Who Is The Great Gatsby's List?

In the book, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nick calls Jay Gatsby “great” because that is how Nick and a bunch of other people see him. Everyone seems to know the name Jay Gatsby. Jay Gatsby lives a life that about anyone would want to live in, because he has a lot of money, and before his death wins back the girl of his dreams. But there are also some ways where Gatsby is not so “great.”

The 1920s was a distinctive time in American history set between World War I and the Great Depression. In 1931 an author named Frederick Lewis Allen published a contemporary history on the 1920s titled Only Yesterday in which he describes what it was truly like during that historical time. It was F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, that really captured the carefree time known as the roaring twenties. The Great Gatsby reflects America in the twenties because it portrayed various characteristics of what it was really like in the 1920s.

My first connection that I will discuss is the American Dream. The American Dream is an ideology set in the United States that ideals freedom through success achieved through hard work in a society with few barriers. The texts that I will discuss will examine the flaws within the ideology and whether it is actually attainable. My first text that I will discuss is The Great Gatsby. This text links to my connection because it reveals that you can’t attain the American Dream no matter what the circumstance. Gatsby, a man who was a clam digger on the shores of Lake superior and a young military officer seems to have achieved the American Dream but in the wrong way. Tom says to Gatsby and Nick that he “found out what your [Gatsby’s] drug stores’

Hopes and dreams are needed to give man's efforts a meaning, or a purpose. Pushing towards some ideal is how man can feel a sense of his own identity. In the novel The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is a man with tremendous and "infinite hope" (Fitzgerald, 6). To be able to accomplish a life long dream, one must have strong determination that can in no way be weakened by any obstacles one might face. It is the hope of achieving your dream that keeps you from wandering away from it and guides you to the right path. In order to achieve his dream, Gatsby was motivated, optimistic and brave. Whether or not he eventually was able to accomplish this dream, having these qualities in a person certainly indicate

In the novel, The Great Gatsby, the author, F Scott Fitzgerald, expresses the reality of the ‘American Dream’ through a series of unfavorable events set in the 1920s. The American Dream is to work hard young and retire early while being rich and in love. The character Jay Gatsby is chasing this dream throughout the novel. Gatsby has almost everything to complete the dream, he is rich, young, and in love but, the girl he loves, Daisy, is married to another man. Daisy’s husband, Tom, is rich and young the problem in their relationship is that they do not love each other. The two lovers, Daisy and Gatsby become reunited through a mutual acquaintance named Nick. Nick is Gatsby’s neighbor, Daisy’s cousin and the narrator in this novel.

Have you ever noticed that the most popular and successful novels often share many similarities? Have you ever felt as though the variety in the most popular books on the market can sometimes appear bleak? In many cases, this has to do with perspective, or the point of view that the book was written in.

The American Dream has changed drastically over the years. One of the biggest changes happened during the 1920’s. Fitzgerald was appalled by this change and “corruption” of the american dream during this time. This corruption of the dream is one of the main themes of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Gatsby represents the American Dream which was killed by Daisy who was the cause of the immoral and adulterous lifestyle that he chose.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby truly encompasses every aspect of the Modernist literary movement. However the main character, Jay Gatsby, serves as a polar opposite from the withdrawn, disillusioned characters of the Modernist era. His unwavering sense of hope and his strong faith in others set him apart from the crowd, but will ultimately cause his demise. In The Great Gatsby, Gatsby’s rise to success and eventual fall results from his false ideas of hope, his poor judgement of character, and his inability to move on from the past. Jay Gatsby’s false sense of hope brought him to his level of success, but did not help him in the end.

Without quality novels that capture the attention of their targeted audience, as well as the general consumerism that enables books to be spread around, society will never learn to appreciate

For hundred years, the ‘American Dream’ was a positive spirit which motivates people to make progress and look forward for their new lives. Thus, the ‘American Dream’ was originally defined as people’s desire and pursuit for happiness, especially in their pursuing of success. The ideal is that each person has equal opportunity to achieve their success through hard-working. In the Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald shows how does the ‘American Dream’ affects and represents the protagonist－Gatsby, and the runs through his whole life.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby is set in the roaring twenties, the age of booming industry, lavish parties, new millionaires and an excess of everything. The novel is told through the narrative of Nick Carraway about his summer in New York where he becomes “carried away” with his neighbor, Jay Gatsby’s quest for a beautiful, aristocratic women named Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby fell in love with Daisy five years before he left for the War World I and devotes his life to trying to recreate their past. Gatsby’s tendency to “overdream” is a representation of the American Dream and the impossibility of his quest represents the futility of trying to recreate the past.

In Gulliver's Travels, Gulliver got the chance to experience how different cultures act and live their lives. On his many adventures, he was able to see how the creatures, much unlike him and his own people, treat themselves and others. On his final adventure, Gulliver's thinking and attitude was changed greatly by his time with the Houyhnhnms and Yahoos. He favored the way Houyhnhnms lived their lives. They treated one another with kindness and had good manners. The more time he spent with them, the more respect he gained because of how well they thought and their culture alone. By his time spent with them, he realized how his own kind, humans, are much like the Yahoos – beastly, inhumane savages.

I woke to shouting and banging on my door. I grabbed my pocket watch from the side of my bed; it read 4 o’clock. Who would be at my door this early in the morning? I thought. My body was dragged from the bed as I trudged along to my front door.

Professional criticism isn't always the last say. Sometimes, quality trumps quantity, and something that seems too obscure to sell simply takes off. Whichever publishing companies rejected these five novels surely are kicking themselves now.

Book covers, themes, difficulty, and number of characters are just a few of the reasonable ways in which a reader could judge a novel. When given the seeming impossible task of ranking a large number of books against each other, a judge must create a rubric which outlines what is important to them. In the rubric which I have created for the following semester of EN102, I have chosen the categories which I have deemed as the most important for the