The Great Gatsby Charlie's Speech

After the suffering of World War I in the 1920s, many of the upper class Americans focused on filling their lives with endless joy and concentrating their energies on their own pleasure and comfort to forget about wartime memories. The 1920s era was were money had become the foundation of society due to the American dream, where everyone left behind their horrible past and centralized on becoming wealthy and being the most superlative. As a result, in The Great Gatsby through many rhetorical devices, Fitzgerald uses Nick Carraway as his persona in order to portray that money became too powerful and people became extremely selfish and greedy in the 1920s. For instance, through diction, Carraway adequately describes his disgust of the East in

What did you always dream of becoming as a child? An astronaut? A doctor? The President? Many people tend to lose sight of their old dreams and accept a much harsher reality, yet not in the case of Jay Gatsby, the mysterious and extremely wealthy protagonist of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Set in the 1920s in Long Island, Gatsby embodies the culture of the Jazz Age as he uses his riches in pursuit of his former love, Daisy Buchanan, a beautiful woman from an affluent family.

The tragic flaw that causes the hero’s fall is also a custom to the story of the tragic hero, this is known traditionally as a harmantia. Eddie Carbone’s harmantia lies in his denial to accept his incestuous attraction for his niece Catherine. Due to a suppression of his unnatural desire, Carbone now feels that he is justifiable in his struggle against Rodolpho. It may even be possible that Eddie has managed to convince himself that his objections to his niece’s marriage is purely innocent and is just out of worry, however “it becomes clear to everyone but Eddie that his own motives have more to do with lust than with law and order” (Charles McNulty). If Eddie was able to acknowledge unreasonable desires it is possible that he could have

America contains many authors who have tried to help society live better lives, ones of felicity as Benjamin Franklin so aptly referred to. Authors, such as Franklin, taught his reader, through his biography that the best way to achieve happiness was to better oneself, through at least having the appearance of virtue. F. Scott Fitzgerald taught people that living life with honesty and not facades were the best ways to live life. Fitzgerald is responding through Gatsby to Franklin in what he has to say about how to achieve happiness. Fitzgerald does not necessarily agree with what Franklin says in the sense that just having the appearance of virtue is enough to achieve a happy life.

Summer Reading Assignment: The Great Gatsby Chapter # 6- Select a passage that reveals the nature of the narrator. Discuss how this passage contributes to your understanding of the work as a whole. Identify the narrator’s tone and literary strategies that shape it; comment on the narrator’s purpose in this chapter, as well as the effect the narrator is having on your reactions to the events and characters.

The character of Jay Gatsby in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby Jay Gatsby wasn’t about to obtain his “American Dream” which was Daisy Buchanan the golden girl because he was initially a part of the lower class. However, Daisy was a part if East Egg. She has always been rich, because of that she cannot be with Gatsby. Since Gatsby was initially a part of the low class he had to work hard to get money/wealth so that he could get Daisy’s attention and to be with her. Gatsby believed that he could have Daisy if he had a lot of money and had a big house, etc.

In the novel “The Great Gatsby”, F. Scott Fitzgerald creates a mysterious character that catches the attention of all his readers. The bootlegger? The WW1 hero? Second cousin to the devil? Jay Gatsby.

The Character of Jay Gatsby in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby There is always something hindering Jay Gatsby from obtaining the "American dream". Jay Gatsby loved Daisy Buchanan, but he couldn't have her because he was once a part of the lower class. Daisy is a part of old money upper class, but Gatsby had to work for his wealth. Gatsby is never entirely accepted into the upper class, but he tries so hard to get something that he can never have that he loses his life in the process. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby the Character of Jay Gatsby conveys the theme that the American dream is unattainable.

Jaco’Bee Campbell Ms.Thornton English 3H-0 18 September 2015 The Madness of Loving in the Past Finding love is hard but, once an individual finds love and then loses that special person the conflict is inevitable because the moments and memories were unforgettable. Although a person may convince himself that he is over his feelings, it is easy to drive himself crazy over something that should've been left behind. In the novel The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, portrays the main character Jay Gatsby as a person that is obsessed with his past which leads him to madness.

How dramatic are the teenage years that flies so fast, Faster than the speed of light and louder than the sound of rocket blast; It’s no surprise we indulge ourselves into the past, To remember the happiness and all that jest. If you conclude that all life experiences are déjà vu, It would be absurd if teenage years are in that list too; Since bizarre activities would be waiting for you, To help you unravel your useful tools, And to persuade that you have always been a fool.

America in the 1920’s was a place for self-absorbed desires and pseudo appearances of wealth and happiness. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the audience looks through the empty lives of three characters from the novel, Jay Gatsby, and the Buchanans, Daisy and Tom. Fitzgerald uses the character's’ trials and tribulations to depict the concept that chasing the hollow American Dream leads only to misery and superfluous materialism. Although each individual had various intentions, in the end, they all displayed immoral actions and toxic behavior in attempt to attain their ideal lives.

Reality is something that many can not grasp. Lost in a daydream or lost in their expectations, often, people are left with disappointment. These negative feelings are those humans often try to hide from. Our capacity to feel any source of pain is so low that time and time again, humans will retreat back into a world of painless existence; misinterpreting on how life is supposed to be versus how it actually is. The complex relationship between Daisy and Gatsby in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s historical fiction novel, The Great Gatsby, exemplifies how living in this falsehood of a world can lead the demise of someone like Gatsby, “...