The Great Gatsby Analytical Essay
In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald employs various themes throughout his story to convey certain messages to the reader. One of these themes is his own idea of wealth. Fitzgerald portrays wealth to support certain behaviors, moral character, and decisions in a negative way.
He employs descriptions of characters and their actions to illustrate this to the reader. In these descriptions and actions, he intertwines a plethora of literary devices to better portray to the reader of his theme.
Fitzgerald connects his theme of wealth through similes in descriptions of characters. In the novel, Daisy is a great example of Fitzgerald’s theme of wealth. Her actions illustrate how
“gleaming like silver, [she is] …show more content…
Fitzgerald conveys that Daisy’s wealth has formed her actions and behaviors in a negative fashion that is easily facilitated due to a thick layer of protection from consequence that Tom and
Gatsby have built for her. Wealth enables Daisy to be able to quickly hop from one negative action to another without consequence, never having to fully deal with the damage that each action might bring.
Fitzgerald is also able to convey his theme of wealth through allusions in ambitions of characters. In the novel we learn that Nick has great hopes for the bond business, always wanting to learn how to achieve wealth similar to that of his friends, and acquiring books “promising to unfold the shining secrets that only Midas and Morgan and Maecenas knew” (Fitzgerald 4).
Fitzgerald employs these allusions to connect his theme of wealth to wealth throughout all of human history. The allusions presented all illustrate, in a certain manner, how wealth has negatively impacted the characters similar to that of Fitzgerald’s. Nick hopes to unlock …show more content…
Fitzgerald displays his theme of wealth through metaphors of the actions of wealthy characters. As Nick and Gatsby better their relationship, Nick has the chance to meet one of
Gatsby’s business partners. After learning that his partner had fixed the 1919 World’s Series,
Nick was staggered as “…it never occurred to [him] that one man could start to play with the faith of fifty million people with the single-mindedness of a burglar blowing a safe”(Fitzgerald
73). Fitzgerald employs this metaphor to portray the impact that wealth has on an individual’s actions and how wealth has influenced a character’s actions to a point of wastefulness. It displays how wealth had greatly negatively influenced Gatsby’s business partner to a point at which he was able to bend the morals of people similar to “the single-mindedness of a burglar lowing a safe” (Fitzgerald 73). This metaphor illustrates Fitzgerald’s theme of wealth by showcasing that money can bend a character’s action and moral in a negative way to an extent greater than once perceived. In conclusion, F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays his theme of wealth, that it
In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald employs various themes throughout his story to convey certain messages to the reader. One of these themes is his own idea of wealth. Fitzgerald portrays wealth to support certain behaviors, moral character, and decisions in a negative way.
He employs descriptions of characters and their actions to illustrate this to the reader. In these descriptions and actions, he intertwines a plethora of literary devices to better portray to the reader of his theme.
Fitzgerald connects his theme of wealth through similes in descriptions of characters. In the novel, Daisy is a great example of Fitzgerald’s theme of wealth. Her actions illustrate how
“gleaming like silver, [she is] …show more content…
Fitzgerald conveys that Daisy’s wealth has formed her actions and behaviors in a negative fashion that is easily facilitated due to a thick layer of protection from consequence that Tom and
Gatsby have built for her. Wealth enables Daisy to be able to quickly hop from one negative action to another without consequence, never having to fully deal with the damage that each action might bring.
Fitzgerald is also able to convey his theme of wealth through allusions in ambitions of characters. In the novel we learn that Nick has great hopes for the bond business, always wanting to learn how to achieve wealth similar to that of his friends, and acquiring books “promising to unfold the shining secrets that only Midas and Morgan and Maecenas knew” (Fitzgerald 4).
Fitzgerald employs these allusions to connect his theme of wealth to wealth throughout all of human history. The allusions presented all illustrate, in a certain manner, how wealth has negatively impacted the characters similar to that of Fitzgerald’s. Nick hopes to unlock …show more content…
Fitzgerald displays his theme of wealth through metaphors of the actions of wealthy characters. As Nick and Gatsby better their relationship, Nick has the chance to meet one of
Gatsby’s business partners. After learning that his partner had fixed the 1919 World’s Series,
Nick was staggered as “…it never occurred to [him] that one man could start to play with the faith of fifty million people with the single-mindedness of a burglar blowing a safe”(Fitzgerald
73). Fitzgerald employs this metaphor to portray the impact that wealth has on an individual’s actions and how wealth has influenced a character’s actions to a point of wastefulness. It displays how wealth had greatly negatively influenced Gatsby’s business partner to a point at which he was able to bend the morals of people similar to “the single-mindedness of a burglar lowing a safe” (Fitzgerald 73). This metaphor illustrates Fitzgerald’s theme of wealth by showcasing that money can bend a character’s action and moral in a negative way to an extent greater than once perceived. In conclusion, F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays his theme of wealth, that it