Dan Scott

The Great Gatsby is a novel written by Francis Scott Fitzgerald that takes place during the time of Prohibition. Prohibition is a time period in American History where alcohol is prohibited from being manufactured, sold, and consumed. Even though this was an amendment to the constitution many people chose freely to go against this law. The effects from this are illegally selling alcohol for profit. Jay Gatsby is a main character in the novel; he illegally sells and manufactures alcohol and also…

Great Gatsby Final Essay Have you ever known someone who did everything for a person who didn’t deserve it? Great Gatsby is a classic novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The famous novel was published in 1925 and takes place during the Prohibition Era, which lasted from 1920 to 1933. Narrated by Nick Carraway, the novel includes the characters Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby is a lonely man in West Egg who shows off his wealth is famous for hosting extravagant parties every week, and…

way out, corrupting the perception of what the American Dream is all about. In F. Scott Fitzgerald 's The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is a man who once aspired to become the epitome of the American Dream. Soon after facing adversity he lets his dream spoil and wither away. Beginning in his childhood, Gatsby creates a dream that then seems almost attainable through…

The evolution of people seem to only rely on whether you were born with money or worked for it and there was no in between. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a story the narrator/ main character Nick Carraway on his journey from Minnesota to the big city of New York. Nick learns the struggle of the people in the valley of ashes to the luxurious life style of the fat cats living on east egg, nick would live on the west side invested in bond business. There was James Gatsby/ Jay Gats with…

Throughout literary history, authors have used various colors as important symbolism in many different genres of literature. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel “The Great Gatsby,” he is able to use a surplus of colors as symbolism in his story. Not only are these colors used as symbolism, but some of them actually impact the outcome of the story. Some of the colors are feeling based, like the color green. The Great Gatsby is about a poor man named Jay Gatsby who eventually becomes rich, he also has…

Throughout the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, the story of Jay Gatsby feudal attempts at the acquisition of Daisy Buchanan’s love. Fitzgerald leaves the man behind the story fairly mysterious until chapter six when he delves into Gatsby’s history, including that with Daisy. Gatsby’s chance encounter with Daisy will change everything he had planned out for his life, “At his lip’s touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.” (111) The use of the…

There were lots of influential authors in the 20th century, one of the best is F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald was the author of The Great Gatsby and The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button. F. Scott Fitzgerald's works were reflective of the time period he wrote them. F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 26, 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota. He went to private schools through his childhood. He enrolled to into Princeton University in 1913. He dropped out due to poor health and bad grades. Fitzgerald…

Daisy, Tom, and Gatsby, in the Great Gatsby The stories F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote always represented even the tiniest parts and events of his life, even as subtle mention in his novels like the Great Gatsby. Beginning with his raising, Fitzgerald’s name was given to by him his parents: Edward Fitzgerald, a hard worker without a good income, and even though he drank more than he should, he was the one to teach his only son manners. Scott Fitzgerald’s mother, Mary “Mollie” McQuillan couldn’t…

Identity is defined as the set of characteristics by which a person or thing is definitively recognizable or known. From Lord of the Flies to Things Fall Apart, identity was an integral part of literature produced in the twentieth century. Identity crises in literature are most often faced by adolescents and migrants, both of which accurately describe James Gatz in The Great Gatsby. Young James Gatz, also known as Jay Gatsby, migrated all the way from North Dakota to the southern shores of Lake…

Within our own selves, someone we know and love has a tendency to tell you one thing and then prove themselves wrong without saying a word but with their behavior. In the novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses Gatsby to convey the idea that actions speak louder than words. Although Gatsby believes Daisy’s words Gatsby remains untrusting and blinded. Fitzgerald describes Gatsby as untrusting and blinded resulting in a broken personality despite Gatsby’s seeming to be happy. Gatsby…