Great Gatsby Essay

Through The Eyes of Nick Carraway Personality is “the complex of characteristics that distinguish an individual, especially in relationships with others” (“Personality”). This is shown very clearly in The Great Gatsby through Nick Carraway. Through dishonesty, inconsistency, and self-absorption Fitzgerald shows that a single personality can dictate a story. When Nicks’ personality gets the best of his social life, He quickly finds himself in troublesome situations between friends and family.…

The Great Gatsby is a Modernist novel by the author F. Scott Fitzgerald. It deals with the situation of society in the Roaring Twenties, in the volatile time between World War I and the Great Depression. The Great Gatsby is a story that wrestles with a lot of themes, two of which are isolation and unattainable desires. One theme in this book is the loneliness and shallow connections that characters make. Gatsby frequently has hundreds of people at his house for parties, but it is often…

All the characters in The Great Gatsby have almost a non-existent relationship with nature. When one thinks of the colour green, they usually associate it with nature or the environment. For Gatsby, however, this is a symbol of his dream to have Daisy. When Tom and Daisy run away from East Egg, Gatsby realizes that “the colossal significance of the light has vanished forever.” He attaches all of his dreams, hopes and goals to this green light so much, that when it is suddenly gone, he is…

the 1920s, the desire to achieve the American Dream was great, as the country was prosperous and people received more opportunities. Nicknamed the ‘roaring twenties’, this decade was a time when many people defied prohibition, indulged in new styles of dancing, dressing, and rejected many traditional moral standards. The American Dream is the anticipation that through hard work and initiative one can attain true success. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald illustrates a different aspect of…

understood using Carl Jung’s theory of the “archetype” (Nye 2008, 136). Jung’s theory states that there are some “fundamental symbols with meanings and associations” (Nye 2008, 134) shared universally, or by all human beings. In the case of The Great Gatsby, I will focus on only the people within the “universe” of the book, i.e. the analysis of symbols and the people’s beliefs in them exist only within the Valley of Ashes (outskirts of New York City). There are many important symbols in the…

and find that you, too, are an unhappy adult. You find yourself waking up from the dream, angry and violated. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses the structure of a classic twenty’s love story to tell the more sinister tale of the rise and fall of the American citizen, and to unravel the threads that so clumsily hold together the American Dream, so that…

Robbie Levin Gatsby Journal The Great Gatsby is a very interesting and useful book to read. There is no static reason that there is value in The Great Gatsby because there is no static meaning to the book. It is potentially valuable on different levels to many different students and this is why it is important to continue teaching it in school. First of all, the obvious benefit from the book is knowing what life is like in the 1920s. When reading it, you get a great feel to the empty,…

How social groups are represented in The Great Gatsby During my time reading The Great Gatsby a lot of different themes passed by. Some of those were trust, power and integrity for example. But the theme that stood out the most was the American Dream, and the division between the newly and formerly rich. The Great Gatsby tells you a story about how it was to live in the 1920s, in a flourishing country called The United States. However, there was a clear distinction between the different social…

The color white is typically associated with purity and light. White is typically predominant in circumstances regarding elegance and symbolizes cleanliness. In “The Great Gatsby”, the color white is utilized to allude to the same ideas but in an ironic fashion. For example, Daisy and Jordan are said to be wearing white multiple times in the novel. When they are first introduced, Nick tells the reader that, “They are both in white and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had…

Many pathological narcissists, like Gatsby, feel a strong sense of entitlement, often in situations that they want to have total control over. Gatsby feels that he deserves Daisy’s love and seems to ignore both Daisy and Tom’s feelings. This is evident in Gatsby’s obsessive need for Daisy to retract her romantic feelings for Tom when Gatsby “wanted nothing less than that she should got to Tom and say: ‘I never loved you’” (Fitzgerald 109). These selfish desires also contradict his “love” for…