Life In The Great Gatsby

In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald portrays Jay Gatsby's life to have many highs and lows which all derived from Gatsby's confidence gained from his many illegal business tactics. Similarly, the economy in the 1920's was extremely volatile due to many American businesses accepting forms of credit as pay, by accepting credit as a form of pay the stock market was built on an unstable basis that was bound to fail. Whether it was the stock market crash of 1929 or Jay Gatsby's sudden death, both events have an uncanny resemblance to each other due to their shady beginnings which set up both Jay Gatsby and the stock market for failure. Starting from the beginning of the 1920's, in 1922 the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which is

Eerily similar to the creation of Jay Gatsby when he saved Dan Cody from shipwreck, giving himself confidence, which changed his lifestyle forever and allowed him to build his character on an artificial belief of his great new life. This new lifestyle acted very similarly to putting to putting credit back into the economy, as James Gatz was reborn into Jay Gatsby, the eccentric millionaire. This faux character built by his experiences with Dan Cody gave him the confidence to do whatever he felt, which led to Gatsby being left in misery for years, hosting these elaborate parties in search of his one true love, Daisy Buchanan. Although he eventually found her, these elaborate parties built up his personality to such a degree that most of his guests only knew him as a character from an awe-inspiring story, not as their gracious host. All of these elaborate details that define Gatsby only led to his demise, and in the end helped the highs and lows of his life mirror those of the economy in the

Tony McAdams writes about the morality of each of the major characters and what they do wrong throughout the course of the novel. Tony McAdams is a professor of business law in the Management Department at the University of Northern Iowa. McAdams' articles have been published in the Harvard Business Review and the Academy of Management Review. McAdams' intended audience is his students and aspiring businessmen/women, as his article states what to do and what not to do in the business world. The information covered is McAdams opinion on the important ideas about business ethics. McAdams has been teaching business ethics for many years and his research shows his knowledge on the topic at hand. His point of view is objective while also putting his own ideas into the topic. McAdams thesis is based off of his curriculum and the ideas that he teaches to his students, his research marginally covers my topic as it does not state the many parallels to the stock market. McAdams work is organized logically, and his writing makes his topic