The Effects Of Affairs In The Great Gatsby

Themes of hope, success, and wealth overpower The Great Gatsby, leaving the reader with a new way to look at the roaring twenties, showing that not everything was good in this era. F. Scott Fitzgerald creates the characters in this book to live and recreate past memories and relationships. This was evident with Gatsby and Daisy’s relationship, Tom and Daisy’s struggling marriage, and Gatsby expecting so much of Daisy and wanting her to be the person she once was. The theme of this novel is to acknowledge the past, but do not recreate and live in the past because then you will not be living in the present, taking advantage of new opportunities.

True love is an emotion that every human being should have the privilege of experiencing once in their life. There is no one correct definition for this feeling, it is definitely different for everyone, but in the end love should make your life better not more difficult. These days the concept of true love has become cliché and people are letting outside factors dictate their emotions. This problem, while it is very prominent today, is not a new thing. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, the idea of mistaken true love fills the pages. All the characters have different ideas of what love really is and its worth. Fitzgerald uses his characters Tom, Daisy, and Gatsby to show three different yet

Just imagine everything that happens to people in life, positive or negative, someone was watching; or maybe someone has always had a lot of wisdom and mystery to share with people. In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, there are two examples of symbolism that explains how someone was always watching over the characters in the novel and, another example of how one person had so much compassion for another. The two examples out of the many throughout the novel are Doctor T.J. Eckleburg and The Owl-eyed man. The novel has many reoccurring themes, two of the many are having wealth and a social status in society and what it means for a person, and how forgiveness and compassion for others is expressed in the novel. Symbolism is related fairly easily to the theme throughout the novel too.

Being at the top of the hierarchical social ladder results in an abundance of power, and the means to both directly and indirectly control anyone beneath them. Throughout the novel, people such as Myrtle Wilson and Gatsby himself are willing to do just about anything to fulfill their aspirations of being at the top of the social pecking order, but they have a very bleak chance of success, if at all. The uncompromising segregation of social classes, and the personal desire of affluence, or at least put out the best impression or imitation of it possible, is a major influence on characters’ adverse fates in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The author uses carefully placed metaphors to illustrate the desperation these characters experience in their tragic journey to reach their goal of being held in high esteem.

The Great Gatsby, a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, was published in the middle of the roaring 20s, 1925. The date was set in the time period the novel was written in, in Long Island, New York. The narrator Nick Carraway has moved to West Egg the new money central of New York, to become a bondsman. Little does he know that his new neighbor, Jay Gatsby, holds an undying love for his cousin Daisy Buchanan. This novel tells a tragic love story of two people behind their time. Throughout his novel The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses his characters to show the societal issues of the 1920's in great detail.

In the book The Great Gatsby, the author, F. Scott Fitzgerald, portrays an interesting point of view on the classes of our society. Through his writing style, he makes the statement that those that are wealthier are not the happiest. Their relationships may be feigned and flawed. Views on wealth are portrayed in this novel through multiple perspectives. Those include general society, Mr. Jay Gatsby, and Daisy.

“The great Gatsby” is an inspiring novel written by the famous American author Scott Fitzgerald. The novel was published in 1925. It is regarded as Scott’s supreme achievement and also as a masterwork in American literature, and it’s entirely justified.

In the flourishing and prosperous 1920s, chaos was vivid yet mostly invisible because everything that had happened was inside closed doors which makes it universally interesting and relatable. What we portray ourselves to the world is so different from our realistic self due to keeping a reputation. What makes The Great Gatsby so popular and relatable is because it expresses the actuality of lives that seems so fulfilled when in reality those are the one living with emptiness. A quote that is frequently used “Money doesn’t buy happiness” is extremely accurate. It’s belief of the “American Dreams” containing a universal theme that many people all around the world can relate to which indulges them towards curiosity and interest.This ought to be a Great American Novel because it talks about the 20s and we consider to be way passed that but the way it’s written and the characters that are portrayed being so relatable to its audience makes it a long lasting masterpiece and a successful novel. The way he describes the setting "This is a valley of ashes....ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens....” is very figurative described helping us to visualize it. The way characters are treated depending on their social status and their sexuality makes it personally relatable to all.

Throughout the book the Great Gatsby there are many themes. Three themes include the theme of mystery because gatsby is very mysterious. Second theme is the theme of wealth, the majority of the characters are very wealthy and money is not an object to them. The third and final theme is trust because many people in this book take marriage and honesty with a grain of salt.

Throughout the novel “The Great Gatsby” the author, F.Scott Fitzgerald presents major themes in a various about of ways. Throughout the novel the author shows the hollowness of the upper class by differentiating different types of people and families in ways such as living on other ends of the egg. In The Great Gatsby the western egg is described to the readers as the newly rich people (people who have not inherited there wealth) . The people who have gained there own wealth and lacking in taste and many social activities . A great example of this is Gatsby. He is shown as a man who shows his goods to the public, wears pink suits and drives a Rolls Royce to express his richness, but will not comprehend subtle social signs such as the unsecure

On one fine evening, on the urban land, where the icy wind blast around the figures, Gatsby’s place was flooded by flocks of guests. There he detect his sight on a girl, known to be Gatsby’s ex-girlfriend, Daisy was mesmerized by Gatsby house. “That huge place there? she cried pointing.“ (Fitzgerald ,90). Daisy was shocked and her eyes were satisfied towards Gatsby newfound wealth. She was emotionally breaks down after she spot on the evidence of Gatsby newly wealth. Although, Gatsby knew Daisy betrayed him, he was totally blindfolded due to his greed. His eyes were dragging him towards her. Although, he may do what as his desire triggered, he lost his considerations towards other side as well as on his own. Gatsby’s

The similarity in themes between the “Great Gatsby”, and the two documents I read is immense. In Curtin’s letter the theme was War isn’t as glamourous as it seemed, in this letter he spoke about how he hates the horror, sadness, and destruction. The next letter I read a man spoke about his near death experiences during the war, for instance a bullet was two inches away from his head and a bomb fell close to him and gave him a concussion. The theme was that the war was nothing like everybody expected it to be. In the Great Gatsby Nick starts to catch up with his cousin and her husband, but the awkwardness of the conversations is evident, an example being Nick and Daisy talking to each other, but not opening up like family would do.

Just like any other word, corruption has multiple interpretations. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, corruption as a noun means dishonest or illegal behavior, especially by powerful people. Power also has a number of interpretations in a variety of different contexts. Historians associate power with an ability used to force people into obeying leaders. Scientists associate power as a rate at which work happens. F. Scott Fitzgerald associates corruption with New Yorkers who possess an abundance of power in 1922. Through multiple events, the character Tom Buchanan expresses inconsiderate, narcissistic, and sexist behavior leading to the fragmented relationship between him and his wife, Daisy proving his indisputable corruption.

Being liked by someone else is only a minor step in obtaining a person’s honor. The difficulty of completing the tasks to receive honor increases from then on, but honor is essential in order to tackle the bully who torments everyone at times, life. Two novels and a play demonstrate honor in both exceptional and dreadful instances. The novels are The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys while the play is Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. Both novels and the play portray honor in an implicit manner, since they do not simply state where honor is displayed. The honor examples are still smoothly put in to the point where examples can be denoted and understood well. All through The Great Gatsby, the main character Gatsby had been attempting to chase after his forever love Daisy. He does so while respecting the narrator, Nick. Between Shades of Gray is about the struggles of a young Lithuanian girl named Lina as she attempts to survive after her family had been taken with many other Lithuanians to unwillingly work. Death of a Salesman follows the tragic story of a salesman named Willy as he struggles to get through life and support his family. Honor allows people to strive to achieve their goal because it gives them support from others, inspiring them to push harder in order to become successful. Honor is respecting and helping people whenever they need it, and also being considerate and loving because by exhibiting the actions

After reading the first few chapters, I felt like certain predictions would seem logical. Daisy and Gatsby will meet again and resume their relationship. Gatsby has spent the last five years dreaming of this, and Daisy had missed Gatsby terribly when he left for the war. She had wanted to go to New York to see Gatsby before he went overseas. She got drunk before her wedding to Tom and cried, a letter from Gatsby in her hands. Also, Tom and Daisy's marriage has never been a strong and loving one; Tom's infidelities show this. Tom won't take Daisy and Gatsby's relationship well. Tom is very arrogant and possessive. He is used to having his way. He won't give up Daisy easily. She is one of his possessions. Gatsby's dreams will not turn out well. Whatever happens, based on what is known in the first four chapters, will be serious enough that it makes Nick go back home where he continues to think about Gatsby long after the summer of 1922. Gatsby will somehow be hurt or even destroyed by getting involved with Tom and Daisy. Nick says in Chapter I that something "preyed" on Gatsby and that "foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams."