The Great Gatsby Quotes

The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, sets in the 1920’s. The 1920’s were also known as the roaring twenties or the Jazz age,due to its economic and social change. F. Scott Fitzgerald sets his novel in a time of paradise and dreams where anything could happen. In his novel, The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald describes the life of a man named Jay Gatsby, known just as Gatsby, struggling to conquer his American Dream. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald examines the rich and the downfall of the American Dream during the Roaring Twenties.

F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby,reflects the lives of wealth and money during the roaring twenties. One of examples of this is, “Tom has some woman in New York” (Fitzgerald 15).

Scott Fitzgerald demonstrates the life of the rich American Dream during the early 1920’s. Evidence to this is, “I found what you ‘drug stores’ were.” He turned around a spoke rapidly. “He and this wolfshiem bought up slot of side street drug stores here in Chicago. That's one of his little stunts. I picked him for a bootlegger the first time I saw him and I wasn't far wrong” (Fitzgerald 133). In this quote, Tom reveals Gatsby’s secret to Daisy, Jordyn, and Nick. Gatsby being a bootlegger tire Daisy apart and her emotions got to her. She chose Tom over Gatsby, but Tom told her to ride with Gatsby. On the way home, Daisy hits and kills Myrtle. Evidence to this is, “When the phone rang that afternoon and long distance said Chicago was calling, I thought it would be Daisy At last. But the connection came through as a man’s voice, very thin and far away” (Fitzgerald 162). This quote explains that after Gatsby’s death after Wilson shot him, Daisy never really cared . Gatsby waited for Daisy to call before he was shot. She never did. She didn't even talk to Nick or even show up to Gatsby’s funeral. Daisy fled Chicago with Tom and her daughter. Last evidence to this is, “Gatsby never succeeds in seeing through the sham of this world. It is the essence of his romantic American vision that it lacks the seasoned powers of discrimination and he dies faithful to the end” (Pidgeon 1). This quote explains that Gatsby never got a chance to live in his dream. He died a believer in Daisy. Gatsby had always had faith in his dream even through the darkest moments. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald demonstrates the life of the rich American Dream during the