Forrest Gump Literary Analysis

“Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the one we marry.” Many people believe that is how a marriage should work but that is not the case for Tom and Daisy Buchanan’s marriage in The Great Gatsby. The Great Gatsby is a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald where the narrator tells a story of a man, Jay Gatsby, trying to win back an old flame, Daisy Buchanan, by becoming rich and trying to fit in her social class. Tom and Daisy are two main characters in the story that have a complicated relationship where no one understands why they are still together when they show that they do not want to be together through their actions. Understanding Tom and Daisy’s relationship involve looking at their origins

For a good amount of his life, he has been concerned about how to become wealthy. Now that he is, it will be hard for him to adjust. Although he would be great at the business aspect of being a wealthy Virginia landowner, he wouldn’t be good at the social obligations. Franklin preached that one should “[cut] off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention [and] make the execution of that same plan [one’s] sole study and business”. However, as an aristocrat, it seems that the primary goal is to maintain appearances.

He was once of a lower-class status, which led him to feel self-conscious and embarrassed about his earlier stages of life. Gatsby was afraid to let others know about the difference in his social status; therefore, he tried his best to be mysterious and hide the fact that he was from new money. Jay Gatsby went through extraordinary measures to become one of the richest people in New York just so he could impress the girl of his dreams, Daisy Buchanan. Daisy belonged to the upper-class of society so when Gatsby was living in poverty, she did not accept him for who he was. After Gatsby acquired all his fortune, his mysterious past and actions still became a barrier between him and Daisy.

The people in West Egg are showy with their fortunes and lack social skills. On the other hand, while the people of East Egg are still very rich, they believe in leisure and graciousness. How does Nick describe himself at the beginning of the novel? He talks about how his father taught him to not judge other people because it

(Page 120). He explains to Nick, Daisy’s voice is golden and worth to listen to. This is another trap of Daisy’s to trick Gatsby into making him feel important and how he means the world to him. Gatsby is indeed obsessed with Daisy Buchanan that he even bought his house right across the bay from Daisy to show he still is in love with her after all those years. He fantasizes about her

The Jazz Age of America happened in the 1920s, begun by the end of the Great Depression. The richer classes in America lived an American Dream of wealth, freedom, and never-ending entertainment. This sometimes led to corruption from people seeking more money, more fun, more love, and more. The Great Gatsby is a prime example of this phenomenon. F. Scott Fitzergald’s

The characters in the book and the people during the 1920s who happened to have more money do not realize that their actions are creating a class structure in American

In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald attacks the rich class in the book and talks about the classes between two different types of wealthy people and those who live in the valley of ashes. There are the people like Daisy, Tom, and Jordan that were born rich, which they had gotten their money from their family and they were called “old money”. The “old money” thought they were better than the “new money”. The “new money” were people wasn’t born with money, which they had to work or earn their money to have it. Gatsby was called “new money”.

Even though America was meant to be a classless society, economic classes still separate people to a great extent in the 1920’s. In The Great Gatsby and the Twenties, by Ronald Berman, Berman explains that both Nick and Gatsby want to change their lives through hard work and success, (Berman p83) which seems as American as can be. However, those who were born rich never truly accept those who worked hard to become upper-class. When Tom tries to insult Gatsby, he calls him “Mr. Nobody from Nowhere”(Fitzgerald p130), suggesting that even after Gatsby puts in years of effort to become rich, even after he makes a small fortune, the fact that he was not born upper class is enough to make him “less” in some people’s eyes. When Tom is at Gatsby’s house, he still tries

Born “James Gatz,” he believed in chasing the American Dream and that he could work rigorously to pull himself out of the lower class community. While some people believe that changing one's social status is feasible, one just sincerely cannot.     Throughout the novel, the main character, Nick Carraway, finds himself being associated with the upper class of his town because of his relationships with his cousin, Daisy Buchanan, and Jay Gatsby. However, he, himself, is not wealthy in comparison to these people; he even described his home as “a weather-beaten cardboard bungalow at eighty a month” (Fitzgerald 3).

For the "old money" people, the fact that Gatsby (and countless other people like him in the 1920s) has only just recently acquired his money is reason enough to dislike him. In their way of thinking, he can 't possibly have the same refinement, sensibility, and taste they have. Not only does he work for a living, but he comes from a low-class background which, in their opinion, means he cannot possibly be like

When Gatsby finally meets Daisy after nearly five years, he claims “Her voice is full of money.” Gatsby loves that to him she embodies this amazing rise from poverty and wants to attain her, as she first got away due to it. He sees Daisy as a perfect being and is surprised when she is not. Gatsby has “an

This offer is absurd to Walter especially, now that he holds himself higher due to his recent economic gain and in knowing that it 's solely due to racial prejudice. Walter is extremely offended and on behalf of his family simply yet sternly tells Mr.Lindner to “Get Out” (119) after maturely listening to what he had to say. This is a bold move for Walter since it 's something he wouldn 't have done if he hadn 't received the money, allowing him to emulate holding a

(pg 142) In Chapter 3, once again Nick comes across as less mercenary than everyone else in the book as he waits for an invitation to attend one of Gatsby 's parties, and also takes the trouble to seek out his host. Nick has what many of the other characters lack — personal integrity — and his sense of right and wrong helps to raise him above the norm. He alone is repulsed by the false nature of the socialites. He alone is moved by Gatsby 's death.

I can 't help what 's past." She began to sob helplessly. "I did love him once – but I loved you