A Rhetorical Analysis Of The Great Gatsby

Tom Buchanan, the Great American Scoundrel In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tom Buchanan is the classic representation of an American scoundrel in the 1920 's. Tom 's role is of the wealthy, powerful, controlling, and cheating husband to Daisy Buchanan. Tom is of the upper class, and he is proud of his old money, of where he lives, and his white race. Fitzgerald describes Tom as a manipulator this being the worst of his qualities. Tom is a scoundrel, and no sliver of empathy can be given to Tom, due to his reckless behavior.

Gatsby 's chances of winning over Daisy come to an end once the summer ends and he does not accept the fact that she is going to be moving away. To enhance his chances, Gatsby tries to go back in time, which he only understands. Emerson believes one 's memory will not be able to uphold all recent enjoyments and there is a reason we live in the present. To feel better about himself, Gatsby is known for his magnificent parties. Everyone who attends his parties knows of Gatsby and that is what Gatsby cares about.

‘100 $Bill’ and ‘Young and Beautiful’ both spoke for Gatsby strongly as they were played in a manner to present him in separate lights and represented both his hopes and his fears. His disregard for riches is easily expressed in the song 100 $ Bill as he pays no attention to the amount he spends in the secret bar or on his extravagant parties, it also shows how he takes business as a pastime not a necessity. However the song Young and Beautiful, brings up how he wants Daisy to love him even when he doesn’t have the riches anymore, which is both a hope and a fear as he is unsure of how far she will allow their ‘affair’ to go. The song also brings up bringing her love to heaven with her, which can be said for Gatsby but does Daisy really want to go with him. He seems to bypasses her wants there as well as in the confessing of who Daisy really loves and we never see him ask her.

Characters in novels can have obsessions with people, the same as in the world readers live in today. In the book, The Great Gatsby, the main, male character, Gatsby, is obsessed with a woman named Daisy Buchanan. In the passage Winter Dreams, Dexter, the main male character, is obsessed with a woman, Judy Jones. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote both of these novels/ passages introducing the same theme. The Great Gatsby is a story about a man who has revolved part of his life around trying to achieve his American dream by conforming to a woman and society 's standards.

1.)The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Main Characters: Nick Carraway Jay Gatsby Daisy Buchanan Tom Buchanan Jordan Baker Myrtle Wilson George Wilson Owl Eyes Setting: The Roaring Twenties, West Egg and East Egg, New York, Long Island One Sentence Plot Summary: Nick meets Gatsby, who is madly in love with his cousin Daisy, and gets caught in the middle of a love triangle, Gatsby loved Daisy, but Daisy was more in love with the thought of Gatsby, and in the end the hectic love triangle “kills” (Really is was Wilson) Gatsby. Major Motifs and Themes: The “Hollowness” of The upper class.

However, Nick doesn’t question the situation and even goes on to get as debauched as everyone else at the party. Nick’s “bystander complex” is further cemented when he sneaks out of the party amongst the chaos and spends the rest of it with McKee. Socially, Nick wasn’t in any position that would hinder him from offering to help Myrtle or even to stop Tom from abusing her. He was after all closest to Tom in

The Great Gatsby is a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald that highlights the American Experiment, which depicts the power that the individual’s choice over their lives. Gatsby does a good job at showing us a story archetype that reminds one of the ancient Greek tragedies, such as Antigone, or the more recent Romeo and Juliet. Star-crossed mortals, doomed to die. But oh, do they leave such a good story for those with a bit more time left on our clocks. Romance, mystery, death, murder, wealth, power, and more.

Throughout the novel, Gatsby is regarded as a self-made gentleman who doesn’t drink at his own parties due to his morals. However in this passage, through the descriptions and reflections of Nick the reader discovers how Daisy’s love had corrupted his morals. Before coming to the East, Gatsby’s aspiration was to achieve the American Dream but in this passage we discover the fact after his love with Daisy, all he ever wanted was to win Daisy as if she was an award of excellence. He keeps trying blindly as “he did not know that is was already behind him, somewhere in that vast obscurity beyond the city”. This quote supports the claim as Gatsby is being ignorant to the truth as he is not willing comprehend the fact that he could not accomplish his only goal in life.

After noticing that Daisy’s cousin lives right next door, Gatsby asks for his neighbor, Nick Carraway, to have Mrs. Buchanan over for tea. As Nick and Daisy commence their gathering for tea, Gatsby stops by Nick’s residence and tries to act suave to impress Daisy. Not everything goes the way Jay Gatsby has planned. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby, James Gatz is not great for the reasons that he is a liar, a stalker and tries to ruin Daisy’s marriage to Tom Buchanan. Jay Gatsby is not a great character, because he has been stalking his past love to ultimately make the decision to move to West Egg.

Identity The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald presents the idea that our identity is shaped by our relationships in various ways. The way which the identities of the characters in the book change from one to another can be seen throughout the book in three different relationships. These three relationships are between Gatsby and Daisy, Tom and Myrtle, and Gatsby and Nick. Gatsby went through with the American dream to gain status and money to be worthy of Daisy whom he loves.

1. The Beautiful and Damned: this novel tells the story of the handsome Anthony patch 's life. The novel follows the progression of his love for the beautiful Gloria Gilbert. It traces their attachment through their courtship and marriage through their endless parties to their financial difficulties and finally the fabricate achievement of Anthony. 2. Tales of the Jazz Age : it is a collection of short stories, divided into three separate parts according to the subject importance .

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece, The Great Gatsby, the labyrinthine story of Jay Gatsby is conveyed through the in-depth thoughts of Nick Carraway, the deferential neighbor of Gatsby himself. Mystery and lust dance through the tellings of the work, decoding an intricate facade built up by the characters of East and West Egg during the roaring twenties. Alcohol, acting and answers all reside within the pages, but extracted from spiel is the recurring and heavily accented theme of materialism. Despite most, if not all characters having their fair share of materialistic lifestyle urges, the actions told of Daisy Buchanan, Myrtle Wilson and Jay Gatsby were that of most recognizably opulent. The superficial and materialistic lifestyles led

Compelled, page 18. “Her face compelled me forward breathlessly as I listened-then the glow faded, each light deserting her with lingering regret like children leaving a pleasant street at dusk.” F. Scott Fitzgerald uses compelled here because it often implies control over the person being compelled. Other words like beckoned wouldn’t convey the lack of control Nick felt, despite being otherwise interchangeable. Enchanted, page 61.