Morality in The Great Gatsby Essay

The Great Gatsby is a story that was made in the 1920’s. The American Dream is a belief that anyone, regardless, class, gender, or nationality, can be stressful in America if they just work hard enough. The characters mainly focus on the rich and wealthy people, who has nice houses, and who has the most healthy relationship. More of the upper class characters in the story are the ones that have money, drive fancy cars, and have the big houses. Out of all the characters, Gatsby and Nick were…

A tragic hero is a person with heroic potential who is fated by some supernatural force, eventually leading to destruction or to great suffering. F. Scott Fitzgerald, wrote one of his utmost famous novels, The Great Gatsby, that focused on Jay Gatsby, a romantic fantasist who wishes to fulfill his American Dream by flaunting his wealth in hopes of impressing and eventually winning the heart of the love of his life, Daisy. Gatsby’s tragic flaws lie beneath his incapability to view reality,…

hill” and is still evident in American culture today. In The Great Gatsby, the American Dream is presented during the 1920s in a rather vulgar manner through the main characters of the novel. The whole basis of the unscrupulous attributes that both the “old and new money” possess can be exposed through the manipulative effect money has. Through the obscene behavior of Tom, Daisy, and Jordan that offsets the temperaments of Nick and Gatsby, who have virtuous dispositions, the overall theme of the…

The Great Gatsby Discussion Part 1: “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past” implies that society works hard to transcend the past but gets nowhere. Humans think they are progressing, but every step they take towards the goal is another step away from it. In The Great Gatsby, Gatsby’s dream “seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city… Gatsby…

In his novel The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald attempts to show that Americans resort to illegal and immoral means in order to exceed their own grasp. Fitzgerald has no problem with setting goals, but he clearly shows that there is a problem once one strays from their morals, as many do throughout the novel. Specifically Daisy is worried about protecting her image and stability that comes along with class, but the only way she is able to attain this is through immoral ways that involve her…

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald poses as one of the most classic American love stories of modern literature, exploring the tragic story of a forbidden love. Underneath this beautiful tale, the novel actually has a less romantic theme, the loss of social values and the destruction of the American dream. The ideal American dream dates back to the American settlement, when poor immigrants set ambitions of opportunity and wealth. The Declaration of Independence even documents this hope “that…

In the story, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, there is a major symbol apparent throughout the story: a billboard with a pair of eyes that represent Dr. T.J. Eckleburg’s eye doctor business. This billboard is situated in the Valley of Ashes between the “Eggs” and New York. As the story progresses, a few of the book’s characters give insight about the possibilities of what the billboard might represent; the billboard symbolizes God, moral decay, and the death of the American dream. One…

The Great Gatsby but, how could one be so great? Living his life with innumerable somber events, it 's hard to understand F. Scott Fitzgerald’s choice of title. Gatsby was a liar about his past, he made his fortune by illegally selling alcohol, and he was interfering with Tom and Daisy 's marriage. Fitzgerald had a collection of possible titles, some of them included: Among Ash-Heaps, Gold-Hatted Gatsby, The High-Bouncing Lover , Trimalchio in West Egg, and Under the Red, White, and Blue. So…

The idea of the American Dream is treated in a similar way in The Great Gatsby. Nick perceives Gatsby as “so peculiarly American” and can be considered for much of the novel as the embodiment someone seeking the American dream. (Fitzgerald 64). However, when Gatsby is killed, and “nobody came” to the funeral, the reader comes to the conclusion that the American Dream is an impossible one (176). Part of the allure of both of these characters is their personal aesthetic. However, while Dean…

For this textual analysis I have chosen to compare The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin to Jay Gatsby for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. This comparison of Ben Franklin to that of Jay Gatsby will examine the way in which cultural factors such as morality, technology, and societal norms of their respective time periods affected their worldview and ultimately set the stage for how their stories are told and ultimately the outcome of their respective lives. It is my contention that Ben…