The Great Gatsby

Throughout the novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald addresses the morality of the people he saw as representative of his time through the behaviors of the characters in the novel and how these characters react to various situations. The 1920s was an era marked by money, cars, and breaking down social barriers. Fitzgerald examines certain characters who are not always led by their moral compasses, and the extent to which these characters have evolved to share the shifting views of the time…

In the passage presented from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald presents the ditsy but bright Daisy and the naïve but ambitious Gatsby as an unlikely pair, mutually falling to destruction from their own superficial infatuation with each other. Gatsby’s counterfeit wealth and façade of leisurely composure aide in bringing out Daisy’s shallow love for Gatsby. In illuminating this contrast between the two characters, Fitzgerald utilizes weather imagery as well as the symbolism of…

came to America from Europe looking for wealth and freedom. The pioneers directed west for the same reason. The Great Gatsby shows the surge revolving east, as hordes drove to New York City in search of stock market fortunes. The Great Gatsby shows this shift as a symbol of the American Dreams’ corruption. It's no longer a dream of building a life; it's just about becoming rich. Jay Gatsby, the protagonist, signifies both the tarnished Dream and the innovative untouched Dream. He believes that…

looking for the true love. The novel, The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is about the American Dream during the 1920’s. The narrator Nick Caraway moves to the West Egg and is introduced to the lavish lifestyle of Jay Gatsby. Gatsby, the main character is hopelessly in love with Daisy Buchanan, with whom he has had a past relationship. When Daisy and Gatsby rekindle their relationship, the two seem to be after two completely different things. Gatsby is essentially an innocent…

The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald expresses many themes; however the most noteworthy relates to the corruption of the American dream. The American dream is set of ideas that show that United States freedom includes opportunities to obtain prosperity, success, and upward social mobility through hard work no matter what an individual’s racial, religious, or economic background is (Eliassen 1). The Great Gatsby shows what the American dream was like during the 1920’s. It was time where the dream…

In his novel The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald attempts to show that Americans resort to illegal and immoral means in order to exceed their own grasp. Fitzgerald has no problem with setting goals, but he clearly shows that there is a problem once one strays from their morals, as many do throughout the novel. Specifically Daisy is worried about protecting her image and stability that comes along with class, but the only way she is able to attain this is through immoral ways that involve her…

knew that she would not really be held accountable for her reaction. Gatsby clearly did not know what he had gotten himself into and that was his downfall, he so blindly believed that she would choose love over status. “For Gatsby, the realization is complete: the past is gone. There is no way to recreate that perfect moment” (Bloom para. 155). Even so he chooses to protect her when the following events occur. Daisy really led Gatsby to his own death, she had an idea of what was to come…

Tom Buchanan ideas are confusing for a reader of the novel. He says that he loves Daisy; however he is often unfaithful towards her. Thus, I believe that Tom is a person who does not truly love Daisy. Both Tom and Daisy are considered dishonest, and when he called out Daisy and Gatsby’s affair he is hypocritical. When Tom was with his mistress, Myrtle, they got into an impassioned conversation, during this discussion Myrtle started shouting Daisy’s name. This caused Tom to get fierce and ended…

characters. Slater suggests, “Later, during the climactic confrontation with Gatsby at the Plaza Hotel, Tom attempts to use invidious ethnicity as a weapon, a device to demean the rival” (Slater 54). Tom says, “Nowadays people begin by sneering at family life and family institutions, and next they’ll throw everything overbroad and have intermarriage between black and white” (Fitzgerald 130). Tom tries to degrade Gatsby by picking up on his color or origin arising a question of Gatsby’s ethnic…

In The Great Gatsby, author F. Scott Fitzgerald shows the change in America’s morals during the Jazz Age in the 1920s by using characters like Jay Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan, and Myrtle Wilson, who all have experienced a large shift in mortality compared to just the generation before them. The novel shows the social change in American society after World War I, which was a time of conservatism, compared to the risqué twenties. Throughout the novel, Fitzgerald continuously brings up…