The Great Gatsby Not Real

“The Great Gatsby” is a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald set in the 1920’s and is a recollection of a man named Nick Carraway's memories of the summer he met Jay Gatsby the person he could not judge. Jay Gatsby changed the most throughout the novel because He started the novel as a rich and extravagant man with a mysterious background, but it was revealed that he didn't start his life this way, James Gatz was a seventeen-year-old fisherman on Lake Superior who had big dreams that he thought he never could make a reality. But he adopted a persona that modelled the ideal person through the eyes of a seventeen-year-old, and met his good companion and friend Mr. Dan Cody. But towards the end of the book the window that is Jay Gatsby is shattered

The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is told from the perspective of one of the main characters, Nick Carraway. Nick tells the story of a man named Jay Gatsby, who is his neighbor in the West Egg. Fitzgerald portrays Gatsby as a man who everyone wants to know and copy but deep down are very envious of him. Gatsby trusts few people and those whom he trusts know his life story. To everyone else, he is a mystery. Everyone seems obsessed with Jay Gatsby. For this reason the novel revolves about rumors of Gatsby rather than the truth.

     Gatsby’s expresses his character through his lies and rumors that were started. It also showed that he wanted the one

Since he died for taking the wrath of something he did not do. Gatsby is a man who struggled to get what he wants and who much reach a certain status before marrying the woman he is in love with. He was basically an outsider who comes from an uncertain past. Gatsby was able to win the hearts of many of the people around him with his tales of adventures and showing off his wealth. Yet, there is not a view that shows the success of Gatsby. He tries to convince Nick about his upbringings and his heroic exploits. Gatsby’s stories seemed extraordinary to the point where people questioned it but they still believe

     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.

The Great Gatsby is generally regarded as a story of love and tragedy, but in actuality, it was a story of a sad man chasing a baseless obsession with a woman and in trying to obtain this relationship, succumbing to immoral practices and ultimately dying alone. The author of The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a widely acclaimed author who had a life of tragedy and loss that greatly impacted his writing. He was able to see not only the light-hearted, celebratory, and successful side of the American Dream, but also the negative effects of overindulging with alcohol and incessant partying. He was able to indirectly write about himself and his losses in the stories he wrote. Unfortunately, he was not able to see how successful he had become.

   The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a novel about one man's disenchantment with the American dream. In the story we get a glimpse into the life of Jay Gatsby, a man who aspired to achieve a position among the American rich to win the heart of his true love, Daisy Fay. Gatsby's downfall was in the fact that he was unable to determine that concealed boundary between reality and illusion in his life.

In this story, “The Great Gatsby” there is a character who we don’t really for sure who he is he comes and goes. I think from what I have heard from him he is a very nice person. Throughout this story we find out bits and pieces to who Gatsby really is. We find out rumors about the person who is, Great Gatsby he has done many things to help us identify on who he really is throughout the chapters. People think he has killed a guy because his facial expression and was in war. He was a German Spy. He had an amazing party they tons of people went to and this was this girl there at his party that she had ripped her dress and Gatsby had gotten her a brand new dress that was like $4,000 on. He can be a very caring person in a way. He is a loner who

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, portrays the life of a man who is truly focused on one dream: to reclaim the love of his life. Fitzgerald illustrates the problem of being so single-minded through Gatsby’s ultimate demise. His slow evolution and reveal of the character of Gatsby leads to a devastating climax once his dream fails. Fitzgerald uses extended metaphor and sharp diction to depict Gatsby’s crumbling life in his last moments.

    F. Scott Fitzgerald is well known for being an excellent writer, for expertly describing the Jazz Age, and for having a drinking problem.  However, he is not so well known for creating deep and intriguing characters.  In The Great Gatsby, the majority of the characters remain one-dimensional and unchanging throughout the novel.  They are simply known from the viewpoint of Nick Carraway, the participating narrator.  Some insight is given into characters in the form of their dialogue with Nick, however, they never really become deep characters that are 'known' and can be identified with.  While all of the participants in the novel aren't completely flat, most of the main characters

Many consider The Great Gatsby a beautiful love story. A literary review site, for example, says about Fitzgerald’s most famous work: “The Great Gatsby is probably F. Scott Fitzgerald 's greatest novel […] Gatsby is really nothing more than a man desperate for love”(The Great Gatsby Review). Popular opinion paints Gatsby as such: A man desperate for love, devoid of any evil. But a closer look uncovers a new side of Jay Gatsby because Gatsby, underneath his glorious façade, is a sociopath.

Gatsby seems to thrive behind the lies people have created of him. He has no intention of even correcting these lies about himself. Even among a group of people, it would be difficult to pick him out because even in the book, Gatsby “looked at me and smiled” from among a group of people (51). Gatsby blends with everyone and he just feels that no one should

Many would say that everything, all that Gatsby does it is all an illusion; an illusion for himself that stops him or keeps him holding on to something. Some of him guests said that although Gatsby throws parties, seems to be loved, seems to know that whole town and the whole town know him he is in fact a lonely man. Some would say that if Gatsby died, nobody would attend to his

“His smile was the smile, that you will come across only four to five times in your life”. (The Great Gatsby). He knew the secrets of talking that he would look at you the way you wanted him to be look at. He never interrupts you when you are talking. But even having all these qualities he was also in the dilemma of class consciousness that he wanted to be someone that he never was. He also loved a woman who was a wife of some other person. He was a bootlegger to maintain the life that he wanted to acquire that was really not easy at that time. The end of Gatsby’s story is also tragic that he was murdered in the wait of his beloved by the hands of his ex-mistress’s

The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, explores the world of materialism, betrayal, love, and dreams. Jay Gatsby is the man behind the title. Gatsby can be characterized as charming, determined, and mysterious. Although he has a range of traits, he remains a static character throughout. Gatsby stays true to himself and does not let his fortune make him an arrogant person. In addition, Gatsby wears his heart on his sleeve. In the story, he symbolizes the “American dream” because all he wanted in life was Daisy`s love and a life with her. Furthermore, Gatsby is a true embodiment of the saying, “rags to riches,” since he built himself out of nothing.