The Great Gatsby Literary Analysis

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.

Tom told George, Myrtle’s husband that it was Gatsby’s car that hit her. So George, seeking revenge, killed Gatsby.

The plot of The Great Gatsby, a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is driven by Jay Gatsby's

In The Great Gatsby, the author, F Scott Fitzgerald depicts the post - war roaring 20’s, a time of overwhelming prosperity and a new found sense of hope for the future. While this novel is often perceived as a romance, it is also a criticism on the devastating nature of the elusive american dream. The story of Jay Gatsby is a representation of what had become the values of the individual at the time. With the progression of the early 1920’s the vision of the perfect life, or the american dream, had been skewed. It was replaced with greed, and an abundance of reckless spending in which the wealthier individuals placed their misguided ideas of happiness. In the Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald chooses to expose the hidden truth behind the illustrious concept of the American dream. Through his use of literary devices such as, symbolism, metaphor, and, irony the central idea of the truly unattainable American dream is supported throughout the novel.

“The orgastic future that year by year recedes before us” is the unattainable goal of those living in Tom and Daisy’s world—a world where lives are wasted chasing the unreachable (Fitzgerald 180). In his 1925 novel The Great Gatsby, author F. Scott Fitzgerald suggests that making any progress whatsoever toward this aspiration often requires people to establish facades that enable them to progress socially, but that a crippled facade will backfire and cause detriment to its creator. In the passage where Nick realizes who Gatsby is on page 48, Nick observes two different versions of Gatsby—one that is reassuring and truthful and another who “pick[s] his words with care” (Fitzgerald 48). Nick is at first attracted to Gatsby’s constructed

Gatsby cannot be classified as a truly moral person who exhibits goodness or correctness in his character and behaviour. Gatsby disputes most moral damage throughout the novel. Gatsby exhibits characteristics explaining the reason behind moral decay in society. Corruption and lies are responsible for the destruction of humanity. Gatsby’s whole life’s basically is a lie as he created a fake identity for himself. A whole new persona, Jay Gatsby is not even his real name. Gatsby

After reading The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, I was able to gather a small playlist of songs that can relate to the book. The lyrics in these songs relate to scenes, symbols, and different characters in the book.

The Great Gatsby has been around for ages; it is a story of a young man in the 1920’s who is thrown into a new world made up of the new and the old rich. He is confused by the way these people act and in the end cannot stay another minute in this strange, insensitive, materialistic world. The author, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses many techniques to help the reader understand how Nick Carraway (the narrator) is feeling throughout the story. In the book The Great Gatsby, the author F. Scott Fitzgerald uses effective language to make his writing successful. He uses the techniques of imagery and irony to display this message.

The author of The Great Gatsby was F. Scott Fitzgerland whose usage of diction, image, details, figurative language and different type of structures of the sentence(syntax) creates the passage more visible and understandable. For example, the author uses a word “the valley of ashes” to describe the valley. Furthermore, he creates an image in the reader's mind with descriptive and concise words for the valley in the better structure of the sentence. Besides, he also uses the figurative language to create a better image that helps the reader to comprehend the story. Moreover, he uses detail such as the eye of doctor T.J. are blue and gigantic, to convince the reader to ponder about how important it is to the story. Overall, the author presented the finest story using his different techniques of writing which assists the readers to understand the significance of incomplete goals that the main character had.

Though Tom did not want to lose his wife, he was having an affair of his own. Tom was in an affair with Myrtle Wilson, who lived in the Valley of Ashes with her husband George. During Tom’s affair, “So Tom Buchannan and his girl and I went up together to New York, Mrs. Wilson sat discretely in another car” (Fitzgerald 31). Myrtle does call Tom and Daisy’s house often, “The telephone rang inside, startlingly, and as Daisy shook her head decisively at Tom the subject of the stable, in fact all subjects, vanished into air” (Fitzgerald 20). Tom keeps this affair going on until Myrtle is murdered. Daisy’s erratic driving in Gatsby’s car, after Gatsby and Tom’s argument killed Myrtle. The Day after she was murdered, “the ‘death car’ as the newspapers called it, didn’t stop; it came out of the gathering darkness, wavered tragically for a moment and then disappear around the next bend” (Fitzgerald144). This is now when Tom convinces George Wilson That Gatsby was the one who killed his wife and had an affair with her. After George kills Gatsby, he takes his own life in Gatsby’s house with a shot to the head.

Tom becomes furious when he finds out that his wife is having an affair with Gatsby even though he was having an affair as well. He decides to tell his friend, George, that it was Gatsby that ran over his wife, Myrtle. “What if I did tell him? That fellow had it coming to him. He threw dust into your eyes just like he did in Daisy’s but he was a tough one. He ran over Myrtle like you’d run over a dog and never even stopped the car” (187). Ultimately, this leads to George murdering Gatsby and then committing suicide even though it was Daisy that accidentally killed George’s wife. Clearly, Tom’s actions put into motion the death of two men all because of his hot-headed, hypocritical, and ignorant

Great Gatsby Motif Essay F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, has many themes. One of his major themes is the gender roles between men and women. In the book men have the upper hand in almost every situation and are able to get away with things that the women are shamed for such as cheating. The motif of cheating proves the gender advantages that men have over women. The motif shows how what’s acceptable for men isn’t acceptable for women.

In continuation, another theme within F. Scott Fitzgerald’s wonderful book is betrayal. One of the main acts of betrayal in the book is Tom Buchanan’s betrayal of Daisy. He does this by having an affair with George Wilson's wife, Myrtle. This act then destroys everything that Daisy and himself had built together. Tom’s disloyal and deceit filled ways had caused him to believe that he was doing no wrong. He even states “I love Daisy too. Once in awhile I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time"(Fitzgerald 131). This was not a one time thing, he had done this horrible act multiple times and just expected that since he loved Daisy that he would always be welcomed by her. Another significant betrayal in the novel is Gatsby’s betrayal to himself. Gatsby had always tried to become a better man when he was growing up, and he had many hopes and dreams that would help in in achieving this goal. His father even states “[Gatsby's] got something about improving his mind. He was always great for that”(Fitzgerald 173). Gatsby was capable of great things, but he wasted his time chasing after the girl he loved the most. Every decision he made involved Daisy is some way. He had became a bootlegger for her, and in the end lost his life because of her. Gatsby had cheated and betrayed himself all for this girl's affection. He never became the

“The Great Gatsby” is a novel by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published in 1925, it is set on Long Island's North Shore and in New York City from spring to autumn of 1922. The novel takes place following the First World War. American society enjoyed prosperity during the “roaring” as the economy soared. At the same time, prohibition, the ban on the sale and manufacture of alcohol as mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment, made millionaires out of bootleggers. After its republishing in 1945 and 1953, it quickly found a wide readership and is today widely

This motif of weather really surprised me. I took me a while to notice how that the weather matched the emotion of this novel. When ever Fitzgerald made a point about the weather, it helps to describe the emotional tone of what is going on. In chapter V when Gatsby gets Nick to set up a meeting with his lost love daisy, Gatsby uses rain and dismal weather which helps set the tone for the affair that is about to take place between Daisy and Gatsby. “They had forgotten me, but Daisy glanced up and held out her hand; Gatsby didn’t know me at all. I looked once more at them and they looked back at me, remotely, possessed by intense life. Then I went down the marble steps into the rain, leaving them there together” (Fitzgerald 96). Then once again weather is used to support the atmosphere. When Tom confronts Gatsby about the affair with his wife, Fitzgerald sets the weather as being extremely hot and scorching. This mirrors the emotions that were present at that time. Lastly, Fitzgerald once more calls upon the weather for Gatsby death. The summer is over and it is the first day of fall. This represents that time has moved on and the past can’t be redone. His death was part of