The Great Gatsby Persuasive Essay

The Roaring 20’s, a time known for its grandeur and changes to societal restrictions that inevitably lead to the stock market crash of the 1930’s, sending the glittering nation of America spiralling into an uncertain and desperate future. After the first World War, no one could imagine life worse than the world seeping into madness with new weapons of war, along with the terrible methods involved, and all for what? The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald tells the tale of a man who became intertwined in the sweeping and fleeting current that was the world after ‘the war to end all war’, but quickly realizes that those involved in the glamourous world of money and magic is a fading facade in which all attempt to “live life to the fullest”;

In someway or another, all believed the wealthy man on the outside was capable of having done something special or terrible; “Somebody told me he killed a man once.”, “It’s more that he was a German spy during the war.”, “‘This fella’s a regular Belasco.’”, “‘Well, he told me once that he was an Oxford man… However, I don’t believe him.’” throughout all the dialogue pertaining to Gatsby, all speak of the man as if they aren’t in his house at that moment at his party. “However, that was my fault, for he was one of those who used to sneer most bitterly at Gatsby on the courage of Gatsby's liquor,” even Gatsby’s own staff viewed their employer as those of East Egg did; less as a person of high status, but more of a source of entertainment for themselves and others. So what made “The Great Gatsby”, great? Well, only those like Nick Carraway and anyone else who knew his life’s story, his true life’s story, knew what made him great. Gatsby knew about all the rumors set before him, he knew people viewed him as an outsider, but he didn’t care, he

Not for his own greedy desire for power or money, but for the great illusion that he could win over Daisy Buchanan and recreate a past, and live out a future, that he never got the chance to live. Because the reader is within Nick’s perspective, we don’t truly get to know what so fully enamored Gatsby about Daisy, but what we do know was that Gatsby and Daisy were together for a grand total of about a month before Gatsby went off to fight in WW1. They planned to get married, yet Daisy did not know that Gatsby had no money to his name and wasn’t apart of her social class. While he was gone fighting, Daisy ended up marrying Tom Buchanan, a man of wealth and had approval in Daisy’s family. Many themes regarding the morals and understanding of the times come into play here; Daisy marrying in the social class and remaining married even after her husband cheats on her several times, Gatsby having to lie about his money position in order to be