“The Great Gatsby” Symbolism and Living the Dream
The horrific and terrifying events of World War 1 gave light to a new breed of American Literary writers and times rapidly changed for American Society. The aptly named “Roaring Twenties”, was a time which gave rise to a rebellion from the social norms and traditional lifestyle and society moved to a new ears and were beginning to fully realize the “American Dream” F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” cleverly brought to life the “American Dream” and explored symbolism through this epic novel. The aptly named era “The Roaring Twenties” was an age of political and social changes. The American way of life had changes dramatically and Americans were now moving to the cities and leaving …show more content…
“The Great Gatsby is a fictional novel about the American dream written during the era now dubbed “The Roaring Twenties”. One of the important factors is that is was written in the 1920 when it was alive and well. Through the articulate and flowery writing by Fitzgerald, the writer is allowed to feel and see the world through his eyes, again the story line is fictional but the life and time during that time frame are factual and true to the cultural times of the 1920’s coupled with all the immagry, materialism and the benefits of having wealth during such a time and he meticulously set out to make sure each of the subjexts in “The Great Gatsby” were well defined and placed as to the time and setting. One has to believe that Fitagerald wrote his own life and excitement into this novel as he truly lived firsthand the American …show more content…
The character and narrator of the novel and the movie (1974) depicts Nick Caraway as one of the few functioning characters of the story. Nick being raised poor moves to New York to learn the bond business and become infatuated with the thought of Gatsby. Nick is fully aware of how society views those of little money and always remembers where he is from in both the novel and the movie (1974). The novel is quite different than the movie in regards to Tom and his indiscretions. The book sets out that due to financial problems of Tom and Daisy. They invite Nick to dinner and while he is there if finds out that Gatsby is the neighbor across from Tom and Daisy. Due to financial standing 5 years previous, Daisy could not or would not lower herself to admit her love for Gatsby. The movie leads you to believe it had been 8 long years of torment for Gatsby. Gatsby had one goal in life and that was to dream big, achieve what all want, the true American Dream, money, family and fame. Gatsby’s only thoughts were, in both the movie and the book, to buy Daisy’s love now that he had money and she had previously claimed to love him he wanted to win her back, regardless of the cost morally. Gatsby truly believed that Daisy loved him and had never stopped loving him even though they were separated. An affair rekindles itself as the story begins to take on a
The horrific and terrifying events of World War 1 gave light to a new breed of American Literary writers and times rapidly changed for American Society. The aptly named “Roaring Twenties”, was a time which gave rise to a rebellion from the social norms and traditional lifestyle and society moved to a new ears and were beginning to fully realize the “American Dream” F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” cleverly brought to life the “American Dream” and explored symbolism through this epic novel. The aptly named era “The Roaring Twenties” was an age of political and social changes. The American way of life had changes dramatically and Americans were now moving to the cities and leaving …show more content…
“The Great Gatsby is a fictional novel about the American dream written during the era now dubbed “The Roaring Twenties”. One of the important factors is that is was written in the 1920 when it was alive and well. Through the articulate and flowery writing by Fitzgerald, the writer is allowed to feel and see the world through his eyes, again the story line is fictional but the life and time during that time frame are factual and true to the cultural times of the 1920’s coupled with all the immagry, materialism and the benefits of having wealth during such a time and he meticulously set out to make sure each of the subjexts in “The Great Gatsby” were well defined and placed as to the time and setting. One has to believe that Fitagerald wrote his own life and excitement into this novel as he truly lived firsthand the American …show more content…
The character and narrator of the novel and the movie (1974) depicts Nick Caraway as one of the few functioning characters of the story. Nick being raised poor moves to New York to learn the bond business and become infatuated with the thought of Gatsby. Nick is fully aware of how society views those of little money and always remembers where he is from in both the novel and the movie (1974). The novel is quite different than the movie in regards to Tom and his indiscretions. The book sets out that due to financial problems of Tom and Daisy. They invite Nick to dinner and while he is there if finds out that Gatsby is the neighbor across from Tom and Daisy. Due to financial standing 5 years previous, Daisy could not or would not lower herself to admit her love for Gatsby. The movie leads you to believe it had been 8 long years of torment for Gatsby. Gatsby had one goal in life and that was to dream big, achieve what all want, the true American Dream, money, family and fame. Gatsby’s only thoughts were, in both the movie and the book, to buy Daisy’s love now that he had money and she had previously claimed to love him he wanted to win her back, regardless of the cost morally. Gatsby truly believed that Daisy loved him and had never stopped loving him even though they were separated. An affair rekindles itself as the story begins to take on a