The Great Gatsby Essay

The decade of 1920’s, also known as The Roaring Twenties, was a time of prosperity and is characterized by great changes in America. The novel “The Great Gatsby” was published in 1925 and was written by the American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. This book shows how life was during this time of change and development. The story focuses on the lives of five major characters and how are their lives affected by their relationships with others. One of these characters is Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan’s wife

money you desire. If wealth is your only goal in life, you will soon find out how ineffective materialism aids in lasting satisfaction. This perpetual dissatisfaction is excellently portrayed in The Great Gatsby, a realistic fiction by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The novel focuses on the downfall of Jay Gatsby due to the moral vacuum generated by his social class status and his inability to recreate an idealistic past, even with the assistance of his massive fortune. Therefore, wealth generates the downfall

The Flaw of the Great Gatsby One of the main reasons for Gatsby’s death was himself. He had one major flaw that brought his whole life to ruin. Even though Gatsby could’ve prevented his own death, Myrtle and Tom were also big causes that led to it. One of the main people that caused Gatsby’s death was Myrtle. Myrtle meant everything to George and when he found out she was cheating on him it turned his whole world upside down. Even before Myrtle died George was already starting to lose it and go

Ms.Seda Joseph Rosendo PD 5 May 3, 2016 At the end of the novel of The Great Gatsby, Nick recounts all the things that had just occurred and says “ I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all —Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.” Nick says it was a story of the West because they all had the common trait of being lured and accustomed into

never where you think you left it” (Katherine Anne Porter). People intentionally not willing to leave their past due to the prehistoric memories because the good memory they had. Relevant to Porter’s evince in the novel of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby a guy who cannot leave his past, constantly wanting to change everything back to the past with his former lover Daisy but never succeeds due to people’ desire of meliorate their lives. During this process the novel also reveals

undeservingly hold themselves in high-esteem often struggle to come to terms with the differences between reality and fantasy. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway, a man from the Midwest, perceives himself to be of a greater moral standing than his new neighbors. Despite this belief, Nick gets mixed up in the lives of Jay Gatsby, who lives in West Egg, and the Buchanans, who live in East Egg. While submerged in the problems of others, Nick draws several conclusions about the character

create for themselves. In The Great Gatsby the actions of Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan, Nick Carraway, and Jay Gatsby bring the characters to the reality of the choices they make. The 1920s is a time of ambition, fun, power, money, and Gatsby represents all of that. Nick goes as far to mention that there is something “gorgeous” about Gatsby (Fitzgerald 2). Gatsby's qualities are what projected that sense of gorgeous towards Nick, but even Gatsby is not perfect. Although Gatsby resembles those qualities

elaborate parties, the glittering city, and the twinkling flappers. One may also think of the American dream, defined as the ideal that any US citizen can achieve success through initiative and hard work. The novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald describes the life of Jay Gatsby, a rich, rising, and ambitious man in this time period, who exemplifies someone achieving the American Dream. However, his life story also reveals the unpleasant sides of this ideal. Fitzgerald uses literary devices

Colors are very apparent in The Great Gatsby. They often show up as descriptions to many important items throughout the book, and make those items resemble symbols. The color white confuses the reader, and often causes him/her to rethink their logic. It describes false purity and deception within something, which is very apparent in the character Daisy in this novel. The color grey gives the reader a comparison, and that is of humans to machines. Something that is lifeless is described as grey. After

about it! Money is not capable of buying true friendship from people. In “The Great Gatsby”, there is new money and old money. New money refers to people who are new to wealth and old money refers to families that have been wealthy for a long time. Both new and old money people are in the same class, but the two types of people behave differently and spend their money differently. Mr. Jay Gatsby is a new money person. Gatsby flashes his money around, which is very foolish. He does this by constantly