The Great Gatsby Influence

Nick and a dog, Uggy, both play same roles in “The Artist” and “The Great Gatsby”. Both of them exist as loyal guards of main heroes; they both have good qualities, such as honesty and loyalty. Beside their virtues, the most importance is that they help main characters in need. In “The Great Gatsby”, Nick is one of guests in Gatsby’s big party, but he is only one to join his funeral. “In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars” (41). This sentence presents the most spectacular settings of Gatsby’s party with lots of guests. It also shows that Gatsby should recognize many upper-class people from his party; these guests join his party that means they get benefits from him,

My first connection that I will discuss is the American Dream. The American Dream is an ideology set in the United States that ideals freedom through success achieved through hard work in a society with few barriers. The texts that I will discuss will examine the flaws within the ideology and whether it is actually attainable. My first text that I will discuss is The Great Gatsby. This text links to my connection because it reveals that you can’t attain the American Dream no matter what the circumstance. Gatsby, a man who was a clam digger on the shores of Lake superior and a young military officer seems to have achieved the American Dream but in the wrong way. Tom says to Gatsby and Nick that he “found out what your [Gatsby’s] drug stores’

As Jones summed up on a BBS response, "The certainly love drinking from dawn til dawn" (Jones 1160). In comparison, many of the characters of The Great Gatsby drank excessively, keeping in mind the story was set in the United States during prohibition. Jay Gatsby, a bootlegger, threw large, lavish parties at his grand estate during the summer evenings where the alcohol, food and music flowed. Characters such as Tom and Daisy Buchanan, Myrtle Wilson, Jordan Baker, and Nick Carraway enjoyed parties and drank excessively. Another important parallel to point out under the vice of excessive drinking is the fact that both Hemingway and Fitzgerald drank excessively. Their excessive drinking behaviors caused their writing to suffer (McDowell 91).

Many of the most trying and eye-opening experiences America had ever encountered took place during the years of 1919 and 1930; ranging from the end of the war to the stock market crash, the nation stayed together and developed many inventions and ideas that would drastically change the future of America. Most of the time when people speak about the 1920s they describe them as roaring. They have mental pictures that reflect women in flappers dancing with wine glasses filled to the brim in one hand and a lite cigarette in the other hand. They imagine men in expensive tuxedos buying lavish and luxury items such as cars and mansions. They think of works of literature such as The Great Gatsby that depict the 1920s as a place where people were free to do what they wanted when they wanted, whether it was legal or not. The twenties are considered a time where people had more money than they needed and they spent it accordingly. However, that is not the entire concept of the 1920s. The twenties were not just a time of over spending. They were a time of fear. People had never had nor seen this much money in circulation. They had especially not grown custom to witnessing people spend the money on items they did not need.

Why should high schoolers be forced to read a book that isn’t interesting to them? Often times they either do not apply to real life situations or even teach anything that a teenager would understand. So, the high schooler skims through the book and does not pay attention to any detail. High school classrooms need better books that can teach history in a fun way, and add some interesting things to which students can reflect and think on. A book read in high school, should allow the students to think critically about the text they are reading, should include some references to history, and incorporate themes that are understandable and relatable to a high school student’s life. This makes a book want to be read as well as enjoyable. The

Themes of hope, success, and wealth overpower The Great Gatsby, leaving the reader with a new way to look at the roaring twenties, showing that not everything was good in this era. F. Scott Fitzgerald creates the characters in this book to live and recreate past memories and relationships. This was evident with Gatsby and Daisy’s relationship, Tom and Daisy’s struggling marriage, and Gatsby expecting so much of Daisy and wanting her to be the person she once was. The theme of this novel is to acknowledge the past, but do not recreate and live in the past because then you will not be living in the present, taking advantage of new opportunities.

Fitzgerald’s portrayal alcohol as a shield from pain and suffering serves as a counterpoint to the prohibitionist argument that alcohol is an ineffective way to escape the troubles of life. When Nick arrives at Gatsby’s party he asks several guests about Gatsby’s whereabouts. He realizes that this is, at Gatsby’s party, an embarrassing faux pas. His first reaction to this humiliation is “to get roaring drunk from sheer embarrassment” (Fitzgerald, 42). Fitzgerald repeatedly shows us that, in response to any sort of embarrassment or loss, drunkenness can be a default option for coping. Alcohol, in The Great Gatsby, can help ward off the troubles of life. When Myrtle is hit and killed, Catherine, her sister, decides to break her rule against drinking. When Daisy receives a deeply upsetting letter (presumably from Gatsby) before her wedding, she turns to liquor to shield her from the pain. “‘Gratulate me,’ she muttered. ‘Never had a drink before, but oh

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby is set in the roaring twenties, the age of booming industry, lavish parties, new millionaires and an excess of everything. The novel is told through the narrative of Nick Carraway about his summer in New York where he becomes “carried away” with his neighbor, Jay Gatsby’s quest for a beautiful, aristocratic women named Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby fell in love with Daisy five years before he left for the War World I and devotes his life to trying to recreate their past. Gatsby’s tendency to “overdream” is a representation of the American Dream and the impossibility of his quest represents the futility of trying to recreate the past.

An abrupt death of Myrtle caused by the traumatizing car accident, and the sudden crash of the Wall Street are both endings of glorious and magnificent times. Is this a simply coincidence? Or is it Fitzgerald’s intention to link The Great Gatsby with the time period? The devastating incident of the car crash was the ending of The Great Gatsby and the crash of Wall Street brought the shimmering and wondrous Roaring Twenties to the end. There are strong connections between the novel ‘The Great Gatsby’ and the Roaring Twenties. America in the 1920s experienced various sudden and extreme changes in people’s lives in both economic and culture wise. The end of WWI introduced America to the urban society, causing a boost in economy, resulting affluence

F. Scott Fitzgerald is notorious for his literary contributions as well as his personal life. He is a prime example of the trials and errors of the American Dream (Willett). Over the course of his life, he experienced love, wealth, prosperity, and failure. These experiences helped influence his writing and inspire him to write about the American Dream. The Great Gatsby is a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald that

“The Great Gatsby” is a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in the 1920’s. The novel is narrated by a young man named Nick Carraway, who moves to West Egg, New York to learn more about the bond business so he can eventually sell bonds. He moves into an average house in between two huge mansions, so in comparison his average house looks like a small, run down shack. One of the owners of those mansions, and Carraway’s new neighbor, is Jay Gatsby. Gatsby has huge extravagant parties every night and one day invites Carraway personally, which he never does. Gatsby is never seen at his own parties and no one really knows who he is though there are many rumors about whether he even exists or not and about what type of person he is. But he makes

In my experience, reading has more often than not, been a two-sided prospect. There are times in which I enjoy reading; however, there are also moments in which I form enmity towards it. For instance, during my sophomore and junior years of high school, Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby were assigned; these particular books left quite the positive impression. On the other hand, literature such as the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel did not seem to leave the same feeling; in some ways, Wiesel’s memoir intensified my distaste for reading.

Time remains a universal continuation of the past into the present and bears a strong hold on the future. The destruction of satisfaction in history withholds the contentment of the future with an impeding sense of unalterable guilt. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald demonstrates “the past is forever in the present” through numerous literary and narrative techniques, suggesting that memories serve as crucial components in the development of individuals.

One of the most illustrative and timeless novels in American literature, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald represents a glimpse of life in the 1920s, a significant period after War World I. In an attempt to define this era in American history in an allegorical style, Fitzgerald utilizes vivid dialogues, characterization, and character development; this was most prominently captured in pages 137 through 141. In these climatic pages, Fitzgerald reveals the true nature and motive of each character. Fitzgerald uses these few pages to bring all the major characters in one setting and elicit each of their emotions and subtle character, thereby effectively demonstrating the characteristic change brought upon society after War World I. In doing so, he also succeeds in his purpose: to capture the moral decadence and materialistic obsession of his time.

The Great Gatsby, a film released in 1974, based off a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald tells the tragic story of a mysterious man named Jay Gatsby. The movie takes place in America after World War I and allows viewers to observe the social effect of the post-war’s economic growth. In the film, there are several examples of social stratification, symbolic interactionism, labeling theory, gender norms, and the butterfly effect from the characters’ diverse backgrounds and actions.