Walter Scott

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is set and published in the 1920’s, or more commonly known as the roaring 20’s, and roaring it was indeed. Many things were occurring as the birth of prohibition with the ratification of the 18th amendment and the birth of organized crime. Another writer that was prolific at this time was Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis. His ideas with psychoanalysis was that a person’s decision could be influenced by the events of their past and by a person’s…

Wealth and money can be used in attempts to cover up their empty lives, but in reality it exposes them ever more. In the book, The Great Gatsby, by Francis Scott Fitzgerald, the rich people who attend Gatsby’s parties act as though their lives are wonderful, even though their lives are meaningless. Fitzgerald constantly uses comparisons during the preparation for the party, the party itself, and after the party has finished in order to uncover the truly empty lives of the wealthy individuals…

betrayed by Gatsby, he remains a loyal friend to him until the end. During most of the 1920s most people had to deal with the World War 1 after effects, which caused many to deal with the poverty that wandered through America. In the “Great Gatsby” F. Scott Fitzgerald uses literary devices such as motif, symbolism, imagery, allegory, foreshadowing, simile and metaphor to convey that there is no such thing as…

laying next to her and a cat draped on her hand. This simple depiction proves that she is a high maintenance, needy girlfriend. The occasion of this video is set in a mansion. The castle served as one of the inspirations for Jay Gatsby 's estate in F. Scott Fitzgerald 's The Great Gatsby. This Gatsby reference relates to the lyrics, "new money, suit and tie" (Swift). Symbolism with an apple is used toward the end of the music video. Swift 's character grips the apple very tightly and eventually…

Hope can best be described as an intense desire for a certain thing to happen. Hope exists outside of the beholders reality, and remains something that they are constantly reaching to achieve. In F. Scott Fitzgerald 's The Great Gatsby, hope and the pursuit of the American dream are intricately woven throughout the novel. However the reader eventually begins to see the paradox that Fitzgerald presents about hope . Gatsby and Daisy begin to experience the harsh difference between their…

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896 in the city of St. Paul, Minnesota. His father had a furniture business that failed. After it failed, they moved to St. Paul to live off F. Scott Fitzgerald’s mother’s inheritance. He dropped out of school to fight in the war. He was afraid of losing his life to World War 1. He was second lieutenant in infantry. Later, he went to Alabama and fell in love with a girl, got married and had a child. Afterwards, he moved to New York with hope to…

Of the 20 richest women in the world, all of them have inherited their money from either their husband or their father. Proving that women need men in their lives in order to reach success. In the Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the novel describes numerous individuals in the 1920’s. Women in this time period, known as flappers, recently gain their rights and are starting to test the limits. They stereotypically commit “unlady-like” actions such as drinking, smoking, and cursing. Some…

Scott Fitzgerald is more than its film version by Baz Luhrmann because it greatly portrays the major themes and the original ideas of the story. The moral corruption of the wealthy and some poor characters, class difference, and the opposite side of the…

In the famous novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald exhibits the beliefs and experiences of his own life in the 1920s, which also still have impact today. History.com states, “The 1920s were an age of dramatic social and political change. For a small handful of young people in the nation’s big cities, the 1920s were roaring indeed.” Fitzgerald was a prominent author during this time due to his famous novel The Great Gatsby. In his works, he illustrated events in his own life and related…

Social commentary can be defined as the act of using pretentious means to comment on issues in a society. F. Scott Fitzgerald used The Great Gatsby as social commentary to criticize the ethical issues related to the wealthy. Although published 100 years ago in the "Roaring Twenties", Fitzgerald’s use of social commentary in The Great Gatsby relates to today’s atmosphere by stressing the significance of money and material things. Moral decay, the act of losing positive virtues, and the decline…