The Great Gatsby

create for themselves. In The Great Gatsby the actions of Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan, Nick Carraway, and Jay Gatsby bring the characters to the reality of the choices they make. The 1920s is a time of ambition, fun, power, money, and Gatsby represents all of that. Nick goes as far to mention that there is something “gorgeous” about Gatsby (Fitzgerald 2). Gatsby's qualities are what projected that sense of gorgeous towards Nick, but even Gatsby is not perfect. Although Gatsby resembles those qualities

interpretation within The Great Gatsby, is a more materialistic American Dream that is not only simply based on the founding principles of desired success, but of the seemingly impossibility of achieving “said success” and not becoming corrupt in the process. The Green Light, The Eyes and The Valley of Ashes are distinct themes that prove this corruption throughout the entire plot of The Great Gatsby. The green

Colors are very apparent in The Great Gatsby. They often show up as descriptions to many important items throughout the book, and make those items resemble symbols. The color white confuses the reader, and often causes him/her to rethink their logic. It describes false purity and deception within something, which is very apparent in the character Daisy in this novel. The color grey gives the reader a comparison, and that is of humans to machines. Something that is lifeless is described as grey. After

In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nick Carraway joins Jay Gatsby through a trail of lies, love, and deception. Jay Gatsby lives perfectly across the bay from Daisy Buchanan with the green light at the end of her dock leaving a reminder. In the book, it looks like Fitzgerald portrays Jay and Daisy’s relationship to be like his and Zelda’s relationship. While showing the progression through the 1920s of wealth in the different social classes and how they viewed each other. The Great Gatsby

Throughout the book The Great Gatsby, we see many symbols and themes within the homes and the characters themselves such as Gatsby or Daisy. In the living spaces, mainly characterization of the people who live there, such as Tom’s house compared to Gatsby’s house. Gatsby’s home is symbolic of his character in many ways, for example, his house is very wide open, and Gatsby is an open person when it comes to inviting others to his home. Although, the colors in the house are mostly dark colors, showing

about it! Money is not capable of buying true friendship from people. In “The Great Gatsby”, there is new money and old money. New money refers to people who are new to wealth and old money refers to families that have been wealthy for a long time. Both new and old money people are in the same class, but the two types of people behave differently and spend their money differently. Mr. Jay Gatsby is a new money person. Gatsby flashes his money around, which is very foolish. He does this by constantly

Time. It affects all of what we know and are. Living in the past can affect your present, and living in the future can affect your present. We see that as we read both “The Great Gatsby” and “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”. Three common themes arise in both of these literatures. Those themes are: mortality, memories/the past, and isolation. When we realize that we are not immortal, we then tend to focus on our past or our memories we have made because those are what we lived for because we

In writing The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald wanted to examine the current state of the American morals and values to encourage each reader of the novel to pause and consider the condition of his or her own character. There are three moral truths to be learned in The Great Gatsby. First, marriage is not just love, it is a commitment . Secondly, trying to make yourself someone you are not will lead to disappointment. Lastly, it is unhealthy to obsess over a person. To begin, Fitzgerald shows

The corruption of the American Dream is a central theme in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. The novel takes place in New York, with fictional provinces. East Egg is inhabited by the the families who have passed down their wealth for generations, such as the Buchanans. West Egg is also inhabited by the extremely rich, but by those who have built their own fortune, such as Jay Gatsby. Those in East Egg view themselves as morally superior to those in West Egg and separate themselves from

future. “The Great Gatsby” was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925. Fitzgerald wrote this piece during the 1920s after WWI and it perfectly replicates the time period. The narrative captures the essence of the Jazz Age by depicting characters, showing power struggles and by defining the societal conflicts of the time. The novel tells us about different influences on the 20’s such as the Prohibition Act, the success of Wall Street, and aspects of the American Dream. “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott