The Great Gatsby

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

The Female Images and Senses In the Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby is the representative work of Fitzgerald, which published in 1925. This novel profoundly demonstrates the spirit and the state of mind of the United States in the 1920’s. In this novel, the author not only depicts the typical male characters in American society at that age successfully, but also portrays the typical female images in American society through Daisy, Jordan, Myrtle three female characters. After referring some

Gatsby is a man who hangs on to his dreams and works toward achieveing them. When he meets Daisy again after five long years, he is ecstatic beyond belief. For Gatsby, being with Daisy is his dream come true and he experiences genuine happiness at the fact that he is with her. Gastby started out as a poor soldier, and, in order to impress Daisy and earn a position in society as highly ranked as hers, Gastby went through many different occupations, and dealt in illegal business to be able to have

Being an “American” can mean a wide variety of things to different people. Nick, the narrator of the book The Great Gatsby, describes Gatsby's resourcefulness of movement as, “...so peculiarly American- that comes, I suppose, with the absence of lifting work or rigid sitting in your and, even more wit the formless grace of our nervous, sporadic games” (64). Nick thinks that Gatsby did not do any hard work and compares him to America, therefore Nick’s perception of Americans is that they don’t work

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

reader is important because it keeps them interested, and allows them to explore what the symbol's meaning is and how it contributes to a storyline. F. Scott Fitzgerald is considered to be a master of this technique. Throughout his novel, The Great Gatsby, he uses symbolism in many ways to contribute to the theme, money effects one's actions, personality, and feelings when they let the idea of wealth consume them. Major symbolisms Fitzgerald uses to support the theme would be the billboard of Doctor

“The best thing a girl can be in this world, [is] a beautiful little fool” (Fitzgerald, 17). F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby takes place in the time period of the early nineteen-twenties. In this new age after World War I, women’s roles and behaviors began to change in society. According to a feminist reading, women could be seen smoking, drinking, in the company of men without chaperones, and taking part in raucous nightlife as well as violating patriarchal sexual taboos. Essentially, a “New

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

must be horrendous. That's why in the 20s many people cheated on their spouse. It was better to cheat on them than to get a divorce. That’s why the setting of the Great Gatsby is important. If it now in modern day, Tom could have just divorced Daisy. This whole problem would have never even started because Daisy could have just married Gatsby to begin with. They setting was the most important detail, because without it, they would have to cheat, stay together, or be unhappy. In the 1920s, women were

In “The Great Gatsby” F. Scott Fitzgerald uses his characters as symbols for the fragility of the American dream and the ultimate dissatisfaction inherent in its pursuit. In doing so, this theme becomes more tangible as represented by living, breathing people who go through things that we can visualize. Daisy has all the outward signs of luxury while achieving no real happiness. As such she epitomizes the disillusionment with the American dream. Tom, her husband, who has a life of luxury and power