The Great Gatsby Research Paper

Since this topic is very popular and talked about in abundance, there are many different opinions of what the American Dream entails.Based on a recent survey conducted by our class older

       In F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby, the principle character, Jay Gatsby makes an exhaustive effort in his quest for the American Dream. The novel is Fitzgerald's vessel of commentary and criticism of the American Dream. “Fitzgerald defines this Dream, he depicts its’ beauty and irresistible lure”(Bewley 113). Through Gatsby's downfall, Fitzgerald expresses the futility and agony of the pursuit of the dream.

The American dream can mean many different things and can be interpreted in different ways. To some people, the American dream is the belief that if a person works hard enough, he or she can be successful in America no matter what race, gender, or nationality. In the 1920’s, the concept of the American dream was very much the same, that an individual can achieve success in life regardless of family history or social status if he or she works hard enough. By having money, a car, a big house, expensive clothes, and a loving family symbolizes the American dream. In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the 1920’s is a time period in which the American dream becomes corrupt and dangerous. For Jay Gatsby, a main character in the novel, his American dream is about gaining wealth and material possessions in order to find happiness. Through his decision to symbolize wealth, superficiality, irresponsibility, and foreshadowing, Fitzgerald conveys the the theme that the American dream is a perfect concept and is something that can never be accomplished, but can always be reached for.

A. The common person seems to chase moeny thoguhout their life but with all the lies, deceit and corrption portrayed by the wealthy people in The great gatsby this begs this question; is money everything\

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald writes about the American dream and how many individuals want the white picket fence and be with the person they love but theirs dreams are not always achieved. Fitzgerald possesses a dream but similar to his characters, but does not succeed. After graduating a prestigious high school, he attends Princeton University where he continues to develop his writing skills. Later, he writes a novel called, The Side of Paradise, which makes him famous and allows him to marry the women he loves, Zelda Sayre. Because of his success, F. Scott Fitzgerald is able to write one of his greatest hits, The Great Gatsby, but soon after, his life begins to unthread. He is a very heavy drinker and suffers

Love is an interesting mock trial of chemicals in the brain. Love’s mock trial of dopamine, phenylethylamine and oxytocin are all chemicals that are produced heavily in the first stages of when someone falls in love giving a person a sort of uplifted and euphoric feeling. The interesting piece to it is the chemical reactions start to lessen after time and the ‘high” is gone. This is one reason why scientists claim breakups, divorces, and other forms of separation is so very common. Now what if an imbalance in the chemical reaction countered or changed the brain in a way that the love never could faded? A possible imbalance between neurotransmitters serotonin and dopamine cause a disorder known

Throughout history it becomes apparent that all the great stories: The Odyssey, Great Expectations, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are all founded on a similar theme. The same plot line, a hero, most often the protagonist, faces danger and adversity to the highest extreme but always comes out on top. He is depicted as the pinnacle of human triumph and in essence, demonstrates a fundamental strength that all men should strive to achieve. These stories were, “ full of darkness and danger. And sometimes one did not want to know the end; How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? In the end, it is only a passing thing. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out even clearer. Those

Once World War I ended in 1918, the United States experienced groundbreaking economic growth. “The Roaring Twenties” and what F. Scott Fitzgerald would call “the greatest, gaudiest spree in history” have come to characterize America during all of its innovation. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, the readers are exposed to the rich and luxurious lives of the upscale east coasters in the midst of one of the most rambunctious time periods in American history. Although the 1920s was a period of great anticipation, Fitzgerald is able to express a critical portrayal of the wealthy Americans during this decade.

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby with a certain intent, and that was to create a parallel between his life and the story. Scott was named after an ancestor, Francis Scott Key. Throughout Scott’s childhood he was very spoiled and was not very good at either his schoolwork or sports, yet he was successful in writing stories and plays. In 1913, Scott went on to college at Princeton University, but soon to leave to go to officer's training school in 1917 once World War one started so that he could be a hero on the battlefields of France. To his dismay, he was never sent overseas; which in turn gave him the opportunity to work on his novel, The Romantic Egoist, sadly to be turned down by Scribner’s publishing company twice. While he was

The decade of the 1920’s provided the American society a decade of change and conflict, causing the society to mold U.S’s future for years to come. Social, cultural, as well as economic conflicts took place. Social conflicts such as the Red Scare and the reformation of the KKK caused the groups of the opposite belief system to suffer the consequences of going up against their paranoid and racist counterparts. Cultural conflicts also took place in this decade now known as The Roaring Twenties. Originally called The New Negro Movement, the Harlem Renaissance provided the regular black man with an identity, with a purpose. The novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald known as “The Great Gatsby” provided a peep-hole into the Jazz Age and the flappers dichotomy

The Great Gatsby portrays the decline and loss of the 1920’s American Dream. F. Scott Fitzgerald reveals the wealth and greed that led to the corruption of the American Dream during this period. Jay Gatsby, who has risen from a poor childhood to being a millionaire, embodies the idea of self-made success. All of the wealth that Gatsby had acquired appeared to be the definition of the American Dream, but were actually the exact reason of the demise of the American Dream. The Great Gatsby displays how the American Dream was destroyed by the pursuit of wealth.

In 2013, The Great Gatsby was remastered in movie form by Baz Luhrmann. Many people loved the movie as it had Leonardo Dicaprio(Jay Gatsby) and Tobey Maguire(Nick); two very good actors that get looked down on. Leonardo's role as Gatsby was great in every way. What was really good about the movie was the way Luhrmann dressed the actors. You could definitely tell the high class from the low class, by the way, he lavishly dressed Gatsby, Tom, Daisy, and Myrtle from George Wilson. You can see the wealth gap during the movie, along with the change of scenery between the two. The scenery in the movie was great from all the bright colors, just look at Gatsby's car it was a banana yellow custom-made sports car. Only the rich could afford that, and

The American Dream is the result of possibilities and success. The term “American Dream” was been invented by James Truslow Adams in 1931: “That dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for every man, with opportunity for each according to his ability or achievement.” Another reference to the American Dream appears in the Declaration of Independence (1776). The author wrote that people are “endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” The question of the debate was: “Is the American Dream Still Alive and Well?”

During the Roaring twenties, social class was an important aspect of society. All different classes were for the most part separated by where people lived. In other words, by no means would anyone from a lower class be caught in an uptown setting. There are a variety of characters in the novel that come from different economic backgrounds. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald successfully uses location to differentiate social status amongst his characters while the weather and seasons of those locations help guide them.   Each character helps represent and support the differences of social class and the four main locations, The East Egg, the West Egg, the Valley of Ashes, and New York City.

The celebrated American author F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote, “An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.” In his seminal novel The Great Gatsby, set among the decadence and excess of New York society during the Roaring Twenties, Fitzgerald accomplished all three. Though the work achieved limited commercial success during Fitzgerald’s lifetime, the subsequent critical acclaim garnered after his early death propelled The Great Gatsby to extraordinary commercial and literary success. The novel has continued to grow in popularity and impact, earning it a place on the short