Jay Gatsby’s Eulogy by Nick Carroway Ladies and gentlemen, we all collectively gather here today in a very different light. Today we are not attendees at one of Jay Gatsby’s legendary parties, rather we are here mourning, bidding farewell to a man who opened his doors and welcomed us all with open arms week after week. Despite the dazzling surface of his lavish life and the parties that everyone saw, he was a man that was very human. My name is Nick Carraway, and I stand before you today to reflect on the wonderful life that my friend, Jay Gatsby, lived. As I stand here in this beautiful mansion, I am reminded of the first time I came here and met Jay for the very first time.
The Great Gatsby-Nick Fawcett-Chapter 6 Questions 1. What is revealed about Jay Gatsby aka “James Gatz”? James Gatz is Jay Gatsby’s legal name, and he is originally from North Carolina. He was born to an unsuccessful farm family and didn't accept his parent’s to be family.
Gatsby hosts extravagant parties in an effort not only to boost his social status, but also to look for Daisy. Many wealthy, and often wild people attend these large social events held by Mr. Gatsby. Some of the guests even come lacking an invitation, “Sometimes they came and went without having met Gatsby at all, came for the party with a simplicity of heart that was its own ticket of admission.” (41)
James Gatz changed his name, to Jay Gatsby, shortly after meeting Dan Cody. Dan Cody was a very wealthy man who earned his fortune while mining in a Nevada gold rush. After the death of Cody, Gatsby was supposed to inherit a piece of Cody’s fortune. That did not work as planned so Gatsby earned all
He was a no body who made something of himself. Gatsby came from a poor family from North Dakota. At the age of 17, James Gatz, chose to change his life around. He changed his name to Jay Gatsby when he “witnessed the beginning of his career,” when the opportunity came up to be with Dan Cody on his yacht (Fitzgerald 104). This, is where and when Gatsby’s self-reinvention process began.
Nick is beginning his new eastern life for the first time. Also, it is a similar situation with Gatsby as his life seems to restart as well as he attempts to regain Daisy’s love for him. Joy and fun come along with the chaos that summer brings. All the parties Gatsby throws in his house are not your typical house party. “People were not invited--they just went there.
Pursuing a lavish lifestyle, and valuing possessions over relationships causes Gatsby to be viewed as a misconception upon society that cannot be cleared up. As Gatsby is hosting an extravagant party at his house he invites Nick to the “little party” with live orchestras,alcohol, and hundreds of people rumors go around stating that he “killed a man once”(41,44). Because Gatsby has attained wealth and lives as if he has money to blow, and with no one knowing his true background made many consumptions of who he is because of his secrecies. With Gatsby feeling as if his parties are average for people of his social background shows that his lavish lifestyle is beyond the standards of those who attend them. After Nick had his first encounters with
On one hand, Gatsby gains enormous wealth through his own effort from the bottom of the society, which could be regarded as “the great” from a practical perspective in his guests’ eyes. However, in the end, his success becomes just an illusion. His ultimate dream—Daisy’s love –cannot be gained even if he is that wealthy, and his tragic death indicates that “the greatness” of his striving is easy to be destroyed. On the other hand, “the great” also reveals that Gatsby used to be a great figure in his numerous guests’ eyes, when he is able to hold glamorous parties every week. However, ironically, eventually he is just a nobody that none of his friends except Nick care after his death.
As everyone knows Gatsby was exceedingly wealthy shared his wealth with the world through the wonderful parties he held full of fun-loving people. The extravagant orchestra, superbly delicious buffets together with the glorious bar with mixtures of drinks where one would get acquainted with floods of the wealthy who attended his lively parties from all walks of New York life. Now, that he is deceased, many untroubled to come to show the slightest gratitude. Gatsby’s previous crowd of guests and attendants seemed to have died with him. Perhaps that is the fault in the lives of the partying higher class of this generation in this age; life moves too fast and meaningless for one to reflect upon the sadness’s of loss – Gatsby’s death was forgotten by them long before its
My eulogy to Mr. Gatsby would have been a eulogy written from an outside point of view. I was not close with him but, I felt as though he deserved more to his going away. Mr. Gatsby did not live the life that he deserved he did not care how much it would hurt him but he did it for the love of his life Daisy. Mr. Gatsby deserved to have at least one person there that actually cared about him and didn’t want to use him for his money or status. Mr. Gatsby deserved to have a eulogy explaining his life to those that believed all of the rumors.
Risk taking, ground breaking changes, and wild parties are all important aspects of the 1920’s. The massive parties that included dancing, alcohol, and a house full of strangers were so essential to this magical era that F. Scott fitzgerald made them a key element in his book, “The Great Gatsby.” These extravagant parties that Jay Gatsby was notorious for hosting, attracted strangers from all corners of New York to take part in these luxurious events. These parties were so popular and well known in the eastern New York area that they basically become Gatsby’s trademark. Upon hearing the name “Gatsby” guests did not visualize the face of a young man, but rather envisioned the wild parties he threw.
Jay Gatsby, one of the main characters in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, is a wealthy man with dubious sources of money; Gatsby is renowned in New York due to the lavish parties he holds every friday in his mansion. These are spectacles that fully embody the wealth and glamour of the roaring twenties, and are narrated through the eyes of another character Nick Carraway, an ambitious 29 year old man that recently moved back to a corrupt new york in a cramped cottage next to Gatsby’s palace. After admiring the careless behaviour of the parties from a distance, Nick gets a personal invitation to Gatsby’s next party, he promptly becomes infatuated by the extravagant and frivolous lifestyle the parties portray, along with the superficial
In The Great Gatsby, The Death of Gatsby should have been different to fit the character preferably. In the book, Gatsby is described and made out to be a mysterious character that wasn't who he said he was. The character development of Gatsby was quite amazing and the way the character, Gatsby, lets out this genuine feeling of disillusionment and the spiralization of a man who just wanted the past to come back was grand. However, there was one trouble with the character Gatsby that should have been fixed, his death. His death was first portrayed on page 140 when he was found dead in the pool by a singular gunshot, let off by Wilson.
No one came to Gatsby’s funeral because he wasn 't really surrounded by as good of friends as he thought he was and the same thing happened with Willy. No one came to his funeral because he wasn 't really as well known as his family made him out to be. He also believed that he was well-liked salesman when in fact, he was the complete opposite. They were alike in that sense too because Jay wanted to be well liked in the society but when he died everyone thought he was the one who killed Merdyl, so no one liked him any more.
The American Dream: Survival or Death Less than twenty percent of Americans feel like they are living any part of the American Dream ( Carter ). In the history of the United States of America, the American Dream has been debated many times. But in the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott. Fitzgerald; Fitzgerald illustrates the death of the American Dream.
