The Importance Of Geography In The Great Gatsby

Matthew J. Bruccoli argued that “Fitzgerald superimposed a partly mythical geography upon the actual geography” in The Great Gatsby. When Bruccoli stated this he simply meant that Fitzgerald created a fictitious setting, upon the real general setting of the novel. Throughout Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, he creates places and settings as the perfect examples of the 1920’s American culture and community. I agree that this is exactly what Bruccoli meant when he stated that Fitzgerald has superimposed a partly mythical geography upon the original geography. Fitzgerald has created a mythical setting geographically by letting each origin represent an important part of 1920’s American society. In this case, those represented throughout The Great Gatsby are old aristocracy, the very rich, social decay of America, and the high quest for money and pleasure. Each of which are important to the 1920’s American culture and society. Throughout the novel, the geographical places we are introduced to are East Egg, West Egg and The Valley of Ashes. Each of these places represent a part of 1920’s America. East Egg represents the old

The importance of a good setting cannot be underestimated when writing a novel. Throughout the novel the author, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses various locations to express many important ideas and themes hidden in the text. These locations not only shape the plot but they also influence various characters. Locations such as New York, the Valley of Ashes and East and West egg are all used by Fitzgerald to represent many reoccurring themes.

There are two types of people, those who are consumed by money and those that have a decaying amount. Both of those types of people crave more and more, both reside in either of the two contrasting peninsulas, East Egg and West Egg. The two headlands have numerous amounts of variance with each other in the novel, The Great Gatsby. Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the narrative is set during the 1920’s in New York City, as well as Long Island, and the two peninsulas dubbed “East Egg” and “West Egg.” There is a striking contrast between the two regions, however, not as many similarities. East Egg represents people who are vulgar and crude, who are also the social elite and old money, while West Egg represents good social values and new money. Nonetheless, both areas are equally dissatisfied with their life, always wanting more and more.

When comparing West Egg and East Egg, the reader perceives the differences and similarities of wealthy and middle class characters as members of American society. Both sides of the American spectrum try to embellish on the fantasies of life, often holding gatherings. While at a party in West Egg with Tom Buchanan, Nick Carraway meets Myrtle Wilson the wife of a local mechanic, and mistress of Mr. Buchanan. “The apartment was on the top floor – a small living room, a small dining room, a small bedroom and a bath. The living room was crowded to the doors with a set of tapestried furniture entirely too large for it so that to move about was to stumble continually over scenes of ladies swinging in gardens of Versailles” (Fitzgerald, 33). According to the entry depicting the apartment where the party is held, the people of West Egg have no room in their lives for glamour

People are provided with two improbable capabilities: the capability to utilize logic and motive to triumph over any circumstance as well as the gift of endless emotions. But these brilliant capabilities become dangerous when they become intermixed. In this essay I will discuss how characters stamp their unavoidable failure when they permit one powerful emotion to determine their reason. Authors T.S. Eliot and F. Scott Fitzgerald use their individual characters to paint the picture of how level-headedness and motive, contaminated with uncontrolled emotion, will encourage foolish actions and ultimately lead to failure in “The Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” and, The Great Gatsby .

As people continue to live on they soon come to realize that there is a time and place for everything. The significance of location plays an important role in the day to day of the common man. Location can impact the way a person may dress,speak,feel,respond, and act. Establishing societal norms, regulations and expectations which may lead to events like conflict, aggression, resolve, enjoyment, etcetera. In the novel The Great Gatsby written by F.Scott Fitzgerald, the story takes place in an early 1920’s New York City. The protagonist Nick Carraway, Tells his story about a mysterious man commonly known as Jay Gatsby. Through Nick's honesty the reader soon learns that money does not always buy happiness. Locations such as The Valley of Ashes,

Beyond the bustling city, there lay two “Enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay” (Fitzgerald 5). Each of the areas separated the two different classes of wealth. Nick, the narrator, lived in West Egg, the center of life and where “New Money” resided. He reminisces of the lusty nights in West Egg when “There was music from [his] neighbor’s through the summer... men and girls came and went like moths..

However, the eggs are dissimilar in “every way except shape and size.” On West Egg, “the less fashionable of the two,” the houses are built with no regard to codes or restrictions, as Nick's house is a bungalow sandwiched between two mansions. By contrast, the houses on fashionable East Egg “glittered” with “white palaces.” We see the difference between new money, with the possible implication of lack of refinement or class (West Egg), and old money, with well-groomed houses and lawns accompanying well-groomed residents, well-mannered who, on the surface, are characterized by gentility (East Egg). The West Egg residents symbolize pioneers, in its diverse melting pot neighborhood, taking on the persona of the old west, a land founded for the solo reason for the fulfillment of dreams. On the other hand, in East Egg, the inhabitants take the pleasure of not working, where making the most money without any effort is their aspiration. The theme of wealth flourishes throughout both areas, although different in various ways, with this wealth, each character has their own motivations such as Gatsby

The Game is just like many other different Hidden Object games; your number one goal is to find all of the objects that are need to complete the level. What makes this unique compared to others, is it brings you to places that are learn during the book ‘’The Great Gatsby’’. Some of the places in the game are George Wilson Garage, Gatsby’s Mansion, and Tom and Daisy house. In this game you have to find all sorts of things like letters, clocks, phones, tires, and many other different things. Different from most game there are mini games/levels in between each level. One of them was to make drinks when you were at Tom and Daisy’s house, and another was to fix a tire when at George Wilson Garage. One thing that was interesting when playing this

The Great Gatsby is set among wealthy, educated people, who have lots of leisure time and little concern about people that are not in their social milieu. F. Scott Fitzgerald presents many themes is his novel, The Great Gatsby. One of these themes is society and class. This theme is developed throughout the book by his use of the motif geography. The motif of geography compares different social classes.

Immediately at the inception of the novel, access to water is seen as a status symbol. When describing the difference between West Egg and East Egg, Nick Carraway uses language evoking exclusion, calling the West Egg “less fashionable,” where the upper-middle class live and “separated” from East

The settings and backdrops in The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, are essential elements to the formation of the characters, symbolic imagery and the overall plot development. Fitzgerald uses East and West Egg communities to portray two separate worlds and two classes of people that are technically the same their status, but fundamentally different in their ideals. The physical geography of the settings is representative of the distance between classes of the East and West Eggers. Every setting connotes a different tone and enhances the imagery of story line. From the wealthy class of the "eggs", the desolate "valley of ashes", to the chaos of Manhattan. The imagery provided by Fitzgerald becomes an important

“It’s pretty, isn't it, old sport?”(Fitzgerald 53), hollow words that describe an era precisely. The Great Gatsby is a wonderfully depressing novel about a man who literally made a name for himself and died in search of the American Dream. It was set in the Roaring Twenties, also known as the Jazz Age, a time about dynamic subcultures all around the world, and their grand art, social lives and music. This book is set by F. Scott Fitzgerald in the North East of the United States, New York, and Long Island known as West and East Egg. Setting is very crucial element in any novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the setting of The Great Gatsby in a very graceful manner. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald utilizes setting such as “The Valley of Ashes,”

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, the setting of New York in the nineteen twenties performs an extensive role in the novel. Although the nineteen twenties are a time of economic prosperity, they appear to be a time of corruption and crime as well. In New York, particularly, the nineteen twenties are a time of corruption and moral scarcity. The setting is during the Jazz Age as well, where popularity, fashion, and commerce are a primary inclination. The setting of The Great Gatsby efficaciously portrays the behavior of the characters in The Great Gatsby, as well as the plot and development. The setting assiduously delineates how themes, motifs, and symbols can fluctuate in relation to the time or location. The setting of The

The geography behind Gatsby and the backdrop of it makes Gatsby more able to understand what is happening in the story. There are two sides of the lake, The East egg and the West egg. The East egg is where the people that had money passed down from generation to generation and the people didn’t really do much in life to get at that point because they just had money given to them from old family members. This is where Tom and Daisy live.