knew Gatsby for a while now. I never knew a hopeful person like Gatsby before in my life. Gatsby told me about his real life and it got me surprise because he had so little and then he had so much. He didn’t know what to do about it. Now I’m going to tell you about James Gatz and what had become about his life…

Fitzgerald leaves the sentence unfinished because he is making a clear connection towards the theme of dreams. The sentence is referring to dreams and how we will try harder to achieve dreams in order to obtain them. Fitzgerald then cuts off Nick while he’s talking about achieving the dream, but these sort of events also happen to Gatsby trying to achieve his dream. Nick is very hopeful in this sentence as well as hopeful that Gatsby will see his dream of returning with Daisy one day, but in both incidents they are cut off before being finished. Fitzgerald leaves the sentence unfinished because he is making a comment on how even though Gatsby was great and persevered to achieve his dream in the end his dream was unfinished.

One of my favorite classic rock songs has always been “Glory Days” by Bruce Springsteen. I grew up listening to my dad’s music and this is one song that has always stuck with me. When I first found out that it was inspired by the Novel “The Great Gatsby” by F Scott. Fitzgerald I was shocked, I had never really listened to the lyrics before. After Reading the book and listening to the song a few more times, I realized that every verse is loosely based on different main characters. This gave the song new meaning for me, it now makes me picture the characters from the book and also has reminiscent sadness attached to it while still connecting to the idea of the American dream, a theme which is also very prevalent in the great Gatsby. The inspiration of characters for verses in this song makes it connects with the book on a whole new level.

Scott F. Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, depicts the difficulties in achieving the American Dream, and what some of the morally questionable actions one would do to achieve it are. The novel focuses on a very rich man, named Jay Gatsby, and the strange obsession he has with Daisy Buchanan, a married woman who he had a relationship with in the past, before she got married. The book also talks about Gatsby’s perseverance to make Daisy fall in love with him, using his extreme wealth as well as power. The author uses money, extravagancy and almost fictional parties to show that the American dream is impossible to obtain. Money is the main reason that ignites the actions of the main characters in the book.