Summary of The Great Gatsby

The great Gatsby is a movie overwhelmed with emotions such as jealousy, hatred, attraction, and most importantly, love. In this movie, a bond-seller, Nick Carraway is writing a journal, is fighting with depression and alcoholism caused by the sequence of events he lived with a mysterious man name, Jay Gatsby. Nick’s Doctor listens to him re-encountering the story which led him to his current situation. Nick’s story explains that seven years ago, he moved into a tiny house on Long Island, and had…

Response 890 I believe that Jay Gatsby and Othello’s inability to face the truth lead to their tragic consequences, but in real life I believe it is not the case. The Great Gatsby and ‘Othello’ are both stories beautifully constructed by William Shakespeare and F. Scott Fitzgerald. I believe that the refusal to face the truth for Gatsby and Othello, was definitely an element used by the authors to construct them as tragic protagonists. Jay Gatsby from The Great Gatsby is an ambitious and…

The Great Gatsby written by Fitzgerald narrates the story that a rich and handsome man tried hard to achieve his dream and the woman he loved, but ended with death. The novel represents a materialist, corrupt and depraved society where people degenerated both materially and spiritually. This society was generally going down rather than went "from nothing to nothing" (p. 103). In this essay, why people of all classes would ended the same and how people lost morality will be stated. It will also…

hand. Walter and Gatsby are the antithesis of each other through their exterior selves, but morally, they are greatly alike. The way Gatsby and Walter have a want for money, revolve their lives around it, and the need for others to view them as grand people causes them to fall. The only aspect of their life that grants them some sense of sanity is the role that Daisy and Ruth, their loves, have in their actions. Fitzgerald creates the invisible barrier of money to distract Gatsby from reality.…

All the characters in The Great Gatsby have almost a non-existent relationship with nature. When one thinks of the colour green, they usually associate it with nature or the environment. For Gatsby, however, this is a symbol of his dream to have Daisy. When Tom and Daisy run away from East Egg, Gatsby realizes that “the colossal significance of the light has vanished forever.” He attaches all of his dreams, hopes and goals to this green light so much, that when it is suddenly gone, he is…

understood using Carl Jung’s theory of the “archetype” (Nye 2008, 136). Jung’s theory states that there are some “fundamental symbols with meanings and associations” (Nye 2008, 134) shared universally, or by all human beings. In the case of The Great Gatsby, I will focus on only the people within the “universe” of the book, i.e. the analysis of symbols and the people’s beliefs in them exist only within the Valley of Ashes (outskirts of New York City). There are many important symbols in the…

Critical Research Paper: First Draft The Female Characters in The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is a historical novel. The author employs a narrator, Nick Carraway, to allow insight into the upper class society of New York during the early 1920s. Socially, women enjoyed enormous changes during this era as hem lines shortened replacing long skirts and corsets, hair was bobbed to resemble a more masculine style, and women attained the right to vote. Women, predictably,…

Daisy Gatsby loves the image of her that he has created over the past five years, since he last saw her. Gatsby is in love with, essentially, everything she is not. Gatsby shows the depth of his love for Daisy near the end of the novel when he takes the blame for hitting, and killing, Myrtle Wilson. Therefore, when Gatsby dies at the end on the story, it was his love for Daisy that killed him. Even though this is a poetically romantic thought, Daisy decide that she loves Tom more than Gatsby,…

retreat[ed] back into their money or their vast carelessness[...](Ch.9).” And at this point, Nick, who reserves all judgments, also makes a strong judgment by calling Tom, Daisy and the upper class they represent “a rotten crowd.” Later on, he states Gatsby “worth the hole damn bunch put…

Fitzgerald summed this idea up well in The Great Gatsby by saying, “Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry” (57). Even if one didn’t have the means to have the best of everything, it was still expected of them. Myrtle was enraged when she found out her husband didn’t wear his own suit to his wedding. “He borrowed somebody’s best suit to get married in…and the man came after it one day when he was out…I gave it to him and then I lay…