F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

The American Dream is a worldwide known idiom and it emphasizes an ideal of a successful and happy lifestyle which is oftentimes symbolized by the phrase “from rags-to-riches”. It originated out of the ideal of equality, freedom and opportunity that is held to every American. In the last couple of decades the main idea of the American Dream has shifted to becoming a dream in which materialistic values are of a higher importance and status. The Great Gatsby is a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925 during the “Jazz Age”. Jay Gatsby is a parvenu who worked himself his way up. He is the main character and he has a quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan and he has a need for

As the phenomenal politician Bernie Sanders once said, “For many, the American dream has become a nightmare.” In the novel The Great Gatsby, written by Scott Fitzgerald, the “American Dream” plays a crucial role in the plot. Gatsby devotes his life to accomplish his American Dream which consists of wealth and Daisy’s love. But is the American Dream actually what it seems to be? Throughout the novel, Fitzgerald utilizes the symbolic value of the Valley of Ashes, East Egg, and the significance of the color yellow to constantly establish that opulence and the American Dream is deceiving as it leads to moral and societal corruption.

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald tells the tragic story of two star-crossed lovers. Fitzgerald uses the Roaring Twenties as the setting of this novel. The twenties were a time of promiscuity, new money, and a significant amount of illegal alcohol. Fitzgerald was a master of his craft and there was often more to the story than just the basic plot. He could intertwine political messages and a gripping story flawlessly. In the case of The Great Gatsby, he not only chronicles a love story, but also uses the opportunity to express his opinion on topics such as moral decay, crass materialism, individual ethics, and the American dream.

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is the compelling story of the lengths one man goes to in order to try and win back the love of his youth. In order to do so, the titular figure of the novel, Jay Gatsby, reinvents himself from the hardscrabble soldier of his younger years into an enigma of a millionaire; during his time living at West Egg, Gatsby is revered by all, but known by none. Despite the lavish lifestyle which has made him ever so well known, Gatsby is never able to win back Daisy, the girl who has for so long represented the culmination of all of his desires. To convey the complex themes of the novel, Fitzgerald makes use of the literary techniques discussed in How To Read Literature Like A Professor by Thomas C. Foster, especially in his portrayal of the geography of the Eggs and in Gatsby’s quest to win Daisy’s affection. In his novel The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses Gatsby’s desperate struggle to ingratiate himself into Daisy’s life to illustrate how one can never overcome the socio-economic barriers placed upon them at birth.

The American Dream is a recurring theme in Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby. The American Dream is all about starting with nothing and making your way to achieve millions of dollars and “happiness.” In The Great Gatsby, by showing Gatsby’s tragic flaw, his belief that money will buy Daisy’s love, Fitzgerald in a way criticizes the American dream. Fitzgerald exudes this image of corruption in the American Dream through aspects of wealth, relationships, and social class.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel The Great Gatsby chronicles Jay Gatsby’s ill-fated attempt to recreate a lost love from his past. Through single-minded focus, he transforms himself from penniless James Gatz of Minnesota to the wealthy and mysterious Jay Gatsby of West Egg, New York. Despite the fact that Daisy Buchanan, Gatsby’s lost lover, has come to terms with their separation, Gatsby maintains his firm belief in the notion of rebirth, convinced he can recreate the past. Furthermore, the novel serves as Fitzgerald’s personal introspection, voicing his own desire for renewal in the search for his identity. Therefore, a central theme in the novel is rebirth, exemplified by the actions and motivations of Gatsby and Fitzgerald’s examination of his own life.

In the past the American Dream was an inspiration to many, young and old. To live out the American Dream was what once was on the minds of many Americans. In The Great Gatsby, the American Dream was presented as a corrupted version of what used to be a pure and honest ideal way to live. The idea that the American Dream was about the wealth and the possessions one had been ingrained, somehow, into the minds of Americans during the 1920’s. As a result of the distortion of the American Dream, the characters of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby along with many others, lived life fully believing in the American Dream, becoming completely immersed in it and in the end suffered great tragedies.

It is human nature to long for the past. This feeling of nostalgia gives one the illusion, or idea, that the past is a greater and happier time than the present. For some, such as Gatsby in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, the yearning for the past filled with flourishing dreams and ideals is strong enough for them to strive to repeat it. Jay Gatsby’s idealism of the American dream lies in the past with Daisy. To have Daisy’s love is to have her wealth and the possibility of being able to achieve anything. However, in the end, Gatsby’s pursuit is impossible because it is the money he wishes to gain that corrupts the purity of his ideal. Similar to the flaw in Gatsby’s dream, the process of gaining wealth to achieve the American dream sets one away from the clarity of the dream and into the filthy exploitation of money.

The American Dream is just that: a dream. In the novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald explicitly tells the life story of the extravagant Jay Gatsby, previously known as the poor James Gatz, through a tragic love story, narrated by one of Gatsby's friends, which happens to be a cousin of his love interest, and implicitly gives commentary on social issues during the 1920s. As the novel progresses, the reader becomes aware of the demise of Gatsby’s dream of having Daisy love him like how she did prior to when he fought in the war. In order to develop the theme of the decline of the American Dream and how it has become corrupt and its achievement is unrealistic, Fitzgerald contrasts the rich debutantes’ to the poor working-class’s action

The American Dream is defined as the idea of working for the necessities in life: a house that is capable of housing a family, a loving family, and a job that supplies these necessities. This idea also consists of living in a society that is not restricted by social classes and allowing people of the society to have freedom to choose where they belong. The American Dream was and still could be the main focus of people who are going out on their own to create a family. However, F. Scott Fitzgerald took a different route in his most famous novel. Fitzgerald uses his book, The Great Gatsby, to show how the idea of the American Dream is slowly dying in the society he created.

“You don’t write to say something, you write because you have something to say.” F. Scott Fitzgerald was one of the most remarkable writers of all time during the Jazz Age. He started to reach an accomplishment of success with This Side of Paradise and accomplished it with The Great Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novels take place back in the early 1900’s; he attempts to communicate knowledge to the elocutionist, in a sophisticated, but humorous way, that making it big is not uncomplicated. Furthermore, he concentrates on the elements of theme, plot, and tone to reach out to his congregation (Brainy Quote).

The iconic novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, utilizes multiple songs throughout the story. “Fitzgerald’s wok has become automatically identified with an American decade: The Jazz Age (which he named) or the Roaring Twenties or The Boom.” (Fitzgerald, IX). The Twenties was a time full of exploration of alcohol and music and the move from small farms into large cities. “Since The Great Gatsby is the defining novel of the Twenties, which have become trivialized and vulgarized by people… it was necessary and useful to provide a corrective assessment of that era and Fitzgerald’s response to it” (XI). I personally believe Fitzgerald did just that. The development of Jay Gatsby’s character is all about rebirth and reinvigorating yourself; even if these developments are canards. Nonetheless, the tale of revival is a parallel belief echoed throughout the 1920s and the novel. The Roaring Twenties were a period “of possibilities and aspirations” (X) which is an influential theme in The Great Gatsby. “In ‘Echoes of the Jazz Age’ he wrote: ‘It was an age of miracles, it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire’” (X). During a stage of such metamorphosis, one element survives Jay’s coherent love for Daisy. This American classic of romantic literature collaborates beautifully with a playlist of Jazz songs. Also, Fitzgerald regularly mentions songs in the book. F.

How did F. Scott Fitzgerald create the stories we know and love? Who did Fitzgerald use as his muse for his female characters? There are many similarities between Fitzgerald’s life and his novels, but he was predominantly influenced by the pursuit of money and his fragile relationship with his wife, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald’s novels were influenced by his home life and the world around him as demonstrated primarily through his novel The Great Gatsby, but also through his novels This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned and Tender is the Night .

The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, which takes place right before the Great Depression. Personally, this is my favorite book that I have ever read. The book was very well written, and the language used throughout the text corresponds to the time era that the book takes place in. It is considered by some to be a portrait of the golden age of jazz. Fitzgerald’s book, is seen as the paradox of the ‘American Dream’. His writing is magnificently sensational. This book is also very well written. The Great Gatsby is definitely worth the read.

"You don 't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say," F. Scott Fitzgerald ("F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote-" Brainy Quote). Not only did he write well written novels and short stories, he wrote them in such a way to inspire and entertain his generation and future generations. F. Scott Fitzgerald was a leading author in America 's Jazz age- the twenties.