The Greatness Of Gatsby The Great Gatsby is a seemingly simple story about a man chasing a dream that has already fallen past his grasp.This is the basis of the story however , the story is far from being simple. The story The Great Gatsby, was masterfully written by Scott Fitzgerald, and still holds such symbolic power hidden in, it’s pages, that scholars have devoted their lives to studying the pages and precise word choices chosen in of The Great Gatsby even today.Furthermore, the book is shrouded in a sense of simplicity, but for those that look past the story the symbolism hidden within the text give it such a superior weight to other novel’s even in this time period, allowing it to earn the name “A Great American Novel”( Bray 1).In
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Without a doubt, the Marxist lense plays a major role, in The Great Gatsby, from start to finish. In addition, when applying the marxist lense,we can use class division to represent the action’s and ideal’s of each character. “Daisy’s playboy husband, Tom and Daisy’s friend, jordan Baker, a professional golfer, are part of the rich, spoiled social set of 1920’s”(McAdams 654) using this view we can almost comprehend the effects of growing up spoiled, have led Tom and Baker, to be transformed into the manipulative people we read about in the books.If we continue to pry into the backgrounds given to the character’s, we also learn the wealthy mister Jay Gatsby, only became so after struggling to rid himself of his born birthright to poverty. The character who the novel follows, Nick Carraway was born from a upper middle class family, and was taught from an early age,”That all the people in the world haven’t the advantages you had”(Fitzgerald 1) by his father. Because of this ideal bestowed upon him by his family’s lineage, “He comes to admire a man, Gatsby, who breaks all of the rules.”(McAdams 654). By Analyzing with the Marxist lense, we can see multiple different points of view from the different social classes each character was born to. Each view if followed through can change our entire analysis of the …show more content…
Moreover, as a whole entity Fitzgerald fails to put any true weight to the emotional state and desires of the female character’s. In addition they fail to chase dream, or strive for goals and appear as emotionally passive throughout the entire novel. Uniquely, by looking into the feminist lense, we come to realize that The Great Gatsby may actually be a sexist novel, where woman simple don’t have a major role. Furthermore, Daisy easily, has her heart and opinions swayed through the novel, dashing back and forth between Gatsby, and Tom. She is portrayed as a careless character with the only purpose of breaking things around her including Gatsby himself. As we continue with the feminist analysis, we come across Jordan Baker, who arguably can be considered the closet to an actual female character in the book. However, if we read between the lines, we learn the only reason this may be is due to the fact, that Nick considering her “ ‘Unfeminine, androgynous, more of a boy than a ‘lady’”(Strba 41).To conclude. All of this points toward The Great Gatsby with being “-charged The Great Gatsby with exhibiting hostility toward women”(Straba 41). In addition, feminism literary criticism gives us the opportunities to see these hidden facts, because it forces us to reexamine
Without a doubt, the Marxist lense plays a major role, in The Great Gatsby, from start to finish. In addition, when applying the marxist lense,we can use class division to represent the action’s and ideal’s of each character. “Daisy’s playboy husband, Tom and Daisy’s friend, jordan Baker, a professional golfer, are part of the rich, spoiled social set of 1920’s”(McAdams 654) using this view we can almost comprehend the effects of growing up spoiled, have led Tom and Baker, to be transformed into the manipulative people we read about in the books.If we continue to pry into the backgrounds given to the character’s, we also learn the wealthy mister Jay Gatsby, only became so after struggling to rid himself of his born birthright to poverty. The character who the novel follows, Nick Carraway was born from a upper middle class family, and was taught from an early age,”That all the people in the world haven’t the advantages you had”(Fitzgerald 1) by his father. Because of this ideal bestowed upon him by his family’s lineage, “He comes to admire a man, Gatsby, who breaks all of the rules.”(McAdams 654). By Analyzing with the Marxist lense, we can see multiple different points of view from the different social classes each character was born to. Each view if followed through can change our entire analysis of the …show more content…
Moreover, as a whole entity Fitzgerald fails to put any true weight to the emotional state and desires of the female character’s. In addition they fail to chase dream, or strive for goals and appear as emotionally passive throughout the entire novel. Uniquely, by looking into the feminist lense, we come to realize that The Great Gatsby may actually be a sexist novel, where woman simple don’t have a major role. Furthermore, Daisy easily, has her heart and opinions swayed through the novel, dashing back and forth between Gatsby, and Tom. She is portrayed as a careless character with the only purpose of breaking things around her including Gatsby himself. As we continue with the feminist analysis, we come across Jordan Baker, who arguably can be considered the closet to an actual female character in the book. However, if we read between the lines, we learn the only reason this may be is due to the fact, that Nick considering her “ ‘Unfeminine, androgynous, more of a boy than a ‘lady’”(Strba 41).To conclude. All of this points toward The Great Gatsby with being “-charged The Great Gatsby with exhibiting hostility toward women”(Straba 41). In addition, feminism literary criticism gives us the opportunities to see these hidden facts, because it forces us to reexamine