Theme Of Characters In The Great Gatsby

True love is seen through a relationship of two people. Love exists when two people give all their trust, loyalty, and support to one another. Now imagine finding out all of the love and loyalty was false? Betraying a loved one can make someone capable of things they didn’t even know they were capable of. Betrayal is the breaking of a trust that produces moral and psychological conflict within a relationship amongst individuals. In The Great Gatsby, characters pursue in the action of having an affair and the result of betraying their loved ones. In the book, The Great Gatsby, the concept of true love is portrayed in a way that negatively affects the characters.

Since society has existed, women have been known as different from men. For the longest time, women have been known as the “weaker sex” when compared to the male. There purpose, especially in the olden days is to obey and please the men. However nowadays there seems to be a more equality between the two genders. But even today discrimination between male and female takes place all over the world. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, you can see a lot of discrimination between the two sexes. The story takes place in the 1930’s and it has a bad view on women, they just got the right to vote for presidents, mayors, and senators. However most men thought that the women should only stay home and raise children, that they should not be involved in politics, and their ideas were not valuable. Women were treated as “house slaves” at times when all what they did all day, every day, was work around the house trying to improve the living for their husband and kids.

Motifs are repeated images or symbols that reoccur in stories to suggest a theme. In literary works, motifs are often used produce other literary aspects such as mood, theme, and foreshadowing. They are a crucial literary technique that writers use to create and convey themes. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the narrator, Nick Carraway, relives the story of his stay in the luxurious yet corrupt East, specifically New York. Various motifs and symbols can be found in the story and illustrate key themes to the reader. In the novel The Great Gatsby, the motif of being on the outside and inside works to create the theme of wealth and class throughout the novel.

In the texts Huck Finn, The Great Gatsby, and The Things They Carried, a major theme is the transformation of self, which happens through choice, through experience, or a combination of both. In The Great Gatsby, Jay makes the conscious choice to transform himself from the poor farmer boy, which he was born as, into an Oxford-educated rich millionaire, all so that he could win the heart of a girl. In Huck Finn, Huck ends up on a raft with a slave named Jim, and through the course of the whole story Huck experiences events that ultimately transform him from a young southern boy into a young adult knowing right from wrong by how he reacts to these experiences with Jim. Finally, in The Things They Carried, Jimmy Cross makes the conscious decision not necessarily to transform himself, but to take on responsibilities after the death of one of his men which in turn force change upon him. These responsibilities transform him.

Analysis: Fitzgerald uses ashes, fire and dust to represent the unachievable desire for the great American Dream. Fitzgerald uses the character George Wilson as a voice of many who live in the valley of ashes to get away from the filthy place, he said “i’ve been here too long. I want to get away”. This show through Wilson's hardest efforts to achieve his dreams he is still stuck in this dump. It speaks to the lost expectations and dreams of individuals who have neglected to satisfy the American Dream.

Feminism, the advocacy of women's rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, there is an often ignored view of the women’s perspective. It brings attention to how women have no expectations to go far in life, or have a reason for live beyond being used to reproduce. The most absurd thing is that the women in the story don’t have any interest to break out of the stereotype, and try to make a life for themselves. Throughout the story, Daisy Buchanan, Jordan Baker, and Myrtle Wilson are treated as possessions rather than humans.

F. Scott Fitzgerald includes many motifs and symbols within The Great Gatsby. One important motif is the eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg. Fitzgerald ultimately uses the eyes to show disapproval and criticism of society and how God watches over everyone and everything. The eyes of Dr. Eckleburg represents the all seeing, overlooking eyes of God. The eyes of Dr. Eckleburg develops religion as the desire of wealth and social class have replaced spiritual values in American society during the 1920s.

Great Gatsby Motif Essay F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, has many themes. One of his major themes is the gender roles between men and women. In the book men have the upper hand in almost every situation and are able to get away with things that the women are shamed for such as cheating. The motif of cheating proves the gender advantages that men have over women. The motif shows how what’s acceptable for men isn’t acceptable for women.

The Great Gatsby is a well written novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald where a midwesterner named Nick Carraway gets lured into the lavish and elegant lifestyle of his enigmatic neighbor, Jay Gatsby. As the story unravels, Nick Carraway begins to see through Gatsby's suave facade, only to find a desperate, heartbroken and lonely man who just wanted to relive the past with his one and only desire. This sensational love story takes place during the well known“Roaring Twenties” in New York City. The genre of this thrilling and exciting novel is historical fiction.

The central theme is about the type of person Tom Buchanan is in the book. According to page 128-129, Tom is a suspicious type of person based on that he does not know much about the relationship of Daisy, his wife, and Gatsby. This is based on the actions that he saw Daisy having with Gatsby before they were heading out to town on car. Furthermore, he started investigating about the past of Gatsby and the type of person he was. Based on what he has found, Jordan is trying to defend Gatsby on what Tom is saying about him. Despite this, Tom is able to counter what Jordan has said about Gatsby’s past. The result was to see the type of person Gatsby was and how he had managed to meet Daisy before both of them were married.

The Great Gatsby Motifs The theme society and class in The Great Gatsby relates directly to the motif of the parties. The parties showed how each class acted at the party or how it was hosted based on their rank in society. At Gatsby’s parties it was described as “…they conducted themselves according to the rules of behavior associated with an amusement park.”

Some families do not have the most structured relationships, like Gatsby and his parents. In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald the main character Gatsby believed from a young age that he would would figure out a way to go from nothing to having everything. He was never close to them and did not believe that they were his actual parents, he believed that he was a child of god destined to do great things. The purpose of Gatsby’s family, or rather his father, is a great and significant one, he shows what his son truly was capable of. They were never close but he still appreciated what his son had accomplished. He knows that Gatsby was dedicated and was destined to do great things, he could also admire all of Gatsby, unlike others who just thought of him as some rich pompous man that threw lavish parties.

James Gatsby is constantly trying to change time. In the book the word time is mentioned hundreds of time showing its definite importance. James Gatsby continued to dwell on the past with his relationship with Daisy which blatantly ruined and future chance she had with him. Gatsby felt as if something was missing from his life and F. Scott Fitzgerald makes the reader conclude that the “thing” is in fact Daisy. He wanted her so much that he wanted to erase the last five years that he didn't spend with her. Assumptions could be made that Gatsby's whole reason in living the life he did was to for lack of a better word impress Daisy. His whole purpose for living was to be with Daisy and that didn't work out his whole life was a waste. He died for the thing he was living for. Gatsby is a pathological control freak, and the one thing he couldn't control with his money, alcohol, a manipulation was time. A clock is a symbol for consistency and and control because it never changes, 12 hours, 60 minutes, 60 seconds, it never changes. So when the clock in the scene with Daisy, Nick, and Gatsby falls and breaks Gatsby begins to feel uncertain about what he is doing and believes that everything was a mistake. Everybody seems to have an obsession with time. People are always looking for a way to travel in time, or change what happened previously in time. Jay Gatsby, in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby", is one of these people. The whole novel is centered on the idea of the past,

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is a story that has many different themes. Fitzgerald shows the themes that he uses through his character’s desires and actions. This novel has themes in it that we deal with in our everyday life. It has themes that deal with our personal lives and themes that deal with what’s right and what’s wrong. There are also themes that have to do with materialistic items that we deal desire on a daily basis. Fitzgerald focuses on the themes of corrupted love, immorality, and the American Dream in order to tell a story that is entertaining to his readers.

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.