The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

People believe in the American dream because it gives them something to look forward to. Unfortunately, it is a dream that is rarely achieved. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a book about a man named Jay Gatsby and his vain quest to live out his aspirations. Gatsby is not alone on his wild goose chase. Other characters like Myrtle and George also blindly follow their dreams in false hopes that they will become reality. It is not wise to invest so much hope in living the good life because no matter how much time or thought people put into planning their futures, something will always be unplanned for. In his novel, Fitzgerald uses birds and eggs to symbolize the false sense of security that a belief in a perfect future creates, death to represent the bleakness in the outcomes of such a belief system, and a green light to show the unhealthy lengths to which these dreams can go.

"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."

Jay Gatsby and The American Dream Jay Gatsby and The American Dream have a big connection in the book, “The Great Gatsby.” The setting of “The Great Gatsby” can be quite confusing. It involves 2 different locations, East egg and West egg, where East egg is old money and West egg is new money. The main idea is about how Gatsby tries to do everything he can to be with Daisy. He uses all of the money that he has gained from the American dream to make Daisy like him even more.

Some could say that there is a love so strong that it can blind one of the harsh realities of life and can make a fool out of anyone. This same blind love makes a fool of Jay Gatsby in the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Jay Gatsby is a young, wealthy man, seeking to be reunited with his long lost love Daisy Buchanan. After Nick Carraway moves next to Gatsby, he is invited over to one of Gatsby’s parties. Once Gatsby and Nick start to become friends, Gatsby asks Nick if he would invite his cousin Daisy for tea. Gatsby had fantasized, for five years, the moment that he would finally get to see Daisy; however, she couldn’t live up to his embellished imagination. During the rest of the summer, the affair arises between the two until one catastrophic night leads Daisy to slink back into her money and her husband for a sense of security. Gatsby is a fool for wasting his time trying to repeat the past and rekindle his love with Daisy.

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a novel that has a large focus on the ideas of the American Dream and social class in the 1920s. In the novel, the people of West Egg and East Egg are people of the upper who have earned money either through inheritance or working hard and have had many opportunities to make their American Dream a reality. The people of the Valley of Ashes are people of lower class who have little to no money and have to work all their lives to make ends meet. Even though both social classes strive for the same thing, The American Dream, neither of them will ever truly achieve it. Fitzgerald uses a vast contrast in the settings of East Egg, West Egg, and

The corruption of the American Dream is a central theme in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. The novel takes place in New York, with fictional provinces. East Egg is inhabited by the the families who have passed down their wealth for generations, such as the Buchanans. West Egg is also inhabited by the extremely rich, but by those who have built their own fortune, such as Jay Gatsby. Those in East Egg view themselves as morally superior to those in West Egg and separate themselves from them, creating a sort of social feudal system, similar to Europe’s. Between the Eggs and New York is the Valley of Ashes, an area where the poor, including Myrtle Wilson, live. In their chase of the American Dream, the characters in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s

The corruption of the American Dream is a central theme in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. The novel takes place in New York, with fictional provinces. East Egg is inhabited by the the families who have passed down their wealth for generations, such as the Buchanans. West Egg is also inhabited by the extremely rich, but by those who have built their own fortune, such as Jay Gatsby. Those in East Egg view themselves as morally superior to those in West Egg and separate themselves from them, creating a sort of social feudal system, similar to Europe’s. Between the Eggs and New York is the Valley of Ashes, an area where the poor, including Myrtle Wilson, live. In their chase of the American Dream, the characters in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, the West Egg consist of two main characters, Jay Gatsby and Nick Caraway, both who want to obtain the American Dream. The American Dream consists of an aspirer of a lower social class hoping to acquire the utmost wealth to become similar to those of East Egg. Furthermore, East Egg subsists of “old money,” a population of a high social class of people who don’t strive to achieve wealth like the West Eggers. The contrast of the two sides is evident as the characters of West Egg are portrayed as wed to the vitality of the American Dream.

Many consider The Great Gatsby a beautiful love story. A literary review site, for example, says about Fitzgerald’s most famous work: “The Great Gatsby is probably F. Scott Fitzgerald 's greatest novel […] Gatsby is really nothing more than a man desperate for love”(The Great Gatsby Review). Popular opinion paints Gatsby as such: A man desperate for love, devoid of any evil. But a closer look uncovers a new side of Jay Gatsby because Gatsby, underneath his glorious façade, is a sociopath.

The American Dream is the pursuit of success as a result of hard work and determination. In the novel, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway try to achieve The American Dream, Gatsby yearns to rekindle his relationship with Daisy Buchanan and Nick wants to become rich by working in bonds. Gatsby’s dream is represented by a green light at the end of Daisy’s deck which motivates him to pursue his dream. Though Gatsby tried to make his dream a reality, the novel ends with his tragic death. Gatsby’s pursuit highlights that The American Dream is unattainable and demonstrates the flaws that accompany the dream. Gatsby’s unsuccessful pursuit illustrates the illusions and reality should be separated to ensure that

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.

In the wake of the Great War, women’s possibilities opened up considerably. In spite of these advances, women still depended on men for finances, activity, and social standing. Women in the 20s struggled to create their own social roles separate from the men surrounding and defining them, revealing the one-sided control in a morally corrupt society. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, juxtaposes the women’s subjective experiences to prove that given the limited scope of their patriarchal realities, the ideal of female freedom is unachievable.

The social group West Egg represents the corruption of the American Dream, during the 1920’s. Fitzgerld describes West Egg as a home for the newly rich. This is a place where people who have recently become fortunate live. It is a place that represents new money. New money portrays the image of the corruption of the American Dream by showing how the people strived for acquiring only material goods. It made attaining material goods their goal in life. In addition, people in the 1920’s connected the American Dream to making quick money. In The Great Gatsby many of the residents that lived in West Egg became fortunate through illegal methods, such as bootlegging alcohol or gambling. Fitzgerld shows this through the character Gatsby. Gatsby’s goal was to become wealthy so that he could win Daisy’s love. By selling stolen alcohol Gatsby was able to mange to rise up to the top of the upper class and live in West Egg. The want for money and power to achieve love shows the decay of the American Dream. The parties that were held at West Egg also represent the corruption of the American Dream. The parties that Gatsby threw were huge and glamorous. Everyone from West and East Egg would attend these parties. They had no care for who Gatsby was. Rather, they only cared that he was someone who was extremely

World War I and “ The Lost Generation”: These two historical ideas are significant to the novel because “ the Lost Generation” is the generation that became adults during the time of war, which includes F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author of the novel. Authors born in this time tended to write themes that represented their experiences in the war. For example, the death of the American Dream was mostly referenced in The Great Gatsby, by the narrator Nick Carraway.

The american dream that is unattainable, as Fitzgerald's shows it by the comparison between the west egg and the east egg.The west egg is where the new rich live those who made all of their money via illegal ways playing the system after the World War I ended. These people do not only want to get rich but want to seem like they were always rich. They are shown in the novel as showoffs like gatsby’s pink suit and roll royce and having a big mansion throwing lavish parties and awkward like gatsby seems to be. Gatsby always says,”Having a good time old sport.” Gatsby always uses the word “old Sport” to fit in and look like he is from the east and he always had money. This clearly shows the excessive need for materialistic items they want. On on the other side the east egg is the