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Examples Of Naturalism In The Great Gatsby

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Can You Rise To The Top With The Rest Of Society?: The Great Gatsby Social naturalism/realism drives people in a totally crazy way that can affect other people based on how they think about them and criticize the different aspects of society. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, social naturalism/realism is seen and treated to a whole new different level that differs to how other people see and treat different people base of on how they belong to either a lower,middle, or higher class. The novel makes a naturalism argument about how social mobility is difficult to achieving by a variety of different ways that can be hard, even though people try to change how they live, what they have, or think a different way that they …show more content…

First, Gatsby lived in West Egg, near Nick, but as Nick got to meet Gatsby more and more, Gatsby would tell Nick almost everything, even the story of how he was actually born. When Nick was around Gatsby, he would observe Gatsby in a way that he would tell him almost everything, but some things he had to figure out on his own. In one occasion, Gatsby had lied and told Nick the truth that his “...parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people-his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents as all. The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg. Long Island, sprang from this Platonic conception of himself” and Gatsby had try to forget that he had poor parents (Fitzgerald 98). Gatsby tried to turn the idea around by forgetting that he had belong to his father’s business that he had and had not wanted to think about how the idea of him coming from lower class parents was true to his eyes, so then he came up with a creative way of inviting a sort of different name called Jay Gatsby. When Gatsby had changed his name, he turned to be successful into rising from low to higher class and as Gatsby was growing older and drifted back to Lake …show more content…

But then Cody had died, and Gatsby had started to inherited the money, which was twenty-five thousand dollars, and then that’s how gatsby had stayed with all of the belongs of Cody and had started to go from poor to being super rich and rising into high class society. When Gatsby had thought he had everything in life; such as the huge mansion, the love of his life--Daisy, and friends, a totally

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In chapters four through six of The Great Gatsby, the reader is introduced to the real Gatsby who was incredibly poor in his early life. At the beginning of chapter six, Nick explains to the reader Gatsby’s real upbringing. Nick explains, “James Gatz — that was really, or at least legally, his name… His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people — his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all. The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself” (Fitzgerald 62-63).

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So he decided to reinvent himself, taking on the character of Jay Gatsby. He presents himself as a rich and successful guy, despite the fact that he doesn’t come from money. Those who attend Gatsby's parties, respect and admire this new front he has put on. The contrast between his poor roots and his current situation make the front that he puts on the most tragic of the story. As demonstrated in chapter 4 “He hurried the phrase “educated at Oxford,” or swallowed it, or choked on it, as though it had bothered him now.

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Jay Gatsby is the character around which The Great Gatsby is written. He represents a whole hoard of people who recognize the opportunity to move from the rural life to high society. At a early age, he had a high opinion of himself which led him to depart from his impoverished family and starts the journey to a new life. Fitzgerald effetely proves that its possible to detach from the hopelessly poor, “His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people — his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all” Gatsby sought out something that his parents could never

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Not many people truly knew him, Nick however, was his next door neighbor and got to know the real Gatsby. Nick reveals to the reader, “Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God — a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that — and he must be about His Father's business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen-year-old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end. " Gatsby was a self made wealthy man who desperately tried to escape his beginnings.

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Before Nick met Gatsby, the only thing Nick knew about Gatsby, was what other people told him. Rumors went around about Gatsby, people said “he killed a man once” or “he was a German spy during the war” (44). These statements caused Nick to have an uneasy feeling about Gatsby. Nick was Gatsby’s neighbor, and Gatsby owned a mansion, while Nick said that “[his] own house was an eyesore…. and it had been overlooked” (5).

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In one point, Gatsby started his life in the family of framers. His father was an unsuccessful farmer at his younger age so he decided to make his own and by these he begins to renovates his past life where poverty turns to wealthy person. He also changed his name as time passed by when his mentor Dan Cody was died. He developed into a adult man so Jimmy Gats, his original name turns into Jay Gatsby, as a new wealthy person living in a mansion and always has a party occurring in his place. As such, his life becomes different as before.

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As said by other critics, “Jay Gatsby's determination to establish a new identity for himself sets him apart from the other characters in the text” (Verderame). Gatsby grew up as a poor farmer boy. Born into poverty from the beginning, Gatsby cared little for his family and was determined to leave them behind for a new life. This tragic past encourages Gatsby to entirely start a new life by changing his identity and personality before the reader is even introduced to the character. “So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen year old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end” (98).Critics say, “In doing so, Gatsby has proven to himself that he can successfully change the story of his past” (Scisco).

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The Great Gatsby critiques the wealthy by displaying their materialistic nature and being careless of themselves and others to demonstrate how wealth does not add to the quality of their character and leads to corruption. Materialism in The Great Gatsby is represented throughout the book, with each characters’ obsession with wealth, status, and possessions. "I'd like to get one of those police dogs; I don't suppose you got that kind?" The man peered doubtfully into the basket, plunged in his hand and drew one up, wriggling, by the back of the neck.

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“And it was from Cody that he inherited money. the vague contour of Jay Gatsby had filled out to the substantiality of a man” (101). Gatsby had the potential to be a wealthy and successful man, and Dan Cody ignited that reality. And it was after this fact, when Gatsby fell in love with Daisy, and dedicated the rest of his life to be someone he wasn’t. He bought a mansion, threw parties, and played the role of a rich and luxurious man, all to win her

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Gatsby tells Nick that he was born "James Gatz," and was the son of poor farmers, in North Dakota. Throughout the story, readers can see the lies Gatsby crafted about himself. He created lies so that people would think better about him, and maybe it would make him feel better about himself as well.

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Gatsby is a wealthy man who lives in West Egg. He tells Nick that he is “the son of some wealthy people in the Middle West” (Fitzgerald, 65). He later states, “I was brought up in America but educated at Oxford, because all my ancestors have been educated there for many years. It is a family tradition” (Fitzgerald, 65). This is what Gatsby wants Nick to believe but, in reality, Nick tells the reader that Gatsby was a man by the name of James Gatz and he was the son of unsuccessful farmers.

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The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island sprang from his platonic conception of himself ” (98). The implication that Gatsby already had the name picked out shows his dissatisfaction for the simple life that he lived and his desire to become someone else, someone who could pull off the guise of a gentleman who was born of old money. Nick stating that the new name was because of Gatsby’s “platonic conception of himself” indicates that Gatsby believed that he understood his values enough to know that throughout his life, he will try to aim for that goal of becoming a wealthy man who has a sphere of influence, basically, the American dream. These conceptions of Gatsby and his ideals about wealth are tools that the author uses to demonstrate the reasons that

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While on the surface, Gatsby does have a ‘rags-to-riches’ story, it is not a virtuous one; he amasses his wealth through illegal channels by working with Meyer Wolfsheim, and never fulfills his dream, Daisy. Also, He changes his name from James Gatz to Jay Gatsby when he first encounters Dan Cody. Because Gatsby has to take on an entirely different persona to achieve success, disguising his poor upbringing and suggesting that James Gatz could never achieve the American dream. Gatsby first attempts to earn his financial success by performing menial labor for Cody, but when Cody’s ex-wife swindles Gatsby out of his inheritance, he turns to illegal means of getting rich. Not only does Gatsby illegally gain his wealth my selling grain liquor over the counter, but he also does so under the direction of Meyer Wolfsheim, breaking two essential qualities of the self-made man, virtue, and independence.

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