The Great Gatsby Why did Daisy choose Tom in the end??? In the novel "The Great Gatsby", Daisy Buchanan was faced with an enormous decision. She had to choose between Tom; her husband and Jay Gatsby; her lover. Gatsby seemed to be the ideal man of his time. Fabulously wealthy, handsome, charismat...

The capacity to dream is a natural characteristic possessed by all mankind. Americans living in a country based on the philosophy of pursuing great American dreams go about pursuing their own goals in many ways. Ironically the American dream itself is the ultimate illusion that can never satisfy t...

The Great Gatsby - Reflection of an Era During the 1920's America was a country of great ambition, despair and disappointment. The Great Gatsby is a reflection of this decade; it illustrates the burning passion one man had toward his "American Dream" and the different aspects of the dream. The Great...

A dream is defined in the Webster's New World Dictionary as: a fanciful vision of the conscious mind; a fond hope or aspiration; anything so lovely, transitory, etc. as to seem dreamlike. In the beginning pages of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway, the narrator of the ...

The Great Who? How can someone hate a person, and at the same time think that they are great? Nick Carraway, in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, demonstrates this abnormal reaction once acquainted with Jay Gatsby. Nick has the uncommon ability of seeing through the immorality that ...

The Great Gatsby was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published by Charles Scribner's Sons, and copyrighted in 1925. The book takes place mostly in a small town near New York known as West Egg during the 1920's. One of the main characters of the novel is the narrator of the book, Nick Car...

The Great GatsbyThe protagonist in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is Jay Gatsby. He is the one that gives the name to the book. The central character is Mr. Gatsby. However, Nick Carraway opens the novel as the narrator. He is involved in all events throughout the novel, yet he does not ...

The Great Gatsby An illusion is an imagination that one perceives as reality, which at times can be misleading. It is reality that could not be realized and unavoidable because it cannot keep up with ideals. They are values that people believe in living from the world of happiness, fame and for...

the great Gatsby, Fitzgerald presents us to see Jay Gatsby as a superior character, Nick Carroway one of the characters in the book, is the narrators through out, telling the story of how Jay Gatsby tries to reach his disillusioned goal. Gatsby is living the America dream where happiness is acquired...

Often times in literature, as well as in life, dreams and hopes do not follow through the way they are preferred to. Instead of leaving characters fulfilled and content as they had dreamt of, they are bereft of their wishes and dispirited. This applies to the main character in the novel The Great G...

The Great Gatsby is a bold and damning social commentary of America which critiques its degeneration from a nation of infinite hope and opportunity to a place of moral destitution. The novel is set during the Roaring Twenties, an era of outrageous excesses, wild lavish parties and sadly,...

THE GREAT GATSBY On the superficial level, The Great Gatsby tells the story of a young middle class man who happens to get mixed up in the chaotic affairs of his wealthy cousin and neighbor. F. Scott Fitzgerald's story of life in the 1920s is much more than it appears to be, though. Even such ...

The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby is an epic novel about the desires, dreams, and Desperations of one man. It shows the struggle that a man goes through to achieve his goal, and how it eventually leads to his demise. Gatsby was a man who desired to be accepted by the upper class and prest...

The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby is an epic novel about the desires, dreams, and Desperations of one man. It shows the struggle that a man goes through to achieve his goal, and how it eventually leads to his demise. Gatsby was a man who desired to be accepted by the upper class and prest...

The main motif of The Great Gatsby is the slow deterioration of the American Dream. Fitzgerald argues that the American Dream no longer denotes the ambition to achieve a certain goal. Instead he feels that it has become corrupt and materialistic. In the novel, Fitzgerald uses Jay Gatsby's li...

The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is the story of a man named Jay Gatsby whose dream of reconciling with his first love will never be fulfilled. Although the main happenings of the novel are those of Gatsby trying to woo Daisy, there are many underlying themes such as money, deceit ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald, composer of the text 'The great Gatsby' uses one of the main characters, Jay Gatsby to provide the viewer with a more defined, insightful and descriptive perspective on the American dream. The responder slowly views an unravellment of the American dream, through Gatsby's footste...

Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby, is based on the dreams of a man named Jay Gatsby. Throughout the novel, it is suggested to the reader that Gatsby is a symbol for America. He represents the possibilities of life on a level at which the material and the spiritual have been confused (Bewle...

The 1920's were a decade of money and power. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's book The Great Gatsby, he combines the history along with the idea of the wealthy being in control. Fitzgerald uses the symbols of Gatsby's shirts, his library, and the color yellow, along with the use of automobiles to express ...

THE GREAT GATSBY No, Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short winded elations of men. The American dream is love and money. In the novel, The Gr...

In F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby struggles with his own American dream. The American dream is to start out poor and isolated and make your way up to the top of the financial and social pyramids, to achieve wealth in excess, and to be able to have whatever you want by...

The theme of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is the "withering of the American Dream." The original American Dream held out the promise of endless opportunities, individualism, and progress. Believing in this idea, Jay Gatsby invests his entire life into a single dream: The revival of a past...

Scott .F. Fitzgerald's cult novel "The Great Gatsby" and Orson Wells cinematic masterpiece "Citizen Kane" both explore similar themes and ideas and in very unique and different ways. Key ideas such as the theme of 'the American Dream', narration, symbolism and characterisation are expressed in both ...

The American DreamSuccess, wealth, and happiness are all important aspects of a person's life. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's, The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby, the title character devotes his life to living the American Dream. The American Dream to Gatsby is maintaining wealth, being successful, and trying...

The Great Gatsby There are several colors used for symbolism in the novel, The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The following five colors: green, white, blue, gray and yellow are just a few that Fitzgerald uses cleverly for symbolism. The first color green is used the...