The Great Gatsby Response Paper

At the onset of this book, the reader is introduced to the narrator, Nick Carraway, who relates the past happenings that construct the story of Jay Gatsby and Nick during the summer of 1922. After fighting in World War I, or the Great War as Nick called it, Nick left his prominent family in the West of America for the North where he intended to learn the bond business. Nick was originally supposed to share a house in West Egg near New York City with an associate of his, but the man backed out and so Nick lived with only a Finnish cook. Right next door, Gatsby lived in a glorious mansion with expansive gardens and a marble swimming pool, among other luxuries. Yet Nick did not even hear about Gatsby until he went to visit his

In The Great Gatsby, Gatsby and Daisy’s relationship is portrayed as obsessive, materialistic, and ineffective. Gatsby displays the quality of obsessiveness within the relationship by consuming himself with the desire to bring back the image of Daisy he fell in love with and his romance with her that had existed in the past. The intensity of Gatsby’s obsession is displayed when Gatsby invites Daisy and Nick over to his house. Nick observes that Gatsby “had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock” (Fitzgerald 92). Nick’s examination of Gatsby obsession reveals that Gatsby has had this intense

In The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby’s hold of the past and his pursuance of his own American Dream ends in certain death. Throughout the story, Gatsby believes that his passion can sway Daisy to leave Tom. These events lead him to relentlessly chase wealth in order to gain social status that is worthy of Daisy. However, the story does not end according to Gatsby’s ideals. Fitzgerald utilizes symbolism to demonstrate Gatsby’s tragic flaw, his chasing of a dream that is already dead.

The Great Gatsby was written during the 1920s, which is also known as the Roaring Twenties. In the narrative F. Scott Fitzgerald gave a critical view of this time. In the 1920s and the 1930s there was a lot going on, for example bootlegging, drinking, criminal activity, and an evolution of jazz music. The women were also going through an evolution, in 1920 they got the right to vote and since then they changed a lot and they became known as Flappers. Women not only wanted to take care of their families but also wanted to have a career. “The independent New Woman, who rejected marriage for career and political action who often rooted her emotional life […] was gradually discredited. In her place came the flapper, who celebrated her sexual independence

Gatsby throws another party and this time Daisy attends while being accompanied by Tom. This quote shows that Tom is suspicious of Daisy and he no longer trusts her. Tom runs off to have dinner with others and this shows that he is not to be trusted. Daisy acts as if she is a fool but she exactly knows what Tom is up to. Daisy only enjoys the party when she is alone with Gatsby and if she is with Tom she feels as if she is being watched. This shows that Daisy and Tom have no trust in their

Gatsby is a character who enjoys living in his own reality. After Daisy chooses Tom over him, Gatsby spends five years believing that she will choose him one day. He truly believes that Daisy, although she is already married and has a child, will abandon her life for him. Once Gatsby becomes involved with Daisy, he expects her to leave her husband after a very short period of time. When he says, “Daisy, that's all over now...It doesn't matter any more. Just tell him the truth— that you never loved him– and it's all wiped out forever… You never loved him,” (132), the reader sees just how unrealistic he is being, as he wants Daisy to tell her own husband that she never loved him. Gatsby doesn't think about other people’s feelings, he only thinks about his own feelings and how he can benefit from the weaknesses of other people. In addition, Gatsby believes him and Daisy can pick up where they left off five years ago, but he realizes this isn’t the case when he sees her daughter. Another example of Gatsby’s unrealistic tendencies is when he is at Nick’s house waiting for Daisy to arrive at 4 PM. She says she will arrive at 4 PM, but Gatsby begins worrying even before then that she won't show. Two minutes before Daisy’s expected time of arrival, Gatsby is extremely worried and says, “Nobody’s coming to tea. It's too late!... I can't wait all day,” (85) and Nick recognizes his strange behavior and responds, “Don't be silly; it's just two minutes to four,” (85). This shows how unrealistic he's being, because even Nick notices this and needs to assure him that he's overreacting.

Gatsby dedicates his entire life to Daisy. He accumulates his fortune, throws extravagant parties every weekend, moves his entire live to West Egg, and distorted utopia that is liable to collapse at any moment all in the hopes of wooing Daisy (Fitzgerald 46). Daisy’s main reason for choosing Tom over Gatsby was because “ (Gatsby) ...was poor and she was tired of waiting” (Fitzgerald 130). Gatsby believed that Daisy would only notice him if every aspect of his life reputable and “In order to be reputable, it must be wasteful” (Veblen 11). Gatsby does everything in his power to become a suitable husband for Daisy, but attempts to control his fate ultimately conquer him in

Was Nick’s introduction to Gatsby what caused all of the events in ‘The Great Gatsby’?

Gatsby's selfish desires are what had brought him to invite Nick to one of his not so exclusive parties; the reason for his extravagant parties in the first place were because he hoped Daisy would walk in one day. Daisy's memories of Gatsby are more abstract and clouded, while Gatsby has been so enthralled her he still recalls the exact day they parted.This displays how much more infatuated Gatsby is with Daisy. What Daisy was mostly fascinated with was money, which Gatsby had wanted to ensure she would never be without, because that is what set them apart in the first place. Not only does Jay want Daisy to leave her husband, he wants her to tell Tom that she never loved him. Although she tries to do so, she ultimately breaks down because it is not the truth. Nick pleads to Jay not to ask more of Daisy than she can give. Jay is so desperate that he will not accept anything less than a complete rewriting of their history, because nothing less than complete possession of Daisy will satisfy him. His love is utterly obsessive. Gatsby's inability to deal with reality sets him outside the norm and, eventually, his holding on to the dream leads to his

Gatsby’s pursuit for his past relationship becomes selfish in his attempt to make Daisy notice him, specifically his wealth. While Daisy chooses Tom over Gatsby considering his deprivation of wealth, he remains judgmental when he assumes Daisy “only married [Tom] because [he] was poor and she was tired of waiting for [him]...she never loved any on except [Gatsby]” (130).Quickly, he presumes she solely decided on wealth to marry Tom, a simple alternative. Bringing up the past generates the thought to please himself into believing that Daisy has always

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

The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is about the life of Jay Gatsby narrated by Nick Carraway. A recurring theme in the Great Gatsby is people with money hide their true identity with lies and deceit shown through the symbols of Gatsby’s house, the color yellow, and the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg. Gatsby’s house is seen as an example of him showing off his wealth. While at one of Gatsby’s parties at his house, Nick wanders into the library and finds an owl-eyed man looking at Gatsby’s books.

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.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, is a one of the best stories written during a chaotic period in our nation’s history, The Jazz Age. The Twenties were a time of social experiments, self-indulgence, and dissatisfaction for majority of Americans. Fitzgerald depicts all these characteristics throughout the novel with his interesting themes, settings, and characters. The most elaborate and symbolic character Fitzgerald presents to his readers is Jay Gatsby. Fitzgerald uses Gatsby as a vehicle to explore the idea of The American Dream, which was a key element in shaping American society and it’s citizens. Fitzgerald does not sugar-coat his definition of the

“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