Censorship In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is one of several great American classics that depicts the past without censorship. It is also considered to be an excellent literary example that reflects the 1920’s aristocratic lifestyle .However, as the reader comes to find throughout the novel, the narrator of the story, Nick, is a rather unreliable one, tending to contradict himself many times. For example, at the very beginning of chapter one, he states that “Gatsby turned out all right in the end; it was what preyed on Gatsby...that temporarily closed out [his] interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men”(6). This comes across as odd, as one would think that at the end of the novel Gatsby certainly does not seem to “turn out all right”. He is, after all, involved in illegal business, fails to win the girl he has been seeking for much of his life, and is eventually murdered for it. However, Nick states that Gatsby turned out all right at the end of the novel because his motivation of reuniting with Daisy set him apart from his peers, whose actions were generally for the purpose of greed or self-indulgence.

He appears to be a rather shady (but careful and well mannered) individual, hiding from his own parties and tending to be the subject of gossip among guests. Nick finds him to be somewhat awkward, in fact. He wonders how a man could just “drift coolly out of nowhere and buy a palace on Long Island Sound”(54). Of course, he does not know at the time Gatsby’s backstory, his connection with Daisy, or how he came into his money. Eventually he learns the truth behind Gatsby and his foggy past, and comes to the conclusion that while his methods were not entirely moral, Gatsby had the purest intentions of anyone he knew. WHAT ARE THESE INTENTIONS? GIVE A