F. Scott Fitzgerald

In his novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott. Fitzgerald portrays a theme of the negative effects from the separate lives people hold, and how cheating and lying to others could damage a relationship through the characterization of Tom Buchanan and those around him. Throughout The Great Gatsby, People live different lives without thinking about the effect it could have on their friends and family. Tom Buchanan is a prime example of this lesson, because although he is married to Daisy, Tom spends…

The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is considered to be one of America 's greatest works of literature because of its twisting and realistic plots and developed characters during the 1920s. This era was the epitome of reckless behavior during the prohibition that caused people to use ones money to reflect power over others. Fitzgerald discusses the ideals of the New Yorker life through his word choice and descriptive characters. He explores the high socialite status and gives an insight on…

represent God or godly power. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 book The Great Gatsby chronicles the story of a rich criminal named Gatsby who spends all of his time going after Daisy, his love, but ultimately fails, resulting in a catastrophic series of events which culminate in Gatsby’s death. In the story, several symbols emerge that are often associated with God, leading the reader to believe that these have some significance to the story. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses several…

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…

our life. The past, it is something you can’t leave behind, but sometime it is up to some to decide if it is important to hold onto or not because when someone holds onto the past they are living in the past nor are they enjoying the present. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's the Great Gatsby, the title character Jay Gatsby surrounds himself with expensive belongings and wealthy people and lives in the past. He is the protagonist, who want more than he can have, even when he was small. Gatsby is a newly…

upper class. Out of this came the era of the modernist movement pioneered by authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald, who came to be an upper class man himself, changed America with his insights into the shallow lives of upper class society. In many of his novels and short stories he calls to attention the petty and skewed morality that became the new American lifestyle. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was…

thought has been used countless time throughout American Literature. A few times the American Dream is used are in the stories The Great Gatsby and Winter Dreams by F. Scott Fitzgerald. However, Fitzgerald doesn’t say good things or talk about how voluble the American Dream is, instead, he writes how unattainable it really is. Fitzgerald creates two characters, Jay Gatsby and Dexter. In both stories there is sort of a reoccurring theme, the lead character is driven to be successful,…

The video “Novel Reflections on the American Dream” is about the American dream and a bunch of novels that relate to the American dream. Works from Theodore Dreiser and F. Scott Fitzgerald and other authors are talked about. In the beginning of the video it talks about what the American dream is and how if you pay your dues you’ll get somewhere in life. Benjamin Franklin was the first to write about the American dream in his autobiography. He leaves his home with only three pennies in his pocket…

The novels The Great Gatsby, by F Scott Fitzgerald, and The Old Man and The Sea, by Ernest Hemingway, both include many allusions to Christianity within the depictions of the characters and settings. First, the usage of Christian allusion by both authors show an almost Christ like figure in both novels, and although the depictions of these characters have contrast in appearances there actions and philosophy compare to one another. Next, many objects or places inside both novels represent…

dream? According to F. Scott Fitzgerald, in the Great Gatsby, the people who lived the American dream lived a rich and high socialite life. These people were also married into a rich family and had high class and rich husbands. Throughout the essay, these concepts will be analyzed by comparing two different characters, Jay Gatsby and Myrtle, to show how important these attributes really were in order to successfully live the American Dream. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald was a great…