The “Great Gatsby” is a Profound novel written by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald was one of the greatly known analysts of 1920’s America, “The Great Gatsby” he dubbed from “The Jazz Age,” in which the American economy soared, bringing prosperity to the nation. Fitzgerald’s major aspects he intended the readers to understand in this novel were character analysis, symbolism and the language.
When you read “The Great Gatsby”, one of the most captivating parts of the novel is the way Fitzgerald’s illustrational words are used to describe his characters. He describes every aspect of each character from narrator Nick Carraway to title character Jay Gatsby. Characterization is an important aspect to every novel, but what makes it so great in Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald expresses the main motif by the immorality of the American dream with the use of characterization of different characters.
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Nick and Gatsby, both of whom fought in World War I, exhibit the newfound cynicism that resulted from the war. The numerous formidable guests who attend Gatsby’s parties prove the greedy scramble for wealth. Meyer Wolfsheim and Gatsby’s fortune characterize the rise of prepared crime and bootlegging. As the narrator Nick explains in chapter nine, the American dream became at the start about discovery, individualism, and the pursuit of happiness. In the Nineteen Twenties depicted in the novel, however, smooth cash and cozy social values have corrupted this dream, especially on the East