Ginevra King

In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald depicts the 1920’s as a period of revolutionary economic prosperity and, at the same time, that of people’s empty pursuit of pleasure and materialistic excess. As people attain their wealth at an unprecedented level and savor their extravagant lifestyle, they seek to show off their wealth without any social graces and tastes. Fitzgerald picks Jay Gatsby as a character who represents newly minted millionaires. Having created his own image, Gatsby tries to get…

Nick vs. Gatsby In the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nick Carraway is the narrator. He tells the story of a man named Jay Gatsby. The two cope well and seem to be parallel in several ways. However, they still are very contrastable in abounding ways. Some would say Fitzgerald portrayed these characters to how he views himself. Nick is Fitzgerald’s outlook on himself, and Gatsby is how he believes others foresee him. Throughout the story, we grasp Fitzgerald’s different…

Communication is essential in nearly every person’s life, and many express themselves differently. The key is to be able to understand others and find meaning from their stories. One such story is The Great Gatsby, a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It is narrated by Nick Carraway who introduces himself and some of his views on life in order to help the reader find meaning from the novel. In this passage, Fitzgerald characterizes Nick as opinionated and aware of everything around him by discussing…

In the early twentieth century, the ownership of a car suggested wealth and status. Cars such as Gatsby’s Rolls-Royce, “ was a rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length”(64), convey the personality and character respective of the driver. However, cars also represent risk, drivers could be impaired or distracted, which could lead to an accident or even death. In her critical essay, Medium of exchange: The blue coupe dialogue in The Great Gatsby,…

1. Fact about F. Scott Fitzgerald: Although he is hailed as one of the greatest authors in American history, Fitzgerald lived his life in a constant state of depression and alcoholism caused by the initial failure to prove himself as a writer, resulting in him dying believing himself a failure. Fact from the 1920’s: The mood of the 20’s was that of heavy depression, with many people believing that they did not accomplish much and leading to a heavy increase in alcoholism, which was illegal at…

Regarded as one of the most exceptional novels of the twentieth-century and deemed a classic, Francis Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” portrays a veracious painting of what American life was during the early 1900’s. The story reflects on the promising American dream and the zealous Jay Gatsby who yearned for the eternal love of the golden-girl Daisy Buchanan. Thereafter, eighty-eight years would elapse before director Baz Lurhmann would take charge of adapting the pages of Fitzgerald’s…

Love is one of the strongest feelings ever experienced in life. It can make a person feel upbeat and lively, but at the same the time can cause disillusionment and tragedy. In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby was trying to be a part of old money to rekindle his relationship with his teenage lover Daisy Buchanan. At a young age, Gatsby knew that it would be his ambition that took him places in life. In order to achieve his unattainable “American Dream” he had to…

The unreachable entity that surrounds the characters and the themes within “The Great Gatsby” are represented by the color gold. F. Scott Fitzgerald captures the brilliant wealth and success that each character strives for, but may not ever completely reach, by the character’s reflection through color. Author Kevin Rea states in his article entitled The colour of meaning in The Great Gatsby that“The party 's blend of yellow (hope) and gold (money worship) is significant. It is this…

To begin this compare and contrast paper, we will be taking three subjects and finding the similarities and differences; the Great Gatsby 1974 movie, the 2013 movie, and the book. First, we will be comparing the 1974 movie and the book. In the book 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…

F. Scott Fitzgerald structures The Great Gatsby using the symbolism of seasons to parallel the major events in the story in order to aid in the building of the climax and elaborate on the irony behind the fate of the characters. Gatsby’s fate results in him not being able to achieve his version of the American Dream despite all the hope that he falsely interprets. Throughout the novel, the seasons provide foreshadowing for the twists that will occur in the plot and heighten the importance that…