The Great Gatsby Moral Analysis

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

To what extent of a person becoming more well- known, popular, rich, and more or less famous is the limit to their values, morals, and true self? Many during the age of 1920 started to be faced with such a question. How does it happen and how do their morals go so quickly out the window when faced with a new and higher social or economic state? In this story Gatsby was a fine young man with dreams and aspirations for his future and who he wanted to become. Him deep down still had these morals inside of him, but with the increase in his wealth, like many others, these morals began to fade to the background. Fitzgerald is able to show us how Gatsby and the people he surrounded himself with lost their morals through when Daisy left Gatsby for Tom, and when Gatsby was killed.

“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.

In the novel The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a novel about morals of the

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, it is evident that the characters act immorally when put in difficult situations. When good people are put in bad environments, their moral lines become blurred. The Great Gatsby is set on Long Island in the 1920’s. The Roaring Twenties are characterized by their loose morals. Money, alcohol, greed, and lust infiltrates the lives of the characters in the novel. The famous neurologist, Sigmund Freud’s Theory of Personality states that within every individual lies an Id, superego, and ego. Id is one’s primitive instinct and it shows when one is put in a bad environment. The superego acts as guilt to warn the person of the consequence that will be faced if the Id becomes free. The ego on the other hand is the part of the brain that tries to find a balance between fulfilling the Id without the consequence of the superego. It is evident that in this novel, most of the character’s Id are uncontrollable. In the The Great Gatsby, morals are disregarded and ethics are ignored by Gatsby, Daisy, and Tom.

Tom and Daisy Buchanan disguise themselves as wealthy, upper-class people from the East, but, when their immorality threatens their reputation, they find they are no better than their heritage, which stems from the Midwest. When Tom and Daisy constantly try to position themselves as having a better reputation, it establishes that they do not have the status necessary to be part of eastern upper-class. Tom and Daisy both initiate affairs in which neither truly care for the person they are having the affair with. Nick witnesses “Tom Buchanan [break Myrtle's] nose with his open hand” (Fitzgerald 37). Tom uses Myrtle, his mistress, for sexual pleasure, but does not care for her well-being. Tom uses her because his marriage with Daisy was not made for love, but rather to increase their social standing. Daisy also has an affair with her former lover, Gatsby, and after observing his wealth, she develops a relationship with him. Both Tom and Daisy are unsatisfied with their relationship, but rather than tarnish their social status with divorce they choose infidelity. Tom and Daisy’s desperation to maintain their status causes their immorality. Furthermore, in many instances Tom insults Gatsby, especially to degrade his wealth and achievements. For example, Tom says, “I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife” (130). Tom knows that he can only cause true damage by insulting Gatsby’s accomplishments. Tom desires to damage Daisy’s

Throughout one’s life, one is constantly told to do what is right despite the consequences or results. In reality these morals are practiced less and less as people worry less about the consequences of ignoring these morals. Author F. Scott Fitzgerald saw the disintegration of humanity early in the 20th century. In his novel, “The Great Gatsby”, written in 1925, he exemplifies the moral decay that surrounds society. He uses symbols such as the billboard of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg, who serves as a representation of a forgotten God, to showcase the lack of care for things that were once important, such as morality.

     In The Great Gatsby, the author F. Scott Fitzgerald shows the destruction of morals in society. The characters in this novel, all lose their morals in attempt to find their desired place in the social world. They trade their beliefs for the hope of being acceptance. Myrtle believes she can scorn her true social class in an attempt to be accepted into Ton's, Jay Gatsby who bases his whole life on buying love with wealth, and Daisy, who instead of marrying the man she truly loves, marries someone with wealth. The romance of money lures the characters in The Great Gatsby into surrendering their values, but in the end, "the streets paved with gold led to a dead

“What happens when morality is thrown away and forgotten by future generations?” In the 1920’s, America was still recovering from WWI. Many young men died in WWI and the ones that survived the war were suffering from PTSD. They could not escape their own minds which was their own jail. With the recovery of the war, people had a new sense of living while they are young and pursue drinking, sex, and other pleasures that were originally publically and morally viewed as wrong, but it was all changing. Sheila Liming saw this change and stated it like this, “The post-war years saw the banishment of the victorian hourglass archetype - a move which, on the surface, appears consistent with the logic of female emancipation, and with multi-national fights

Life is packed full of moral choices that must be made, and people often in life tend to skew what is morally correct in order to serve their best interests. In The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway, the central character in The Great Gatsby, skews his mortality for Gatsby, he chose to invite Daisy over in order to help Gatsby rekindle his relationship with Daisy. “I’m going to call up Daisy tomorrow and invite her over here to tea.” (Fitzgerald, pg.79) The book Gray Mountain also contains skewed morality around love, Samantha Kofer, a laid off lawyer, partakes in inappropriate relationships. In chapter 37 we learn of the purpose of a current relationship “If I go to Gray Mountain on the weekends with you, they’re not suspicious, and why would they be?

I believe that this quote is about how places with wealth and without morals can change people. In the novel, the main character, Nick, talks about the West and the east coast. The east coast is known for a fast-paced lifestyle, the pursuit of wealth and bad moral values, while the West Coast is known the more traditional moral values. Throughout the book, Nick realizes that Tom, Gatsby, Daisy, Jordan, and himself included were all from the West coast and their reaction of the wealth-obsessed culture of the east coast shaped their behavior. Nick then learns that people who lived too long on the east coast especially the East Egg, become “careless people who destroy other people’s lives”. This realization caused him to develop the decision to

Many times in society, we see people commit evil acts with no sense of wrongdoing. Yet, we also see other people support the well being of others with minimal personal benefit. Since we see this drastic difference between people who may face similar situations or challenges in life, we ask ourselves, “Why do these variations in actions happen?” The simple, yet complex answer, boils down to the inner morals of individuals. Morality is defined as “the principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior.” Clearly, anyone who commits an evil act lacks morality. This break from basic morality is shown in the novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. In the novel, the characters engage in immoral acts

“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