The Great Gatsby

In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the reader is introduced to a character named Gatsby. At the beginning of the book, you learn that Gatsby is a rich man who lives in West egg where people with “new money” live. In The Great Gatsby, the reader gets to see Gatsby’s mysterious facade, his changing personality, and his motivation that shows he is stuck in the past. Gatsby is a mysterious person and nobody seems to know anything about his past life. Even when he has parties every Saturday…

ephemeral imagination - world instead of in today’s eternal reality - now” (Sri Chinmoy). Today, people are so drawn to “perfect” realities that only involve dreams; dreams of an alternate world only involving peace and happiness. Jay Gatsby was one of those people. Gatsby was so engulfed in the memory he held of the fulfilling life he could have had with Daisy, he began to fail to see reality for its true nature. His heart belonged to a memory; an imaginary idea of the girl Daisy used to…

Some people may oppose the fact that new money is better than old money. In F. Scott Fitzgerald 's book "The great Gatsby" the author compares all characters of new money and old money in New York and Long Island. Not only did Fitzgerald compare the money she compared the culture.The culture during the 1920s in New York was formal opposed to Long Island where the culture was extravagant. To begin with, In Fitzgerald 's novel the main character, Nick Carraway, is living on the west egg of…

Coming from The Great Gatsby written by Scott Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald uses Gatsby’s parties to symbolize something that the readers would never expect. Gatsby’s parties are symbolized at the beginning of the book as rowdy parties where the rich have lots of fun by drinking and spreading rumors. By the end of the book, Fitzgerald had completely changed the meaning of the parties to that Gatsby held them to show off his wealth to Daisy and so she could come and see him. By doing this, it can be…

Jay Gatsby had spent five years of his life waiting for the opportunity to meet his lover from when he was younger, Daisy Buchanan. He spent his time, after having been away from her, becoming wealthy so as to impress her when they finally did reunite. For years…

man with lavish and grand parties, all organized to impress his first love to realize she only loved him for his wealth. Once the novel begins, the reader can predict that a major event will take place by the tone of the author. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald incorporates the use of female archetypes, motifs, and the symbolism of color to indicate the roles of characters and their surroundings. Fitzgerald captivated the audience using female archetypes to demonstrate the…

Is it right for others to question your dreams? To me the answer is no, however, I don’t think there is a right or wrong answer to this question because everyone has a different point of view of almost everything. The book The Great Gatsby, which was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a American style novel describing a millionaire also faces many judgments from others, characters in this book clearly performed how the society is, hates, love, jealousy, having doubts, and somehow can reflect…

The novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald demonstrates that cash can degenerate a man. Set in elegant Long Island in the 1920s, Fitzgerald is by all accounts contending that in American life, as in his novel, cash oftentimes debases one's qualities. It transforms them into puppets on a string. Money controls their next move , and with only a look into the life of extravagance they never need to clear out. A normally held principle among individuals from all eras is that diligent work…

Fantasy can lead to destruction mentally, spiritually and physically. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby is driven with obsession with Daisy Buchanan. Daisy was not willing to wait for Gatsby who at the time was poor and left to war. She went off and did her own life with Tom Buchanan, a wealthy man who gave her the life she wanted. In consequence, Gatsby is physically destroyed by fantasizing a life next to Daisy that eventually never happen. Loving can hurt physically and…

party defines who you are. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, a young man named Nick travels from the Midwest to New York, where he meets jay Gatsby, a rich man with an extravagant past. Gatsby shows Nick the world of wealth, but inadvertently exposes him to the corruption that comes with that wealth as well. Throughout the novel, Nick is introduced to two different kinds of parties: those of the rich, and those who mimic the rich. The Great Gatsby contains two different types of…