James In The Great Gatsby

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” (The Great Gatsby) The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is mostly a love story. The plot line is similar to Romeo and Juliet but the man is killed instead of suicide. Fitzgerald really emphasizes the sort of forbidden love between main character Gatsby and wife of Tom, Daisy. Gatsby is a very mysterious man thought the book and we are not sure if he is lying most of the time or his story is true. The main mystery of this book is who killed Gatsby, and what their motive was. George Wilson (husband of Tom Carraway) seems to be a likely suspect for the murder of Gatsby he knew it was Gatsby’s car that killed Myrtle, Tom could have told Wilson, Gatsby killed Myrtle, and Tom was manipulative towards everyone he came into contact with.

The word great can be defined in many different ways. From another's viewpoint, a great person is knowledgeable about their skills and is beyond the average of a regular person. Despite this, in the novel, The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald portrays Gatsby as a great character who is living the American Dream the perfect persona, but I disagree. Gatsby introduces himself as Jay Gatsby, but his real name is James Gatz, which questions his true identity.

The Great Gatsby, by F.Scott Fitzgerald, is a novel about a man that is in love and thats wants his love that he had 5 years ago he want to repeat the past. How did Gatsby changes in the book from the beginning, to middle, to end of the book? Gatsby changes throughout the entire book. changes in him are linked to daisy.Gatsby changes and things start going his way, until the end, when he loses everything he worked for.Gatsby changes the most

The imperfect characters that exist within The Great Gatsby highlight Fitzgerald’s already fantastic writing the most since it displays his characters from a jaded perspective. This is exemplified in the development of Tom Buchanan and Daisy’s relationship is toxic in the sense that both parties seem to be missing fundamental emotional components. One of these missing components can be broken down into the observation that Daisy must only love money and herself which is why she is an egoist. On the other hand, Tom can also be considered an egoist due to his arrogant attitude in assuming everything belongs to him. In fact, Tom doesn’t care about Daisy at all, he only cares about possessing his trophy wife, which is an extremely sinister trait in any relationship. Hence, the most unhealthy relationship within the book is Tom and Daisy’s because they possess several malicious character traits that debilitate them as couple which are: Tom’s belief that everything belongs to him, Daisy’s inherently materialistic nature, and both of their total unconcern toward each other’s extramarital antics.

The Great Gatsby is too concerned with conveying a picture of 1920s American society to have relevance to modern readers.

If a generous, caring, optimistic, person has a few bad characteristic traits, does that make them a bad person? Do minor evil personalities and actions overpower kind ones? The Great Gatsby, a novel written by Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, is the narrative of Nick Carraway’s more than interesting experience in New York. Daisy Buchanan, Nick’s second cousin once removed, lives on East Egg, which is across the Valley of Ashes from Nick’s neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Nick gets to know Jay throughout the story and begins to realize Mr. Gatsby has reinvented himself to satisfy Daisy. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby remains true to his dear friends, his true love, and his dreams.

Gatsby is a character who aspired to be successful and to realize his dreams of love and wealth, however, when he faced his reality he was never able to fully accomplish his dreams, revealing that one will use all their energy to hold on to a dream that will never reach a reality.

Fitzgerald writes a story with a character that is considered “larger than life”; he throws massive parties, is in love with a married woman, is rich and goes by the name of Jay Gatsby. Nick is the narrator who is sees a different side of Gatsby that sees him “great” aside from his wealth and corruption. Nick grew up in the Jazz age and it was replaced with the vitality, and favor of the artificial American dream. Gatsby’s life was full of winnings along with failures that followed him into death throughout the novel; never the less he achieves a form of “greatness” because of his morality in Nick’s perspective.

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"They were careless people...they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money...and let other people clean up the mess they had made..." (P. 179). During the 20s, many people's American dream was to go out, party and be free, the roaring 20s. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is an explanation of how people acted. People went to parties, lived in luxurious homes, criticized each other, and wanted to achieve their dream by trying to live it. The Wilson marriage is a failure because it's one-sided. Myrtle is always wanting the best, Wilson really loves Myrtle but it isn't reciprocated and the valley of ashes is symbolic of their relationship.

The Great Gatsby is a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The sub-genre behind this piece of literature would be considered a Modernist and Jazz Age novel. Fitzgerald was an intelligent child growing up, but he had difficulty managing to do well in school. After failing to graduate from Princeton University in 1917, he enrolled in the army as World War I was ending. From this point, he instantly fell in love with his sweetheart who only agreed to marry him if he became wealthy as her.

The main characters in both F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and William Shakespeare's Macbeth appear stable and successful on the outside, but inside they are engaged in a constant struggle with their dreams. Gatsby tries to win back the girl of his dreams by becoming something he's not, a member of high society; while Macbeth believes the prediction of the witches that he will be king and spends his life trying to make it come true. Both characters are willing to risk everything in pursuit of their respective dreams, including committing crimes. Both are motivated to take these risks by a woman. And both inevitably suffer premature demises.

In the book The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Daisy Buchanan is a perplexing character. She is charming and pretty, yet her personality is almost robotic. Daisy has no sincere emotions; she only knows social graces and self-preservation. A materialistic society makes Daisy a jaded person who lacks any real depth.

In the novels that we read this semester, there were many influential male characters. These important men include Jay Gatsby and Tom Buchanan from The Great Gatsby, Bobby from The First Part Last or Holden Caulfield from The Catcher in the Rye. Tom Buchanan and Jay Gatsby will be the focus of this essay. Both are extremely wealthy men living in and around New York City. Tom comes from old money, meaning that he inherited a great deal of wealth. Jay on the other hand is what is known as new money wealthy, which means that he obtained his own money, although it is revealed in the novel that his methods were less than legal. Gatsby is a destructive character in the book, despite his makings of a protagonist, while Tom is a very protective

The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is told from the perspective of one of the main characters, Nick Carraway. Nick tells the story of a man named Jay Gatsby, who is his neighbor in the West Egg. Fitzgerald portrays Gatsby as a man who everyone wants to know and copy but deep down are very envious of him. Gatsby trusts few people and those whom he trusts know his life story. To everyone else, he is a mystery. Everyone seems obsessed with Jay Gatsby. For this reason the novel revolves about rumors of Gatsby rather than the truth.