Theme Of Water In The Great Gatsby

The 1920s in America, known as the "Roaring Twenties", was a time of celebration after a destructive war. It was a period of time in America characterised by prosperity and optimism. There was a general feeling of disruption associated with modernity and a break with traditions.The Roaring Twenties was a time of great economic prosperity and many people became rich and wealthy. Some people inherited "old money" and some obtained "new money". However, there was the other side of prosperity and many people also suffered the nightmare of being poor. In the novel,The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby is portrayed as a wealthy character

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 1920’s was an interesting time where social and political ideas were changing; women gained the right to vote, the jazz age created a large popularity in music and dancing, but most importantly, wealth became a new way to express one’s class in a society as people moved from rural areas to cities. The Great Gatsby is a significant example that F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in order to show how one’s wealth can affect the people they meet and the way people treat each other. Along with wealth, this book is about love, both from the past and from the present, that soon twists into a tragedy when Gatsby was killed while protecting the other, all in the name of love. Everything Gatsby did was to impress or protect Daisy because he was deeply

Scott Fitzgerald’s famous novel ‘The Great Gatsby’ is set in America of the 1920’s, a predominantly materialistic society revolving around wealth and status above all else. Fitzgerald depicts this obsession with money and luxury through complicated relationships full of trouble, infidelity and sorrow. The relationships Fitzgerald portrays all symbolize the materialism and hedonism of the age; each relationship is doomed to a certain extent based on the social class of each character.

Jay Gatsby fell for Daisy when he was young, but because he had no money Daisy did not marry him. Daisy chooses greed over her happiness, which ultimately leads her to a banal, passionless life. On the night before Daisy’s wedding, Jordan Baker found her with a letter reminding her of Gatsby. Daisy: “wouldn't let go of the letter. She took it into the tub with her and squeezed it up in a wet ball”(Fitzgerald 76). This quote conveys that Daisy’s greed for a rich upper class lifestyle makes her unhappy because she is brushing off her true feelings. This is significant because it means that her own selfish needs got in the way from what she really needed, happiness. Daisy is an example of people living out materialistic lives without being grateful for what could life could have been. She is an example of how selfishness can sometimes lead to dissatisfaction in one’s life. After Daisy and Tom’s marriage,

In The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the motif of water is prevalent throughout the entirety of the story, seen frequently when Jay Gatsby, a prominent character, is present. Gatsby is a rich man who lives on the same island in New York as the main character Nick Carraway, who has just moved from the West in order to pursue a career in bonds. His cousin, Daisy, lives across the bay from the houses of Nick and Gatsby with her husband Tom, a former schoolmate of Nick. Nick becomes close to Gatsby over the course of the summer, as well as Jordan Baker, a friend of Daisy’s. Gatsby contacts him through her and she also tells Nick about Gatsby’s past and later Gatsby explains that he was once in love with Daisy when they both lived in Kentucky and wants to be with her again. Through Nick, Gatsby and Daisy meet and fall in love again, while at the same time Tom has an affair with a woman from the city, Myrtle. One day, Tom, Nick, Daisy, Gatsby, and Jordan drive to New York and Tom discovers that Gatsby and Daisy have an affair. Distressed, Gatsby and Daisy leave in Tom’s car and on the way back Daisy runs over Tom’s mistress, killing her. Eventually Myrtle’s husband discovers through Tom that it was Gatsby who killed her and goes to seek revenge. Gatsby is killed by Myrtle’s husband while lounging in his pool that was about to be drained, signaling the end of the novel. In The Great Gatsby, the author

The “Roaring 20’s” was a time period where material and wealth mattered even more to people. Greed consumed people and the thrill of the time devoured people as well. Parties occurred daily and wealthy members of society appeared out of nowhere. The American Dream, of what once was a dream of self, became corrupted. The opportunity to be oneself became the opportunity to become rich and powerful. The novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald exemplifies the corruption of the American Dream. Jay Gatsby, an upper-class member of society, allows the thrill of the American Dream to take over his life and determine his actions, in his extravagant plan of winning back his old love, Daisy. This corruption of the American Dream destroys not only his ideals and inevitably, his life but also sabotages Daisy as well. Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby’s versions of the American Dream are a true example of the hold and destruction that the American Dream had on people. Fitzgerald’s way of incorporating the American Dream reflects the truth behind the dream and shows the damage that it did to millions of people during the Jazz Age. The Great Gatsby is a criticism of the American Dream and how monetary greed and excess destroy the characters’ attempts to find true happiness.

As novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald, in his book, “The Great Gatsby”, writes about the escapades of the ridiculously wealthy in the twenties. And about how our innate obsession only leaves us empty inside. Fitzgerald’s purpose, is to portray wealth in a negative light. Because money cannot buy everything in life. Money can purchase material goods, but not happiness.

Long lost love, extravagant parties, secret lives, and mysterious deaths, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is driven by the power and importance of wealth. Fitzgerald wrote this novel in the 1920’s, a time where wealth distinguished those from the rest, and throughout The Great Gatsby one can see many similar parallels from the the book, to the environment and values during the 1920’s. Almost every character through the novel displays the idea and mentality that money is the power in the world, and that money really does buy happiness. Although Fitzgerald's novel generally seems like a mysterious, love story the book is driven by the idea and importance of wealth.

The novel, “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald is set in the 1920s America, New York - a class society of money -, depicts a society which exists in a state of moral confusion and chaos, through the eyes of the narrator; Nick Carraway. Fitzgerald condemns the character’s tendencies in the novel to become greedy and materialistic in order to be successful, displayed throughout the chaos that arises as a result of the repercussion of these actions. This chaos continues to grow through the unfaithful marriages and illegal practices that exists extensively throughout the novel. Furthermore, Fitzgerald explores the prejudice discrimination between the newly rich and those with “old money”. Through all of this we come to see that during the “roaring 20s” was one of moral disorder and mayhem.

Gatsby stretches his arms out to the dark waters of long island sound in a peculiar manner. Water is very important in the telling of Jay Gatsby’s life since he managed to get his wealth from the water, but is was the divide and end of his life. Gatsby’s apparent goal in life is to be with Daisy Buchanan who was his sweetheart before he went of to war, but Daisy got married to Tom Buchanan in the time he was gone. When Gatsby gets a new neighbor by the name of Nick Carraway who just so happens to be Daisy’s cousin he enlists the help of Nick to help him in achieving his goal. In the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald water symbolizes why Gatsby got his wealth and the divide between him and his goal.

“All these materialistic belongings paint a picture of beauty for those chasing this fictitious happiness but in reality they bring life full of stress, jealousy, hubris, and corruption…” (St. Rosemary Educational Institution). When looking back at the exhilarating, and wild 1920’s, it is easy for one to presume it was a time full of economic growth, entertainment, and leisure for the people of America. But alas, hidden underneath the glow of its prosperity, lies a time span full of deceit, fraudulency, and law breaking. Author, F. Scott Fitzgerald, expertly captures this corruption as well as the deluded hopes and dreams of the people in his book, The Great Gatsby. So, During the Roaring Twenties, the decade where The Great Gatsby was depicted,

The Roaring 20s, The Jazz age, the 1920s were a time of great prosperity in the United States. The 1920s were an era of change, both politically and socially. Americans began to move into cities, rather than living on farms, and the nation's wealth more than doubled. Buying the same goods, listening to the same music, dancing the same dances, and overall having the same values, people felt united. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, these values are reflected in the characters’ lifestyles. A recurring theme in the novel is that money cannot buy a person’s true happiness, and this theme is exhibited in the various characters actions, choices, and what they value most in their lives.

The Roaring Twenties, or the Jazz Age, was a period characterized by post-war euphoria, prosperity, profligacy, and cultural dynamism. There were significant changes in lifestyle and culture in the 1920s; many found opportunities to rise to affluence, which resulted in groups of newly rich people, such as the hero of Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby. Set in this booming era, the novel portrays the lavish and reckless lifestyle of the wealthy and elite. With the aristocratic upper class in the East Egg and the nouveau riche in the West Egg, people are divided into distinct social classes. Contrasting the two groups’ conflicting values, Fitzgerald reveals the ugliness and moral decay beneath

Happiness can only truly be acquired through the fantastical idea of dreams, and it is well known that money cannot. But in the 1920s, this idea changed as it became into a desire for wealth by whatever means; mistaken that money will bring happiness in one’s life. This conception leads to the end of true morality and turned a person into someone very selfish. F.Scott Fitzgerald demonstrates this notion through the use of a variety of symbols and themes.One of the dominant ideas within this novel is wealth which is supported through the symbol: eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg.The eyes symbolize the loss of spiritual values and growing commercialism in America. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, the theme wealth creates a pathway to the corruption of morals is evident through the decisions and thoughts of the Buchanans and Gatsby who are indirectly influenced by the symbol Eye of T.J Eckleburg.