The Great Gatsby Tone Analysis

When Gatsby reveals to about his relationship with Daisy, Nick’s relationship with Gatsby takes a full u-turn as it rapidly advances their association from simple acquaintances to close friends. Nick’s outlook of Gatsby undergoes a similar transformation. When Nick learns of the previous relationship between Gatsby and Daisy, Gatsby’s actions make sense to Nick. The mansion, the extravagant parties, and the green light were all in the efforts for making Daisy notice him. Gatsby lives his life for the past life that he lived. He spends his life seeking the attention of his love, Daisy, and as Nick explains, “He wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was…” (Fitzgerald 110). Gatsby sought out the American dream in order to win over the love of Daisy which creates a different perception of himself to Nick. Nick, now knowing Gatsby’s intentions worries about Gatsby’s possible rejection, and then warns him that, “[he] wouldn’t ask too much of her, you can’t repeat the past.” (Fitzgerald 110) But Gatsby, blinded by love, strives to win Nick’s married cousin’s heart. Nick perceives Gatsby as a man dwelling on the past

Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, a novel documenting the experiences Nick Carraway has in New York, is ultimately used to voice Fitzgerald’s perception of the American dream. Nick, voicing the message from Fitzgerald, affirms his confidence in the matter that the American Dream will always be unattainable. From the beginning of the novel, Gatsby is illustrated as a mysterious character who constantly changes his backstory in an attempt to appeal to the “old rich.” As Nick and Gatsby became acquainted, Nick abominated Gatsby as he ascertained that Gatsby’s methods to pursue wealth and Daisy were scandalous. In the end, Nick conceived a new perspective on life proceeding Gatsby’s death which is portrayed through his thought that, “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us.

In literature, authors commonly utilize diction as a prominent technique. Diction is the choice of words, or style within a novel. Fitzgerald uses diction to enhance his theme: “the past can not be repeated”. Gatsby references Daisy as “she” and “despairingly” expresses that “she doesn’t understand” (1). The denotation of despair is “showing the loss of all hope”, which represents a negative connotation, similar to the word “sad”. Because Gatsby is referencing his longing for the past with the word “despairingly”, the reader can infer that he is depressed that he cannot repeat the past, which is the theme of The Great Gatsby. After Nick states that “you can’t repeat the past”, Gatsby responds in denial (4-5). His response to Nick was described as “incredulously” (5). This word is denoted as “a manner communicating disbelief, even when valid support is presented”. Thus, Nick knows that the theme is true, yet Gatsby is in denial of it. The author creates this conflict, which the entire novel is centered around. The diction decisions of F Scott Fitzgerald enhance the reader’s comprehension of the connection between Gatsby, and the overarching theme of The Great Gatsby.

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. This one dream propels every one of Gatsby’s actions, words, and thoughts, making him extremely vulnerable. When she shatters his world in his last few hours alive, he finds himself with no meaning left in his life. Fitzgerald uses extended metaphor and sharp diction to show Gatsby’s crumbling life in his last moments. Fitzgerald employs the extended metaphor of the “new world” to illustrate the total collapse of Gatsby’s reality.

When it came to Gatsby, he was interested in Nick’s simplicity but he was also intrigued at Nick’s relation to Daisy, his long-lost lover. In the novel it states, “had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.” (Fitzgerald, 97). This quote shows how Gatsby had reconnected with Daisy through Nick and how Nick admired Gatsby’s passion when he finally meet up with Daisy once again. Lastly, the tragic death of Gatsby opens up a new realm of things for Nick. In the novel, it states, “After Gatsby’s death the East was haunted for me like that, distorted beyond my eyes’ power of correction.” (Fitzgerald, 176). He now reflected on how Gatsby’s passion and drive to live allowed Nick to view life in the real world differently. Nick, who was directly inspired by Gatsby, now was left confused as he wanted to learn all that one needs for success, though the death made it impossible. The last page of the novel, it ends with, “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eludes us then, but that’s no matter - to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arm farther.” (Fitzgerald, 180). This quote shows how much of a deep impact Gatsby’s death had on Nick. Now

In his novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald describes the moral decay of the Lost Generation in the aftermath of World War I. He does this through the interactions of Nick Carraway and his associates, Jay Gatsby, Jordan Baker, and Tom and Daisy Buchanan, describing through Nick the attempts of Gatsby to try and rediscover his relationship with Daisy. Gatsby ultimately fails to do so and ends up dying thinking he could still pursue a lost dream. Fitzgerald uses Gatsby as an example of the Lost Generation ideals failing in the novel. To help show the “lostness” of the Lost Generation, which include moral bankruptcy (lack of morals) and indecisiveness on what to do with their lives, Fitzgerald employs many motifs throughout the novel,

Upon seeing Gatsby, Nick Carraway notes that “he was content to be alone” and therefore did not speak to him. This silent observation of Gatsby’s behavior serves to demonstrate the curiosity of the whole situation. It is clear, however, that despite his success, Gatsby is unsatisfied and unhappy. It can be said that “the image of a Gatsby who ‘stretched out his arms toward the dark water’ (Fitzgerald 26) may symbolize the subconsciousness poised against reality” (Bui). While much is still unknown about Gatsby at this point, the description of his wealth and economic status serve to describe his situation in life, a rich, upper class man living in a nice home, who worked hard to get where he

The love and effort that you put into a single person or a dream, a desire, will not last forever, it will change shape, sizes and manifestations and sometimes it turns into something we end up dreading. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, our mysterious, yet gorgeous hopeless romantic and portrayer of the rags-to-riches ideal, Jay Gatsby, is haunted by the desire he has for his true love, Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby dreams of a future, “a happily ever after” with her, a married woman. Towards the end of the of the novel, his is love for her is yet again being compared and challenged to that brute of a man, Tom Buchanan, Daisy’s husband, by Daisy herself. Their abrupt confession of love in front of the brute spirals out of control and strains the relationship that reblossomed between Gatsby and Daisy, which soon ends when Gatsby himself passes away. All of Gatsby’s attempts to woo the woman back into his arms, the parties he had thrown in her name and the enhancement of his status in society, turned into dust. He spent years of his life running after a girl who did not want to be chased, the time and effort he put into their affair, all turned to nothing but a distant dream, a “once upon a time”. The author, F. Scott Fitzgerald, does this to show society that when it comes to love, desire is suffering, it is better to live in your reality and to be honest than to lie and stay in your fantasy, and that our biggest dreams, no matter how much effort is put in, in

Gatsby’s obsessions are not limited too simply possessing wealth, but they also extend to the manner in which it was acquired as well. First Gatsby claims having attended Oxford, and even goes so far as to flaunt Nick a picture,“ A souvenir of his Oxford days…” (71). Gatsby openly avoids mentioning how long he was at Oxford and why he was there. The small dishonest taste that Gatsby has of Oxford only serves to make his desire to change the past more consuming than ever before. Gatsby wants a simpler time, a better time with more noble aspirations. Gatsby uses the photograph to undo his past. In addition, Gatsby furthers the tales of his grand life insisting that he lived in all the capitols of Europe like a rajah. Fitzgerald proves Gatsby’s stories to be lies beyond any reasonable doubt. Jay sounds like a fool, and his condescending willingness to underestimate the intelligence of his listeners proves he acts as a fool. Gatsby’s false stories suck him deeper and deeper into the abyss that is self-worthlessness. Finally, the rainbow that Jay Gatsby follows through life has the ultimate treasure at the end –true love. The desperate alteration of his past serves only one purpose, to impress the shallow Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby innocently assumes that his money and accomplishments can buy anything – even

Second, although not honestly, Gatsby had acquired almost everything that he initially envisioned. But the one thing that he failed to obtain five years ago, was Daisy. Daisy’s character is not very likable, because of her sense of entitlement, her carelessness, her lack of empathy and her inability to make tough decisions. This fact makes us question Gatsby’s character due to his own judge of character. What did Gatsby see in Daisy? Gatsby’s preoccupation with Daisy ought not be mistaken for love, rather an obsession with what she represents. In the mind of Gatsby, Daisy is objectified as the perfect symbolic embodiment of the unobtainable possession that Gatsby believes he must own to achieve perfection. It is not enough for Gatsby that Daisy says that she loves him – she must say that she never loved her husband Tom, that it was all a mistake. This fact clearly illustrates Gatsby’s wish to live as if the past five years had taken a different course, a different vision – his vision, which Daisy was included and Tom was not. But as nick points out to Gatsby, he cannot repeat the past, to which Gatsby responds: “Why of course you can!”.

The Great Gatsby is an entertaining, twisted version of the classic love story that thoroughly describes New York City during the Roaring 20’s. Nick Carraway, one of the main characters, tells this materialistic themed story through first-person narration. The story begins with Nick Carraway moving from the Midwest to West Egg, Long Island looking to become a bond salesman. Nick moves in next to Jay Gatsby, a mystery party man,“The one on my right was a colossal affair by any standard-it was a factual imitation of some Hôtel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool, and more than forty acres of lawn and garden. It was Gatsby’s mansion” (Fitzgerald, 5). Nick’s cousin Daisy and her husband Tom Buchanan live across the water in East Egg. When Nick goes over for dinner with the Buchanans and their friend Jordan Baker, Jordan tells Nick about Tom’s affair with Myrtle Wilson. Nick sees first hand the strain this affair is having on Tom and Daisy’s marriage. As soon as Nick gets home, Gatsby invites him to his next party where they meet. They soon become good friends and Nick learns that Gatsby and Daisy were lovers before Gatsby went off to World War II; Gatsby is still in love with Daisy and wants to win her back even though she is married to Tom. He threw all those parties for her and bought that house to be near Daisy and impress her with his new richness, “Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay” (Fitzgerald, 78). “He expected her to wander into one of his parties, some night” (Fitzgerald, 79). Gatsby and Jordan convince Nick to invite Daisy over so Gatsby could show off his new house and to see if the spark between them is still there. Gatsby and Daisy rekindled their love for each other, sadly Daisy is still married to Tom so they can’t begin a new relationship. Want to find out what happens next? Read The Great Gatsby!

Nick states, “ He didn’t know how extraordinary a nice girl could be. She vanished into her rich house. Into her rich, full life… he felt married to her ” (Fitzgerald 149). As Gatsby met Daisy, he was already hooked, while some readers would concur it was love at first sight, his love finds deeper meaning. As a poor boy who ran away to find his rendition, yet a common one, of the American dream, he instantly found Daisy, who, to him, was a gateway to the lifestyle he wished for. Gatsby’s obsession with Daisy lies entirely in his desire to climb the social ladder as fast as he can, to reach the American dream. A common subtheme to the American dream, is the move back East. In Fitzgerald’s words, he describes the twenties through the move back in direction, time, and success. All characters who find themselves moving back, find themselves getting close to the American dream, but always destroyed in the end, while the only successor in the story is Jordan, who represents much of the East coast culture in Fitzgerald’s eyes, liars and deceivers who survive off of the pain of the others. The others would especially reflect Gatsby and Nick, as well as the crowds of the 1920’s moving back East, to city’s such as Chicago and New York. Gatsby grew up as a midwestern, but his dream brings him to New York, where by the end of the book, he’s dead, crushed by the New York lifestyle, chewed and spat out. Nick ends the story

Can one person be responsible for ruining the lives of everyone and everything around them? Can a person destroy everything they touch and feel no remorse? Can money and riches be used as a fallback or second plan? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s character in the novel The Great Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan, single-handedly destroyed the lives of everyone around her. Daisy’s carelessness and need to maintain her ego is the main factor in the death and destruction of Jay Gatsby and Myrtle Wilson. Daisy is the worst character in the novel.

F. Scott Fitzgerald composed many books and stories for the duration of his life. His style of composing resembled no other. One of his most celebrated was "The Great Gatsby" which was around two individuals speaking to the two sides of Fitzgerald, Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby. He additionally composed another book "Delicate is the Night" which is about his encounters with his significant other while she endured constant mental breakdowns, most occurrence all of a sudden. The greater part of his stories and books were histories of himself and his life and in other term purposeful anecdotes. Likewise there are tremendous changes in his written work all through history. His stories and books go from glad topics, loaded with moving, drinking, and wealth, to calm subjects investigating development, lament, and misery. In conclusion, knowing Fitzgerald is a writer from the Jazz Age, he was impacted to expound on adoration.

In this novel The Great Gatsby, Francis Scott Fitzgerald takes a very interesting approach to storytelling. In particular, the events are described by a first-person narrator Nick Carraway, who primarily acts as the observer of other people’s actions, but not as the major character shaping the development of the plot. This essay is aimed at evaluating his effectiveness as a storyteller. One should discuss the positive and negative sides of Nick’s view on other characters and their behavior. Furthermore, it is important to determine if he adds or distracts from the story. Overall, Nick does have a good position for observing the residents of West Egg and he helps the audience to gain insights into their worldviews and motives. However, this person cannot be viewed as an effective narrator because he produces a false impression of trustworthiness. His biases and dishonesty can prevent the readers from learning a moral lesson in Fitzgerald’s novel.