The Great Gatsby: What Was Optimalist?

The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by Fitzgerald set in the roaring 20s, following the eponymous hero, Jay Gatsby. Gatsby’s life is characterised by his ambition to retrieve the past and to be reunited with the woman he loves, Daisy Fay. Miss Julie is a play by August Strindberg, written in 1888. It focuses on an affair between a valet, Jean, and his master’s daughter, Miss Julie. In these two texts, Fitzgerald and Strindberg explore the dreams of two men from modest backgrounds, and in so doing illustrate the dangers of not being true to one’s roots and the repercussions of following unrealistic dreams.

The Pursuit of Satisfaction: An Analysis of How Chasing the Ideas of the American Dream Leads to the Characterization of Prominent Figures in The Great Gatsby.

In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald builds theme of personal ambition by using the setting and the characterization to show the significance of the main persona, Gatsby’s personal ambition. Fitzgerald uses the setting of East Egg and West Egg and characterization of Daisy and Dan Cody on the connection they have with Jay Gatsby. Jay Gatsby’s ambition is to achieve the American Dream. In Gatsby’s eyes, to achieve the American Dream consist of becoming the richest man and sharing his wealth with the woman he loves right by his side. Jay, based of his characterization, never sees himself as the poor man and

Henry Ford once said, “Money does not change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that’s all.” Ford explains how money gives naturally selfish people the freedom to be themselves. When a person is poor they often times are not allowed to act themselves because they do not have the money to reinforce their actions. This theme is evident in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby because money allows people in the novel to show their true colors. For example, Daisy is extremely selfish because she owns a lot of money. Her selfishness is proven through her lack of interest in other people, her affair, and how she discards people without a care.

Write a 750 word essay in response to one of the following prompts. Be sure to include at least three quotes from the texts.

After reading The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, I was able to gather a small playlist of songs that can relate to the book. The lyrics in these songs relate to scenes, symbols, and different characters in the book.

Another significant factor that contributes to this aspiration is seen through Daisy Buchanan. In Daisy's case, it is seen that she does not thrive for happiness and is handed all the wealth and beauty without putting in the effort. For her social class, however, she was only given one job which was to be a vision of beauty with a perfect husband and children despite not being truly happy. When Daisy marries Tom, she does so not because she loves him, but because he can promise her a more comfortable and reliable life than Jay Gatsby can. She is stuck between true happiness and being blinded by wealth and comfort. Even though Gatsby want her there for him she is so enclose by Tom’s wealth that she is blind to her true

Ambitions are an integral aspect of human culture. They motivate us in a ceaseless pursuit of constant success. However, humans are truly not contempt with their successes, and perpetually dream for more success in a never-ending spiral of greed. Jay Gatsby’s character throughout F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece, The Great Gatsby, is an ideal epitome of human greed, or as we can refer to it, the American dream. Fitzgerald is able to foster a culture within the novel where dreams seem unreachable, despite the amount of hunger, or greed, one may possess in aim of fulfilling their desires. A sense of elitism is also present within the novel as Fitzgerald ably crafts astounding discrepancies within the social structure of the era fondly

“The orgastic future that year by year recedes before us” is the unattainable goal of those living in Tom and Daisy’s world—a world where lives are wasted chasing the unreachable (Fitzgerald 180). In his 1925 novel The Great Gatsby, author F. Scott Fitzgerald suggests that making any progress whatsoever toward this aspiration often requires people to establish facades that enable them to progress socially, but that a crippled facade will backfire and cause detriment to its creator. In the passage where Nick realizes who Gatsby is on page 48, Nick observes two different versions of Gatsby—one that is reassuring and truthful and another who “pick[s] his words with care” (Fitzgerald 48). Nick is at first attracted to Gatsby’s constructed

A great person is someone who can accomplish something that most can’t. In the great Gatsby, by F. scott fitzgerald, a man named Nick carraway moves to West Egg New York to fulfil his work bonds and stalks sales man. When nick goes to one of gatsby's party he is stunned by how amazing gatsby's house is this is when Nick finds out that gatsby is great. Gatsby is great because he is generous and kind to his friends and devotes a lot to others in chapter 3 fitzgerald stats that gatsby has a man at his house that he did not even know lived there. This mans name is klipspringer, when gatsby finds out he does not care he lets klipspringer live there any ways this shows how nice gatsby can be to people he does not even know. Gatsby is great because he started out with nothing and became rich, he also is great because he was doing all of it for love.

In a time when virtually everything was fraudulent and scandal was ubiquitous, Jay Gatsby and many other men alike thrived off of their surrounding social structure. These men made it to the preeminent social hierarchy through dubious, at minimum, routes. Organized crime, such as bootlegging and fixings, were monumental to these men’s financial succession to the peak of the mountain. When Nick asks Gatsby how Meyer Wolfsheim managed to fix the 1919 World Series, he promptly responds, “He just saw the opportunity” (Fitzgerald 73). During this time, people saw opportunities to enhance their immediate situations, dealing with repercussions subsequently.

In reality, everyone gets sucked into the competition that is the game of life. The human need to compete creates great desire and ambition within people, which drives them to prove their self-worth. Abstract forces of the universe can encourage an individual’s actions and when people possess these forces, it can be so powerful that it will be impossible to stop them once they get started. In the historical fiction novel, “The Great Gatsby”, F. Scott Fitzgerald emphasizes the role of Daisy in Gatsby’s life; Daisy instills the feeling of responsibility to climb the ladder of social class in Gatsby’s mind in order for him to gain her heart. In William Shakespeare’s tragedy, “Macbeth”, I was able to see how Macbeth’s ruling passion fuels the

The 1920s, also known as the Jazz Age, was a period in history with many crucial developments, these of course came along with some difficulties. The 1920s was given its nickname because of the explosion of Jazz music and dance that emerged during the decade. The 1920s included some of the most significant events in history, including the revival of the Ku Klux Klan, the Great Migration, the Harlem Renaissance, as well as the appearance of flappers. From the Jazz Age emerged many political and cultural conflicts, as well as economic developments that led to the Great Depression

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

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.