The Great Gatsby

bystanders only see what the media wants us to see whether it’s good or bad. In reality we know nothing about wealthy people and what their money sometimes does to people. In the book The Great Gatsby one of the ideas or themes of the book is sometimes the upper class is carelessness and shallow. As you may know Nick and Gatsby live in West Egg, where the people have been rich for a long time. Tom and Daisy however live on at East Egg, where the people are young and newly rich. And where West…

The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby is a book written in 1925 by F. Scott Fitzgerald, it was based on New York City and long island in the 1920s. The background of the novel is set in the upper class of the American society. Fitzgerald uses his novel to tell his experience of the “roaring twenties” and the corruption of the American dream The story tells a man named Jay Gatsby, tries his best to win the love of Daisy, whom is the wife of Tom Buchanan. Jay Gatsby was originally a poor boy named…

as successful as others in the New York area. We learn through “The Great Gatsby” that there are poor or not wealthy people and then there are the people with mansions and lots of money on the shores of the Long Island Sound. Geography and setting is important to the story’s theme and personalities of the characters. One theme that is reflected upon this story’s geography is that love comes at a high price. For Jay Gatsby, he was in love with Daisy when they were in the military together…

reason you know that this book is written from first perspective is because in the beginning of chapter 1 Nick introduces himself, and how he is writing this book about Gatsby, his neighbor. In addition throughout the chapters he used “I, my cousin, and etc” to refers to the characters in the book. Also when he was talking about Gatsby he tells everyone about he is “his neighbor”, although he has never met him until this point in the book. Those were some of the clues that the authors used to…

At the beginning of the chapter Gatsby approaches Nick as he is in a taxi in front of Gatsby’s house. Nick lets him know that the following day he is going to call Daisy and invite her over. When Gatsby hears this he makes several attempts to seem as calm as possible, when in reality the reader gets a sense that he is very nervous. Gatsby responds by saying, “I don’t want to put you to any trouble.” Then when Nick asks Gatsby what day suits him, Gatsby repeats “I don’t want to put you to any…

left for a while, so Gatsby and Daisy can catch up on the past. Back in the Living room Gatsby and Daisy stared awkwardly at each other. The room was very quiet the only noise that could be heard was the pouring rain and the ticking of the clock that Gatsby messed up earlier. “So…What did you need to tell Nick before he left?” Daisy asked, curiously when he walked back in the room. Daisy hoped it would end the awkward silence. “Oh… You… know… Just some work business!” Gatsby nervously said…

The characters in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short stories share many similarities that are drawn from Fitzgerald’s experiences in life. One of the most common characteristics the characters share is a blind obsession to material objects and beauty. In The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, The Last of The Belles and Winter Dreams characters lack perspective on things that are truly important in life and are blindly driven by their obsessions, which in the end, results in their downfall and in some cases,…

how little we knew about his personality which would allow us to more freely project his image in our still. Also we chose him because of how he is so close to the way Gatsby got his money which would allow us to show how new money worked. We used the new money theme. This shows the inter working of the new money. Wolfshiem and Gatsby worked together and ran drug stores around the country. This is a big part of Wolfshiem's character in the book because it is one of the only things that we know…

1. What the greenlight symbolizes makes this chapter in my opinion. It really starts the plot and let's you know the story is going to be good. It symbolizes Gatsby's goal and we'll find out will he achieve it. 2. At the beginning of the novel, Nick describes himself as a person that reserves judgement. He said he is inclined to reserve all judgement. He said he was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men. 3.He describes Tom as an arrogant person who cheats on his wife. And who is…

The choices made by the character Tom Buchanan throughout chapters 1-3 display the answer to the question “what is bad?” From the first time we meet Tom, we can see the blatant disrespect he treats Daisy (his wife) with. He always cuts her off when she speaks, as if what he has to say is more important than what she does: “Haven’t you ever seen her?” “Never” “Well, you ought to see her. She’s---” “Tom Buchanan who had been hovering restlessly about the room stopped and rested his hand on my…