Crystal Castaldi Professor Douglas Brown Fyw 20 April 2018 Two Warring Worlds: An Analysis of Holden Caulfield and Nick Carraway The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a tragedy that, despite it taking place in the 1920s, describes many themes that still apply today. The character of Nick Carraway in Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby can be likened to Holden Caulfield from J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye.
Author, F. Scott Fitzgerald, in his novel, The Great Gatsby, recounts the story of two love-struck people through another character called Nick. Fitzgerald’s purpose is to show how different characters change throughout the story by using many rhetorical elements like descriptive imagery, the choice of strong diction, and metaphors/similes. The author focuses on the characterization of three main characters which are Gatsby, Daisy, and Nick because they are seemingly connected. These characterizations relate back to the themes of achieving the American Dream that is to be rich and powerful but still have love and a family to come home to every night. Even though many of the characters have changed and evolved throughout the story, some of them
A Rhetorical Analysis of how Fitzgerald explains Gatsby’s Impact on the World, Gatsby’s True Nature, and the Concept of Time Gatsby was a great man that was a caring and loving person who had his life taken from him, by Mr. Wilson, as a result of revenge for being a suspect of Mrs. Wilson’s death. Near the end of the story, Nick Carraway was looking back through Long Island, where he, Gatsby, and Daisy lived. He described many aspects of the island, the mood of the people, and the environment. Nick touched on the point of the atmosphere without Gatsby and his dream that was washed away with blood.
In the book, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the speaker, Nick, describe many complex attitudes towards hope by showing the complexity of Gatsby and Daisy’s relationship to express this theme. Nick uses literary devices such as similes, metaphors, and juxtaposition to portray to the audience how Gatsby and Daisy’s love may seem tangible to them, but in reality, they are worlds apart. Nick uses similes to have the audience understand that Gatsby and Daisy are constantly hoping for a better life, and that utopian life to them is to be together. “It had seemed as close as a star to the moon”(Fitzgerald 94).
Distinguished writer F. Scott Fitzgerald in his novel The Great Gatsby illustrates Nick dealing with Gatsby’s death. Fitzgerald’s purpose is to capture Nick’s process of acceptance for Gatsby not being alive anymore. His wistful imagery and nostalgic word choice serves to produce a sentimental attitude in Nick to convey sympathy in the audience. Fitzgerald opens up his passage by utilizing wistful imagery that goes along with Nick’s attitude.
In the final chapter of The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald, crowds rejoice as this whirlwind novel of materialism and pride comes to a dramatic closing….In writing this chapter, Nick, the narrator, describes the aftermath of Gatsby’s death two years later, in Minnesota, which leads the reader to fully realize that the entire novel was written from Nick’s interpretation and memory of the events, if they hadn’t figured it out by now. In the chapter, Nick tells how he tried to arrange a large funeral for Gatsby in hopes that his many friends would come to pay their final respects to the man, only to realize that none of Gatsby’s “friends” were willing to go highlighting how the multitudes of guests at his parties only came for the
Recounting heartbreak, betrayal, and deception, F. Scott Fitzgerald paints a bleak picture in the 1920’s novel The Great Gatsby. Nick Carraway, the narrator of the novel, witnesses the many lies others weave in order to achieve their dreams. However, the greatest deception he encounters is the one he lives. Not having a true dream, Nick instead finds purpose by living vicariously through others, and he loses that purpose when they are erased from his life.
At the end of The Great Gatsby, Nick reflects upon Gatsby’s life and pursuit on the beach where “the green light” at the end of Daisy’s dock can be seen. As a significant metaphor, “the green light” represents Gatsby’s dream which guides him to keep pursuing wealth and social status, while the position of the light, the distant and inaccessible Daisy’s dock, indicates the close connection between Gatsby’s unreal dream and Daisy, and as well the disillusionment of the dream. In the last three paragraphs, Nick explains the disillusionment of Gatsby’s dream, “He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it” (162). Gatsby has always strived for his ambition and dream.
Nick Carraway is the narrator in the novel “The Great Gatsby “by F. Scott Fitzgerald. He is also the protagonist in the story. Nick is responsible for letting readers know what was happening in the story and his and other characters reaction toward it. He has explained how Gatsby love for Daisy and his disliking Tom. In the “The Great Gatsby” there are many thoughts nick has hidden from Gatsby such as Tom’s affair.
This relationship was fascinating in terms of its state, it was brotherly in some instances, fatherly in others but overall it possessed a romantic and breathless characteristic of hope. This is evident as we witness Nick’s immediate curiosity and admiration for Gatsby. Nick’s fascination began at the start of the novel as he wonders, “If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him (Gatsby)”. (Fitzgerald 3). Gatsby made Nick feel hopeful and magnificent, this kind of hope was romantic and orgasmic in a sense, because of the way in which he
Fitzgerald describes Gatsby’s American dream through Nick’s eyes . For example, “ Compared to the great distance that had separated him from Daisy it had seemed very near to her, almost touching her. It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was again a green light on a dock. His count of enhanced objects had diminished by one.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway are among the most prominent exponents of literature of the twentieth century. Forming part of the Lost Generation, these authors not only develop similar themes throughout their works, but heavily influenced each other. The Great Gatsby being Fitzgerald’s magnum opus, serves as a prime illustration of the staples of contemporary literature. In the novel The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald, the author depicts himself through a character, Nick Carraway, conforming to other self depiction common in the Lost Generation, such as Hemingway in the Nick Adams stories. Nick Carraway and Nick Adams represent Fitzgerald and Hemingway, both serving as apertures into Fitzgerald’s and Hemingway’s view of the world.
The Great Gatsby, as written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, portrays Nick Carraway’s final attitude towards Jay Gatsby in the novel’s conclusion (pages 188-189). Nick has conflicting views on Jay Gatsby, whether it was he looked up to his optimism or never say die attitude but in the end he felt sorry for him and the way he turned out. Fitzgerald manages to depict his attitude by using rhetorical devices. After Gatsby’s death, Nick had somehow caught Gatsby’s party side because he spent his Saturday nights in New York. “ I spent most of my Saturday nights in New York because those gleaming, dazzling parties of his were with me so vividly…” (pg. 188).
Resolution of the story The Great Gatsby starts at chapter 9, after the tragic incident has ended. The chapter opens where Nick has moved back to the west and is reflecting back to the day of the incident. It also unfolds Gatsby’s past through acquaintance with Gatsby’s father, Gatz. After Gatsby’s death, no one else wanted to arrange Gatsby’s funeral and as Nick was the only “real” friend, he decided to take care of the funeral. Many can be seen from chapter 9 that relates to the text such as the green light.
Throughout the novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses very descriptive language to make the reader feel as though they are in the passage. He writes with the use of many metaphors and often times engages all five senses in one scene. One scene in particular that is very memorable is the end of the novel when Nick is sitting on the beach thinking over his time since he has moved to New York. Nick thinks to himself that Gatsby had come to the spot he was at and “He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—to-morrow we will run faster, stretch our arms farther….And
