Examples Of Struggles In The Great Gatsby

Gatsby is then reminded of his low status when Daisy’s mother“…had found her packing her bag one winter night to go to New York and say goodbye to a soldier who was going overseas. She was effectually prevented, but she wasn’t on speaking terms with her family for several weeks.” (75) From that moment Gatsby becomes motivated to become one of the wealthy elite in order to win Daisy and her family.

She was a girl with wealth, connections and means—everything a seventeen-year-old boy could aspire to one day attain. It is this illusion that Gatsby falls in love with, not Daisy, and he dedicates his life to become a man that could parallel Daisy in both social status and wealth. “So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen-year-old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end.” (98) Though Gatsby appears to be blinded by material possession and unethical in his means to acquire it, Fitzgerald sets him up to be the hero of the novel by contrasting his virtue to the sea of corruptness and material greed that made up the ambitions of most young folks in the 1920s. True, he made his money through illegal means, but his incredible sense of loyalty is striking against the dishonest, scheming American society. In the novel, it is clear that Gatsby is unfailingly loyal to everyone he loves, from his father to Dan Cody to Daisy, who he dedicated “five years of unwavering devotion” (109) to, even if they were not loyal to him in return.

Dysfunctional Relationships In the story, The Great Gatsby there are many themes shown throughout the text. There are plenty of examples of the “American Dream” that are shown, alongside topics such as wealth and corruption. But I believe the central theme of this work is the idea of dysfunctional relationships, which are prevalent from the start of the book, and throughout it as the story slowly unfolds. The dysfunctionality of the relationships in the story increase as the story progresses and more pieces of unfaithful evidence are revealed to the characters. Here are just a few examples to show just how false-hearted the characters are.

Overcoming Obstacles-Ella Fitzgerald “It isn’t where you came from; it’s where you're going that counts.” When looking at the major successes of the jazz queen, it is easy to see where she eventually ended up, then again, more difficult to comprehend challenges. Ella went through many obstacles in her lifetime to end up at the top of stardom itself. In every single time and aspect of her life, seemed as if struggle quietly lingered in the background.

Gatsby faced many trials and tribulations throughout The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. One might say that others preyed on Gatsby throughout the novel, such as when Wolfsheim involved him in illegal business, when Tom falsely accuses him of killing Myrtle, and when he is ultimately shot and killed by George Wilson. Nick notices the suspiciousness of their business when he observes his cuff buttons. Meyer Wolfsheim notices his eyes have wondered onto his “finest specimens of human molars” (Fitzgerald 72). Nick realizes that Gatsby’s business is not completely professional.

Each person has their own struggles in life, such as lose a loved one, learn a new language, live alone,have to take care of others, etc. There are other people who are fortunate to not have that kind of conflicts, but our culture or economy not matter, because at some point in our lives we all faced a problem and everyone has to choose the actions to take and the steps that we want to take to overcome their struggles and use them as an opportunity for the future. We all have our own struggles that we have to pass, some of them are bigger than others but we must always learn to find a way to pass them and use them as something positive, because struggles should be like an impulse to challenge ourselves to do the things better, it also helps

Fitzgerald is a member of the Lost Generation and his life is portrayed through the character Gatsby. Both of these individuals experienced the pain of lost love and crushed expectations because “both Fitzgerald and Gatsby seem to ‘preserve a romantic state of mind’ in order to escape the painful reality that they had lost the women they love” (Sanders 109). Psychological and spiritual

Fitzgerald also explores the downsides of being born into money, particularly in the case of women. Here, the delicate subject of gender roles is pursued, as there were discernable differences in the expectations of boys and girls in the 1920s. Raised as a debutante, Daisy was brought up to be “seen and not heard,” and to be admired for her beauty and daintiness. This societal and parental programming had a clear effect on her adult emotional expression. Though there was clear unspoken tension between Buchanan and Gatsby, it was not until Tom directly confronted Gatsby in the hotel room that Daisy outwardly expressed any resistance to Tom.

Fitzgerald presents his audience with Daisy, a married “girl” who eventually reunited with the lost love of her life, Jay Gatsby. While breaking rules and being adventurous, Daisy ultimately brings Gatsby to his death. Although she explores her sexuality and runs off behind her husband Tom’s back, Daisy continues to be oppressed. Tom’s aggressiveness and wealth force Daisy to depend on him, making her a slave of her husband. Because of this, she can not leave him to be with Gatsby, the one she loves. Doing so would mean losing economic support and losing a stable life. In this way, her husband defines her life. There is an evident contrast however with Tom’s role. Tom keeps an apartment away from home for his mistress and gets away with it. Because he is the man, society would not dare punish him for exploring his liberties. Daisy on the other hand is inferior to Tom and, as a social norm, is not allowed to indulge in such freedoms because doing so would bring shame to her honor.

The cynosures of the 1920s were people in the "high-class society". They had abundant amounts of money, as well as bragging rights to do as they please. One of the most prominent themes in "The Great Gatsby" is the social class conflicts in the 1920s. F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays this through rich versus poor conflicts, as well as through Old Money versus New Money conflicts.

“James Gatz – that was really, or at least legally his name. He had changed it at the age of seventeen and at the specific moment that witnessed the beginning of his career” (98). An individual can be dissatisfied with shoes or clothes, but being dissatisfied with your entire existence is a whole new level. James Gatz, later Jay Gatsby is the epitome of the idea of dissatisfaction in The Great Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald presents an array of characters who each struggle with dissatisfaction as their careless behavior is influenced by love, materialism, and money. As a result of their unhappiness, their desire for more ultimately destroys them.

Gatsby does not belong to his own class and he is not accepted by the upper class, therefore he becomes an exception. Because of disappointment of being looked down upon and impossibility of accept by the upper class, he has nothing left except his love, which is also his “love dream”. Gatsby’s love for Daisy has been the sole drive and motive of his living. Gatsby’s great love is also the root of his great tragedy, because he is desperately in love with a woman who is not worthy of his deep love. Fitzgerald offers Gatsby with the spirit of sincerity, generosity, nobility, perseverance, and loyalty. All his good natures can be seen

Daisy’s impact on Gatsby is immediate and cathartic. As “the golden girl” she represents the ultimate prize, “the best part of a world […] of heightened, refined delight, the realization not only of [Gatsby’s] desires but of generalized desire as well” (Fitzgerald 127, Lathbury 60). Inevitably, in the limitless capacity of Gatsby’s imagination, Daisy is elevated to the ideal, becoming the embodiment of “the youth and mystery that wealth imprisons and preserves”

Despite the outdated settings and characters in many novels, the stories and the lessons they contain are still valued and relevant to a contemporary society. Books provide the reader with an escape from the adversity of reality and place them in the fantasies and dreams of the main characters. Along with emotion, a novel should teach people lessons and the morality of actions and their consequences. Although some books may vainly appear as obsolete and forgotten, each story shares a different voice and a different perspective of the world. In The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the rivalry between East Egg and West Egg directly relates to the time period and to modern day society. The idea of progress and the betterment of an

Gatsby creates an identity for himself as a wealthy man, who lives a glamorous life by throwing huge parties, and is known by the most prestigious figures in New York. What the partygoers don’t realize is that the parties and his wealth is all in the hopes of rekindling with his love from the past, Daisy. In the novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald tells the story of a young man named Jay Gatsby, who came from nothing, and built up to be everything that he had hoped and dreamed of being. However, his one dream did not become a reality due to misfortunate events. All the money in the world couldn’t make Gatsby happy, as he died as his true self, not the identity he created for himself.