Literary Analysis Of The Great Gatsby

Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, represents a major theme of the novel, the corruption of the wealthy people in society and how money expresses a person’s feelings and actions. Starting off with Daisy, a woman who shows her corruption in society when she marries Tom Buchanan, a wealthy man, even though she promised to marry gatsby after he came home from war. She is very careless about the ways in which she spends her money and how she acts around people. She doesn’t care that people see that she owns very fancy dresses, fancy cars, and lives in a giant house in East Egg. Gatsby, the main character, is in love with Daisy throughout the novel.

When Gatsby fails to reach these goals, his fantasy world comes crumbling down. Therefore, Gatsby is essentially an idealist who is destroyed by his inability to accept reality. Gatsby’s

However, she is a cheat not in just golf, but at life as well. Nick Carraway, the narrator of the novel, describes her as “incurably dishonest” (Fitzgerald 158) She uses men for her own sexual pleasure which is evident through the quote “insolent smile turned to the world and yet satisfy the demands of her hard, jaunty body.” (Fitzgerald 158) Her social position and wealth makes her very attractive to many men.

In “The Great Gatsby”, the characters Myrtle Wilson and Jay Gatsby and in “The Necklace”, Mathilde Loisel, allow themselves to be selfish and greedy by believing that having a high social status is more important than the people around them. This can be seen through the affair of Myrtle Wilson and Tom Buchanan where her husband, George Wilson means nothing to her, instead having a rich and glamorous life is more concerning. This shows that Myrtle’s relationship with George is weak. To Myrtle, Tom’s wealth and reputation outshines Wilson’s low-class job. Myrtle admires Tom because she sees Tom as a way of achieving a high status and good reputation and dislikes her husband, who is completely devoted to her and would do anything to insure her

Daisy could simply wait for Gatsby to come home after the war, but Gatsby comes from a less wealthy family. She meets Tom, the heir of wealthy family, and she marries him. They have such a large desire to keep their money and status that they use others as if they’re there to serve them. An example of this is, once again, how Daisy uses Gatsby to get away with killing Myrtle. Daisy also says ”I'm glad it's a girl.

Blinded by Memories How protagonists of Catcher in the Rye and The Great Gatsby are similar by rejecting reality and how it leads to their downfall? The Catcher in the Rye and The Great Gatsby share the podium when best portraying the American dream and experience. Despite differing greatly, J.D. Salinger’s Holden Caulfield’s experiences and inner aspirations are akin to those of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jay Gatsby. The Great Gatsby and the American dream and success it illustrates including: wealth, fame, and roaring parties held by Jay Gatsby may initially seem wholly different from The Catcher in the Rye.

Her reaction shows that the East egg is a little less luxurious than West Egg. 5. Explain the significance of Gatsby’s statement “Can’t repeat the past?... Why of course you can!”

Gatsby had a forbidden love named Daisy who was married, but this did not stop Gatsby from achieving what he wanted. He thrived off of his lust for her and her world of seduction that captivated him. Gatsby had a belief that he may win Daisy’s heart if he was able to possess wealth. He was “devoted to the obsessive pursuit of wealth”. In Fitzgerald’s writings, the parties thrown by Gatsby kept his sense of youthfulness as he was still prime enough to enjoy the extravagant lure of women, alcohol, and other youthful people as well.

“Myrtle has her affair with Tom due to the privileged world it grants her access”(Wulick). One of the main examples of wealth destroying a character 's life is Myrtle 's story. Myrtle is the wife of a lowly mechanic in the valley of ashes. Myrtle is taken away by the enormity of Tom Buchanan 's wealth and is instantly attracted to him.

This shows that to people money matters so much they would go to measures of spending massive amounts of money to gain what they desire most. Second, Myrtle's desire for money compelled her to cheat on George and go for Tom because he's rich. This shows that people with a crave for money would go so far as to be unfaithful to their spouse. Finally, Daisy "began to cry stormily" at Gatsby's "beautiful shirts," (Fitzgerald chapter 5 pg 92) because she heavily admires and is impressed with his fortune. People who get emotional and get overwhelmed by someone's wealth must extremely admire them.

Fitzgerald condemned the American Dream by showing how even though Gatsby became rich, he was not happy nor did he have a happy life. Tom Buchanan dehumanized Gatsby by how he thought badly of him because he was nouveaux riche. Tom was old money. Nick was also newly rich like Gatsby. He dehumanized the Buchanans in the fact that he thought of them as careless except when it comes to their image or their money.

The Great Gatsby is set in New York City and on Long Island, in two areas known as "East Egg" and "West Egg", in real life, Port Washington and Great Neck peninsulas on Long Island. In the early 1920’s World War I had just come to an end. A new generation came to New York from small towns in search of excitement, chance, and a “new” way of living. Fitzgerald accurately portrays elements, such as greed, celebration and “new money” of the 1920’s in The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald accurately portrays the 1920s in The Great Gatsby through greed by using the characters Daisy Buchanan and Myrtle Wilson.

Critics describe Jay Gatsby as a dreamer with promising intentions. However, Mr. Gatsby remains a cunning and powerful con artist. In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby personifies the American dream through his manipulation and motivation. Fitzgerald purposely decides to characterize Gatsby as deceptive by hiding Jay’s backstory.

One can note that Lady Capulet never says a positive word about the man that she married, yet speaks more highly of the father of the man her daughter married. A reader might find it interesting how paralleled Juliet and her mother are. Had Lady Capulet chosen love, she could have been dead like Juliet. Had Juliet chosen duty, she could have ended up in her mother’s shoes, married to a man that she doesn’t like or

The Great Gatsby was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925 about the life of a man in the 1920s. Though at a glance the novel may seem like a lighthearted read about parties and love, the commentary on the roaring 20s was actually much deeper. The novel was not appreciated during Fitzgerald’s lifetime, perhaps because it has even greater significance in modern society than it did at the time it was written. From a modern lens, one can see the real tragedy of the characters’ life style, even before the action begins. It is made clear that even those with wealth and opportunity did not have the perfect lives they were portrayed to have.