Scott McCloud

Blinded Some critics argue that Jay Gatsby 's devotion to Daisy Buchanan in Fitzgerald 's The Great Gatsby is obsessive and dysfunctional; I believe that some of his actions, although ultimately tragic, prove Gatsby to simply be a man blinded by love. Jay Gatsby is first portrayed after Nick Carraway spots Gatsby at the dock of his mansion overlooking the river separating the West Egg from the East Egg. However, Jay Gatsby is only an identity created by James Gatz; he created his identity after…

Picture this. It’s the age of anxiety. People and ideals are scattered about like lights in the sky, with WW1 looming over the consciousness of the people. In these times, a man named Francis Scott Fitzgerald sits over a desk pondering the events that he just barely avoided. This is the birthplace of a quite influential lovechild, The Great Gatsby. A book filled with the embodiment of the times, anxiety and worry dotting a big illuminated banner. The American dream-- quite the ambitious idea to…

Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, is an unfortunate shining example of embodying the American characteristic that is narcissism. Gatsby seems to be a broken fire hydrant of lies and secrets -- spewing out anything to help him maintain his brilliantly…

and stable on the outside, but on the inside it can be unbalanced and frail, the same philosophy goes with people; you can never really tell what a person has truly gone through just by looking at them. In the novel The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald a man named Jay Gatsby has come a far way, from poverty. Gatsby works his way up to becoming a wealthy man in order to reach his dream of being with the one he loves, Daisy, even if that means being something that he is not. In chapter…

Scott Fitzgerald himself. When looking closely at the life of Jay Gatsby, the main character and protagonist in The Great Gatsby, it is nearly impossible to not see the similarities between his life, and the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald. One example would be that both Fitzgerald and Gatsby attended prestigious universities, but never graduated from them. Jay Gatsby…

One of the main themes of F.Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, is the American Dream, a dream defined as the set ideals of democracy, rights, liberty, opportunity, and equality for everyone. Though each character in his or her own right is in search of promises of the American dream, each character represents different ideas of appreciation, freedom, and sacrifice of the Dream. First and foremost, the way in which the characters gain the American Dream determines their appreciation of…

room. You were convinced that you would one day marry that person and you would do absolutely anything for him. However, you were oblivious to the fact that a person might not feel the same way and that ended up hurting you even more in the end. In F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, a story of love, hatred, lies and scandal is seen through the eyes of Nick Carraway. Jay Gatsby changed his life around and lived a wild, expensive one while blindly chasing after his true love that he…

According to Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby is the a masterpiece in American Literature. A masterpiece takes a great deal of work with the development of the characters and the plot of the story. Nick as the narrator does this by giving brief crucial descriptions of both the major and minor characters. Nick repeatedly demonstrates how almost every character has been consumed by the need and want for money. The greed within the hearts of both the East Eggers and West Eggers blinds them to the…

“favourite” or “bestselling” but when it has stood the test of time. It is an expression of life, truth or anything about the universal condition, and continues to be relevant to inspire emotional responses to people across all time periods and cultures. F. Scott Fitzgerald 's novel, ‘The Great Gatsby’, published on the 10th April, 1925, follows Jay Gatsby, a man who revolves his life around one desire, to be reunited with Daisy Buchanan, the love he lost five years earlier. Gatsby 's quest…

A home is a pure reflection of the people who occupy it. The people who live in a house fill the house with things that they like and enjoy, things that show their personality. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald we meet the characters Jay Gatsby, the Buchanans, and Nick Carraway, all come from diverse lifestyles and backgrounds. The Buchanans and Gatsby live in very big and opulent mansions, while Nick lives in a tiny shack. All of them are very content with where they live,…