Dan Scott

After reading and studying F. Scott Fitzgerald’s great mark on American literature, The Great Gatsby, I have concluded that Jay Gatsby’s failure arose from his deluded and futile dream of Daisy. I found two critics’ perspectives on Great Gatsby in relation to my hypothesis. The two critics I studied were McLennan (2014) and Islam (2014). McLennan (2014) states, “Gatsby’s love is not truly for another human being, but only for the image of her inside his own head.”(McLennan, 2014). Gatsby was…

Literary Device Quote Explanation Metaphor “My own house was an eyesore,” (Fitzgerald 5). When Nick Carraway, the narrator, is comparing his house to some of the houses in the neighborhood, including Jay Gatsby’s house, Fitzgerald, through Carraway, employs a metaphor by relating his house to an eyesore without the use of like or as. Through this quote, Fitzgerald illustrates Carraway’s intentions for traveling from the Middle West to New York, money and power. Carraway’s greed leads him to…

“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I 've been turning over in my mind ever since. ‘Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,’ he told me, ‘just remember that all the people in this world haven 't had the advantages that you 've had’” (Fitzgerald 1). The American dream is different for everyone. The general consensus stating that it consists of obtaining a college degree, getting married, having two children, and living happily large house. The ideal…

In the Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald presented marriage. His views on marriage were clear, Scott based his view on unloyalty and marriage. Throughout The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald made monogamy unrealistic by having unloyal characters and relationships. It all began when Fitzgerald was married to a woman named Zelda. “They drank gin together and kissed in the back rows of the local theater. When Zelda shared her diary with Scott, he was so impressed with her writing and thoughts…

rebellious lifestyle, advances in technology, and the beginning of the Great Depression. There are also many books that were popular then, and are even more popular today. One of the authors of possibly the best known book from this era is F. Scott Fitzgerald. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, the characters Nick, Daisy, and Jay show the wild lifestyle and the corruption that occurred during the 1920s. In the 1920s, people began to scratch the surface on nutrition. This new…

Institute defines the American Dream as the ideal that every U.S. citizen is equal in the sense that everyone has the equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald challenged this definition. When World War I ended in 1918, the stock market rose and the national wealth and materialism increased dramatically. A person from any background could strike it rich, but American families…

Characterisation Characterisation is a literary device that is used in literature to introduce and explain the details about a certain character in a story. In book The Great Gatsby, the main characterisation revolves around the social status of the characters. The major character of the book, Jay Gatsby, is evidently wealthy, but he does not come from or belong to the upper stratum of the society. The author used the dialogue and appearance of Gatsby to reflect on his wealth and social statues…

Jay Gatsby, the main character in The Great Gatsby, was born to a poor farm family but always desired to be rich. He met Daisy and entered into a relationship with her by an accident solely because he was wearing an officers uniform, which usually means that the wearer is from a rich family. He goes off to war and when he comes back Daisy is married to a rich Yale graduate named Tom. Throughout the novel, he unsuccessfully tries to turn back time and relive his relationship with Daisy. Daisy…

With advertising fueling consumerism and a new consumer culture on the rise, people began to seek comfort through luxurious, tangible objects as a measure of creating a superficial shell of satisfaction. As one of the “Lost Generation” writers, F. Scott Fitzgerald employs the Valley of Ashes as a sharp contrast to the luxurious East and West Egg to suggest that the ideal American Dream is unattainable and not readily available to everyone, despite the numerous efforts to escape poverty-stricken…

Prompt: How would Curley have acted if he were placed in Tom Buchanan’s situation in ch. 7 of TGG? The Wrath of Curley Ballcannon It was a brutally hot day. Jay Gatsby, Nick Carraway, Jordan Baker, Curley Ballcannon and his wife, Daisy, were all gathered in a muggy New York hotel room and the tension in the air was thick. Everyone knew Gatsby and Daisy had been having an affair for a couple months, but Curley had a mistress as well. No one dared to address either of their infidelities, until…