Texts are a product of the cultural context in which they are produced, therefore they often present a critique of that society's moral and social values. Texts of a certain era will frequently reflect the moral and social values of the time. The Great Gatsby was penned in America in the Jazz Age,...

The Great Gatsby Besides being a great novel, The Great Gatsby is a very symbolic book, not tomention it's many themes and meanings. This paper will discuss three of the majorthemes as well as some of the symbols, and try to explain the ending of the book. One of the first themes that comes to mi...

The Great Gatsby Besides being a great novel, The Great Gatsby is a very symbolic book, not tomention it's many themes and meanings. This paper will discuss three of the majorthemes as well as some of the symbols, and try to explain the ending of the book. One of the first themes that comes to mi...

THE GREAT GATSBY The American Dream is in my opinion the ideals set by families in America to achieve goals that are generally unrealistic to achieve. An example would be the picture of a wealthy middle class family with two children, one boy and one girl, with a dog and a ca...

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 ...

In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald presents a specific portrait of American society during the roaring twenties and tells the story of a man who rises from the gutter to great riches. This man, Jay Gatsby, does not realize that his new wealth cannot give him the privileges of class and status...

Nick Carraway is one of the main characters in the book. He narrates the story in both third and first person, as well being an observer and participating in the book. Nick judges people about their behaviours and actions. He tells the reader through out the story about Gatsby's dream of longi...

The Great Gatsby has been one of the classic novels of the twentieth century. It creates a unique society that makes the story such a masterpiece. Another magnificent work that relates to The Great Gatsby is T.S. Eliot's "The Hollow Man." The lines in the poem portray the story so vividly that it sh...

Nick - Detached or Dishonest?The Great Gatsby is a difficult book to interpret, particularly because of the style in which it is written. Not only must the reader differentiate between the separate views of Nick as the narrator and Nick as the character, but he or she must also take into considerati...

The Color of Money in The Great Gatsby A major aspect of The Great Gatsby was the effect that money has on each one of the characters. Money influenced Daisy's love, it influenced Tom life, influences Nick's wants, Jordan's standards, and money also pushed Gatsby to get what he lo...

English 11The Great GatsbyStanding as one of the great novels of the 20th century, The Great Gatsby has endured because of its amazing understanding and explanation of human nature in its purest form. The themes and ideals in this novel have remained eminent even now, some 80 years later, because Th...

As you read the book The Great Gatsby you are introduced to four amazing characters. The author Fitzgerald writes in a limited first person, yet we grow to love and hate the characters threw out the book. Fitzgerald uses imagery and dialogue to push us deep into his four main characters heads....

Nick Carraway is a necessary character in the novel for many reasons. We see how his interacting with the other characters brings about a few traits, which make the story a pleasure to read, and I must say, to write about. Nick lends us his talents to bring us a more realistic story, a larger databa...

First Party Analysis The roaring 20's, surrounded by Jazz, new beginnings and chaos. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a true cross section of the post war era known by most as the Jazz Era. Chapter 3 is the reader's first introduction to Jay Gatsby as well as the social ci...

The Immoralness and Corruption of the Characters in Gatsby In the novel The Great Gatsby the major characters could no be characterized as moral , and throughout the novel people and their actions are corrupt. For Example Daisy Buchanan is immoral and corrupt because of her snobbish ideals about ...

The geography and weather in The Great Gatsby contribute greatly to theme, character, and plot development. There is an important relationship between the geography and the character's social values. The themes and characters can be dictated by geographical locations because the themes are embedded ...

The Great Gatsby Essay "Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had." In his famed book, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald shows his readers the main idea behind the whole story in the opening paragr...

Book Review The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is set in the 1920's during the Jazz Age. Nick Carraway is a man in his late twenties residing on West Egg island in Long Island, New York living a "normal" life. That is, until he meets his mysterious neighbor, a wea...

The Great Gatsby In the book, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, certain characters developed so that they contradict another character personality traits. This setup allows the characteristics of these two characters to be greatly notice by the readers. In this case, the develo...

The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby is a story, told through an observer, about a man's trials and tribulations who tries to regain what he had in the past. The whole focus of the story is on Gatsby's dream, his desire to rekindle the flames of a previous fire. Daisy, the fire, is al...

First, let\'s talk about New York and the corruption of the 1920\'s. For a long time, New York was controlled by Irish politicians, which guaranteed that corruption persisted bootlegging, gambling, and prostitution. The major mobster, Arnold Rothstein portrayed Meyer Wolfsheim. Through his contribut...

One of the very important values for this book was honesty. It sent of a message that there just wasn't enough honesty in the world, and that there are consequences to being dishonest. Nick says, "I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known." (64) It shows that there is 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...

The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby, tells the story of Nick Carraway's life in West Egg, and his relationships with people from the more prestigious and wealthy East Egg, including none other than Jay Gatsby. Acting as the novel's narrator, Nick Carraway tells of his in...

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...