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Self-Made In The Great Gatsby

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“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, he told me, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.” (F Scott Fitzgerald, pg 1) In being a self made man such as Gatsby was, there are connections made which can be beneficial or damaging. There are also many characteristics that can come with being a self made man that F. Scott Fitzgerald discusses in The Great Gatsby. There were many ostentatious possessions that Gatsby gained from wealth as an outcome of being a self made man. Even though being a self made man can have repercussions, it can still have beneficial outcomes from …show more content…

“He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. ”(59) Gatsby was smart, this being one of the causes or one of the effects of being a self made man. He was smart because he needed to be in order to be able to make himself money and popularity, and he became more smart because of his experiences of being a self made man. I understand you're looking for a business connection. “No! No, no. This isn't the man, Meyer. Remember, this is the friend that I told you about.” (37) In order for Gatsby to be able to make himself into a self made man he needed to be very hardworking. He shows his hard work through answering a work call when his true love, Daisy, is at his house. His hardworking skill is helpful when he needs it to be but it is also a burden, he misses most of the monstrous parties he threw and he hadn’t even swum in his own pool until the end of the summer, right before they closed it. He never ended up using many of the objects he had due to his

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Gatsby Analytical Essay Author F. Scott Fitzgerald has deftly woven dozens of themes and motifs throughout his relatively short novel The Great Gatsby. One theme that resonates in particular is that of isolation. This theme pervades the entire book, and without it, nothing in Gatsby’s world would be the same. Every character must realize that he or she isn’t capable of truly connecting with any other character in the book, or else the carelessness and selfishness that leads to so many of the book’s vital events would not exist. Fitzgerald develops the feeling of isolation and aloneness by his use of the motif of careless self-absorption, a behavior we see many characters exhibiting.

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In the Great Gatsby, privilege comes into play. Privilege in this context means being born with advantages that you did not earn or work for. Some people have to work to get their money but others are born with money which means that they didn’t have to work for their money. Gatsby for example was not born with money. He had to make his own money by selling and dealing drugs and is now a very wealthy man.

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Nick describes Gatsby “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” (Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby 98). He compares Gatsby and Jesus Christ to show how he created his own identity. After he reinvented himself as a rich man, Gatsby had to maintain his image, so he went to the extremes to make as much money as he could. These extreme ways of making money worked very well for him, but the

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