F. Scott Fitzgerald

Roaring Twenties. People strove to find themselves, as the world around them shifted and evolved, but seemed to further lose themselves in the pursuit of social status and the eternal consumption, all for display and reputation. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald shows how people who absorb themselves in physical and material pursuits, are truly obsessed with building the appearance of a perfect life. The Great Gatsby, set in New York in 1922, centralizes its plot around the social division of…

In novels that outlast the ages there is often more than meets the eye. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby, there is one character that is often overlooked but deserves to be looked at closer by teachers and their students who study this novel. The character named simply Owl Eyes, by Nick Carraway, is only mentioned in the 180 pages of the book thrice. Appearing so little he is often overlooked, but in him remains a series of symbols throughout the novel. First thing that we need to…

“You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock”(Fitzgerald 98). This famous quote is one of many ways that F. Scott Fitzgerald used colors in his popular novel The Great Gatsby. Color symbolism is a branch of the Archetypal lense that uses colors to describe different people and their personalities throughout literature. Colors, including green, yellow, white, and red are used to symbolise hope, caution, innocence, and anger through what people see, the cars they…

Throughout the course of world renowned author F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, Nick believes that, “Reserving judgement is a matter of infinite hope”(Fitzgerald 2) which he is shown to contradict, letting his morals take control over his actions and thoughts. Nick’s morals and values are shown to be strong when he faces people with different beliefs than him. Nick avoids personal destruction by showing unwavering loyalty, while still adhering to his morals, causing Nick to critique…

F. Scott Fitzgerald: An Inspiring Author 1896, St Paul Minnesota where one of the best writer from the 1920’s was born, F. Scott Fitzgerald who was an expiring man. He was married to a woman, they went through rough times and this gave the author outstanding ideas to write his stories. The man was viewed as the spokesman of “The Jazz Age”. In 1913 he attended Princeton University, and became a great writer. This proves how Fitzgerald started to get a better format of writing. He created great…

have many internal conflicts. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses color…

books. Francis Scott Fitzgerald, an American author, also dealt with this topic in his novel “The Great Gatsby”, which was written in 1925. This paper aims at providing an analysis of the American Dream with regard to “The Great Gatsby”. It defines the American Dream and how it is reflected in this novel with a view on success, wealth and social mobility. This essay is divided into two parts, for giving an answer to the research question: Why is Jay Gatsby, the main character in F. Scott…

lifelong dream. A lot of people dream of completing the American Dream but little to none can complete it. In The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald makes the American Dream unattainable to most of his characters including Gatsby. The American Dream is unattainable because of all the poor events that have happened to Gatsby. Through negative imagery and diction, Fitzgerald proves that the American Dream is unattainable because of all the harmful events that have happened to Gatsby. Gatsby had been…

American ideal. In a period were everyone possesses the innate ability to succeed and supersede the middle class quality of life, there lies the ultimate object in gaining and grasping the future, the American belief. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald imposes the fact that through the power of one’s mind to excel, he or she may be successful in a time of the twenties. Main characters Jay Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan, Nick Carraway and George Wilson become the representing factors…

The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a story of dreams, greed, and carelessness. Two characters in the book are Tom Buchanan and George Wilson. These characters have an interesting relationship, as George Wilson’s wife, Myrtle, is Tom Buchanan’s mistress. It is surprising to see how they react similarly and differently with their attitudes toward women, their ways of showing violence, and their reactions to being cuckolded. Tom Buchanan comes from an old money family. This means that he…