Money, a piece of paper that the world revolves around. Something we created and strive to obtain. With the end of objective morality, the 1920s was a decade of exhilarating social changes and overwhelming cultural changes. F. Scott Fitzgerald, an American Romantic Modernist writer, who portrayed the American Dream in two of his novels -- The Beautiful and the Damned and The Great Gatsby -- explain how money can either be your rise to fame or your downward spiral into an black abyss. Throughout the novel, the reader discovers how the American dream is an unrealistic assumption for a corrupt system that is powered by avarice.
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In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald explains how Gatsby strived for this goal of being wealthy day and night. The narrator was one of few to ever be invited to Gatsby’s parties. When Nick had first arrived he had seen so many people just show up. Nick was astonished "...People were not invited- they went there." (Fitzgerald 41). Gatsby threw huge extravagant parties, parties with alcohol, parties that showed how much money he had, parties that would attract Daisy to them. .Fitzgerald uses the color yellow and gold to symbolize wealth. Nick examines the party with his keen eyes. Yellow cocktail music is playing at the party. Turkey at the party is "bewitched to dark gold". While walking with Jordan, Nick and Jordan sit with two girls in yellow dresses. Gatsby is also seen wearing a golden tie while meeting Daisy after five years. Daisy is referred as the “Golden Girl”. These colors are not only used to represent wealth, but also corruption and destruction. The car Daisy and Gatsby are driving in was yellow. Daisy sees Myrtle who was Tom’s mistress and drives straight for her. Then keeps driving after hitting the woman. Later on, Gatsby is blamed for the affair and murder. The glasses of T. J, Eckleburg, looking over the valley of ashes are yellow. Money is how you become powerful. Gatsby is always seen trying to make his world perfect for Daisy and him. The more money a person has, the more influence they …show more content…
Money creates corrupt people, Corrupt people create a corrupt world. After the narrator heard the true story about Jay Gatsby, he realizes that James Gats had created an illusion of himself. Jay Gatsby was part of another world. James Gats was a very poor boy. By the age of adulthood “...he invented the the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen year old would be likely to invent…” (Fitzgerald 98). James Gats had transformed himself into a man that very second of his life. From then on he was Jay Gatsby, a man. In his world, Gatsby surrounded himself around rich people and rich material possessions. Gatsby bought an enormous mansion, fast coupes, clothes from overseas, who had servants, and had no worries. This lifestyle was what he had obtained from the American Dream. In Gatsby new world, everything around him was white. Throughout the novel, everyone who had money, was seen wearing white clothing. When Gatsby first meets Daisy after 5 years. He is seen wearing white to show how pure he is. Daisy and Miss Jordan Baker are constantly seen wearing white. White symbolizes false purity, innocence, and how much money one has. Gatsby resides in West Egg. West egg is where people with “new money” live. New money is corruption. East Egg is where people with “old money” live. Old money is carelessness. Through the story, there is a type of barrier between the two. Siniša Smiljanić, a student from the University of
Many people have an ambition for the “American Dream”, but, in The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald demonstrates how far a man …show more content…
In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald explains how Gatsby strived for this goal of being wealthy day and night. The narrator was one of few to ever be invited to Gatsby’s parties. When Nick had first arrived he had seen so many people just show up. Nick was astonished "...People were not invited- they went there." (Fitzgerald 41). Gatsby threw huge extravagant parties, parties with alcohol, parties that showed how much money he had, parties that would attract Daisy to them. .Fitzgerald uses the color yellow and gold to symbolize wealth. Nick examines the party with his keen eyes. Yellow cocktail music is playing at the party. Turkey at the party is "bewitched to dark gold". While walking with Jordan, Nick and Jordan sit with two girls in yellow dresses. Gatsby is also seen wearing a golden tie while meeting Daisy after five years. Daisy is referred as the “Golden Girl”. These colors are not only used to represent wealth, but also corruption and destruction. The car Daisy and Gatsby are driving in was yellow. Daisy sees Myrtle who was Tom’s mistress and drives straight for her. Then keeps driving after hitting the woman. Later on, Gatsby is blamed for the affair and murder. The glasses of T. J, Eckleburg, looking over the valley of ashes are yellow. Money is how you become powerful. Gatsby is always seen trying to make his world perfect for Daisy and him. The more money a person has, the more influence they …show more content…
Money creates corrupt people, Corrupt people create a corrupt world. After the narrator heard the true story about Jay Gatsby, he realizes that James Gats had created an illusion of himself. Jay Gatsby was part of another world. James Gats was a very poor boy. By the age of adulthood “...he invented the the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen year old would be likely to invent…” (Fitzgerald 98). James Gats had transformed himself into a man that very second of his life. From then on he was Jay Gatsby, a man. In his world, Gatsby surrounded himself around rich people and rich material possessions. Gatsby bought an enormous mansion, fast coupes, clothes from overseas, who had servants, and had no worries. This lifestyle was what he had obtained from the American Dream. In Gatsby new world, everything around him was white. Throughout the novel, everyone who had money, was seen wearing white clothing. When Gatsby first meets Daisy after 5 years. He is seen wearing white to show how pure he is. Daisy and Miss Jordan Baker are constantly seen wearing white. White symbolizes false purity, innocence, and how much money one has. Gatsby resides in West Egg. West egg is where people with “new money” live. New money is corruption. East Egg is where people with “old money” live. Old money is carelessness. Through the story, there is a type of barrier between the two. Siniša Smiljanić, a student from the University of