The Great Gatsby Compare And Contrast Essay

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby to discuss society, relationships, and money. The book takes place during the roaring 20’s, a time of parties and big business, and follows the lives of Nick, Tom, Daisy, and Jay Gatsby. Many characters demonstrate their true intentions through the way they talk and react with others, but Daisy Buchanon is especially characterized through her own actions. F. Scott Fitzgerald wants the audience to view Daisy as a greedy and self absorbed pretty girl, and he proves it with her actions, rather than description.

I thoroughly enjoy the writing style of Fitzgerald, he does a wonderful job on adding subtle details to add more emotion and reality. Daisy is an intriguing character and I love the way Fitzgerald describes her. While Nick talked to his cousin, he noticed “Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget” (9). ‘Bright’ is a repeating word in this sentence, Nick believes his cousin is a light and lively person men are attracted to. Nick uses the juxtaposition of ‘sad’ and ‘lovely’ to express what he sees in Daisy at that moment. He notices Daisy is a lovely woman with kind intentions; however, she

F. Scott Fitzgerald constructed his novel, The Great Gatsby, by sculpting numerous situation and character contrasts together through out the novel to create and deliver a magnificent work of art. Although Fitzgerald contrasted numerous characters and situations through out the novel, there are three that are very pungent; the characters Tom Buchanan and George Wilson and Daisy Buchanan and Myrtle Wilson. Not only were there Character contrasts, there were also situations that Fitzgerald contrasted against each other. One of them was the contrasting of the concept of the Old Money life style and the New Money life style. Tom and George not only have physical

     Jordan Baker, Daisy's friend, is portrayed by Fitzgerald as a masculine figure. One of the first things we find out about this woman is the fact that she is a professional golf player. Nowadays, we don't find anything unusual about this, but, in the twenties, it was quite unusual to

First of all Fitzgerald embodies Gatsby as a failed American dream during the time period by presenting Gatsby as a person who achieves happiness and materialism with money. Gatsby wants to

In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald focuses on Daisy Buchanan’s relationship with Tom Buchanan and Jay Gatsby. Tom and Gatsby both love Daisy in different ways, but the fact that they both want Daisy as their own makes them similar. Both Tom and Gatsby share many similarities while having even a greater amount of differences. While differences are good, they sometimes lead to unhappiness, jealousy, and grief.

Daisy Buchanan, the golden girl living her life high in the white daydream of her imaginary palace. This gorgeous lady is presented as the lovely flower who just happens to be Nick’s cousin. Winning hearts and people over is her absolute specialty. After all, who could possibly hate someone who’s such an innocent lady? However, it just so happens that this golden girl is more of a pyrite instead. Fitzgerald exposes the true nature of this woman throughout the novel, characterizing her to be much of his real-life heinous wife, Zelda. Yet, the reader doesn’t quite dislike Daisy as much as they would given any other context. Why? Fitzgerald disguises Daisy’s destructive decisions through her golden girl appearance, her

Fitzgerald uses Characters in The Great Gatsby for multiple reasons: as catalysts for significant events, as physical representations of 20s society, and in order to illustrate important themes in his novel. Fitzgerald uses Daisy and Myrtle particularly as inherent contrasts of people in the 1920’s. One represents love, the other sex; One wealth, the has a lack thereof; and they both represent different pitfalls in 20s society.

Fitzgerald meets his beloved girl Zelda who is a wild 17-year-old lovely beauty and falls in love with her at a country club, in the same way as Gatsby meets Daisy. After the romantic piece of waltz, Fitzgerald

When writing this book, Fitzgerald uses his own surroundings and even attacks the idea of love throughout the novel. Fitzgerald is similar to Gatsby and it is evident, because of how they both are hopeless romantics. He was in a relationship with a woman named Zelda and deeply loves her. They both live normal lives and even, “led wild lives filled with parties and intrigue. [However] The drama in their lives ended badly: Fitzgerald became an alcoholic and suffered mental collapses, while Zelda

Although Fitzgerald prominently believed that women were unable to provide for themselves, he does recognize their attempts at becoming more independent. As Daisy desires importance in her mundane life, she begins to challenge the societal views of gender by having an affair with Gatsby. Daisy takes a small step forward when her friends come over and she orders Tom to “make [them] a cold drink” and as he left the room “she got up and went over to Gatsby and pulled his face down, kissing him on the mouth”(Fitzgerald 116). Fitzgerald’s recurring use of alcohol foreshadows the coming prohibition where only those of a high status were able to obtain the substance. Although Daisy was of a high status, alcohol was generally prohibited to women, and by using it, Fitzgerald portrays how she transitions from housewife to a woman who is not afraid to assert her dominance by doing what she desires. Breaking gender norms, Daisy takes control by pulling Gatsby down to her level to kiss him, which promotes her dominance as she uses her power

Fitzgerald's writing pursuits at Princeton came at the expense of his coursework, however, causing him to be placed on academic probation, and in 1917 he dropped out of school to join the Army, was stationed at Fort Leavenworth that was around the times where World War I was going on so he was scared that his life was going to end in the war and in a visit back home to St. Paul Minnesota he met Ginevra King who would actually be his inspiration for many female characters in his novels and one of them is Daisy Buchanan (one of the main female characters in the book The Great Gatsby). Later on, he became a 2nd lieutenant and was stationed in the outsides of Montgomery, Alabama where Fitzgerald met and fell in love with Zelda Sayre, World War I ended before Fitzgerald was even deployed so he went back to New York City hoping to get a lucrative career to convince Zelda to marry him. She accepted the marriage proposal, but after some time that Fitzgerald couldn't give her all she want, lead to their engagement break

Daisy married more for convince. Other than the affairs, differences in marriage can be found. For starters, Daisy is romantic. She once says,

Secondly, Daisy is another example of an individual of the novel who appears to be things she really is not. Scott Fitzgerald’s illusions of the appearance of Daisy are meant to affect the events in the novel. Daisy is introduced as a pure hearted, guiltless and lovable character. “The other girl, Daisy, made an attempt to rise — she leaned slightly forward with a conscientious expression — then she laughed, an absurd,

Although Ginevra King was Fitzgerald¡¦s first true love, she certainly was not his last. In July 1918, while stationed in Montgomery, Alabama with the military, Scott met a gracious, soft-voiced girl named Zelda Sayre at a country club dance. Scott recalled that night that, ¡§she let her long hair hang down loose and wore a frilly dress that made her look younger than eighteen. She came from a prominent though not wealthy family and had just graduated