Morality in The Great Gatsby Essay

For this textual analysis I have chosen to compare The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin to Jay Gatsby for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. This comparison of Ben Franklin to that of Jay Gatsby will examine the way in which cultural factors such as morality, technology, and societal norms of their respective time periods affected their worldview and ultimately set the stage for how their stories are told and ultimately the outcome of their respective lives. It is my contention that Ben…

In the book the great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, symbolism is used to describe in the color green, the valley of ashes and in the eyes of Dr. T. J. Eckleberg. The color of green is used to the book to symbolize the hope of Gatsby winning the love of Daisy over. This is possible with his money and his love for her. The money helps him achieve this by finally being in the class as daisy. He now has the hope to pursue his dream. Green also symbolizes the green light at the end of…

In the Great Gatsby written by F.Scott Fitzgerald, the narrator, Nick Carraway , is a character that helps readers navigate through the story, providing us with an experience that can only be shown through his eyes. Gatsby, is the wealthy protagonist who is deeply in love with a character named Daisy who is Nick’s cousin. However, as we follow Nick through the story his opinions on Gatsby changes several times and his judgement on his original opinion changes too. Toward the end of the novel,…

countries struggled to earn enough money to support their next meal, let alone a place to sleep. Two authors have captured this phenomenon in their novels about the pursuit about the American Dream. These authors; F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of the The Great Gatsby and Upton Sinclair, author of The Jungle show very different versions of America in…

In the book, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the main character Jay Gatsby died towards the end of the book. Apart from the person that shot him (George Wilson), many of the major characters play a role fall in the fall of Gatsby. Characters like Daisy and Tom were also responsible for the death of Gatsby. The narrator, Nick Caraway also plays a part in the death of Gatsby. Gatsby, himself was a cause of his own death. Although George shot Gatsby without thinking or enquiring to know…

avoidance and evasion, racism and disparity in income. The dream also presumes equality for all. However, the dream has misled people, made them corrupt, has led to destruction and morality to and has therefore been termed as an unattainable vision by several people, inclusive of F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby and Sherwood Anderson in The Egg. The American dream led…

In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald many symbols are used to support the themes and characters. The Valley of Ashes is a symbol that represents death, poverty, moral decay, and the unattainability of the American Dream. It reveals a lot about the themes, such as the gap between the hollow rich and the hopeless poor, and the characters, like Myrtle and George Wilson’s lives and deaths. The Valley of Ashes was a dumping ground between Long Island, or the East and West Eggs, and New York…

A wise man discovers a gem in every step of his life. For this reason, it is said that a wise man learns by observing the mistakes of those around him, while a fool learns from his own mistakes. In the classic novel, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the narrator, Nick Carraway, due to his observant nature and open-mindedness, opens up a treasure of Gatsby’s story for the readers and himself entailing the discovery of individualism, heroism, and hope. As Nick Carraway learns to take a…

With close reference to two symbols, show how F Scott Fitzgerald uses symbolism to comment on the shallowness and corruption at the heart of American society. In Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, there are many reoccurring motifs incorporated throughout. The author uses these symbols to comment on the moral and social decay that stems from the desire to become wealthy. These motifs are symbolic for the American people, American dream and the liberty to immorality that is present in the…

I . Tom: money is a luxury living toys In the Great gatsby, Tom and Daisy is the most serious money worship, and under the temptation of money, they lose their humanity and sentiment, responsibility and ethics. "Can't afford to the gatsby in the Tom it won a large number of heritage, extreme luxury life, in his view, the meaning of alive just enjoy, namely: hanging around, recreation, to the party. Money for him just toys in life, is to maintain a luxury life and seek novelty and tools of…