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Gatsby is that, sometimes people try to change themselves or others to become satisfied with their life and in the process lose themselves. We are going to look into many reasons why The Great Gatsby clearly shows this trait. First let’s talk about Mr. Jay Gatsby one of the main characters. Gatsby changed himself in many ways during this book. He changed himself to look like a great guy to Daisy. He changed so much to please daisy that sometimes he…

The main character of this novel (although the narrator is Nick) is Jay Gatsby. Some of his most distinctive character traits are that he is an optimist that chooses to live in the past. His main goal throughout the novel is to win back Daisy from Tom by “any means necessary,” he does not take into account that Daisy might not feel the same thing for him that he feels for her, choosing to live in a “perfect” world. He is a wealthy man living in a mansion in West Egg (based on Long Island, where…

situation. They see someone they love slowly slip away from them and try to grasp on as hard as they can. The Great Gatsby is set in New York in the Twenties. Everyone is encompassed by wealth, good fortune, wild parties and all that one could imagine. Jay Gatsby is the top man for these parties, who has hopes to gain the attention of his illusive Daisy Buchanan. Daisy’s husband, Tom, is having an affair with Myrtle Wilson, who lives in the Valley of Ashes with her devoted husband, George.…

will do anything it takes to be with that one person. Sometimes people know they will never be with that person but they still imagine their lives with them and want to work it out. In “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald Jay Gatsby is portrayed as a hopeless romantic. Jay Gatsby is still deeply in love with Daisy Buchanan after five years of not being together. Although Gatsby knows Daisy is married to Tom Buchanan. Gatsby wants Daisy to divorce Tom, and marry him so they can move in…

by creating dramatic back stories. By way of example before Jay Gatsby lived fabulously wealthy in West Egg, his past faced hardships of poverty, illegal business, and lying. “His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people – his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all. The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his platonic conception of himself…he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen-year-old boy would be likely to…

that Fitzgerald takes time to write down is relevant to something or some issues in America. However, the greatest symbol in the book may be the man who gives his name to the title, Jay Gatsby. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald explores the realities of human nature through his characterization of Jay Gatsby, suggesting towards the cost of being socially adequate among the wealthy, the darker side of one of the best economic times that American history has seen,…

F. Scott Fitzgerald, represents the theme that the American dream is no longer achievable. Happiness eludes those who only want more because as new things arise the temptation is always there, to be one step ahead of everyone else and have it all. Jay Gatsby represents the constant striving to capture something that a person believes will finally make them happy. He wants Daisy, his love from long ago that was supposed to wait for him. However, she was swept away by another man, Tom, who had…

Shakespeare said in Romeo and Juliet that, "What 's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” but if that is so why should we even use names, if not to imply something about the object referred to. The Great Gatsby was written in the era of the modernist movement, which specifically focused on the ideas of subconscious thought. Authors in this era strove to write in a format to emphasize the subconscious mind and its understanding of meanings both literal and…

We all poses emotions. Sometimes these emotions are good for us as they enable us to feel, while other times, these emotions hinder our ability to think clearly and rationally. One such emotion that can have such an effect on all humans is love. Love makes us feel special and provides us with a goal that we then strive towards. However, love can also cloud our judgment and not cee the entire truth. The 1819 poem, La Belle Dame Sans Merci, by the British Romantic Poet John Keats and the 1924…

The 1920’s was vastly described as the turning point for humanity, where the evolution of charisma developed throughout each person. It was a time of thrill and excitement, however people were blinded by the imperfections of society in front of them. Harold Clurman, known to be the “most influential figure in American theatre”, described the era as “ pleasure was the colour of the time ”, by reason that living in the spur of the moment is all that mattered. In The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott…