Winfield Scott

1. Nick describes himself as a nonjudgmental person. 2. Nick describes Tom as a 3. Jordan Baker is an old friend of Daisy’s, also a professional golfer. Nick likes that Jordan is extremely pessimistic, with a mannish, cold personality. 4. Gatsby is standing alone on his lawn looking out over the water towards the green light that marks where daisies home is. 5. Nick 's tone when he is describing tom portrayed that he was not fond of toms existence 2 1. Nick meets Tom’s mistress when tom…

The Great Gatsby was one of many creative stories F. Scott Fitzgerald successfully wrote during his era. The 1920’s brought new things to Fitzgerald and his newly wedded wife, but once all the fame and glamour ended so did they. Fitzgerald’s life eventually came crashing down in depression and misery following the 1920’s, and he would never be the same. Fitzgerald became very vulnerable to this era and could not control himself, which came back to haunt him. Fitzgerald wrote the book in first…

Who is Responsible for Gatsby’s Death? Love is a serious of complex chemical reactions that no one knows what will happen in next step. In Fitzgerald’s book ‘The Great Gatsby’, a snoopy man who tried to repeat the love in the past was killed. Gatsby is new money whose girlfriend married a man who owns a wealth family, because Gatsby didn 't return after he attended a war. In an accident, Daisy, the women who Gatsby loves driving a car and collide Daisy husband’s mistress, Myrtle. His furious…

Within the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald the journey of the newly rich protagonist, Jay Gatsby, is recounted in relation to his love for Daisy Buchnana. Gatsby is a charming and confident man who grew his empire of welath himself to attract his true love Daisy. While many believe Jay gatsby is an unforeseen hero, due to his obtained wealth and persistence for love, I believe that Gatsby is a tragic hero due to his flaws, naiveness, and finally his tragic fall. What brought Gatsby…

Blinded Some critics argue that Jay Gatsby 's devotion to Daisy Buchanan in Fitzgerald 's The Great Gatsby is obsessive and dysfunctional; I believe that some of his actions, although ultimately tragic, prove Gatsby to simply be a man blinded by love. Jay Gatsby is first portrayed after Nick Carraway spots Gatsby at the dock of his mansion overlooking the river separating the West Egg from the East Egg. However, Jay Gatsby is only an identity created by James Gatz; he created his identity after…

Picture this. It’s the age of anxiety. People and ideals are scattered about like lights in the sky, with WW1 looming over the consciousness of the people. In these times, a man named Francis Scott Fitzgerald sits over a desk pondering the events that he just barely avoided. This is the birthplace of a quite influential lovechild, The Great Gatsby. A book filled with the embodiment of the times, anxiety and worry dotting a big illuminated banner. The American dream-- quite the ambitious idea to…

Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, is an unfortunate shining example of embodying the American characteristic that is narcissism. Gatsby seems to be a broken fire hydrant of lies and secrets -- spewing out anything to help him maintain his brilliantly…

and stable on the outside, but on the inside it can be unbalanced and frail, the same philosophy goes with people; you can never really tell what a person has truly gone through just by looking at them. In the novel The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald a man named Jay Gatsby has come a far way, from poverty. Gatsby works his way up to becoming a wealthy man in order to reach his dream of being with the one he loves, Daisy, even if that means being something that he is not. In chapter…

Scott Fitzgerald himself. When looking closely at the life of Jay Gatsby, the main character and protagonist in The Great Gatsby, it is nearly impossible to not see the similarities between his life, and the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald. One example would be that both Fitzgerald and Gatsby attended prestigious universities, but never graduated from them. Jay Gatsby…

One of the main themes of F.Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, is the American Dream, a dream defined as the set ideals of democracy, rights, liberty, opportunity, and equality for everyone. Though each character in his or her own right is in search of promises of the American dream, each character represents different ideas of appreciation, freedom, and sacrifice of the Dream. First and foremost, the way in which the characters gain the American Dream determines their appreciation of…