Gatsby is not as great as he seems! In many ways Gatsby is great but if you look into his life he is more superficial than great. In the book all the characters have different feelings about Gatsby. Some of these characters feelings change when they find out the true life of Jay Gatsby. ...

There is a fine line between love and lust. If love is only a will to possess, it is not love. To love someone is to hold them dear to one's heart. In The Great Gatsby, the characters, Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan are said to be in love, but in reality, this seems to be a misconception. In The Grea...

A tragic figure, as described by the Webster's Dictionary, is a figure dealing with the sorrowful or terrible side of life. F. Scott Fitzgerald worked this into the title character of his classic, The Great Gatsby. Jay Gatsby loses his love when he goes to fight in World War I and upon his r...

F. Scott's Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby often uses locations as metaphors for the qualities of the characters and for the themes of the novel. This occurs with West Egg and East Egg, where the distance between the two sides represents Gatsby's distance from Daisy, his longing for hi...

Usage of color in The Great Gatsby In The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, colors play an imperative part of establishing themes and mood. Many things are described by colors, from the obviously color-inclined to the less apparent. Frequently, colors that would not automatically come to mind wh...

Green Light in the Great GatsbyAfter the events of this story have unfolded, the narrator Nick, focuses on the manmost like himself; Gatsby. Both Nick Carraway and Jay Gatz hail from the mid-west,where morals and the right way of getting ahead are instilled into them. They travel toNew York, wher...

The Great Gatsby "Dreams" The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a novel about the American Dream. In the Great Gatsby, the dream is that one can acquire happiness through wealth and power. To get his happiness Jay attempts to reacquire the love of his lost sweet heart, Daisy. The mai...

F. Scott Fitzgerald almost gave his novel the title of 'Under the Red, White and Blue'. What does this suggest about the deeper themes of this American novel?This alternative title suggests that The Great Gatsby is (although not an obvious) distopian novel, which discusses the problems of the 1920s...

What use does Fitzgerald make of symbolism in the novel?Francis Scott Fitzgerald is the author of the "The Great Gatsby." The novel takes place during the 1920's or as it is also known "The Jazz Age" and it is set in Long Island and New York. Many important things were happening in America. For exa...

Ernest Hemingway, author of The Sun Also Rises, and Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby, are people who have major effects on American literature. Through narrative technique, characterization, and symbolic structure, they are able to illustrate their pessimism and optimism on the world. Hemingwa...

The women in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby would likely face a difficult environment in today's modern society. Since the women, however, were the harbingers of today's worldly 'women about town' it could be an interesting conjecture as to whether they were the actual...

Love is a very important thing in one's life. Many people will never experience love, while others are crushed by it. In Gatsby's longing for Daisy and his desperate obsession for what used to be, Gatsby bring on his own downfall.In F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan emer...

The Great Gatsby "Dreams" The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a novel about the American Dream. In the Great Gatsby, the dream is that one can acquire happiness through wealth and power. To get his happiness Jay attempts to reacquire the love of his lost sweet heart, Daisy. ...

In the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Daisy's character perfectly displays the absence of reality. She is a wealthy, young woman who lives her life hiding from the truth by ignoring reality. Daisy wants to feel taken care of and loved. She lives her life avoiding commitment, cons...

ESSAY In the novel The Great Gatsby, by F. Scot Fitzgerald we as responders witness a change of perspective both within the characters and in our view of the characters. The novel is stating that the wealthy, during the 1920's are only concerned with image and the wealth they have generated ...

The novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a story about money and "true" love, revolving around a man named Jay Gatsby. Gatsby spends his life in pursuit of his dream of winning wealth and the love of the beautiful Daisy Fay Buchanan, a character based on Fitzgerald's own wife. Unfortun...

The Great Gatsby: A moral issueThe Roaring Twenties was a time of parties and illegal practices; it was a time of change. This change affected society as a whole- both how the people viewed their lives as well as the way they viewed the importance of morality. Before the Roaring Twenties the America...

Sometimes there are two novels that have the same theme, and sometimes they have the same plot, but in the case of the two novels, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the novel Goodbye Columbus, by Philip Roth they explore the same dynamics of the chase of the American dream. In both ...

Let the Light Show the Way F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is read in many college level English courses. The importance of Fitzgerald's writing is derived from his mastery of incorporating figurative language into his work. Throughout The Great Gatsby there are many examples of ...

STARTING OVER AND HAVING IT ALL The Edenic Myth in The Great Gatsby Picture this: You are the director of a high budget feature film. You are in the process of filming a brilliant scene in which a man and a woman have just escaped from a near-death situation and have found themselves atop a ...

Consumerism, and the accompanying self-centeredness, may be the final legacy of the "roaring" 20s. During the 20's it was proven that the industrial revolution was meant to fatten man's wallet not expand his soul. The selfless fervor and broad perspective that accompanied the progressive era gave wa...

Sarah Woodruff and Daisy Buchanan - A ComparisonIn the two novels The French Lieutenant's Woman by Fowles, and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the authors give life to two women; Sarah in The French Lieutenant's Woman and Daisy in The Great Gatsby. These women live very different lives, but...

Love is an extremely important aspect5 of our society today. Just about everyone wants to fall in love, get married, and have a family. NO one wants to be alone. We all want someone to be there for us. Someone to care for us, and we want to care for someone as well. Some people have a very easy...

David K. TireyProfessor HolmesEnglish E0714 February 2002Money and Power In The Great GatsbyDonald E. Hall, author of Literary and Cultural Theory, comments on, " The Freudian construction of women as 'castrated,' inferior versions of men". He writes "The penis, which is considered the marker of ult...