The Importance Of Ethnic Difference In The Great Gatsby

Passage: On page 17, one of the main characters talks about a book he read about whites being a superior race. This is why the book “The Great Gatsby” is challenged for racism.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, published in 1925, is the story of the idiosyncratic millionaire Jay Gatsby. It is narrated by Nick Carraway, a Midwesterner from Long Island who later moves to Manhattan. Gatsby’s life is organized around one desire, Daisy, the woman he loved. This desire leads him on an expedition from poverty to wealth, reuniting with his old love, and his eventual death. In his novel, F. Scott Fitzgerald is able to portray the American Dream where people seek out self-gratification and pleasure. He captures the romance of the roaring twenties with the cars, money, illegal alcohol and the wildest parties one could imagine. Much like the character, Jay Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), wasn’t born into the upper class. While Gatsby is from the lower class, Fitzgerald from the middle class, both end up becoming exceptionally rich, fall into the wildest and reckless life, and use their fortunes to win the love and approval of the women they once loved.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, has been heralded as one of the outstanding novels of the Jazz Age. The characters that Fitzgerald created in this novel were laudable and disreputable. Therefore, these characters in the novel will be contrasted and elucidated.

Cultural Criticism is the beliefs and interpretation of cultures in the eyes of other people rather one is more dominant or the others are inferior to them. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” time period was divided up into social classes which were determined on a person’s will. The narrator Nick Caraway is a middle class man trying to make it in life financially, so he decided to move from the East Egg to the West Egg New York to get away from paying 3,000 to 4,000 dollars for renting a house. Cultural criticism explains a meaningful understanding which is shown in the novel with: social status, racism, beliefs, and ethnicity.

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896 to parents, Edward Fitzgerald and Mary McQuillan.

The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, has been celebrated as one of the greatest - if not the greatest - American works of fiction. Of course, one could convincingly argue that Gatsby barely qualified as fiction, as it is the culmination of a trio of Fitzgerald’s work that

We look back in history in order to learn from our mistakes and to help society progress in the present and in the future. “The Great Gatsby” was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925. Fitzgerald wrote this piece during the 1920s after WWI and it perfectly replicates the time period. The narrative captures the essence of the Jazz Age by depicting characters, showing power struggles and by defining the societal conflicts of the time. The novel tells us about different influences on the 20’s such as the Prohibition Act, the success of Wall Street, and aspects of the American Dream. “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald possesses the social constructs and ideas of the Roaring Twenties.

The two movies that I have decided to watch were “Red Tails”, and “The Great Gatsby”. Both of these movies represented heroic adversity that American people have faced throughout our nation history. One example of this is from the movie “Red Tails”, when the main character Lightening fought a German plane from the front to kill the enemy, while at the same time risking his life. Another example of heroic adversity is from the movie “The Great Gatsby”, when the main character Jay Gatsby became a war hero killing the German army single handedly 5-1. A final example of heroic adversity was the love side of both movies. In “Red Tails” the main character Lightening life, and marriage was cut short from him defending his country and disobeying orders.

The impact of prevailing social stratification is multi-dimensional in the novel. It is noted that social stratification has great effects on racism. We find that Tom is a racist, and his racist attitude is due to his high social status. He attacks Gatsby and questions about his fake claim of an Oxford graduate to break the intimacy between her wife Daisy and Gatsby. He knows that revealing the truth is the only way to create a negative impact on Daisy’s mind about Gatsby. Another interpretation can be taken from Tom’s behavior is that Tom shows his aristocratic, rude and arrogant attitude. Indicating Gatsby as a “bootlegger”, “Mr. Nobody”, he shows hardly any sympathy and courtesy to Gatsby. His attitude toward Gatsby in such way would be impossible if he belongs to an inferior class. Tom is also proud of his “Nordic race”. His intention is to neglect the inferior people for their skin color. He is not a man to take any change easily. He cannot think of “intermarriage between black and white” (Fitzgerald 103).

F Scott Fitzgerald has been one of the most recognizable authors out there today. Many people admire his work, but he’s hard to catch and follow due to his busy schedule and personal lifestyle being an alcoholic. On the 19th of November 1925 I was given a chance to meet up with F. Scott Fitzgerald, to discuss about the eminent novel written by him “The Great Gatsby” at his house in Los Angeles. The books about a poor turned wealthy man, Gatsby and his attempt on getting his past lover back. What you’re about to read is one of the first few interviews ever with Mr. Fitzgerald in person. Below is the transcript of that interview.

Francis Scott Fitzgerald, otherwise known as F. Scott Fitzgerald came into this world on September 24, 1896. ** Named after his cousin that wrote the Star Spangled Banner, Francis Key Scott, F. Scott Fitzgerald began writing at the young age of 15.** During this time, Fitzgerald left school and joined the US Army. While being stationed outside of Montgomery, Alabama, he met the love of his life, Zelda Sayre. As life proceeded, he became known as a playboy. IN 1924, Fitzgerald moved to France and published the well-known novel, The Great Gatsby. Within the novel, Fitzgerald critiques the American Dream. ** The Great Gatsby also achieved the stature of being a definitive portrait of the “Roaring Twenties”**.

Meeting a man like Gatsby in the 1920's was unfailingly extraordinary, but if we look further into the novel, we can relate Gatsby to the author of the book, F. Scott Fitzgerald, who wrote The Great Gatsby. We can relate these two people because they both met the love of their life in the army, they both dropped out of college, and they both strove to impress the loves they ultimately lost (Lisk). To continue, F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American writer of the Lost Generation of the 1920's and was born in St. Paul Minnesota on September 24, 1896 to an unsuccessful, aristocratic father and an energetic, provincial mother (Minzer). Later in Fitzgerald's life he wrote a novel entitled The Great Gatsby, which at first was a flop, but later became

The Author known as, Scott Fitzgerald is considered a notable writer in the Jazz Age time period for his novels, “short stories” such as “The Great Gatsby.” Throughout the life of Scott Fitzgerald his works have proven to be of high merit that have impacted the world of literature

Great wealth cannot transform who you truly are. In the novel of The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is the protagonist who is astonishingly wealthy and romantic. Nonetheless, due to the self-extravagance in luxury and corruption of moral values, the collapsing society in the 1920’s leads Gatsby and his American Dream into destruction. Through a Marxist lens, the character’s belief influences the society by the character’s ideology of social stratification, how characters adjust themselves to accept the materialistic ideology settled by the bourgeoisie, and the result of dialectical materialism. The idea that any American who works hard can achieve financial success and even overcome the class distinction exists

Scott Fitzgerald is one of the most important author in United States history.Scott wrote many novels but the most iconic is The Great gatsby. The Great Gatsby is a fun, and famous novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. This book is a book that will make one feel excited, and feel sad for Jay Gatsby. This book also talks about life, and that just because someone hase money, it does not mean you will find love. Fitzgerald inspiration to write this iconic book was the culture that he was living during the roaring twenties.(Legacy on Scott) Also, Fitzgerald inspiration was his wife Zelda Fitzgerald and alcohol. (F.Scott Fitzgerald)He was such an important person during the roaring twenties, and with all that controversy of this