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 ...

When analyzing Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" is almost impossible not to be appalled by the characters materialistic personalities. It is evident from the beginning chapters that money and social status makes this novel go round. As a result we see the American Dream become the Amer...

Authors often use color symbolism in their writing to show a deeper meaning. Often, these colors associated with a particular feeling of an object. Fitzgerald is no different in his work, The Great Gatsby. It is discernible that Fitzgerald uses a multitude of color references in his writing. The one...

The American Dream The American Dream was the philosophy that brought people to America and to start a new life in a strange, foreign land. Due to this dream, it was believed that America was the land of opportunity, wealth, and prosperity. The dream consists of three components: all men are...

The Great Gatsby is rich in symbolism, which is portrayed on several different levels in a variety of ways. One of the most important qualities of symbolism within this novel, is the way in which it is integrated into the plot and structure. Some of the symbols are used mostly as tools for charact...

Characters in books can reveal the author feeling toward the world. In TheGreat Gatsby Fitzgerald suggested the moral decline of the period inAmerica history through the interpersonal relationships among hischaracters. The book indicates the worthlessness of materialism, thefutile quest of Myrtle a...

1.1. Transportation Imagery Obviously, Fitzgerald uses cars to characterize. The protagonist Jay Gatsby drives a car of a "rich cream color, bright with nickel (...), with triumphant hat-boxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of windshields that mirrored a dozen...

Setting: As it Prevails in The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby is a novel of the 1920's, a time of flamboyance, excessiveness, and ambiguity. To fully capture and document this atmosphere, Fitzgerald spent many a page concerned with detail. Such descriptions become a stimulus for the stor...

Scott Fitzgerald's, The Great Gatsby is a modern classic, hailed by literature critics and theorists, as well as being exalted by F.R.Levis in the literally canon of high literature. Fitzgerald's method of narration is obscure, using first person narration to create a historical depiction of New Yor...

Disillusionment in the 1920'sIn the year 1925 F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby, one of the greatest American novels. Based simply upon the effect of the jazz age, Fitzgerald's novel is about the love of Jay Gatsby for Daisy Buchanan. The narrator of the story is Daisy's cousin Nick. Oth...

Halfway between West Egg and New York lies 'The Valley of Ashes' and this is the desolate wasteland, which is also home to the Wilson family. The term desolate is used to describe a place that is depressingly empty and solitary. Fitzgerald includes this fantastic farm to emphasize to the readers, th...

"I hope she'll be a fool-that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool." Fitzgerald describes in the opening of the book what Nick wishes and hopes that Daisy will amount to. Fitzgerald does not hold a very high opinion of women throughout the entire novel and demonstrat...

"...And the Home of the Greedy" As Matthew J. Bruccoli noted: "An essential aspect of the American-ness and the historicity of The Great Gatsby is that it is about money. The Land of Opportunity promised the chance for financial success." (p. xi) The Great Gatsby is indeed about...

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896 in St. Paul Minnesota. He got his name from a distant cousin who wrote The Star Spangled Banner. He was the son of Edward Fitzgerald, a failed wicker furniture salesman, and Mary "Mollie" McQuillan, an Irish immigrant with a ...

Fitzgerald tells us about the depreciation of values during the Jazz Age through depictions of the American dream and the romantic spiritual dream. Throughout the book, the meaning of the American dream of materialism links with the of the romantic spiritual dream of pointless relationships. These ...

The letters of F.Scott Fitzgerald Throughout F. Scott Fitzgeralds letter to Scottie we identify his anger yet attends carefully to his audience. We will examine in depth Fitzgerald's relationship with Scottie. In Fitzgerald's letter his anger towards his young adolescent daughter S...