The Great Gatsby

The author Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby as a novel that talks about and covers American issues in the 1920s. He shows in the novel the carelessness and selfishness of everybody at the same time by portraying all of them in the location of west and east egg. Fitzgerald talks about a couple different topics throughout the novel. One of those is," the Attainment of a dream may be less satisfying than the pursuit of it" and the second one is"the American Dream is corrupted by the desire for wealth". He uses those themes to show how americans lived at a different time.

The Great Gatsby is too concerned with conveying a picture of 1920s American society to have relevance to modern readers.

   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.

The Great Gatsby is a novel about the American Dream and its failed promise. In the novel, the bootlegger Jay Gatsby accumulates a fabulous amount of wealth to impress his beloved childhood sweetheart Daisy Buchannan. But all of the wealth in the world cannot buy Gatsby 'class.' Gatsby's failure to recognize this is symbolized in his acquisition of a bloated, palatial home in which he holds frequent, boozy parties. The falseness of the home symbolizes the falseness of the life Gatsby is creating to impress others and lead the American Dream of success.

The main characters in both F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and William Shakespeare's Macbeth appear stable and successful on the outside, but inside they are engaged in a constant struggle with their dreams. Gatsby tries to win back the girl of his dreams by becoming something he's not, a member of high society; while Macbeth believes the prediction of the witches that he will be king and spends his life trying to make it come true. Both characters are willing to risk everything in pursuit of their respective dreams, including committing crimes. Both are motivated to take these risks by a woman. And both inevitably suffer premature demises.

     F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is a tragic tale of love distorted by obsession. Finding himself in the city of New York, Jay Gatsby is a loyal and devoted man who is willing to cross oceans and build mansions for his one true love. His belief in realistic ideals and his perseverance greatly influence all the decisions he makes and ultimately direct the course of his life. Gatsby has made a total commitment to a dream, and he does not realize that his dream is hollow. Although his intentions are true, he sometimes has a crude way of getting his point across. When he makes his ideals heard, his actions are wasted on a thoughtless and shallow society. Jay Gatsby effectively embodies a romantic idealism

"They were careless people...they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money...and let other people clean up the mess they had made..." (P. 179). During the 20s, many people's American dream was to go out, party and be free, the roaring 20s. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is an explanation of how people acted. People went to parties, lived in luxurious homes, criticized each other, and wanted to achieve their dream by trying to live it. The Wilson marriage is a failure because it's one-sided. Myrtle is always wanting the best, Wilson really loves Myrtle but it isn't reciprocated and the valley of ashes is symbolic of their relationship.

The Great Gatsby shows the ambition of one man's achievement of his goal, the disappointment of failing, and the hopelessness of it. During the era of this novel, which is around the 1920's, America was a country with huge misery, ambition, and lack of humanity values. The novel shows a reflection of this decade, it illustrates the burning passion one man has toward his objective and the different aspects of the American principles. As the sequence of events continues in the story, someone will narrate the singular aspects of it; exposing the idea of the conflicts that will happen among different social levels.

The Great Gatsby is a book with complex, interesting characters. These characters have been depicted by different illustrations and actors. Within these portrayals the characters, they keep the same characteristics and physical features. The Leonardo DiCaprio movie does an amazing job of physically embodying these characters. Within the following I state which actors I can see as fitting for the main characters.

The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a heart wrenching story about a man named Gatsby, who spends most of his life trying to uphold the American Dream, so that one day when his lover Daisy and him meet again they will be together forever because in his eyes, he is nothing without her. Throughout Gatsby’s life he has come to the idea that money can buy happiness such as Daisy’s love. Although when Gatsby dies at the end of the story Daisy acts as if she never loved him and that he didn’t even exist. The path a person chooses to live their life is now classified by the upper and the lower class of society, and the upper class is lacking integrity, faithfulness, and the ability to love beyond the materialistic

The Great Gatsby, a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is about the American Dream, and the demise of those who attempt to capture its false goals. For Jay, the dream is that, through wealth and power, one can obtain happiness. To get this happiness Jay must reach into the past and relive an old dream and in order to do this he must have wealth and power.

The Great Gatsby is a novel that illustrates the society in the 1920's and the associated beliefs, values and dreams of the American population at that time. These beliefs, values and dreams can be summed up be what is termed the "American Dream", a dream of money, wealth, prosperity and the happiness that supposedly came with the booming economy and get-rich-quick schemes that formed the essential underworld of American upper-class society. This underworld infiltrated the upper echelons and created such a moral decay within general society that paved the way for the ruining of dreams and dashing of hopes as they were placed confidently in the chance for opportunities that could be seized by one and all. Scott Fitzgerald illustrates the

The novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, a true classic of twentieth-century literature, follows the life of a man who is admired for his hopeful pursuit of the American Dream. For Gatsby, fulfilling this dream would involve acquiring enough wealth to win over the love of his life. Although the title of the novel contradicts this, the character Jay Gatsby is not actually “great” or admirable because his rise to fame is illegal, he wastes most of his life on a failed attempt to impress a girl who does not care, and even though it seems like he has an abundance of friends he ends up dying alone and unnoticed, which proves that a high social class does not guarantee greatness in life.

The novel, The Great Gatsby, is an amazingly detailed and intriguing story of a young former soldier whose determination and illusions of a grander life drive him to rise from humble beginnings. Through luck or destiny, he meets a stunning young woman whose wealthy life was something he would only ever dream

In the book The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Daisy Buchanan is a perplexing character. She is charming and pretty, yet her personality is almost robotic. Daisy has no sincere emotions; she only knows social graces and self-preservation. A materialistic society makes Daisy a jaded person who lacks any real depth.