The Great Gatsby

In The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald introduces a complex character whose motivations and values are strictly driven by his relationship with the past. Jay Gatsby’s hold on his history is critical to the understanding of the novel as a whole, as well as his personality and the duality in his psyche. Fitzgerald details the struggles of humans as they attempt to attain their goals by both surpassing and reconstructing the past. This past acts as a source of ideas for the future, unescapable, as…

plentiful years of the Earth’s existence, very few have been glorious. Civilization has had various ups and downs like the roaring twenties and the Great Depression. The roaring twenties however has been one of the most prosperous years of America’s journey. Many people were happy both financially and emotionally. However, the novel The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, symbolizes many of the events during the roaring twenties that made it earn its name. Even so, the novel visualizes…

In the 1920s, American is called as “Jazz Age”, The Great Gatsbydescribes the times. The times has the developed economy, most of American have felt the advantages of substance from the first war, many individuals pursue the wealth and lead a life of pleasure, they think this is a splendid times and lost in it. Besides, they think the times is endless. In the times, the social structure and the psychology and behavior of people have changed profoundly, the middle class expands rapidly, the…

Gatsby’s Parties and the Color Green Do people need wealth and parties to really be happy, and in love or can friends be enough? F. Scott Fitzgerald takes the reader through a journey in his book The Great Gatsby to figure out just that. During the book Gatsby throws parties to show his wealth and try to win back the love he lost. His wealth is spent in extraordinary ways to get Daisy’s attention and try to win her back. His neighbor Nick and him become close friends. Tom Buchanan does not like…

American novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby is a literary classic which tells the tragic tale of Jay Gatsby and his relentless pursuit of love in a society where true love simply does not exist. Throughout this story, Fitzgerald allows the reader to experience firsthand the arrogance and shallowness which plagued the inhabitants of the novel like an uncontrollable disease. However, this disease was not limited to the fictional characters in The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald uses this…

In Francis Scott Fitzgerald 's novel, The Great Gatsby, the goal of the American dream is displayed and the realities of tragedy and corruption are exposed. Jay Gatsby demonstrates the emptiness resulting after chasing a dream filled with only valuelessness, materialistic things. Although Gatsby had surrounded himself with hundreds and hundreds of people, none of them actually cared about him as a person. All of them were only there for their own entertainment off of Gatsby’s generosity or for…

it has been for ages past, so it is now.” In the Jazz Age novel, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby is a self-made, extravagantly rich young man who lives on the West Egg of Long Island. His love interest is Daisy Buchanan a married old money girl with whom he had a romantic past. As their relationship progresses, it becomes clear to everyone but Gatsby that it is not the same as it used to be. Eventually, Gatsby takes the blame for Daisy after she kills Myrtle Wilson, and ends…

able to stop time, or turn it back. In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby wants to control and turn back the clock. He staunchly believes in the fact that the past can be repeated and he actively looks to repeat the past. He tries to gain back five years of time that is lost forever. Throughout the spring, summer and autumn of 1922, it seems as if Gatsby might actually succeed in repeating the past; however, it is not possible. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses seasons and the…

The Great Gatsby, a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is viewed today to be a classic and one of Fitzgerald’s best works. The story takes place in New York, 1922 and includes a romance, murder and engulfing the reader in the culture of the 1920’s. However, Fitzgerald did something interesting when writing the story. He placed himself into the story as Gatsby himself. Fitzgerald used these characters to portray his life leading up to the book and his own personality and his outlook on his…

Fitzgerald lived the American Dream in his prime. He published The Great Gatsby in the twenties, and he strived to do things exactly as his fictional character Jay Gatsby would. The parties Fitzgerald threw were replicas of those of Jay Gatsby. Fitzgerald envied his Gatsby in every aspect. Upon his death in 1940, the book started selling during and after World War II, when the American Dream seemed more attainable than ever. Jay Gatsby is an American icon. Every man wishes they could throw…