Gatsby puts on a facade and tells everyone that he inherited his money, but in reality Gatsby has other means by which he earns his money for the sake of Daisy. He stoops to a level that shows that he has no care for his morals and he will go to any extent if it means making Daisy happy and earning money. He commits multiple crimes including buying “side-street drug-stores in Chicago and [selling] grain alcohol over the counter” (Fitzgerald 133). He doesn’t care about getting in trouble with the law because he is no longer living for himself, and it seems like he is only living for Daisy, who embodies the wealthy lifestyle Gatsby has wanted his whole life. Gatsby got rich out of a sense of “desperation and crazy hopefulness, out of refusing to get over a broken heart and give up the love of his life” (Voegeli).
“In the world people try to hide things from each other but one way or another they find out what they are hiding. ”(Kibin.com) F.Scott Fitzgerald had a hard time naming his novel “The Great Gatsby”. Truly a story about love, lies and deceit. The name is misfitting. Therefore, the title should have been “Love Lies”.
In the novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays women in an extremely negative light. The idea Fitzgerald gives off is that women are only good for their looks and their bodies and that they should just be a sex symbol rather than actually use their heads. He treats women like objects and the male characters in the novel use women, abuse women, and throw them aside. I believe that Daisy, Jordan and Myrtle are prime examples of women in The Great Gatsby being treated poorly.
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a book based around the jazz era which was in the 1920’s. There was rapid economic growth, music and dance styles that gained popularity. It covers this era perfectly with all the parties that Gatsby threw. The Great Gatsby shows many different concepts that were going on in the 1920’s such as bootlegging, affairs, which were a normal thing back then, and it showed how the men were still known as superior to the woman. Throughout the book Jay Gatsby had been trying to get Daisy to notice him and rekindle their relationship.
The Great Gatsby This is a story about romance, but there is a lot of bad things that happen and is all because of a sweet looking woman and she is guilty of the death of three people, that pretty and sweet woman is Daisy and I found her guilty of the death of three people because it was her fault that she killed Myrtle, she did not decide between Tom and Gatsby, and she did not go to Gatsby funeral. Daisy is guilty because it was her fault that she killed Myrtle, they were in town and Gatsby was having kind of an argument with Tom and saying that Daisy does not loved Tom that she never loved him and Daisy tell Tom that she never did but she starts getting frustrated so she said she wants to leave from town, Tom tell her okay go with Gatsby in his car. She was driving very fast and she ran over Myrtle because Daisy was not really thinking and she already had lost her nerves, she was not okay to be driving and Daisy did saw Myrtle but she could not even stop, when Tom found out that a yellow car ran over her and killed her, Tom told Wilson that it was Gatsby car.
Gatsby did anything in order for Daisy to love him for being rich and for people to accept him by throwing huge parties and having his guest arrive in Rolls-Royce cars and having the most wealthy people in the nation come to his
Daisy is probably the most disappointing character throughout this story. At first, Daisy is portrayed as innocence, purity, wealth, and light. But, eventually proves to be selfish. Shallow, and hurtful woman. You want Daisy to be worthy of Gatsby’s love, but she just can't.
In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald illustrates that men seek women like Daisy because of the social class she comes from, but she is treated unfairly and objectified in society because she is a woman. At the beginning of the novel, Fitzgerald implies that Tom and Daisy’s relationship is unstable as “Tom’s got some woman in New York” (Fitzgerald 15). Tom felt the need to assert dominance over another woman, belittling Daisy and her worthiness in their relationship. His infidelity reveals the type of man Tom is and how unfaithful he is towards Daisy even when he swears that “[he] loves Daisy” and “[he] always comes back [because in his heart, he] loves her all the time” (Fitzgerald 131). His words are inconsistent with his actions, “once in a while [he goes] off on a spree and makes a fool of [himself],” implying the immoral acts he committed (Fitzgerald 131).
In F Scott Fitzgerald 's The Great Gatsby, Gatsby 's is deceitful because of his love for daisy which leads to his downfall, loneliness, and losing daisy. Gatsby chose his path of deceit because of love for a girl named Daisy. Daisy was raised to marry a successful and rich man, when Gatsby learned this he knew he had to find a way to make a lot of money, but he was raised dirt poor on his family 's farm and didn 't know how to make money or how to be wealthy. When the book starts Gatsby is filthy rich, but no one knows how he makes his money.
Throughout the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby is quite a controversial character. A millionaire living in West Egg, Gatsby lives a lavish lifestyle and everything in his life is easily attainable, or so it seems. Many would believe that he is living the American Dream of luxury and happiness, but hiding behind his wealth and mansion is an entirely different Gatsby. He is characterized as a respectable figure who loves to throw parties that many attend, but is also viewed as a man who cannot be trusted because the stories of his past do not align with one another. Above all, the ambition to pursue the idea of spending his life with Daisy eventually winds up causing the demise of the man known as “Jay Gatsby”.
The revelation of Gatsby’s true identity as James Gatz shows the ambitious side of Gatsby. It depicts him as a man who relentlessly pursues the ideals that he has set for himself. While at first it may have been to become greater than his parents could ever be, later on it is clear that his greatest motivation is Daisy. He aspires to become the kind of man that could be with Daisy, the man he wasn’t when they were together. He believes that if he could just be that person then he and Daisy could pick up from where they left off.
In “The Great Gatsby”, a novel about wealth in the Jazz Age, the novelist Fitzgerald portrays a negative view of women. Throughout the entire novel, only a few women are described, and they are all described negatively either most of the time, or at some point. Could this be because of the time era or the novelist? Either way, it's beneficial to know what standpoints our classic literature takes so the reader can better understand viewpoints, themes, and vocabulary within them. The great Gatsby takes a negative view on women by introducing them lowly, stereotyping them, and barely having personalities in the story.
The New Era Woman The Great Gatsby takes place in the 1920’s where there was a vast change in social life. Women were gaining more and more rights. They were able to voice their opinions on matters and people take hem more serious. As so, the role of the women in The Great Gatsby is seen completely exactly from what the new type of women was in the 1920’s.
As many know, Jay Gatsby is a very wealthy figure in the West Egg of New York. Gatsby was not always rich, being the son of farmers, he did not grow up in the lush lifestyle he is living now. His love and aspiration for Daisy was a constant motivation for him to become the rich and successful man that she wanted. He even “bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay" (Fitzgerald 78). This house was a step in the direction to capture Daisy’s attention.
For Gatsby, there would not be anything more exciting than the anticipation that comes from imagining future pleasures or plans with Daisy; something he endeavors throughout the course of his life. However, Daisy was not strong enough to walk away from her marriage with Tom. The ill-fated story ends when Daisy goes back to what she always knew. Daisy’s investment into the relationship with Gatsby was not as hefty; she obviously loves Gatsby but not in the same way he loves her. She decides that she cannot live with Gatsby’s hefty expectations and goes back home with Tom.
