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In The Great Gatsby, a man named James Gatz creates an identity for himself based on wealth. He changes his identity not only upon the pursuit of wealth but also to win the girl of his dreams, Daisy. The book starts off with a quote from the narrator's father, “Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry ‘Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!” (Thomas Parke D’Invilliers). Gatsby did indeed wear the hat of gold, but…

In the Great Gatsby Jay Gatsby falls in love with a girl named daisy while he is in the army and the rest of his actions in the novel are motivated solely by his desire to obtain her. Throughout the novel Gatsby does many things in order to gain the love of Daisy which eventually lead to his death. Gatsby’s love of Daisy is the past which leads to his later obsession contributes to the meaning of the work as a while by emphasizing the novels theme that money cannot buy happiness. When Gatsby is…

In the book Tom and Gatsby are put in very different lights from each other, even early on. Nick dislikes Tom, yet he loves Gatsby, and their traits may have a lot to do with this. Tom is portrayed early on with very few likeable qualities at all. He is basically as close a single human being can get to being the definition of a scumbag. One of the worst things he does though, is cheating blatantly on his wife Daisy. He has a paramour, who is poor and powerless when compared with him that…

Gatsby Quote Reflection The quote from The Great Gatsby, “I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life”, explains how one experiences both pleasant and unpleasant things in life. This quote refers to how Nick sees his experiences through different perspectives. Nick is referring to the party at Myrtle and Tom’s apartment when he talks about multiple perspectives. He said that he was within and without to explain that he was comparing his…

Gatsby, the main character of the whole book, is the antagonist not only to Nick, but to himself as well. Along with hurting others such as Daisy, Nick’s cousin, Gatsby manages to change Nick, and himself, in both a mental and physical manner. Throughout the whole book, it was constantly about Gatsby and the rumors that were circling around him. With the traits that Gatsby presented such as, creating a hostile environment around the people he cares about, to careless spending of his money that…

Jay Gatsby’s elaborate mansion in Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby symbolizes the upper class’ need to be filled with material wealth and adoration to feel fulfilled. Fitzgerald uses mansion’s exterior, interior, and atmosphere to reflect different aspects of the upper class. The beginning of Gatsby’s interactions with Nick, Jordan, Daisy, and Tom is due to his impressive mansion and the parties that occur there. It is a pivotal location in the novel as it is the scene of parties, the place…

Daisy Buchanan, Jordan Baker, and Myrtle Wilson help to emphasise and demonstrate these growing freedoms of women and flapper style during the 1920’s in the novel. In The Great Gatsby, Daisy is married to Tom Buchanan, a wealthy man due to his family’s past. Daisy symbolizes a flapper women as she is described as this the first time the narrator, Nick Carraway who is Daisy’s cousin, sees her. He commentates, “the only completely stationary object in the room was an enormous couch on which two…

In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald tells the story of Jay Gatsby through Nick Carraway, Gatsby's neighbors, point of view. Nick retells the story of Gatsby and the events that partook after Nick was drawn into the lives of the rich. Throughout the novel, Fitzgerald uses many symbols to help reveal insights about the characters and further develop the theme and overall meaning of the novel. Fitzgerald introduces one of the main symbols of the novel, the broken clock,…

During the 1920’s era new and exciting development. Fitzgerald captures many very important insights of that age. One way Fitzgerald captures differences through male / female roles. Although there is many different themes throughout The Great Gatsby, one theme that stands out is male and female roles and Fitzgerald captures the way men and women were viewed perfectly. The Great Gatsby has multiple examples of roles in the society. One way this is shown is when Daisy says, “I hope she’ll be a…

Consequences of Assumption The key aspect discussed in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby was not derived from the mystery solved, but established by the lessons learned in the process. One key aspect that is justified in the unraveling of the mystery is that there are consequences when you act upon your assumptions. Even though some may say assuming is a survival instinct and has little significance to the story as a whole, many deaths could have been avoided if people did not act on…