Comparing fitzgerald

stereotypes of women in the 1920s. These archetypes are the golden girl, the independent woman, and the gold digger, respectively. The concept of women being categorized into three very narrow-minded boxes is one of misogynistic ignorance displayed by Fitzgerald, similar to his peers during the time. The most notable female character throughout the novel is Daisy Buchanan, the love interest of both Tom Buchanan, her current husband, and Jay Gatsby, her former lover. She was born into a long line of wealth

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby as a satire on American ideals during the 1920s. He shows just how careless everyone is at the time by setting them up in the community of East and West Egg. Fitzgerald portrays two major themes throughout the book. One of the themes is how "The American dream is corrupted by the desire for wealth" while the other is how "The achievement of a dream may be less satisfying than the pursuit of it". He uses these themes to display how The Great Gatsby is a

“‘Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,’ he told me, ‘just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.” (Fitzgerald 1). If you had the advantage to dream, how far would you dream? Dreams do not become a reality unless you set them as a goal and acquire it. Former basketball player, Lebron James and Jay Gatsby a character from the novel The Great Gatsby both portray a symbol of the “American Dream” having in common that their dreams are fulfilled with

Literary Argument: In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses corruption, the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg, and the development of Gatsby as a modern Christ to comment on the moral shortcomings of the 1920s. Outline: In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses corruption, the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg, and the development of Gatsby as a modern Christ to comment on the moral shortcomings of the 1920s. In The Great Gatsby, there is significant moral corruption seen in every character. There is a very notable

In the Great Gatsby, most of the theme locations found in the book describe the state of America during the 1920’s. The novel The Great Gatsby takes place during the 1920’s and is seen through the unbiased eyes of Nick Carraway as he watches the story of Jay Gatsby and his love for a woman named Daisy Buchanan unfold and the events that follow. The purposes of the use of Geography in this novel is to analyze the cross-section of American society that lived during the Roaring 20’s. He comments on

In the timeless classic The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald describes the prevalent, rich culture of high society in the East Coast and uses the life of Jay Gatsby to disclose the trappings in this social structure. After he returned from World War I in 1918, Fitzgerald wrote this book when America was entering a new age of dreams. Fitzgerald is quite critical of the high society while he is also trying to raise his own social status. With his earlier success of This Side of Paradise, Fitzgerald’s

In the novel, “The Great Gatsby” author Scott F. Fitzgerald continuously critiques the effect of materialism on the classes of old money and new money, as well as the working class. Fitzgerald also simultaneously conveys the immense attraction that correspond to materialism. This is done throughout the first four chapters through Fitzgerald's use or narrator's perspective, plot and numerous literary devices. Fitzgerald uses his critiques of materialism to also compare the three classes, which he

nine chapter, American classic The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald has meaningful motifs, themes, and various writing techniques used to express Fitzgerald’s ideas. The book follows Nick Carraway, a young bondsman, who documents the deadly affair between Daisy, who is married to Tom, and Gatsby, a bachelor who lives across from the Buchanans. Gatsby refuses to give Daisy up without a fight, which ultimately leads to his demise. Fitzgerald brilliantly uses tone in recurring motifs to express how

property through her relationship with Tom. Fitzgerald describes her as someone who “carried her surplus flesh sensuously as some women can,” even though “ her face contained no facet or gleam of beauty, but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering” (Fitzgerald 25). In other words, even though she is described as vulgar and cheap, she is also able to give off life and vibrance. Fitzgerald describes her as someone who does not embody

classic The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald describes the prevalent, rich culture of high society in the East Coast and uses the life of Jay Gatsby to disclose the trappings in this social structure. After he returned from World War I, Fitzgerald wrote this book when America was entering a new age of dreams. With his earlier success of This Side of Paradise, Fitzgerald’s lived a lifestyle that closely resembled Gatsby’s extravagant social ambitions. Since Fitzgerald was from the “moral” Mid-West