F Scott Fitzgerald's Development Of Wealth In The Great Gatsby

Lucy Kaufman

Mrs. Wertz

English 3, Hour 7

1 May 2023

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s development of Wealth in The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American novelist and short story writer. He is known for his novel The Great Gatsby. The Great Gatsby is a novel written in 1925 and is set in Long Island, New York. The novel is written from a first-person point of view from a thirty year old man named Nick Carraway. It involves his interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession over Daisy Buchanan so he can reunite with his past lover. In the book, The Great Gatsby he included many themes but the main theme he portrayed was wealth.

F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel immediately marked wealth, money, and materialism as a key

Scott Fitzgerald used imagery to further his theme about wealth in his novel The Great Gatsby. One quote Fitzgerald stated about imagery and wealth in The Great Gatsby is, "The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun, and now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music, and the opera of voices pitches a key higher. Laughter is easier, minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word. The groups change more swiftly, swell with new arrivals, dissolve and form in the same breath,” (Fitzgerald, 40). This quote uses vivid imagery to describe the extravagant parties thrown by Gatsby, highlighting the wealth of the era. Another quote that showed great use of imagery is, "I lived at West Egg, the—well, the least fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them. My house was at the very tip of the egg, only fifty yards from the Sound, and squeezed between two huge places that rented for twelve or fifteen thousand a season,” (Fitzgerald, 5). This quote uses imagery to describe the complete contrast between the wealthy and less wealthy residents of Long Island. Fitzgerald's imagery about wealth in The Great Gatsby helped readers fully grasp what it was like around the time period he was writing about. Two more great examples of this are, "I had a view of the water, a partial view of my neighbor’s lawn, and the consoling proximity of millionaires—all for

He achieved the theme of wealth through the characters point of view, symbolism, and imagery. It matters that Fitzgerald used those strategies to further convey the theme of wealth in The Great Gatsby because it allows readers to experience the extravagance of the era in a deeper way. By painting vivid pictures of Gatsby's parties, his mansion, and the contrast between the wealthy and less wealthy residents of Long Island, Fitzgerald is able to create a better experience for the reader and get an impact of the novel's theme in a more powerful way. The Great Gatsby is impactful because the novel's theme of wealth continues to appeal with readers today, making it a timeless classic of American literature. Finally, the novel's vivid imagery, and complex characters make it a joy to