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protagonist went from rags to riches. Some may see the american dream as being wealthy and living the most lavish lifestyle. Others may see it as proving to your guardian that you can do something with your life.The main character of The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby was living the lavish life until problems started occurring for him. Fitzgerald’s novel The Curious Case of Benjamin Button tells about how Benjamin bounced back from be contained to a wheelchair for most of his childhood. Benjamin…

In the novel “The Great Gatsby”, the author F. Scott Fitzgerald demonstrates Jay Gatsby’s perpetual optimism through his struggle to balance his ideals with the reality of the world around him. This optimism presents itself in three aspects crucial to the development of his character in the novel, Gatsby’s delusion, his burgeoning ammorality, and his irrational love for Daisy. Firstly, Jay Gatsby’s continuous attempts to balance his ideology with his actuality cause him to become deluded.…

is chosen to be used that shapes one’s life. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, wealth is handled very differently by three of the characters. There’s Tom Buchanan who uses his wealth for power, Dan Cody who uses his wealth for pleasure, and Jay Gatsby who uses his wealth for the pleasure of others (particularly Daisy Buchanan). Gatsby may seem to be the most generous with his money, but in truth he is catering to his own desires too. Being “raised” in some part by Dan Cody would make…

the differences between the houses in West Egg and East Egg, and the unflattering picture of the era. Fitzgerald conveys a message warning against the perils of materialism during the course of the novel. First, his transformation of James Gatz to Jay Gatsby shows the trends of the decade because of the determination he had for wealth and luxury. James lived a simple life in North Dakota, but he wanted to create a lifestyle that followed the ideal “American Dream” from the 1920s. He was drawn…

Jay Gatsby, the protagonist in The Great Gatsby, wants more than being a janitor and a rich man; he throws parties every Saturday to attract Daisy’s attention, but lost everything in the end. Gatsby went from “new money” to “old money” to “no money”. Everyone does not have the same opportunity to strive for their American Dream because their opportunities depend on their family background, what they were born to be, proletarian or bourgeois. Daisy was the reason Gatsby worked hard to achieve his…

In a thought-provoking literary composition by Stephen Jay Gould, the hypotheses of dinosaur extinction are intermingled with the all-consuming thoughts and dilemmas that plague much of the modern society, including: sex, drugs, and violence; as well as one great unknown- how dinosaurs became extinct. Gould adds the public’s lust for outré, controversial statements with real, scientific inferences. Plaguing the world with questionability, the explanation for the dinosaurs’ extinction is still…

Psychoanalytic Type A: Analysis of Jay Gatsby To criticize psychoanalytically using type A, one would examine conflicts, characters, and symbols from a literary work. This literary criticism focuses solely on the work of literature. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is ultimately a story of, “The rise and fall of Jay Gatsby (Telgen).” Gatsby is a complex character who undergoes conflicts; and is connected with numerous symbols from the novel. Focusing specifically on Jay Gatsby, one can…

The Great Gatsby Color-Character Analysis If you were to receive the first impression of a man you just met who, when it comes to human manipulation, is no stranger, you may mistake him for a man of magnificence. In the first chapters of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Nick will make his first impression of Gatsby while being overwhelmed with false personality. Just like the metaphorical man, Gatsby may also be intentionally fooling people about who he truly is. In the eyes of Nick,…

When looking towards literature, multiple works come to mind, but F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby stands out amongst others. The Great Gatsby follows Jay Gatsby, a man with mysterious upbringings who rises to money and power. In many ways, the novel is symbolic of the entire Jazz Age. Fitzgerald, through the detailing of Jay Gatsby’s excessive, criminal life, exposes readers to what life was like in the Jazz Age. When the United States…

Who killed Mr. Jay Gatsby? Some people may say it was George Wilson, but is that really who killed Gatsby? In The Great Gatsby, Tom Buchanan reveals to George Wilson that Gatsby was supposedly the driver of the car that killed Myrtle Wilson, Tom’s mistress. I don’t think George Wilson is the reason Jay Gatsby was shot and killed at his home. There are quite a few people that could be responsible for the death of Gatsby, one of which is Gatsby himself. Gatsby was self-deceptive, he tried to get…