The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Both Tom and Daisy “were careless people,” since “they smashed up things and creatures and retreated back to their money or their vast carelessness” after the damage was done (179). Daisy is chiefly concerned with wealth and status, and becomes infatuated with the ostentatious mansion Gatsby flaunts. This obsession with affluence is portrayed when she “began to cry stormily” at the mere sight of Gatsby’s lavish collection of expensive shirts (92). Even after her lengthy affair with Gatsby, Daisy neglects to attend his funeral, symbolizing her callous nature and the fact that she used Gatsby for his prestige.

In the climactic passage of Chapter 5 of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, former lovers Gatsby and Daisy see each other for the first time in many years, and what follows is an awkward encounter that offers insight to the two character’s contrasting personalities and a major theme of the book. When they are first reunited, Gatsby and Daisy seem to be acutely aware of the time that has passed between them and are unable to control their feelings, which leads them to both use defense mechanisms to deflect their true emotions. Fitzgerald uses the symbol of weather and the symbol of time throughout the scene to establish a theme of change and uses sparse dialogue between Daisy and Gatsby to shed light on the true nature of their relationship, which is full of joy and longing.

Throughout the novel “The Great Gatsby”, F. Scott Fitzgerald used a lot of different motifs and themes to symbolize to help see the reality behind Gatsby and the other characters in the novel including Daisy. The author uses various colors and physical places such as the green light at Daisy’s dock as Gatsby’s unattainable dream of being with Daisy while the Eyes of T.J Eckleburg in the valley of ashes to portray as God’s eyes as well as the reader’s eyes watching Gatsby yearn for his dream only for it to be crushed with a bullet and killed. The novel also illustrates how the American dream can attain one’s wealth and glory but at a hefty price of falling for greed and corruption through Gatsby’s fall. In the end, we really wonder why does attaining wealth make one so greedy and why is Gatsby trying to bring Daisy back to him despite it being a moment of the past that cannot be relived, a reality that Gatsby cannot accept. The most important motifs that are prominently symbolized throughout the novel is wealth, the American dream, and corruption.

Introduction- The book The Great Gatsby is full of secret symbols. For example, the green light is a clear symbol with daisy. The light is across the water of Gatsby’s back yard to Daisy’s house, representing not only her, but reaching for something that can never be obtained. Daisy can also symbolize a balloon expressed in one chapter as she “floats” down. These symbols really changed the way the book can be perceived.

Fitzgerald, in the Great Gatsby, shows that the 1920’s was a time period crammed with the desire to change oneself into something they are not. Many people longed for their dreams to come true and craved for an opportunity to fulfill those dreams by obtaining the necessities to turn them from dreams into reality. This could include dreams to become rich, to become very moralistic, or even the dream to be with that special someone. Humans thirst for their American Dream so much that they will do anything to attain it. It was a common thought that the only necessity in order to obtain these dreams or aspirations was working hard enough to attain them. However, Fitzgerald, through the development of characters Daisy, Gatsby, Myrtle, and Nick, claims that if we are not born into the right circumstances, including family, social class, or the acquired amount of riches, then we will never be able to obtain our real dream we so desire. In other words, what circumstances we are born in define us and reveal the limited options of what life we can live.

Throughout F. Scott Fitzgerald 's novel, The Great Gatsby, there are three main, reoccurring settings— East Egg, West Egg, and the Valley of Ashes. Each setting has people of different economic standings. The West Egg is full of those with newly acquired wealth, the East Egg is home to those who inherited their money, and the Valley of Ashes holds those who were born with no money and have not acquired money. The characters introduced throughout the novel, heralding from one of the three main settings, serve to characterize the type of people that live in each of the areas. The reader is given paragons for each type of person— George Wilson, Daisy and Tom Buchanan, and Jay Gatsby respectively from the Valley of Ashes, East egg, and West

Symbolism, a technique sprinkled through the book, is heavily used with organic material, such as flowers, gardens, settings, etc. gives characters a more natural feel and being more organic themselves. Each scene that is given a natural setting, where it isn’t forced, shows the realist and most raw form of the character.  Gatsby and Daisy are the subjects that can be exampled as two people that act differently in different settings of natural surroundings. The main focus is how they act in the most natural setting possible. Daisy and Gatsby knew each other before, sharing intimate moments, the first moment “...he kisse[s] her.  At his lips’ touched she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.” (117). Fitzgerald's vocabulary use in the quote is saturated with liveliness and beauty. The words give a feeling that the book is alive. Gatsby is opening Daisy up as a person. For him she can be a real person, not fake in a world where status matters. For Gatsby she has “blossomed” like a “flower”. Representing her being

Music is an immensely powerful tool in films, as it can underscore critical themes of a film in a melodious way and augment the emotion on screen. Songs can set the tone of a movie with or without lyrics. For example, the soundtrack of the 1977 film Saturday Night Fever includes groovy songs that complement the tone of the film. The suspenseful notes of the Jaws theme suggests that danger is approaching. The soundtrack to Baz Luhrman’s The Great Gatsby is a tasteful collection of songs from artists of different genres. Through this amalgamation of genres and lyrics, the integrity of the F. Scott Fitzgerald’s piece is well maintained.

The USA is supposedly a classless society, somewhere that dreams are hypothetically made and a place in which anyone can create a living for themselves if they work hard enough. However in all three texts there is evidence to suggest that this is not the case. The notion surrounding social inequality is certainly clear to see in these three texts, and perhaps surprisingly, as is the fact that in some areas it is affected by class systems, although this is not immediately obvious. All three texts being written in the early 20th century are set during periods of supposed freedom and equality, and all three writers use literature to challenge this idea. Hughes’ poetry focuses on racial inequality and how this ‘pushes’ him into a lower

The Great Gatsby is a classic American novel that provides the readers with insights into people’s minds, a unique decade, and the American Dream. With such a classic novel, there are, understandably, many movies based on it. Movies aren’t often accurate representations of the novel. As such, it is a good experience to analyze the many movies based on a classic novel in order to better understand the story and the many ways that it could be interpreted. Although every movie about the Great Gatsby wasn’t watched, a comparison of even two to the novel in question may prove to give deeper insights to the story. Here we shall analyze the main elements of the Great Gatsby and compare the two movies, from 1974 and 2013, in order to determine

Fitzgerald uses the character of Jay Gatsby to explain his idea of the American dream. His depiction had a lot to do with “rags to riches”. Jay Gatsby starts without much money but through bootlegging he is able to get an incredible amount of wealth. The American dream is about achieving your goals through hard work and determination in this world of the Great Gatsby. Does this sentiment still hold true?

Daisy’s character in The Great Gatsby serves the purpose of highlighting the underlying social criticism of the capitalist society and the sense of betrayal and abandonment present in Daisy’s character underscores the idea that money does not equal happiness.

Daisy’s impact on Gatsby is immediate and cathartic. As “the golden girl” she represents the ultimate prize, “the best part of a world […] of heightened, refined delight, the realization not only of [Gatsby’s] desires but of generalized desire as well” (Fitzgerald 127, Lathbury 60). Inevitably, in the limitless capacity of Gatsby’s imagination, Daisy is elevated to the ideal, becoming the embodiment of “the youth and mystery that wealth imprisons and preserves”

“I am the American Dream. I am the epitome of what the American Dream basically said. It said you could come from anywhere and be anything you want in this country. That's exactly what I've done.” Whoopi Goldberg, an African-American actress and talk-show host who is known for her comedic personality and avid political activism, is one of the quintessential example of an American and what being an American truly means. Other quintessential Americans could range from Andrew Carnegie to John D. Rockefeller to none other than Lady Gaga.

Daisy is a person who only focused on money. She is a selfish and cynical person. She wanted her “life shaped” for she made a decision to marry by either love or money forcedly without thinking about Gatsby she was just thinking for herself. Even Gatsby said, “her voice is full of money,” meaning Daisy only interest in her life is money. She admits herself that she is a cynical person whenever she said “I’m pretty cynical about everything,”. Her usage of words is manipulative in order to seem an innocuous person and gets what she desires. Knowing that she is very gorgeous, she believed every man will fall for her even her cousin Nick Carraway. Whenever, Nick invited Daisy for tea she said “are you in love with me?”. Showing how highly she thinks of herself. Therefore, she knows Gatsby is in madly in love with her for the house that he bought across the bay from her house, realizing that he has been waiting for past years for her and sees that he doesn’t have a companion for he is not married and differently does not have any children. When Gatsby gave her a tour of his house