The Analytical Gatsby Fitzgerald has countless themes in his novel The Great Gatsby. One of these many themes is that even when no one is around to witness your actions there is always a moral force that knows what you have done, this moral force keeps the actions of the community under a strict moral code. This theme has been amplified by the use of a Motif, a giant billboard of T.J. Eckleburg which only shows two large eyes behind a large pair of glasses. This Motif helps you visualize how the community associates the moral force into their lives, also it shows that even when no one is watching God is.
David Beatenbo April 30, 2018 American Lit. Mrs. West It is the 1920’s, New York City. A young man by the name Nick Carraway meets his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Jay Gatsby is your average wealthy man who lives in a mansion.
This song was played during the extravagant parties Gatsby threw. From the beginning, it’s easily noticeable that it’s from Gatsby’s perspective. He always has a desire to rekindle the relationship Daisy and him once had. Gatsby can’t bare to leave Daisy; therefore, he bought a mansion right across the bay from where she was. In addition, he often forced her to confess to Tom saying she never loved him.
Here Nick is talking about how Gatsby felt after Daisy and him met. Gatsby has a new glow to him after this moment and he will go on to get Daisy even more than
Nick means that Gatsby no longer sees it as the memories of Daisy but instead, that the meeting of Daisy was not as magnificent as he imagined. Gatsby began to realize that all of his dreams built up to this expectation that they would be together forever, yet that is not how reality plays out for
A portion of this song goes, “Imagine me and you, I do/I think about you day and night, it’s only right/ To think about the girl you love and hold her tight/So happy together†Gatsby was so in love and infatuated with Daisy that he went through all these measures such as having a large amount of flowers delivered to Nick’s house and having Nick’s grass cut to make sure that everything was perfect for when he met Daisy again for the first time in 5 years. Gatsby even bought a mansion across the bay from Daisy’s house hoping that one day she would attend one of his parties and he would get his chance to see her again. Although, after so many years she hasn’t gone to one of his parties yet he still thought about her and loved her. Another part of the song goes, “And you say you belong to me and ease my mind†This lyric reminds me of when Gatsby was trying to urge Daisy to tell her husband, Tom, that she never loved him.
Coasting my rusty black Chevy Cavalier into my garage parking spot after school while playing my music on full is apparently frowned upon. My stiff gray colored neighbor Miss Thelma sits on her porch awaiting my exit from the blasting loud vehicle while probably prepping her words to shun me for my actions. She rises from her perch and moves to make contact with me as I hurriedly rush away with my schools stuff. Her words were peaceful about my fun music choices but as I predicted, “...next time, wont you turn it down? Your gonna lose your hearing by fifty.”
In one of the last lines in the novel, Nick states that he, “thought of Gatsby’s wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him” (Chapter 9, 180). While Gatsby wanted to grasp Daisy’s love, she was incapable of giving it. It was all an illusion that slipped further and further from him no matter how much he stretched out his arms to try to grab
Music in the 1920s was the age of Jazz. A lot of good songs from the 20s was on sets of broadway because the way jazz swayed the audience. Some famous songs that was played in the 20s and in The Great Gatsby was Three O'Clock in the Morning by Paul Whiteman, The Sheik of Araby by Fats Waller, Ain't We Got Fun by Van & Schenck, and Beale Street Blues by Chris Barber. These songs were an inspiration in the 20s to many people including the author Fitzgerald. Jazz is very useful in production and in moving authors and persuading them to write about the 20s.
Although she didn't end up seeing him the same way. As a result, when Nick gets ready to leave after being in the music room with Gatsby and Daisy to watch The Love Nest, he started to observe Gatsby’s body language and understood what he began to feel now that reality set in, he stated,”As I went over to say goodbye I saw that the expression of bewilderment had come back into Gatsby’s face, as though a faint of doubt had occurred to him as to the quality of his present happiness. Almost five years! There must have been moments where Daisy tumbled short of his dreams- not through her own fault but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion” (Fitzgerald 95). Gatsby realizes that his desire for having Daisy in his possession for the past five years wasn't what he expected.
In the first moments of the novel, Nick notices gatsby standing out by his deck. Gatsby “stretched out his arms toward the dark water” seeming to try and reach out towards a goal or a dream that was just out of reach. Gatsby was trying to grab the green light on the other side of the river, and this light belonged to Daisy Buchannan, a girl that Gatsby has been in love with forever. Gatsby has lived his lavish life full of parties and big-time money, in an attempt to obtain Daisy’s attention. Unfortunately, Gatsby has a very hard time achieving this dream, and his “orgastic future year by year recedes” before him, seeming to go away and drift out of his vision.
This part of the song accurately depicts the feeling to which Gatsby feels as he is caught by Nick, reaching across the water and fog to the green light that shines on the dock of the house where Daisy sleeps. This is an important part of the book in our opinion because it is where we are able to see how in love Gatsby is with Daisy. He reaches for the green light across from the water as if he is so close yet so far from his dream of living with the girl he had always planned of living his life with. We also think that this scene of the book alludes to how Gatsby will never be able to accomplish that goal of living a happy life with Daisy. My reasoning is that the distance and separation they have experienced in the past, may have strained and stunted their growing bond with each other (especially considering how during that long distance apart Daisy had fallen for another man who was not as loving as
The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald displays timeless themes and issues that were prominent in the 1920s, which can be seen to be still relevant in modern times as well. The simple description of the novel can be said to be of a thwarted love between two lovers, though the many inferences that can be made on the story go far more into serious topics than just a romantic plotline. Gatsby is the protagonist in this novel and showcases many of these themes himself with the decline of the American dream being represented by his failure of dream to win back Daisy and recreate the past. This reminiscences over the past are also displayed in the novel with most major characters displaying this quality representing the unrealistic dreams
Throughout the novel, Gatsby is regarded as a self-made gentleman who doesn’t drink at his own parties due to his morals. However in this passage, through the descriptions and reflections of Nick the reader discovers how Daisy’s love had corrupted his morals. Before coming to the East, Gatsby’s aspiration was to achieve the American Dream but in this passage we discover the fact after his love with Daisy, all he ever wanted was to win Daisy as if she was an award of excellence. He keeps trying blindly as “he did not know that is was already behind him, somewhere in that vast obscurity beyond the city”. This quote supports the claim as Gatsby is being ignorant to the truth as he is not willing comprehend the fact that he could not accomplish his only goal in life.
The Great Gatsby Literary Analysis “They were careless people…” says Nick Carraway, the narrator of The Great Gatsby. In a story depicting the 1920s during a time of prosperity, growth, and the emergence of the America as a major global power, this statement may seem to be contrary. But in reality, Nick Carraway’s description of his friends and the people he knew, was not only true, but is an indication of those who were striving for the American dream. F. Scott Fitzgerald suggests that the American Dream is foolish, the people who pursue it are immoral and reckless, and this pursuit is futile. First, F. Scott Fitzgerald proposes that the American dream is foolish.
