Dan Scott

In The Great Gatsby, a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, a middle class man, named Nick Carraway, rented a house next to most popular guy in West Egg, Jay Gatsby. While at his cousin’s, Daisy’s, house, one of Gatsby’s parties came up in the conversation. Taking place during the “Roaring Twenties” or The Jazz Age, Gatsby threw the best parties; everyone came to them. The reader later learns that Gatsby was and still is passionate about Daisy and through the parties to impress her. Nick finally gets…

F. Scott Fitzgerald is a typical story about the life of American people in the 1920s. In this novel the two main characters Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby became the best friends and found many similar qualities and traits in each other. However, they had the very different families that trained them different qualities and traits. Nick Carraway was raised by his father that gave Nick very effective mentoring for his future life. For the Jay Gatsby the most important person in his life was Dan…

F. Scott Fitzgerald uses characterization of Gatsby to further develop the theme that deceit comes in many different forms. Gatsby is telling Nick about what type of businesses that he used to work in that led him to his present wealth. Gatsby said, ¨I was in the drug business and then I was in the oil business, but I'm not in either one now¨ (Fitzgerald 80). Gatsby states that he achieved his wealth through the drug and oil businesses. However, it's not exactly known on whether he's being…

used that shapes one’s life. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, wealth is handled very differently by three of the characters. There’s Tom Buchanan who uses his wealth for power, Dan Cody who uses his wealth for pleasure, and Jay Gatsby who uses his wealth for the pleasure of others (particularly Daisy Buchanan). Gatsby may seem to be the most generous with his money, but in truth he is catering to his own desires too. Being “raised” in some part by Dan Cody would make it seem likely…

ever been like that. Not only were new things being produced, but everybody could afford them. The Roaring Twenties’ was a post war period time. It occurred shortly after World War One occurred. Recently, we have read “The Great Gatsby” written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in English. The…

Gatsby had sailed with the rich sailor Dan, Cody and when Dan Cody died, Gatsby had hoped to receive a large sum of money, but when the will came out he received quite a lot less than he previously thought he would be given. As a result, he was furious, but later the money he obtained helped him gain more riches in life. Gatsby acquired the phrase, “old sport” from Dan and he learned how to be the rich and classy man that he is and yet in the 1974 movie Dan Cody isn’t even mentioned. You never…

Fitzgerald’s Autobiography: The Great Gatsby In nearly every piece of literature written, authors incorporate significant details from their own life into their writing, but no other has done it as completely as Scott Fitzgerald with his classic The Great Gatsby. The similarities between Fitzgerald’s characters and his own life are undeniable. From his humble beginnings to his unstable education to his romantic affairs, Fitzgerald documents his life through the infamous Gatsby. Perhaps his…

even with all the money that Jay Gatsby had, he fails at his dream. Hardly anyone attends Jay Gatsby 's funeral, this shows that people were just using Jay Gatsby for his extravagant parties that he would throw. The purpose of the novel as author F. Scott Fitzgerald describes it, is that the American Dream is unachievable. No matter how much money they have, you can not live…

Psychoanalytic Type A: Analysis of Jay Gatsby To criticize psychoanalytically using type A, one would examine conflicts, characters, and symbols from a literary work. This literary criticism focuses solely on the work of literature. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is ultimately a story of, “The rise and fall of Jay Gatsby (Telgen).” Gatsby is a complex character who undergoes conflicts; and is connected with numerous symbols from the novel. Focusing specifically on Jay Gatsby, one can…

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Myrtle Wilson, Dan Cody, and Jay Gatsby, all seemingly different characters, find themselves ruined by this once-glamorous idea, and destroyed by their dreams which held…