Comparing fitzgerald

not be the case. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald is able to show through Nick, the narrator, how Jay Gatsby, the main character, is able to use his facade to portray himself as a wealthy and educated man to gain the attention of Daisy Buchanan, the love of his life. Unfortunately, this facade that Gatsby has presented himself as presents consequences for himself and other characters in the story. Fitzgerald wanted to present Jay Gatsby as this facade driven character to

An analysis of The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald indicated that the setting of the book contributed to the theme of money by comparing the two classes of people in the West and East egg, giving detailed descriptions of places based on the amount of money that it has, and establishing the feel of the ¨roaring twenties¨. In the first chapter, Nick introduces he is from West egg, calling it ¨ẗhe less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister

Scott Fitzgerald uses metaphors to contribute to the novel’s overall effect. The use of imagery helps the description of the metaphor. Metaphor and imagery contribute largely to Fitzgerald's style in The Great Gatsby. The three important metaphors that help contribute to the novel’s overall effect are “where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air” (Fitzgerald 23), “under

gaudy lifestyles of the East and West Eggers and Gatsby in particular. This distaste, also conveyed heavily by the author, is most significantly formed around the iniquitous value of money and adultery. Ergo, In the novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald suggests that Modern America has become irrationally focused upon immorality and wealth rather than the true American values of hard work and faith, which is demonstrated through the motif of the colour

The Great Gatsby Comparing two movies to a novel can be difficult; it can either be pleasing or disappointing. In the novel, The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and two movies that are based on The Great Gatsby, Jack Clayton 1974 version starring Robert Redford as Gatsby, and Baz Luhrmann’s 2013 version starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Gatsby. Gatsby wants to meet his love that he hasn’t seen in many years, but Daisy ended up being married to Tom Buchanan, so Gatsby threw parties to get

someone else (Fitzgerald 5). By opening the novel this way, Fitzgerald establishes Nick’s credibility as the narrator because it is essential for reader to know that they can trust Nick as he unfolds the story of Gatsby. Tom Buchanan is presented as a rich, “sturdy, straw haired man of thirty” and having “two shining, arrogant eyes.” which had “established dominance over his face and gave him the appearance of always leaning aggressively forward.” Because of common stereotypes, Fitzgerald uses the physical

Great Gatsby. In Chapter three of The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald utilizes similes and imagery to illustrate how grand and upscale Gatsby’s parties are. The first type of figurative language used to portray the prosperity of Gatsby is similes. The use of similes helps compare the deluxe parties to normal human life. The comparing of “men and girls” to “moths” as they “came and went” to the parties, is an example of how Fitzgerald used similes to represent Gatsby volume of money. Moths are usually

the main theme of this book is the 1american dream, wealth followed by love and then isolation at the end. The author of this book F. Scott Fitzgerald uses many literary devices, character description, party atmosphere, setting and and the role of the narrator which is Gatsby’s neighbor Nick Carraway. When describing the characters on this chapter Fitzgerald uses the line “men and girls came and went like moths” This demonstrates how people that weren't invited are all having fun at the party. By

In the novel, The Great Gatsby, the author, F. Scott Fitzgerald, employs different types of figurative language to construct representations of the motifs and to help enhance them. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote novels and short stories during the Jazz Age in American History. He had led a tough life and gone through two relationships prior to his wife, Zelda. Both Zelda and Fitzgerald started falling apart when they turned to drinking and partying and eventually, she was admitted to an insane asylum

Journal 3 In the novel, The Great Gatsby, author F. Scott Fitzgerald presents East Egg and West Egg as polar opposites in all aspects “except shape and size”. Fitzgerald depicts these peninsulas as isolated communities, free from the problems of “the valley of the ashes”, and utilizes the two Eggs as the primary settings in the novel. Fitzgerald first introduces the “enormous eggs” separated by a “courtesy bay”, by describing West Egg as the “less fashionable of the two”. East Egg is lined with