Great Gatsby Integrity

Social responsibility is the act of maintaining a balance between the society so that every individual should be treated equally and individuals should act in a way to benefit the society in a whole. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, follows Jay Gatsby, a rich young man who finally reunites with the love of his life after five years. During those five years she gets married to Tom, so Gatsby tries to win her love back, which ultimately brings him death. Fitzgerald uses literary devices such as foreshadowing, dialogue, and characterization to establish that the characters are socially responsible. Fitzgerald establish the theme through the use of foreshadowing, dialogue, and characterization, that social responsibility is a requirement

Lying is a part of life. From the conman on the street to the nun in the church, everyone has been dishonest within their lifetime, whether to trick someone or to protect someone. However, The Great Gatsby’s Nick Carraway is not lying when he says that “[he is] one of the few honest people that [he has] even known” (59). Yet, he is still not an honest man. Nick is a narrator expertly tailored to match the story he tells, recounting a world in which everyone he has ever known trades truth and transparency for the shining ideals of cultured living and wealth. He is a dishonest man in a dishonest world.

The idea that one can become obsessed with the things he or she owns is not always negative; when striving for positive attributes, this obsession represents the drive for betterment of one’s sense of self. In The Great Gatsby, Nick shows that the number of possessions one owns does not always equate to one’s depth of character. Despite his relative penury in the novel, he possesses a greater sense of self than the other characters, such as Gatsby, Tom, and Daisy, who own more material goods. His keen sense of self can be attributed to his drive for knowledge, as the book notes that he is “inclined to reserve all judgments,” leading to his “curious nature” (Fitzgerald 1). Instead of jumping to conclusions, Nick waits to gather the facts in a situation before judging someone, which society considers a reputable and just thing to do.

The impact of great wealth is first seen through the character of Nick Carraway, the narrator and Gatsby’s neighbor. Nick is thrown into a world of money, parties, and lavish lifestyle when he moves next door to Gatsby on Long Island in the summer of 1922. Coming from Minnesota after fighting in World War I and attending Yale, Nick Carraway is a kind-hearted, open-minded man. He comes to New York to sell bonds and settles in next door to Gatsby’s mansion. Gatsby’s lifestyle is exhilarating to Carraway.

Throughout the course of American history, the notoriously famous novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald has been believed to be a prominent novel encompassing the concept of morality. As the events of the novel transpire, many immoral actions that take place among the main characters. These immoral actions are identified and clearly classified by the foundational ideologies of the time period. However, it is important to recognize and identify the significant “nonjudgmental lens” through which Nick witnesses the immoral actions. Due to the fact that Nick attempts to inform the audience unbiased, it formulates a viewpoint that does not condemn nor call to action the immoral actions upon the characters of the novel, such as Gatsby and

This relationship was fascinating in terms of its state, it was brotherly in some instances, fatherly in others but overall it possessed a romantic and breathless characteristic of hope. This is evident as we witness Nick’s immediate curiosity and admiration for Gatsby. Nick’s fascination began at the start of the novel as he wonders, “If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him (Gatsby)”. (Fitzgerald 3). Gatsby made Nick feel hopeful and magnificent, this kind of hope was romantic and orgasmic in a sense, because of the way in which he

Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway are two of the most important characters in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Throughout the novel many comparisons and contrasts can be made, however, this may be arguably the most important due to the magnitude of importance of these two characters and the roles they play in progressing the story. Jay Gatsby, a fabulously wealthy young man living in a Gothic Mansion in West Egg and the protagonist, throws constant parties every Saturday night, but nobody has much insight about him. Nick Carraway, a young man from Minnesota who lives in New York City to learn the bond business, is typically an honest and tolerant man. Although they do share some similarities, they also share a plethora of differences in their

In the story "The Great Gatsby" Nick has a favorable opinion of Jay Gatsby. In the first chapter of the book Nick states "When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart. Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction- Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn. " The book gives many examples of Nick thinking of Gatsby as the "Great" such as Gatsby 's smile, what Gatsby was willing to do for Daisy, and what Gatsby did for himself.

Author, F. Scott Fitzgerald, in his novel, The Great Gatsby, recounts the story of two love-struck people through another character called Nick. Fitzgerald’s purpose is to show how different characters change throughout the story by using many rhetorical elements like descriptive imagery, the choice of strong diction, and metaphors/similes. The author focuses on the characterization of three main characters which are Gatsby, Daisy, and Nick because they are seemingly connected. These characterizations relate back to the themes of achieving the American Dream that is to be rich and powerful but still have love and a family to come home to every night. Even though many of the characters have changed and evolved throughout the story, some of them

Slater suggests, “As narrator he tends to pint out the ethnic affiliation of the individuals with whom he comes in contact whenever their ethnicity is not of an Old American type as is his own” (Slater 55). Whenever Nick introduces new characters of different races than white, he usually makes it clear what ethnic group the character is from, “ a gray scrawny Italian child… the young Greek, Michaelis” (Slater 55). Nick does not intend to discriminate any ethnic group, but he rather shows the social attitude of the cultural awareness of his time. He is a typical American who was raised in the society where whites are superior to any other races that affects his approach of others. The ‘20s is usually described as anti-immigrant, anti-Semitist, anti-change time, so all the factors shape the minds of the “superior” characters in a way that might seem irrational nowadays.

As Nick as the narrator, we see his internal thoughts and emotions being shown on the paper. Nick reflects how Gatsby spent so much time on one goal, and Nick had spent so much time with Gatsby, and it all just seems sad at the end. Throughout the book you can see several emotions flow through Nick. When Gatsby is showing off his home for Daisy, the reader might think Nick is a little envious of Gatsby, treating his home like it's nothing, brushing it off his shoulder. At the end of the novel, Nick says that he was never a fan of Gatsby, but he definitely pitied him after the hotel event, but before Gatsby's demise.

The theme of The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald is that the upper class tend to participate in actions that are commonly seen as dishonest, unfaithful, or sketchy. Characters like Nick, Gatsby, Tom and George have twisted views on their own reality due to unfaithfulness and dishonesty. Nick was constantly lied to in the story, for example, Gatsby lied to him about where he got his money. Lies, similar to the one above, gave Nick some twisted views on the reality of his friendship. Gatsby had a twisted view on love due to Daisy marrying Tom right after he left for the war, rather than waiting for him. Tom cared more about his affair with Myrtle than his own wife. Neither Tom nor Daisy truly wanted to be in the relationship. George had his life all mixed up not knowing that Myrtle is being unfaithful to him. These instances of dishonesty from all of these characters against each other result in their own twisted realities due to unfaithfulness and dishonesty.

If one is honest, they are to be free of deceit and untruthfulness; sincere. The quality of being honest is honesty. Although characters in The Great Gatsby are quite sincere, they fall short in the possession of honesty. The Great Gatsby is a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, which depicts how American life was during the Roaring Twenties. The narrator of the novel is Nick Carraway, a former soldier whom is now selling bonds in New York. This novel became significant because it has given a deeper outlook into human nature and what one will do to reach their American Dream. In this novel, James Gatz’s goal, aka Jay Gatsby, is to become rich, make something of himself and marry Daisy in order to improve his social status. He does end up becoming very rich, but not without compromising his morals. Gatsby’s

In the book ' ' The Great Gatsby ' ' Nick is caught up in Gatsby`s life. Either by the fact that he lives next door to him or that he is interested in Gatsby`s lifestyle. Nick has this high opinion of Gatsby in a way that his life is tangled up in Gatsby`s life. Making it hard to not be interested in Gatsby`s past and present, but its the way he makes everyone feel is why Nick has this high opinion.

Throughout The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the main focus of the plot appears to be on the erratic relationships that Nick, the narrator, observes over his time spent in West Egg. The main relationship however is the romance between Nick’s wealthy neighbor Jay Gatsby, and Nick’s cousin Daisy Buchanan, who is married to a rich man named Tom Buchanan. Over the course of the book, Gatsby’s “love” for Daisy leads both of them to pursue an affair that ends in the death of Gatsby, by a man who mistook him for his wife’s killer. The book, at first glance, attempts to make the romance of Gatsby and Daisy seem like a wonderful heart-wrenching reunion of two lovers after years of being apart from one another. However, there are many signs that