The Great Gatsby Mood Essay

In "Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby hosted a lot of parties at his mansion and it’s obvious that the party at Gatsby's mansion in chapter six is different with the party at Gatsby's mansion in chapter three. The most obvious difference between the two parties was the mood. The mood of the party in chapter three was awkward since no one really known who the host was and what was his real identity. The most awkward were only a few people in the party were actually invited while the others weren’t invited, “they went there” or "somehow ended up at Gatsby's door" (Fitzgerald 41), showing the awkwardness of the party since there were many random people and the host was a stranger. The plot of making the host Gatsby a mysterious person and having bad

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.

The Great Gatsby - Chapter 1 Read the beginning of the novel chapter 1 up to page 12 “Tom Buchanan in his riding clothes was standing with his legs apart on the front porch.” How effective do you find this as an introduction to Great Gatsby. In your response you should pay close attention to voice, language and style. The Great Gatsby was written by F Scott Fitzgerald in 1925, and is set during 1922, a period tinged with moral failure of a society obsessed with class and privilege.

“It’s a shallow life that doesn’t give a person a few scars”. This quote said by Garrison Keillor, metaphorically exemplifies the true meaning of hollowness and shallowness. Hollowness and shallowness were a major part of people’s characteristics in the 1920’s ‘easy money’ era because of the great economic boom. During this era, people earned their money by corruption with smuggling alcohol during prohibition. In addition, people earned their money by people unknowingly investing in major stocks. A few people earned their money with hard work; it was mostly made easily for them. Throughout the novel, The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the shallowness and hollowness of the upper class is persistently shown. Hollowness and

The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a story about a wealthy man named Gatsby. Gatsby lives a luxuriant life in West Egg of New York. Gatsby’s wealth has an unknown secret because nobody seems to know where his wealth emerged from. Despite of having so much fortune, Gatsby’s true American dream has not been achieved. In the great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald develops Gatsby as a failed American dream to show the impossibility of the American dream in the 1920’s.

     In the text, The Great Gatsby, the author, F. Scott Fitzgerald leads us to sympathize with the central character of the text, Jay Gatsby. Fitzgerald evokes our sympathy using non-linear narrative and extended flashbacks as well as imagery, characterization and theme. Through these mediums, Fitzgerald is able to reveal Gatsby as a character who is in an unrelenting pursuit of an unattainable dream. While narrative and imagery reveal him to be a mysterious character, Gatsby's flaw is his ultimate dream which makes him a tragic figure and one with which we sympathize.

I believe that the three texts that I have studied contained moments of optimism and pessimism which in turn have shaped my opinion of the general vision and viewpoint. This alludes to the feelings and emotions portrayed through the omniscient camera in "The King's Speech", the morally inclined narrator Nick Caraway in "The Great Gatsby" and the protagonist in the novel "Foster". I was very intrigued to find out more about these societies and the vision the author/director hoped to convey.

This section of the novel created a mood of depression and death. All of the men had to dig through the field to find their good friend.

“... A hoarse cry came from his lips as he realized he had reached too far and lost his balance … he struggled up to the surface and cried out, but the wash from the speeding yacht slapped him in the face.”What did you feel there. Were you scared as he fell off the boat into the water? You may have felt this way because of the mood. In the story, “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, the mood changes a lot. It goes from a pitch black night falling off a yacht, to a sunny afternoon walk on the beach, then after that a whole other mess of things. All these things make you feel different because of mood. Mood sets the tone through characters, the places they go, and the things they experience.

“Is Tom most responsible for Gatsby’s death? Daisy? Myrtle? Gatsby himself? Give reasons why or why not each character is implicated in the murder.”

Today was like any other Sunday I had before, except this time it was different in a way that I thought I would never experience. Today, Daisy, the love of my life, had came to my garden party. She was not alone though, she was with Tom. At first I didn't care, passed right over my head, for she is all I care about and by being in her presents I am utterly fulfilled. But it was as if like a cloud had been cased over the party. Tom was producing a negative energy which did not sit well with the rest of the party. I could even tell my old friend, Nick, was feeling quite uncomfortable with the atmosphere. All I wanted to do was ask him to leave but not with Daisy. He could leave her behind and oh! if that happened I would be satisfied with everything. I would have asked all the

The novel The Great Gatsby is a story that takes place in the 1920’s. The story

But scenery without solace is meaningless.” (Albom 35). This means that you can have everything you want but without the happiness and peace actually inside you, then it’s worthless. The captain told Eddie, “Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you’re not really losing it. You’re just passing it on to someone else.” (Albom 94). The quote said here tells the audience that even though you are struggling to give up something, it’s for the sake of someone else you needs it more. Towards the end of the novel Marguerite says to Eddie, “Life has to end, love doesn’t.” (Albom 173). Everytime I read this I feel she’s trying to tell us that love means so much more, than what it sounds

The mood for this passage is peaceful yet the atmosphere that F. Scott Fitzgerald created was dark and very sophisticated.

“The mind is like an iceberg; it floats with one- seventh of its bulk above water (citation).This quote directly relates back to Sigmund Freud’s ideas of the conscious and unconscious mind. In The Great Gatsby Baz Luhrmann portrays copious examples of the psychoanalytic theory in the film as the actions of every character is able to be examined and explained through the psychoanalytic lens. The film is about a man named Jay Gatsby and his struggle to win back his former love, Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby goes through great lengths in hopes to recreate what he had with Daisy; it is these bold actions Gatsby takes that results in his destruction. Gatsby being a “man of mystery” is only understood by his newly established friendship with Nick Carraway. Daisy’s husband is a controlling cheater who continually acts upon his primitive desires which leads him to tragedy and a life filled with secrets. In the end of this film no one reaches self- actualisation as they all unintentionally self sabotage themselves by giving in to their primitive drives. It is evident through the psychoanalytic lens that the id impulses and individualized repression of Jay Gatsby and Myrtle Wilson lead to their demise.The selfish id influenced actions of Gatsby, Daisy, Myrtle, and Tom all lead Nick Carraway into repression, and alcoholism.