The Great Gatsby's Transformation

Everyone knows that people change throughout their lives whether that be looks or character, but how much might you change if you were involved in an illegal business, war, deaths and having more money than most can even imagine? In my opinion, the Great Gatsby was a dramatic love story that told the fictional story of a man and his love for riches and the determination he used to get what he wanted.Throughout the life story in the book “The Great Gatsby” characters change so much from the beginning of the book to the end. In this book you’ll see Nick, Gatsby, and Daisy all express changes in their characters throughout the book.

The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, a young man named Nick Carraway went to New York looking for a new job to start his american dream. Along the way he met Jay Gatsby, a man in pursuit of his own American dream which was trying to get back his one and only love. However the pursuit came with a lot of problems. In the novel many people were impacted by each other’s actions, however Gatsby was impacted the most, but not just his actions but others as well. Gatsby life changed throughout the novel.

Because of Gatsby's actions, Nick draws a fine line through the connection between love and change. Throughout Nick's long friendship with Gatsby, Nick gradually formulates opinions on Gatsby's use of his wealth. He notices a change in priorities financially before and after meeting Daisy. Upon their initial encounter, Nick's interest is piqued by Gatsby's mysterious personality and substantial wealth. As their relationship deepens, Nick becomes a guest at one of Gatsby's numerous parties and finds himself in awe of the stately atmosphere, asserting that "[Gatsby's] party had preserved a dignified homogeneity, and assumed itself the function of representing the staid nobilities of the country-side" (Fitzgerald 34).

The decade of 1920’s, also known as The Roaring Twenties, was a time of prosperity and is characterized by great changes in America. The novel “The Great Gatsby” was published in 1925 and was written by the American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. This book shows how life was during this time of change and development. The story focuses on the lives of five major characters and how are their lives affected by their relationships with others. One of these characters is Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan’s wife and Jay Gatsby’s love interest and adoration. She is a beautiful, young woman who is also the narrator’s cousin. We get to know Daisy’s character by her actions and her decisions throughout the novel. Daisy Buchanan does not show any morals, she

People change and life goes on. To Jay Gatsby time is frozen still, and people remain the same. Time is an important attribute to Jay Gatsby and his life. He is stuck in the past trying to bring it into the present. According to Jay Gatsby time is the most important mortif about him. These can be observed with Gatsby trying to changing his past and not accepting the past, his desire to relive the past, and his unwillingness to believe people never change.

Fitzgerald uses Gatsby's parties and the way in which Nick views them to reveal that whilst Gatsby is surrounded by shallow and vulgar people, he is above this. Fitzgerald also uses these parties to expose Gatsby's isolation which leads us to feel sympathy toward Gatsby. Despite the amount of people at the party, Nick observes Gatsby's seclusion and loneliness, "my eyes fell to Gatsby, standing alone on the marble steps". This evokes a great deal of sympathy from us as although Nick describes Gatsby in a warm and friendly way, "It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life", we now can see that Gatsby is a lonely figure. This sympathy is accentuated when Nick is the only person to turn up to Gatsby's funeral, as we know that Gatsby is a decent and honourable character and thus our sympathies are emphasised by Gatsby's isolation. When Nick first meets Gatsby, he reveals Gatsby to be a fascinating character that we would like to know more about. The warm and assuring smile that Nick describes is in antithesis to the

Fitzgerald has already demonstrated to the reader how unrestrained Gatsby’s lifestyle is, and now he has begun to slowly affirm Nick’s doubts about Gatsby. Aside from that, Fitzgerald focuses even more so on hinting at the truth behind Gatsby’s notorious rumors.

Nick’s behavioural changes are one the most evident changes that the reader is able to notice after he is invited to Gatsby’s house. These changes could be regarded as either negative or positive depending on how the reader interprets them. “Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”(pg. 59), this is one of Nick’s quote from the beginning of the story before he meets Gatsby, he states that he is very honest to himself and to others but the reader soon finds out that is not the case. Nick is not an honest individual because after Gatsby is accused for Myrtle Wilson’s murder he does not speak up and tell Tom Buchanan and George Wilson (Myrtle’s husband) as to whom committed the crime. This misunderstanding ultimately leads to the death of  Jay Gatsby as he shot my George at his Mansion. These series of events are important to Nick’s behavioural changes as the reader to notice how being in Gatsby’s mansion had affected his honesty. Another behavioural change the reader is able to notice is Nick’s drinking habit as he starts to drink more when he first enters one of Gatsby’s parties. Chapter two of “The Great Gatsby” is where the

In Scholes essay, “On Reading a Video Text,” he analyzes the relationships between the photographic techniques and narrative messages in commercials. Photographic techniques cause the viewer to understand their culture in a specific way; cultural reinforcement causes the viewer to construct a story based on the viewer’s knowledge. The images lead to an emotional connection between the commercials message and the viewer. The connection causes the viewer to surrender to the text and by surrendering to the text the viewer accepts the messages. It is important to understand which messages to accept. For these reasons, it is imperative that the viewer understands media literacy. Scholes emphasizes the importance of teaching media literacy in schools. Political campaign ads attempt to get the viewer to surrender to the text and trust what the commercial reveals. Thus, it is vital to

Why is affluence so significant? It was not always this way. For hunter-gatherer and agricultural societies, personal properties were insignificant or even disadvantageous unless it was food. For the sake of development and standards of life, this had to change. As wealth gained in value, people also lived better, longer lives, but at a certain point, it began to manipulate the society around it. Some may argue that this occurred around the 1920’s in America. The changes of this time were monumental. People were moving to cities in large numbers, the party lifestyle was adopted by men and women alike due to dramatic social change, and the economy was booming, they were not called “the roaring 20’s” for nothing. The large economy enabled people to gain more wealth than ever. A multitude of people, primarily in older generations, did not encourage this lifestyle, finding it fake, licentious, flashy, and unchristian. This disapproval of change is apparent in The Great Gatsby due to Nick’s distaste for the frivolous and gaudy lifestyles of the East and West Eggers and Gatsby in particular. This distaste, also conveyed heavily by the author, is most significantly formed around the iniquitous value of money and adultery. Ergo, In the novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald suggests that Modern America has become irrationally focused upon immorality and wealth rather than the true American values of hard work and faith, which is demonstrated through the motif of the colour

The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald tells us a variety of themes-justice, power and greed, The American dream and so on. The Great Gatsby is regarded as a brilliant piece of social commentary. The Great Gatsby concerns the wasteful lives of four wealthy characters as observed by their acquaintance, narrator Nick Carraway. Like Fitzgerald himself, Nick is from Minnesota, attended an Ivy League university, served in the U.S. Army during World War I, moved to New York after the war. The narrator, Nick, is a very clever and well spoken storyteller. Nick confides with the reader in the first pages of the novel. He says that he needs to tell the story of a man called Gatsby. It is as if Nick has to overcome disappointment and frustration with a man who has left him with painful memories. This thesis is valid for three main reasons. First, it is evident that dreams and memories are central to the overall plot and meaning. Secondly, the American Dream is a “green light” of desire that Gatsby never stops yearning for and something he will not forget over time, even as he is dying. This is so, even though no one cares about Gatsby or his dreams after he died, except maybe Nick. Finally, the fact that Fitzgerald uses flashback; that Nick is telling us about a main character after he has already died and before the story begins, is ultimate proof.The Great Gatsby is structured by Nick’s memory. Fitzgerald’s clever use of flashback throughout and within the

Besides ignorance to thought, Nick being a practical, peripheral narrator, provides little to no, personal opinion. Although it could be argued that this is a negative quality for a narrator, Fitzgerald made sure he gives nothing away, nor forces any opinions on the readers. He leaves all final opinions in the hands of readers, which makes the novel such an interesting topic because of the variety of interpretations available. Nick never judges any of the characters for their immoral actions and poses as an innocent, reserved bystander. This leaves final judgment open to opinion, which is why The Great Gatsby can appeal to so many different audiences. At the end of the novel, Fitzgerald includes the statement “one gentleman to whom I telephoned implied that he had got what he deserved” (169) in reference to Gatsby’s death, which leaves readers to choose a side, whether readers should pity Gatsby, or if one has the right to believe that his unlawfulness lead to his own demise.

“The Great Gatsby” is a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald set in the 1920’s and is a recollection of a man named Nick Carraway's memories of the summer he met Jay Gatsby the person he could not judge. Jay Gatsby changed the most throughout the novel because He started the novel as a rich and extravagant man with a mysterious background, but it was revealed that he didn't start his life this way, James Gatz was a seventeen-year-old fisherman on Lake Superior who had big dreams that he thought he never could make a reality. But he adopted a persona that modelled the ideal person through the eyes of a seventeen-year-old, and met his good companion and friend Mr. Dan Cody. But towards the end of the book the window that is Jay Gatsby is shattered

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