F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is set and published in the 1920’s, or more commonly known as the roaring 20’s, and roaring it was indeed. Many things were occurring as the birth of prohibition with the ratification of the 18th amendment and the birth of organized crime. Another writer that was prolific at this time was Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis. His ideas with psychoanalysis was that a person’s decision could be influenced by the events of their past and by a person’s emotions. The characters of the novel, such as Tom Buchanan, can be described simply their actions and the force driving them. In Tom’s case he epitomizes wrath and lust, where as in Jay Gatsby’s case the force driving in Gatsby’s every action is envy
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James Gatz was born into a poor family, having lived in an impoverished child was only the first coin toss that started the like of Mr. Gatsby. Jay changed his name the moment he meet his mentor; Mr.Dan Cody whom died some years later. Jay most likely changed his name to dissociate with his past and the poverty he was once apart, “So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen year old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end” ( Fitzgerald 98 ). However this dissociation with his past is what could have caused his obsession with the young Daisy Fay. Throughout his experiences in the military and he only thought of Daisy, all his actions had Daisy as an end game. However all this time without his beloved and the death of his mentor must have had an effect on the young Gatsby. The result of all the loss Gatsby experienced was making him feel an empty void along with an need to find his beloved Daisy. His need for Daisy was so potent that “He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths--so that he could come over some afternoon to a stranger 's garden” ( Fitzgerald 71 ) or in other words, throwing extravagant parties with champagne and other materialistic possessions to tempt the greedy, hoping one day that Daisy might just walk back into his
James Gatz was born into a poor family, having lived in an impoverished child was only the first coin toss that started the like of Mr. Gatsby. Jay changed his name the moment he meet his mentor; Mr.Dan Cody whom died some years later. Jay most likely changed his name to dissociate with his past and the poverty he was once apart, “So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen year old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end” ( Fitzgerald 98 ). However this dissociation with his past is what could have caused his obsession with the young Daisy Fay. Throughout his experiences in the military and he only thought of Daisy, all his actions had Daisy as an end game. However all this time without his beloved and the death of his mentor must have had an effect on the young Gatsby. The result of all the loss Gatsby experienced was making him feel an empty void along with an need to find his beloved Daisy. His need for Daisy was so potent that “He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths--so that he could come over some afternoon to a stranger 's garden” ( Fitzgerald 71 ) or in other words, throwing extravagant parties with champagne and other materialistic possessions to tempt the greedy, hoping one day that Daisy might just walk back into his