Astounding The Great Gatsby Essay

The Astounding F. Scott Fitzgerald

Scott Fitzgerald, an American Novelist who illustrated during the Jazz Age, wrote a sensational book by the name “The Great Gatsby” that currently influences the world of writing. Since the release of “The Great Gatsby”, Scott Fitzgerald's written genius has been made into a movie that won 21 different Awards in 2014. Only 25,000 copies were sold before Fitzgerald sadly passed away, that’s only a thousandth of the total amount sold today. Students attending American schools have to read “The Great Gatsby" as a part of their curriculum, and this has been in schools for 20 or more years. F. Scott Fitzgerald is a truly effective writer and has the evidence to prove it. His allusions, imagery, color symbolism,

The visual part of novels is made from the reader's imagination. Fitzgerald does most of the work. His explanations of the environments he places his characters into are elaborate and exciting to read. Nick being the narrator of “The Great Gatsby” is Fitzgerald's middleman for the devices he implements in this novel. While traveling with an old money Tom Buchanan, Nick views the world around him and explains the environment he was in. “The ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight” (Pg. 26). The gray men, the emotionless men, all dressed the same. This is a colorless place with all the harder-working people, working for slim to no money. A main theme that Fitzgerald brings to this novel is social class, and Wilson, a character that lives in the Valley of Ashes, is cheated on by his wife with Mr. Buchanan. Wilson is very helpful and nice to Tom, yet his loyalty is for nothing. He is an example of the people who live there and they give kindness and enthusiasm to rich people and the only thing they get back is betrayal and heartache. The lack of specificity shows the withdrawal of emotions that aren’t emitting from the Valley of Ashes. The internal emotions aren't there but the genuine attempt at happiness in the Valley is