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In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald tells a moving story about a young man’s emergence into the foremost elite of American society, as well as his quest to regain the love of his past. It is the story about the illusions and aspirations of Jay Gatsby, projected against the urban and social orientation of the Jazz Age. Each of the characters in the novel are distinguished by their wealth, where they live or where they work. Fitzgerald uses geographical locations to portray the contrasts between the mentalities of people belonging to different social classes. He then utilizes this to expand upon the idea of the corruption of the American Dream.
The Great Gatsby was a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald during the roaring twenties. During this time, the era modernism was emerging, which includes the sub categories of alienation and isolation. In The Great Gatsby, characters feel lonely and out of place despite their wealth, allowing them to attend raging parties with many social opportunities. This feeling of misplacement affects how they act and relate to each other, showing the reader the complexities of human emotions and society. Nick Carraway best illustrates the feeling of alienation despite being rich and extravagant like everyone else.
The Great Gatsby, a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, lives up to its namesake. The book explores numerous complex themes, ranging from the unattainable and destructive nature of the pursuit of an idealized past to the social inequality brought about by wealth, even among the wealthy themselves, and, relevant to this essay, the decadence and moral decline brought about by the corruption of the American dream. Two symbols represent this idea: the Valley of Ashes, which is a physical manifestation of the grotesque, ever-consuming nature of the American dream and drains the life of its poor inhabitants – and the billboard of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg who looms over the road of the valley, eyes watching, becoming a symbol of anything in a place devoid of meaning. They are symbols of an empty and vapid dream that is never satiated – always
Title The Great Gatsby is a book that contains an abundance of motifs. F Scott Fitzgerald uses these motifs very masterfully to enhance the novel The Great Gatsby. One of the motifs that he uses is that money corrupts. The corruption is shown in many different ways and through many different people.
The Worth of an American Classic Americans today tend to maintain a firm belief that one's dreams are achieved only through hard work and dedication. However, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel known as The Great Gatsby contradicts this normalized belief in today’s society. Fitzgeralds' beliefs are embedded throughout his book which is still applicable to the modern day. In fact, the appreciation of the novel’s content has led to several schools requiring it as a classic story that students must read. Juniors at Buena High School should be required to read The Great Gatsby because of the significant theme of corruption that generates critical discussions in the classroom, how it comments on the idea of the American Dream, and how it allows the reader
Between West Egg and Manhattan lies ‘a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat’. Home to the lower end of society, The Valley of Ashes in the novel “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald effectively conveys the ideas that the American Dream has being corrupted by people’s greed for excessive luxuries and that the illusory nature of social mobility is limiting those in the lower classes. Perceived by Nick to be ‘a fantastic farm where ash grows like wheat’, the juxtaposition between The Valley of Ashes and ‘a fantastic farm’ is effective in the way that it conveys to the reader the effects of consumerism has on the environment. Not only are the ‘ash grey men crumbling’, their dreams can also be seen as ‘crumbling’ in the sense that they are stuck and cannot achieve any success. While those who are privileged live glamorously on the West and East Egg, those stuck in the valley have become victims of a corrupt American Dream and have little hope of rising up the classes.
Surname 4 Author’s Name: Instructor: Course: Date of Submission: The Great Gatsby Introduction The Great ‘Gatsby’ is a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, an American author published in the 1920s.
Rumors create this great spectacle of Gatsby. No one truly knows his past or what he has done. Many don’t know what he does in the present, though it can be inferred that he is a bootlegger. During the party at Gatsby’s house on page forty-four the two girls with Jordan talk about him, “‘Somebody told me they thought he killed a man once.’” People who attend his parties don’t know much about him but the rumors make him seem like this great mobster.
The Great Gatsby portrays the rapid decay of the American Dream where “the pursuit of a...higher quality of life [is defined] through hard work, determination, and devotion” (Benjamin Franklin). The gap between the rich and the poor, can be seen when comparing West Egg and the Valley of the Ashes or Gatsby and the Wilsons. The 1920's were a time of moral corruption and by extension, caused the deterioration of the American Dream. The society of the roaring twenties judged a person’s success by their material possessions, wealth and social status. By placing materialist values on the character's lives, the book positions the audience to interpret money as the cause of the American Dream’s corruption.
In the post World War One era where alcohol and flappers are prominent, the story of The Great Gatsby is told in first-person narration by Nick Carraway. The story takes place in the 1920s, in New York City, which is a symbol of wealth, materialism and “meretricious beauty” (Fitzgerald 98). This symbol is what causes New York in the 1920s to be seen as a corrupt time period where Gatsby is corrupt himself. Gatsby is a criminal; he is so focused on the materialistic ideals of the world that he is turned into a criminal, and is essentially one with his corrupt time period. This way he lives, where his life revolves around money and crime, is what causes him to create a dream.
As part 4 of our English language and literature course, we have been studying the novel, The Great Gatsby, by an F. Scott Fitzgerald. In this novel, Fitzgerald portrays the hollowness of the idea of wealth, and how it can bring both corruptions to an individual as well as the society. In my pastiche, I have chosen to write about how the corruption and the immorality of the materialistic world had affected Nick over 11 years after Gatsby’s death. To portray this, I have written about Nick very first visit to West Egg again for Gatsby’s 11th funeral and here are some stylistic features that I have imitated.
