Moral Analysis of characters of The Great Gatsby

A tragic hero is a literary character who makes a mistake that inevitably leads to his or her downfall. “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald follows narrator, Nick Carraway as he moves next door to protagonist Jay Gatsby. Jay is a mysterious, self invented millionaire, who believes in the American Dream, and confuses it with his love interest, Daisy which leads him to his demise. The play “Othello” is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, about Othello and Desdemona, two interracial lovers…

his novel The Great Gatsby. “Fitzgerald is regarded as one of the most capable, engaging and insightful writers of the 20th century. He is one of the truly great American storytellers, an inspiration for writers and seen as one of truly great troubled geniuses. In addition, The Great Gatsby is marked as one of the great American novels, if not the Great American Novel. (An American Icon 6).” F. Scott Fitzgerald used the world around him, the historical background, critical analysis and…

The difference between old money and new money has nothing to do with currency. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, Published in 1925 manifests the corrupted idealism of the elite caste. This fictional story portrays the life of Jay Gatsby, a self-made man residing in the lucrative, newly wealthy West Egg section of town. Furthermore, Gatsby is stubbornly committed to climbing the social and economic latter and to winning back his beloved previous lover Daisy. Daisy now married to Tom…

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…

A recent economic analysis shows that as of 2012, the wealth gap in the United States between the ultra rich and the rest of the population is as prevalent as it was in the mid-1920s. After World War II, the top earning 0.1% of the nation experienced massive increase in wealth and just before the stock market crash of 1929, they held about 23% of the entire countries wealth. In the modern era, after the 2008 recession, the .1% again grew their share of the wealth and in 2012, they reached the…

The American dream exists as a driving force in the daily lives of the characters in The Great Gatsby. From the most important, Nick, to the least important, Jordan, each person gains access to their dream by being born into, marrying into, or befriending those in the sought after lifestyle of glamour in the 1920s. Everyone has their own version of the American dream, and in The Great Gatsby, the pursuit of this dream either enhances the character’s life, or leads to their demise. In the 1920s…

the world and yet satisfy the demands of her hard jaunty body” (Gatsby 63). Another Character is Myrtle, who is one of the lower class. She is married to George, a poor man who rents a suit for his own wedding. However, she wants to be with the upper class, her American dream is to be rich, have power and to have all what they have. Tom is a wealthy powerful man who has a beautiful daughter and wife. But he is also a greedy character; his American dream is the more, the better. He needs to feel…

Fitzgerald, The Great Gastby, portrays many different examples of how love, materialism, and spiritualism play a huge part of what we think love is. The definition of love is to have an intense feeling of deep affection for someone or per se, something. For instance, the love that Gatsby has for Daisy in my opinion is truly his genuine fondness he shows towards her, her actions, and her morals characterize how he undoubtedly feels for her. But, on the other hand Daisy plays Gatsby because she…

Literary critic, Kenneth Eble, analyzed Gatsby’s character himself and states that: “Gatsby, the ‘mythic’ embodiment of the American dream, is shown to us in all his immature romanticism. His insecure grasp of social and human values, his lack of critical intelligence and self-knowledge, his blindness to the pitfalls that surround him in American society, his compulsive optimism, are realized in the text with rare assurance and understanding. And yet the very grounding of these deficiencies is…

The Great Gatsby's Hope and God The human concepts of hope, are not only a driving force in the plot of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, but also a wonderful insight into the minds of humans, and the purpose of religion. Jay Gatsby invented a life with his love, Daisy, and is thoroughly obsessed with their future, even nearing insanity when everything comes crashing down. By analyzing Gatsby's dependency on hope, a reader can see how all humans do likewise, through a future, person,…