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The Great Gatsby Analytical Essay In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald employs various themes throughout his story to convey certain messages to the reader. One of these themes is his own idea of wealth. Fitzgerald portrays wealth to support certain behaviors, moral character, and decisions in a negative way. He employs descriptions of characters and their actions to illustrate this to the reader. In these descriptions and actions, he intertwines a plethora of literary devices to better…

Character Analysis Nick Nick Carraway is the book “The Great Gatsby”s narrator. Within the book he takes on the quiet and reasonable part of Fitzgerald's personality. A man who travels to New York in 1922 to learn about the bond business. He lives in the West Egg district of Long Island next door to Gatsby. Nick is a nice choice to narrate the novel, whilst narrating this novel serves as a personal memoir of his experiences with Gatsby in the summer of 1922. Nick is also a nice choice to…

3. Daisy Buchanan is the the main female character in The Great Gatsby. Daisy is characterized as shallow, vain, and materialistic, on the surface; however, as the novel progresses it is revealed that Daisy is actually intelligent, and she has an immersed mind that is often consumed with the real value of women, and the expectancy that they will depend on men to determine their worth in society. Daisy’s marriage to Tom Buchanan, is pivotal in highlighting the complexity of Daisy’s character.…

From the beginning the novel “The Great Gatsby” the characters show themselves to be stuck up and conceited, and only concerned with themselves. For example, when Nick goes to Daisy’s house and the phone rings and Jordan says that it’s Tom’s mistress. Another example would be when Myrtle explained that she thought her husband was a gentleman until she married him because he had to borrow a suit for their wedding. These three things are the beginning and all show different signs of the characters…

In The Great Gatsby , money is a huge motivator in the characters’ relationships and motivations. Most of the characters reveal themselves to be highly materialistic. Daisy marries and stays with Tom because of the lifestyle he can provide her. Myrtle has her affair with Tom due to the world it grants her access to. After all, her voice is “full of money. High in a white palace the king's daughter. Nick establishes himself as someone who has had many advantages in life – a wealthy family and an…

Baz Luhrmann’s rendition of The Great Gatsby does a fantastic job of capturing the essence of alienation and love that is exhibited in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book. The fact he was able to absorb all the unique relationships of all these characters along with the values of Modern American literature is a great feat. Love is a very prominent factor in The Great Gatsby. So significant in the fact that it is the very thing that practically drives every single character. Love roots from the American…

Like many authors, Fitzgerald’s use of words gives the ultimate meaning to their works. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald’s use of literary devices improve characters and situations throughout the novel. These devices elucidate the impression the author is trying to epitomize to his readers. They also help establish significant themes in many of his works. As the reader analyzes the setting of this novel, the reader can see that the author gives a cheerful tone and occasionally personifies…

The Great Gatsby to mean is all about the American Dream. The characters Myrtle and Daisy are good examples for this. Myrtle is a poor woman who lives in the valley of ashes with her grease monkey husband George Wilson. Daisy comes from a rich family and is married to a man named Tom Buchanan and they live with their daughter Pammy in East Egg. Myrtle longs for the rich and glamorous lifestyle that her secret lover, Tom Buchanan, lives. While Daisy, who does enjoy the privileged life, longs for…

Front: On the front of my Gatsby T-shirt I have an old white car because Gatsby has one. This would bring Daisy to tears because back when Gatsby and Daisy were together, they were caught sitting in a car giving intimate looks to each other. I believe this would make Daisy cry because it would remind her of old times and revitalize her affection for Gatsby. I also have fireworks because they symbolize the celebration Gatsby had every weekend at his mansion. He throws parties for everyone hoping…

Nick Carraway, the narrator of The Great Gatsby, returns from the Great War restless and with a larger worldview than the narrow rural outlook he had before his departure. This causes Nick to leave the wholesale hardware business that his family had run in Minnesota since the civil war (pg. 7) and explore a new frontier. He eventually convinces his father to support him for a year and travels east to New York City in order to “learn the bond business” (pg. 5) which exposes the reader to the…