The Great Gatsby Historical Inaccuracies

    Summary: The narrator of The Great Gatsby, Nick starts the novel by describing himself and introducing Gatsby, everything he scorns, but strives to be. Nick moves to the West Egg in New York to work in the bond business. Nick goes to Tom and Daisy’s house for dinner one night. Tom is a friends from college and Daisy is Nick’s cousin. Nick finds out about Tom’s lover, and sees Gatsby reaching off in the distance when he arrives home.

gentleman . . . but he wasn't fit to lick my shoe . . . he borrowed

As the summer creeps on, Nick eventually receives and invitations to one of Gatsby's Legendary parties. He finds Jordan Baker at the party and then they meet Gatsby Himself. He was a surprisingly young

The book, The Great Gatsby, was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and it was published in 1925. This novel is one that defines the Twenties. The speaker of the book is a young man who goes by the name of Nick Carraway, who is from Minnesota. Throughout the book, he both narrates the story and casts himself as the author of this book. His father taught him to reserve judgment about other people that crossed his path. This is because if he deals with them through his moral standards, then he will misunderstand them and their purpose. In the summer of 1922, he has arrived in New York to work in the bond business. He rented a house in Long Island called West Egg. Nick has a next door neighbor named Jay Gatsby, who lives in a mansion and has parties every Saturday night. Nick was educated at Yale University and he has social connections at East Egg. One evening, Nick goes to dinner with his cousin, Daisy Buchanan, and her husband, Tom, one of Nick’s classmates at Yale. At dinner, Daisy and Tom introduce Nick to a beautiful young woman named Jordan Baker, and eventually Nick begins a relationship with her. Jordan also tells Nick that Tom has an affair with a girl from the valley of ashes called Myrtle Wilson.

Gatsby's extravagant parties went on during "summer nights" and people were rarely invited, but "they went there" to celebrate in a sumptuous atmosphere. As Nick gets to know better Jordan Baker; his curiosity about Gatsby's wins and he asks her about his past, but she adamantly avoided the question and start talking about how she "like large parties" due to their "[intimacy]." On the night of his acquaintance with Gatsby, Nick turns quickly to Jordan and interrogates her about his "dim background." Nick's actions seem child-like and very chagrined due to his choice of action; it seems that the only way Nick could get information about Gatsby is by gossiping like small school

Nick describes himself an honest person, yet he goes on to help Gatsby connect with his cousin Daisy regardless of her being married. Gatsby is overly thrilled and insists on giving Nick an offer since he agreed to call Daisy to have tea with him but, Nick does not take it (Luhrmann). Even though Nick recognizes Gatsby’s flaws, he still admires him.

Jay Gatsby in Nick's’ eyes was the best thing that came out of his residence in New York. “...I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart. Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction-- Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn.” Nick had always felt something special about Gatsby and his personality. “If personality is an unbroken series of unsuccessful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away.”

Nick is in awe and marvels at the wildness of the city.He is enthralled and loves the ‘racy adventurous feel’.Along the way, he goes to have dinner with his cousin Daisy.Daisy is seen as innocent and pure in the novel and Fitzgerald associates her with a multitude of pure colors (white).Her voice also plays a major key in how she is portrayed, seeing as Gatsby describes it as ‘a voice of money’.When Nick speaks to Daisy on the porch about her daughter, she says”All right,' I said, I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool – that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.’ Daisy says this in reference to how-how women were portrayed in the 20s because it was better to be dumb and a ditz.Also, within his perceptions and notions about the people around him, Nick has a quite revelation about her husband, Tom Buchanan.Fitzgerald's symbolization of Tom Buchanan stands out within the whole novel because with a novel so centered on the American Dream, Tom Buchanan is everything but that.He was born into wealth, and is an arrogant bully of a man, with a godlike complex, harboring white supremacy beliefs.He symbolizes that breed of rich white Americans that take everything for granted, yet feel entitled to

Gatsby had big dreams, accomplished some but then got too caught up and everything he had done for one girl ended up getting thrown away. Nick had some part because he snitched Gatsby out. It was a big rivalry over one girl who was just interested in money but they were both just glued to the past five years. The bigger the situation got the more had happened, throughout the movie Gatsby had dreams, he had his achievements and of course there is no movie without some failures which all seems to revolve around the last line of the book said by Nick, "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

     In the words of Jan Gildewell, “You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest, that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.” Jay Gatsby in the book The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, didn’t only cling to the past and forget about the future but also tried to recreate it. There are symbols from Gatsby’s past that display his yearning for a different life all through this piece of literature. Gatsby’s mind can only conceive one way to change his current and undesired path of existence, and that single idea is to recreate and modify his past. In the act of trying to bring back the past he ends up dead.

One of the first events that take place in the book is when Nick goes to visit his cousin, Daisy. They are not close however and have never actually met. ““We don’t know each other very well, Nick,”” (16). While talking Jordan mentions Gatsby’s name, this would be the first that Nick would hear of the man, All he would know of him for many chapters was that he was well known in the area and was rich, Nick however liver right next to him and would later get to know him even more.

He sees Jordan at the party and speaks to a man about their history in WW1, and discovers he was talking to Gatsby. Chapter 4: Nick rolls calls several people who went to Gatsby’s parties. He learns from Gatsby’s alleged past, from a wealthy family in San Francisco, went to war and won medals, and was educated at Oxford. Nick is very skeptical, and he goes with Gatsby to meet Meyer Wolfshiem and learns of his shady powers, hearing how he fixed the 1919 World Series. Jordan explains the history about Daisy, how desirable she was and her love with Gatsby, but when he was drafted for the war, she marries Tom Buchanan.

In the beginning of the novel, Gatsby is elusive to Nick. Eventually, as the novel goes on, Nick discovers that Gatsby is a beacon of hope. In addition, it is revealed that Gatsby has a long, deep-seated love for Nick’s cousin, Daisy Buchanan. Similarly, he has become who he wanted to be, someone with an identity, by being a bootlegger, a common occupation for plenty of prosperous people back in the 1920s, which is when the novel takes place.

Not long after this revelation, Nick travels to New York City with Tom and Myrtle. At a vulgar, gaudy party in the apartment that Tom keeps for the affair, Myrtle begins to taunt Tom about Daisy, and Tom responds by breaking her nose. As the summer progresses, Nick eventually garners an invitation to one of Gatsby’s legendary parties. He encounters Jordan Baker at the party, and they meet Gatsby himself, a surprisingly young man who affects an English accent, has a remarkable smile, and calls everyone “old sport.” Gatsby asks to speak to Jordan alone, and, through Jordan, Nick later learns more about his mysterious neighbor. Gatsby tells Jordan that he knew Daisy in Louisville in 1917 and is deeply in love with her. He spends many nights staring at the green light at the end of her dock, across the bay from his mansion. Gatsby’s extravagant lifestyle and wild parties are simply an attempt to impress Daisy. Gatsby now wants Nick to arrange a reunion between himself and Daisy, but he is afraid that Daisy will refuse to see him if she knows that he still loves her. Nick invites Daisy to have tea at his house, without telling her that Gatsby will also be there. After an initially awkward reunion, Gatsby and Daisy reestablish their connection. Their love rekindled, they begin an affair. After a short time,

The acting in the movie was outstanding all the actors did a great job portraying the characters you would imagine in the 1920’s. The costumes and make up gave the film a real 1920’s look it was like watching an old film from that time only in color and a lot clearer. One thing I found ironic was the music Craig Armstrong (music director) used in the movie. There were two songs that stuck out the first was the song they played during Gatsby’s first party. It is called a Little Party Never Killed Nobody, and this is how everyone felt in the 1920’s or in other words it was the persona that was expressed. The second song was 100$ Bill, this song was playing in the speakeasy when Gatsby