F. Scott Fitzgerald Essay

F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald, born of the name Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, was the author of the well known and very popular novel, The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, to an upper middle class family. Throughout his life, F. Scott Fitzgerald longed to become a socialite and a member of the prestigious upper class. Many of the characters and events in The Great Gatsby were inspired by real people and real occasions in the author’s life.…

arm out towards the dark water in a curious way,” and “and distinguished nothing except a single green light.” The green light symbolized hope for Gatsby. As he stretched out his arm towards the light. His hope was to see Daisy. The way F.scott Fitzgerald used green was for hope. It showed Gatsby seeing it but not able to grasp…

becoming effective in 1920. The ideal woman of the 1920s, Daisy Buchanan, Gatsby’s love, was the golden girl of the Roaring 20s with “an absolutely perfect reputation… because she didn’t drink” (Fitzgerald 77); Jordan tells Nick that “it’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people” (Fitzgerald 77). Even though she knows drinking harms her reputation, Jordan does not care, labeling her as a risqué. Even though people told me that I drank too much, I did not believe them. I would…

In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald successfully portrays the discernible class division between the old money and the new money in the context of unprecedented economic prosperity along with the corruption in moral values. The old money, profoundly depicted through Tom and Daisy, proves to have an empty heart under the cover of noble background and elegant lifestyle. To begin with, the old money, also known as the elite group, has money running in generations and leads a carefree, luxurious life.…

However, despite all the rumors against him, the allure of Gatsby’s character is based off of the slanted view of the narrator and the improbable way that he obtained his massive amount of wealth. The allure of Gatsby’s life becomes clear early in to F. Scotts Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. In chapter three, Nick mentions the amount of food Gatsby uses at just one of his parties, “Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons…

"I found myself on Gatsby 's side, and alone" (Fitzgerald 164). The American Dream is viewed differently from person to person, but overall, the American Dream is the ability to forget about the past and become the person you have always wanted to be. Through hard work and determination, an American can become anything or anyone they want to be. This idea can often become corrupted and misinterpreted. Gatsby, in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, has a corrupted view of the American Dream.…

Nick Carraway: An Unreliable Narrator in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby Judging someone’s character is part of determining if they are trustworthy. This is what readers have to do with first person narrators, they have to look carefully at the narrator and decide if they can trust what the narrator is saying. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, the narrator Nick Carraway is unreliable because he is trying to deceive readers by leaving out details, contradicting himself, and…

Short Story Summary: Winter Dreams Youth, innocence and the loss of both; Harmful relationships. Both are major themes in the short story, Winter Dreams, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, one of the true American literary geniuses of the early 1900’s. Fitzgerald’s short story takes place in Minnesota and follows the life of Dexter Green, a boy from the middle class who aspires to be wealthy, and his “Winter Dreams”: A life with the beautiful, yet deceptive and toxic, Judy Jones. Throughout Winter Dreams,…

The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald is one of the great American classics that is required by all American Students to read. The idea behind the book is to show the American dream, ideals behind love, and gender roles, in the 1920’s. Since it’s publication in 1925 it has had it’s ironic yellow eyes overseeing the city’s glamorous overview. The book’s iconic art that every student knows, very few people comprehend what the cover art represents.Dark Blue background with womanly eyes…

The Great gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a wonderful novel that follows the mystical life of Jay gatsby from the point of view of Nick Carroway. Nick is, a young man from Minnesota, who moves to New York to learn about bonds. He rents a house in West Egg Long Island ,his little cottage just so happens to be right next door to a gigantic gothic mansion that belongs to Gatsby. Nick soon comes to find that his neighbor throws large extravagant parties each saturday night. Nick drives out to…