Moral Analysis of characters of The Great Gatsby

time of economic prosperity and social optimism, the morals of all Americans had reached an all-time low. This is the ugly side of the 1920’s and it is thoroughly examined by F. Scott Fitzgerald in his classic novel The Great Gatsby. The result of this creates the central theme of immorality in the wealthy upper class and is revealed through the uses of literary techniques. The existence of this theme will be proven through a thorough analysis of the uses of situational irony and…

For many, The Great Gatsby is a story of two thwarted lovers. However, upon deeper analysis, the Great Gatsby is a work written by F. Scott Fitzgerald that criticizes the American dream at a time where it was unbelievably corrupt. The Great Gatsby occurs in the jazz age, in the middle of the 1920s. Fitzgerald bases it in New York, where the jazz age was strongest. This gives us a perfect setting to see exactly what becomes wrong with the American dream when people take it too far. The novel…

Morality and Selfishness in The Great Gatsby F.Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby puts forward the implication and treatment of women. Through the three main female characters, Jordan Baker, Myrtle Wilson, and Daisy Buchanan, it comments on the relationship between morality and selfishness. The story suggests that women’s empty morals lead to selfishness; therefore men disempower women The portrayal of women as dishonest and insensitive individuals is shown through Jordan. The narrator, Nick…

modernists used personal narrations and abstract characters to express their own ideological views and personal struggles. Moreover, the characteristics of modernist narratives are littered throughout with an emphasis on symbolisms, the distorted perception of time, a subjective narrator and paralleled connections between how the narrative is read and the connections drawn to the socio-economic climate of the period. Further,…

The following essay will explore the use and efficiency of rhetoric in the literary context of a novel. Through this analysis, I will try to encompass rhetorical aspects that have been employed to create a great masterpiece of literature such as Fitzgerald’s work “The Great Gatsby”; the piece will be analyzed through the observation of rhetorical mechanisms such as Burke’s pentad, his concept of identification, the use of symbolism and the role of language. Although we often perceive a piece of…

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,…

this is not the first time he has cheated or caused problems for his family. Gatsby does not hesitate to try and win Daisy back from Tom and his business dealings aren’t exactly moral either. However, I believe he may have more morals than Tom due to the fact that he was willing to take the blame for the death of Myrtle Wilson for Daisy. Tom wouldn’t have done that. Daisy I believe is the worst when it comes to morals. She pretends to feel guilt and remorse, but in reality I believe it 's just…

For this textual analysis I have chosen to compare The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin to Jay Gatsby for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. This comparison of Ben Franklin to that of Jay Gatsby will examine the way in which cultural factors such as morality, technology, and societal norms of their respective time periods affected their worldview and ultimately set the stage for how their stories are told and ultimately the outcome of their respective lives. It is my contention that Ben…

In the novel, “The Great Gatsby”, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author writes about a collection of characters and their pursual of desires, which reveal the flaws in each character and inevitable tragedy. The story follows the protagonist, Nick Carraway, a middle class outsider who travels to West Egg seeking wealth, prosperity and gratification in order to fulfill his ambition of becoming a successful business man of bonds; all the while, he covertly observes the conflict between aspiring…

and where he meets his neighbor Mr. Gatsby. Gatsby throws parties in hopes that one day Daisy will show up. In these parties went the most random group of people – artists, criminals, salesmen, politicians and so on. When finally Daisy appears in one of the parties she was terrified by Gatsby’s world and surrounding people. She was determined to choose Tom and East Egg rather than Gastby and his lavish parties. 2. East Egg-represents…