A Poplular Novel, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby has been around for ages; it is a story of a young man in the 1920’s who is thrown into a new world made up of the new and the old rich. He is confused by the way these people act and in the end cannot stay another minute in this strange, insensitive, materialistic world. The author, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses many techniques to help the reader understand how Nick Carraway (the narrator) is feeling throughout the story. In the book The Great Gatsby, the author F. Scott Fitzgerald uses effective language to make his writing successful. He uses the techniques of imagery and irony to display this message.

When F. Scott Fitzgerald was writing The Great Gatsby, he was not only working as a writer, he was an artist painting a piece through his words. While making the lives of fictional characters come to life for the reader, one of the main tools he used to do this was by using the symbolism of colors. Nick Carraway, the main character, befriends many of the wealthiest and corrupt people of Long Island, while exposing them for what they truly are in the journeys he endures with them. His extravagant use of colors to illustrate scenes and characters helps us determine the symbolism behind them, and how they’re used to expose the true personalities of the characters.

Colors can invoke feelings for people. Certain colors are attached to moods. Red can represent anger, green sometimes represents envy and blue can represent calm or even melancholy. Much art, music, and literature is dependent on color to convey the intended mood of the artist. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby, a man with wealth, power, and possessions is on a quest for the dream that he will never attain. He cannot have all that he already has plus the true love of Daisy. Fitzgerald creates his own unique motifs surrounding certain colors and uses these colors to emphasize the futility in Gatsby’s quest for this dream. Through the use

The author of The Great Gatsby was F. Scott Fitzgerland whose usage of diction, image, details, figurative language and different type of structures of the sentence(syntax) creates the passage more visible and understandable. For example, the author uses a word “the valley of ashes” to describe the valley. Furthermore, he creates an image in the reader's mind with descriptive and concise words for the valley in the better structure of the sentence. Besides, he also uses the figurative language to create a better image that helps the reader to comprehend the story. Moreover, he uses detail such as the eye of doctor T.J. are blue and gigantic, to convince the reader to ponder about how important it is to the story. Overall, the author presented the finest story using his different techniques of writing which assists the readers to understand the significance of incomplete goals that the main character had.

I have read and looked over your article titled “Schulz: Why I Despise The Great Gatsby,” and I must say that your article is thorough and teeming with great examples from the story. Before reading your article, I thought that The Great Gatsby is an amazing story that overshadows many other stories. Now I feel that the story needs improvement and that it is extremely dull. I am impressed on how you were able to read Gatsby five times, and I am in total agreement with you when you claim the story to be sacrosanct and hallowed. When my entire English class was told to read The Great Gatsby over our winter break, all I heard were people telling me that “the story is extravagant,” “the ending is tragic,” or that “it is the greatest story I have ever read.” And, while I agree that the story is beautifully written, I felt that it was decent and I do not believe that it is the holy grail of literature. But I must say, that the story did seem like “a single crystal, scrupulously polished,” it is overrated and too precise. Overall, The Great Gatsby is an excellent story with somewhat likeable characters. The story, to me, seemed to have many loose ends. I would to like know what happened to Tom and Daisy at the end of the story, but all that given was the confrontation between Nick and Tom to discover what Tom told George. I would have also liked more detail on Jordan’s sudden leave and to know more about why she married someone else. I feel that it is a beautifully written

The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald is considered a great novel by many people around the world. There are many reasons that people have put into their consideration which has made it a novel that people are wanting to read frequent times. The novel starts on with a midwest native, Nick Carraway who arrives in New York in the year of 1922 in search of the American dream. Nick, a would-be writer, moves in next-door to a millionaire Jay Gatsby and across the bay from his cousin Daisy and her already cheating husband, Tom. Thus, Nick becomes drawn into the captivating world of the wealthy and as he bears a witness to their illusions and deceits which creates a story of tremendous love, dreams, and tragedy in the novel. Therefore, some of the reasons which interest people into reading the amazing novel is how it explains a few events in figurative language, how it shows the american dream and how it explains the plot development.

"Never has symbolism played such a crucial part in the very foundation of a novel as it does in Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, The Great Gatsby." Harold Bloom has written about this book. The author used several types of symbolism in The Great Gatsby. The colours are probably the easiest to be recognized and guessed what they symbolized. According to the definition “symbolism” is "the practice of representing things by means of symbols or of attributing symbolic meanings or significance to objects, events, or relationships."

The great gatsby is a amazing piece using rhetoric elements to constantly keep the reader entertained. The book uses irony in many cases to show the constant longing gatsby has for his love. The books use of exaggeration of the roaring twenties is an eventful move to keep the reader always wanting more. the books use of repetition is made in a sense of gatsby’s continued nature, and toms awful personality

The American Dream is dead. This is the main theme in F. Scott Fitzgerald 's novel The Great Gatsby. In the novel Fitzgerald gives us a glimpse into the life of the high class during the roaring twenties through the eyes of a moralistic young man named Nick Carraway. It is through the narrator 's dealings with high society that readers are shown how modern values have transformed the American Dream 's pure ideals into a scheme for materialistic power and further, how the world of high society lacks any sense of morals or consequence. In order to support this message, Fitzgerald presents the original aspects of the American Dream along with its modern face to show that the once impervious dream is now lost forever to the American people.

The Great Gatsby overall was an ok book. Its older setting gave it more character and made me try to think like they would’ve which I found very interesting. What surprised me the most was the back and forth in relationships because I thought back then that marriage held a lot more value than what it seems to today. The story behind each character was intricate and held a lot of meaning. I liked how he used a character like Nick to tell a story that revolved around the other characters in the book.

The first thing you see when you pick up this book is the Title “The Great Gatsby”

One of the most iconic pieces of American Literature, The Great Gatsby, was written in 1925 by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It centers around a wealthy young man, who is desperate for the love a woman that he knows he cannot have. This drives the main character, Jay Gatsby, to change his entire life to better suit the desires of this woman. Hence the title. , Tthe question arises, is Gatsby great?

In the book, The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby is exemplified through many symbols and idols. Fitzgerald uses cars to represent wealth, success, status, and glamour. As Friedrich Nietzsche states, “There are more idols in the world than there are realities.” Nietzsche’s quote shows how idols and symbols are used to create impressions. Images are powerful and set a stage for others to judge one’s character, enabling human beings to avoid seeing what realities are. Idols are potent enough to mask the truth. In the novel, despite Gatsby 's own insecurities, he is viewed as an idol in society. Idols impact and influence Gatsby’s life and those living around him. Gatsby’s car represents an idol, illustrating his wealth, capturing attention, creating impressions, and covering misconceptions throughout life in the West Egg.

Daisy’s infamous line, when all the pieces begin to line up for Gatsby’s demise. It is also the line that sets the theme for the entire novel. Who is Gatsby, where did he come from, and what does he want? These are the inquiries that boggle the readers throughout the novel. Gatsby was like a monster created by his own Frankenstein, Daisy and Nick Carraway, is the ominous narrator, god, the eyes that were always watching and making judgments upon others. During the Jazz Age in New York, it was a time of little frugality and great extravagance. “It was in such a profusion around you.”(p.3) and the prodigality was attained in each class through lust (Tome and Daisy), deceit (Gatsby and the world), and murder (Wilson and Myrtle) of Jay Gatsby.

The Great Gatsby, one of America’s most renowned pieces of literature there is and i decided some time ago that i should read it. My first guess of the book's content would be that it's about luxurious parties, expensive cars and some big sums of money involved. My guess wasn’t too far of and further down the review you will find out how close i was and my general thoughts on this book.