Minor Characters In The Great Gatsby

    F. Scott Fitzgerald published a Novel known  as the Great Gatsby in the year of 1925. At the time of it’s release it wasn’t very successful it was only after a couple years afterwards that it started to gain success. In modern day it is very well-known to a majority of High School Students, College students, and adults. The era in which this novel takes place in is during the 1920’s a historic time in America’s History which was known as the Roaring Twenties. Businesses and Stock markets were doing so well and it was the highest point of America’s Economy. Fitzgerald introduces a couple of interesting characters that fit together and really sets the tone for the novel. The first character introduced into the storyline is Nick Carraway and throughout the story he follows a character who goes by the name of Jay Gatsby. Throughout the novel Gatsby is very mysterious towards everyone especially towards Nick, no one really knows who is Jay Gatsby or the details of his past or in what manner he was able to gain all the wealth he has. Gatsby is an example of character deception.

In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the upper class is the main class represented throughout the duration of the entire novel. The main characters are living the American Dream, but are never truly happy with what they have. In The Great Gatsby, the characters of the upper class live the American Dream but are never truly happy, exposing the shallowness of their kind through the pursuit to unattainable satisfaction. This further aids in the characterization of four vital characters: Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan, Jay Gatsby, and Dan Cody. This way of characterizing the most important characters in The Great Gatsby is essential as it provides the readers with more insight into the upper class in the 1920s and the values that they held.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby focuses on the excitement and adventure of the roaring twenties, a time filled with great economic success and parties said to last the whole decade. New to Long Island and New York, aspiring bond man Nick Carraway becomes infatuated with the lifestyle of his rich peers living the “American dream”. He gains interest in his mysterious neighbor Jay Gatsby, who lives in an incredible mansion and has a vast amount of wealth. Gatsby uses his money to try and steal his love, Daisy Buchanan from her unfaithful husband, Tom. Characters in The Great Gatsby are unhappy and unfulfilled with their lives due to greed manipulating their view of The American Dream. This skewed perception also affects their unreasonable life expectations and their narcissistic thoughts create a larger potential for failure, such as Gatsby’s extravagant plan to steal Daisy Buchanan.

Gatsby is a character who aspired to be successful and to realize his dreams of love and wealth, however, when he faced his reality he was never able to fully accomplish his dreams, revealing that one will use all their energy to hold on to a dream that will never reach a reality.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby focuses on the excitement and adventure of the roaring twenties, a time filled with great economic success and parties said to last the whole decade. New to Long Island and New York, aspiring bond man Nick Carraway becomes infatuated with the lifestyle of his rich peers living the “American dream”. He gains interest in his mysterious neighbor Jay Gatsby who lives in an incredible mansion and has a vast amount of wealth. Gatsby uses his money to try and steal his love, Daisy Buchanan from her unfaithful husband, Tom. Characters in The Great Gatsby are unhappy and unfulfilled with their lives due to greed manipulating their view of The American Dream. This skewed perception also effects their unreasonable life expectations and their narcissistic thoughts create a larger potential for failure such as Gatsby’s extravagant plan to steal Daisy Buchanan.

The Great Gatsby entails of a story of a bright young man, Nick Carraway, who moved to New York City in search of a successful life in the bonds business, but becomes suffocated by the lifestyles of those in wealth and power at the time. As Nick settles himself in a new job and new city, in the only cottage among mansions on West and East Egg, he finds himself neighbor to a mysterious, wealthy man known for his extravagant parties and elusive persona. This neighbor, Jay Gatsby, emerges to be one of the main characters of the novel and the only person in all of New York that Nick can call a friend. The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, encompasses the hollowness of the upper class as well as the deterioration of the “American Dream” within the plotline of the lives of Nick, Gatsby, and the Buchanan’s. Because of the themes Fitzgerald created, it prompts people, such as Bruccoli, to make the claim “The Great Gatsby does not proclaim the nobility of the human spirit; it is not politically correct; it does not reveal how to solve the problems of life; it delivers no fashionable or comforting messages. It is just a masterpiece.” While the Great Gatsby is a masterpiece, Bruccoli correctly examines the text in revealing no nobility of the human spirit, no solutions to the problems of life, and it is politically incorrect. However, despite the dismal themes, Fitzgerald does deliver fashionable/comforting messages to the audience. Bruccoli’s claim brings to light the

The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, demonstrates how wealth and power were important elements of social structure during the Roaring Twenties. Jay Gatsby and Tom Buchanan are characters who have been tarnished by their prosperity and power. This status as wealth and powerful individuals affects how they perceive the world around them, and has contributed to the change in the characters portrayed in the novel. Jay Gatsby is a man who obtained his fortune through illicit means and is drive to acquire the love of Daisy. Jay Gatsby believed that wealth would bring him happiness as he would be able to capture the heart of Daisy by maintaining her lavish lifestyle. Tom

The Great Gatsby written in 1925 was a novel that expresses F. Scott Fitzgerald’s concerns for the direction that America was headed in during that decade. During the novel he repeatedly gives examples of the contrast of the economic classes; the thriving upper class in extravagant living conditions while the lower class lives in filth like “fields of ashes.” To criticize the American upper class during the nineteen twenties, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses vivid imagery in his revelation of Gatsby’s facade to give the reader an idea of the contrast among the classes of the early nineteenth century and how it continues to last.

The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald uses many elements of literature to achieve his purpose. Through Tom Buchanan’s personality, actions, and lifestyle; Nick is shown that America is not a classless society and Fitzgerald gives us some powerful information about the elitism running throughout every level of society. Money is the most powerful weapon a man can have. Fitzgerald uses many Characters throughout the book to show his purpose. Tom Buchanan, husband of Daisy Buchanan, is a very good example.

The Great Gatsby a, novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald, follows a cast of characters abiding in the town of East and West Egg on affluent Long Island in the summer of 1922. Each of the characters, while part of the same story line, have different priorities and agendas, each character working towards achieving what they think would benefit them the most. As The Great Gatsby’s plot thickens the characters constantly show their discontent of the American Dream that they are living, always expressing their greed for more, three particular offenders of this deadly sin are Tom, Daisy and Gatsby himself. The characters motives stem from a mixture of boredom, a need and longing for the american dream, and simple selfish human

In the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the main character Gatsby, is a desperate man trying to win back his girl. But with Gatsby unique personality will it make or break him? Gatsby resembles orange, this is because We see him as an eager, charming, and optimistic person trying to make a living and ultimately win back Daisy. The trait that relates most to Gatsby is eager.

Any piece of literature would not be complete without the simple pairing of major characters and minor characters. Although major characters make up most of the storyline, minor characters support it and easily add to important elements of the story. This is evident throughout the novel, The Great Gatsby, written by F.Scott Fitzgerald. This novel has a narrator by the name of, Nick Carraway, and over the course of the novel, he learns about many other minor characters namely Dan Cody, Meyer Wolfshiem and Jordan Baker. F.Scott Fitzgerald strategically placed these minor characters in the story to act as key instruments in the plot to add details to the story, to support the characterization of the main character, Jay Gatsby, and also to add to the overall theme of the book. In The Great Gatsby, minor characters are essential to the progression of the plot because it is through minor characters where we learn about the personalities and lives of the major characters.

The Great Gatsby is a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The sub-genre behind this piece of literature would be considered a Modernist and Jazz Age novel. Fitzgerald was an intelligent child growing up, but he had difficulty managing to do well in school. After failing to graduate from Princeton University in 1917, he enrolled in the army as World War I was ending. From this point, he instantly fell in love with his sweetheart who only agreed to marry him if he became wealthy as her.

In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald offers commentary on a variety of themes, power, greed, betrayal, the All-American dream, etc. The Great Gatsby is known as a brilliant novel of social criticism, offering a vivid view into the life in the 1920s in America. Fitzgerald carefully constructs his novel into specific groups but, in the end, each group has its own problems to deal with, leaving a powerful reminder of what a “delicate” place the world really is. By creating social classes — old money (upper class), new money (sort of what you would call a middle class), and no money (and the lower class) — Fitzgerald sends strong messages about the stiff running throughout every level of society.

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald follows a wide ranging cast of characters, each with unique qualities, and almost entirely made up wealth. From Tom and Daisy to Jay Gatsby himself, readers follow the story of money and its side effects on how people think, act, and behave. Told by Nick, a member of the middle class, readers are able to see through Fitzgerald's eyes on opinions such as the pursuit of wealth and why it is a useless path to follow.