The Great Gatsby is a slender beast of a novel. Written By Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald in April 1925. The novel is a virtuoso display of personality, Eloquently phrased and exquisitely plotted. The descriptions are jarringly beautiful. The novel is magnificently complex and rich. The Great Gatsby is a story of the thwarted love between a naive man and a careless woman however the main theme of the novel are much more complex and are of slightly less romantic scope. .This is a beautiful story that symbolizes the tragedy of the American Dream and shows how wealth affects people.The Great Gatsby is an extremely run of the mill examination on 1920s America as a rule, particularly the weakening of the American dream in a time of extraordinary achievement and material plenitude. Fitzgerald portrays the 1920s as an era of crippling social structures and decaying moral values, as evidenced by the novels characters in their overarching cynicism, greed, and empty pursuit of pleasure.
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Fitzgerald sees the American dream slowly but surely disintegrating in the 1920s, as America's becomes obsessed with materialism .
The story of the great Gatsby revolves around Jay Gatsby who also lends his name to the novel. Jay Gatsby is quixotic character. His reputation precedes him and Scott Fitzgerald holds back any revelation concerning Gatsby, until fairly late in the novel. As a reader many find themselves hating Gatsby at first infact most of the characters in The great Gatsby are very unlikable and the story at its most basic and simplest form isn’t very moving or compelling. Fitzgerald solves this problem by heightening the language and giving it pace. The language of the novel elevates Gatsby triumphs and tragedies to stuff of real epics gives Gatsby unironic greatness. Fitzgerald at first presents Gatsby as the standoffish, baffling host of the unfathomably lavish gatherings tossed each week at his house but distressingly ironically the man reputation is only a fabled part of his self. His reputation is all a mixture of fallacy of rumors and gossip. Gatsby is clothed in irony. He is a bootleggers who does not drinks, he is a swimming pool owner who does not swim, a man of leisure who does not partake in a single leisure activity. Gatsby is a product of the delusional war heroes who returned from facing the horrors of world war 1 and to them the Victorian Aristocracy and the bourgeoisie seemed liked the manifestation of stuffy empty hypocrisy. The novel revolves around the destructive love that Daisy and Gatsby share for each other. The love story is the window through which we see their world as Narrated by Nick. Both Gatsby and Daisy do not love each other in true literary tradition they both want to want to be in love with each other. Gatsby is a naive fool who believe in the American dream. He believes that by obtaining inherent …show more content…
The novel’s symbolic geography: East Egg represents the established rich,, The families who inherited their money the sophisticated Victorian aristocrats, West Egg the selfmade rich “new money” the people to be despised. The bourgeoisie though having fine taste yet utterly lacking in the moral values of the world. They are utterly careless. The east Eggers. In the end Gatsby a degenerate criminal at the surface might have the better
Fitzgerald sees the American dream slowly but surely disintegrating in the 1920s, as America's becomes obsessed with materialism .
The story of the great Gatsby revolves around Jay Gatsby who also lends his name to the novel. Jay Gatsby is quixotic character. His reputation precedes him and Scott Fitzgerald holds back any revelation concerning Gatsby, until fairly late in the novel. As a reader many find themselves hating Gatsby at first infact most of the characters in The great Gatsby are very unlikable and the story at its most basic and simplest form isn’t very moving or compelling. Fitzgerald solves this problem by heightening the language and giving it pace. The language of the novel elevates Gatsby triumphs and tragedies to stuff of real epics gives Gatsby unironic greatness. Fitzgerald at first presents Gatsby as the standoffish, baffling host of the unfathomably lavish gatherings tossed each week at his house but distressingly ironically the man reputation is only a fabled part of his self. His reputation is all a mixture of fallacy of rumors and gossip. Gatsby is clothed in irony. He is a bootleggers who does not drinks, he is a swimming pool owner who does not swim, a man of leisure who does not partake in a single leisure activity. Gatsby is a product of the delusional war heroes who returned from facing the horrors of world war 1 and to them the Victorian Aristocracy and the bourgeoisie seemed liked the manifestation of stuffy empty hypocrisy. The novel revolves around the destructive love that Daisy and Gatsby share for each other. The love story is the window through which we see their world as Narrated by Nick. Both Gatsby and Daisy do not love each other in true literary tradition they both want to want to be in love with each other. Gatsby is a naive fool who believe in the American dream. He believes that by obtaining inherent …show more content…
The novel’s symbolic geography: East Egg represents the established rich,, The families who inherited their money the sophisticated Victorian aristocrats, West Egg the selfmade rich “new money” the people to be despised. The bourgeoisie though having fine taste yet utterly lacking in the moral values of the world. They are utterly careless. The east Eggers. In the end Gatsby a degenerate criminal at the surface might have the better