The Great Gatsby, The Temple Of Gold By William Goldman

Everyone has heard of the phrase “stalker,” and everyone has heard of the concept of “love.” While these two are separate terms, what happens when the two become mistaken for one another? When does admiration become obsession? When is the line crossed from lover to stalker? In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the main character, Jay Gatsby, is a very wealthy man who has once had a fling with Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby and Daisy were once in love but time came and went. Gatsby went to war, and Daisy married another man. When Gatsby gets back from war, he makes himself into a new persona to capture Daisy’s attention in hopes of rekindling their love. However, Gatsby takes his love to the point of obsession. He makes unrealistic rumors about himself, wastes money on luxuries to capture her attention, and expects too much from the woman he claims to love. Gatsby’s love for Daisy is not real love. He has many stalker-like qualities, rather than the romantic love so many are accustomed to.

"Never has symbolism played such a crucial part in the very foundation of a novel as it does in Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, The Great Gatsby." Harold Bloom has written about this book. The author used several types of symbolism in The Great Gatsby. The colours are probably the easiest to be recognized and guessed what they symbolized. According to the definition “symbolism” is "the practice of representing things by means of symbols or of attributing symbolic meanings or significance to objects, events, or relationships."

The thin rustic pages scrape past my loose fingers as I sit engaged. My heart pounds harder and faster with every word my eyes pass over. My ears hear nothing, even within booming noise. My complete focus is on the book that lays in my hand with a laminated cover, and I have no choice but to submit to the content. My breath tastes of spearmint and the aroma of fresh paper floats past my nose. I couldn’t resist but delve into the worlds and mysteries that books hold. Once opened, everything around me becomes a distant blur. I am hooked. Books have always created an escape for creativity and fancies to run free. Books are used as a medium for reason. Books are formative to the development of human beings. In my instance, books changed my life.

When scrolling through Twitter, Instagram and other social websites people see models and actors with a skinny waist, flawless skin, big butt, and large breasts. People are tricked by these photoshopped, unrealistic, and inhuman models. This is true for businessmen, politicians, and even people in our own communities. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book, The Great Gatsby, all the characters in the book portray themselves differently from their true selves because they are corrupted by greed, money, or love. Gatsby, in the beginning, had a sense of mystery and intrigue, about him but when we actually meet him and get to know him we discover that he is a lying, despicable man. Many people want to look better in other’s eyes and will distort their

Prejudice is a dangerous thing, it can lead people into harm 's way by making them believe in all sorts of nonsense. Which can make other people suffer or worse. Prejudice can be passed on in families or between friends. All they are, are beliefs of other people that say that they are better than another people or that the other person is worse than they are. Prejudice has all sorts of hate tied into into it, but it does not mean that it is only hate. Everyone is prejudice to an extent, because people develop feelings or thoughts towards almost everything that people can see, feel, hear, and even taste. Its human nature to be prejudice, but the question is to what degree? In the books Romeo & Juliet, To Kill a Mockingbird and Blink & Caution the theme of prejudice potentially being lethal in nature is quite prominent.

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.

In order for WWI to be resolved, an excessive amount of devastation to Germany was a price that the Allied Powers were willing to pay. In order to excel and prosper, the Allied Powers undermined Germany, leaving them with reparations to pay, and a colossal amount of damage to their country. Consequently, this hunger for peace led to a rise in an even bigger issue, the nationalist sentiment and the upsurge to power of Adolf Hitler. The small fee to pay resulted in destruction on other countries, and the Allied Powers themselves. In a similar manner, the protagonist in the classic American novel, The Great Gatsby, experiences an identical and consequential outcome. As the main character, Jay Gatsby, attempts to win over his “golden girl”, he is oblivious to the fact that he is hurting himself and the people he cares about along his journey. Not only is Gatsby blind to not comprehend the incongruity of his goal, but he fails to realize that the love of his life, Daisy Buchanan, has other aspirations for her ideal lifestyle in which she never wanted Gatsby to participate. Much like the way Gatsby chases his dreams, Tom Buchanan and Myrtle Wilson struggle to be mollified with what they already have accomplished and obtained. These naïve hopes of a textbook life cause the vast majority of the key characters in The Great Gatsby to inflict hurt and destruction on the people surrounding them. Throughout F. Scott Fitzgerald’s fictional novel, symbolism is utilized to further

Dreaming is acceptable at night but we should not daydream so much that we have to dedicate our lives to our dreams. The Great Gatsby is written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and it is set in the 1920s, the era known as the Jazz Age. "Fitzgerald is one of the few authors whose life and fiction are one" (F. Scott Fitzgerald). Fitzgerald was a poor young man from Minnesota, yet handsome and charming. He fell deeply in love with Ginevra: beautiful, rich, and untouchable. Fitzgerald was a constant dreamer, so he dreamed of being together with Ginevra despite the enormous social gap between them. "Ginevra and Fitzgerald break up after two years but he saves all the love letters he revived from her" (Smith). This shows he still loved her and kept dreaming about her even though he and Ginevra had gotten married to other people. Eventually, Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby and achieved great fame and wealth. The Great Gatsby is written from the first person point of view and is narrated by Nick Carraway, a wealthy and ambitious twenty-nine-year-old. Nick lives in a small house in the West Egg and his house is on the right side of a big mansion owned by his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Similar to Fitzgerald, Gatsby is a very wealthy, handsome, and a constant dreamer, though he was a poor farmer 's son from Minnesota. Despite his background and lower social status, Gatsby dreams to marry Daisy Buchanan, who is rich, beautiful, and popular. After Gatsby left for the war, Daisy marries a

The 1920s were a time in American history that profoundly depicted social inequality, immorality, superficiality, and unrest. During this time period, the iconic story of F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, was written and published. In this revolutionary novel, F. Scott Fitzgerald revisits his fascinating childhood in a more fictitious manner. The Great Gatsby describes and details the life of a young man from Minnesota, known as Nick Carraway, who moves to New York after World War 1 during the Roaring Twenties when the idea of the American Dream was at its peak. He hopes to learn about the bond business, so he rents a small house on West Egg, Long Island. At first, Nick Carraway seems almost identical to just about everyone else, but as he grows and matures through the following year, he witnesses a multitude of life experiences that represent the external and internal conflicts that the American society as a whole was experiencing and facing daily during this time period and is still confronting presently. As a result, through the author’s portrayal of Nick’s life during the 1920s in The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald is commenting on and critiquing upon American ideals within a satire.

A common term heard when the American Dream is mentioned is “a self-made man.” This term refers to the goal of all Americans who are in the working or lower classes. They are not content with where they are in the social pyramid, so they strive to alter their social status. Gatsby, from The Great Gatsby, was one of these lower class citizens. He was not happy about his social standing and lack of money, so he made himself into a new man, one that he hoped Daisy would love even more. Gatsby is a true representation of “a self-made man” due to his recreation of himself that helped him evolve from James Gatz to Jay Gatsby.

“The Carraways are something of a clan and we have a tradition that we 're descended from the Duke of Baccleuch, but the actual founder of my line was my grandfather 's brother who came here in fifty-one, sent a substitute to the Civil War and started the wholesale hardware business that my father carries on today.” (Pg.7) Nick Carraway narrates the whole story in The Great Gatsby,and here he makes a connection to 'The American Dream ' using his own family. In this quote the reader can see that his family is indeed wealthy, but often connect their wealth to some far off nobleman that may or may not have existed. Nick straightens this out by stating that the wealth is actually from his grandfather 's brother and his business, something that is continued by his own father and generates wealth through years of hard work. This is a good example of 'The American Dream ', but there are many other examples of this dream throughout the story, and each has it 's own meaning to the respective character. Gatsby has his own dream of achieving Daisy 's love, Daisy loves money and the attention that comes along with it, and George Wilson dreamed of having a normal family with his wife Myrtle. All three dreams vary because of who they belong to, but tangle together and cause problems throughout the plot of The Great Gatsby.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic American novel “The Great Gatsby” is a consummate summary of the ‘roaring twenties’ and a devastating show of the ‘Jazz Age’. Nick Carraway Chasing his own American Dream, lands next door to a mysterious, party-giving millionaire, Jay Gatsby young, handsome, and remarkably rich always seems alone in the crowd, watching and waiting although no one knows what for. Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the super rich, their illusions, loves and deceits. As Nick bears witness, within and without the world he inhabits, he pens a tale of impossible love, incorruptible dreams and dynamic tragedy, and holds a mirror to our own modern times and struggles. The novel also reveals the moral failure of a society

The Great Gatsby is one among many of the highly acclaimed novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald. In the novel, the reader learns about the difficulties and trials of achieving the American dream. The protagonist, Jay Gatsby is an example of modern America. His family was dirt poor but he dedicated his time to achieving his dreams and now he has all the money he could want. Gatsby is self made; he lives in West Egg and has what is called “new money.” Five years prior, Gatsby met Daisy, a beautiful and wealthy girl whom he fell in love with but had to leave when he was called to the war. Daisy lives in East Egg and has what is called “old money.” While Gatsby was away at war, Daisy married Tom, who is an ex- polo player.. Daisy and him both have inherited the majority of their money. They have not worked hard, they have not had struggles, they do not know what it is to be poor. Because Daisy and Gatsby have had such different upbringings, they both have a different perception of what the American dream is. Daisy defines the American dream as being able to live happily and freely, while Gatsby believes that the American Dream means that if you work hard you can become anything you want.

American dream is deeply rooted in people’s minds and gives them hopes and motivations to work hard and insist on following their dreams. For Americans, they expect to get good occupations, to make money and to make up families with their efforts in a legal way. Once carrying out their goals and behaving morally and legally, Americans believe that they will achieve their ideals and successfully obtain what they pursue for a long time. That is, the destiny of everyone can be controlled and turned around by the faith of being successful and the proper way of realizing the ideals. However, in The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald tries to give another interpretation about the ideal of American dream and the reality in 1920s. In the roaring twenties, due to the upsurge of the materialism, people promote the power of money and believe its power to fulfill their American dreams. With the rising of America economy, people gradually get used to feeling satisfied by the consuming behaviors. “In 1919, there were just 6.7 million cars on American roads. By 1929, there were more than 27 million cars” (Digital history). Because of the rising of the mass consumption, money has a high status in this time. People believed that money is sufficient to achieve their goals and satisfy all their desire and imaginations. However, the power of money is not so strong that it could not implement various desires. When people finally make a fortune, they somehow fail to complete their targets and

World War I and “ The Lost Generation”: These two historical ideas are significant to the novel because “ the Lost Generation” is the generation that became adults during the time of war, which includes F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author of the novel. Authors born in this time tended to write themes that represented their experiences in the war. For example, the death of the American Dream was mostly referenced in The Great Gatsby, by the narrator Nick Carraway.