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...

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...

The Great Gatsby Authors use themes to help explain an underlying message or idea in order to help teach the readers a lesson. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the themes dishonesty, money, and carelessness to portray the "roaring twenties" as an era that lacks moral valu...

Gatsby PaperThe Great Gatsby novel centers on three relationships, Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan and Mrytle Wilson, and Nick Carraway and Jordan Baker. All of these pairings have had difficulties on being themselves, and how to react with each other. All of these affairs end up fading ...

In The Great Gatsby the author F. Scott Fitzgerald provides a scene of destruction of morals in society. The characters all go beyond their morals to get what they want, showing that their morals are not that important to them.Myrtle Wilson is a energetic woman who lives with her husband George in ...

In the Eyes of T.J. EckleburgIn the classic novel, The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses a great amount of concrete symbolism to add depth to the story. There are four different areas where the story takes place: East Egg, West Egg, New York City, and the valley of ashes. The different houses located i...

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...

The turn of the century made many influences on the world. However, it was approximately in the 1920's when women become more independent, delegated, and responsible for more things in the world than just keeping the house tidy, as was the mentality back in those days. The Great Gatsby, by F...

After first glancing at The Great Gatsby, it didn't seem as if any similarities between the wealthy, dainty Daisy Buchanan, the object of Gatsby's worship, and Myrtle Wilson, the bawdy, mechanic's wife who was having an affair with Daisy's husband. In fact, it was felt that there was no comparison ...

By using the term "carelessness," Fitzgerald describes a key theme in The Great Gatsby. Mainly, the term is used to describe actions done by people who are not concerned whether their statements and actions will hurt others. Characters with this trait show absolutely no emotion for eve...

In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald utilized characterization in order to expose the corruption of the inhabitants of East Egg. Three inhabitants of "the wasteland": Tom, Myrtle, and Daisy are depicted as self-absorbed aristocrats whose love for themselves by far outweighs their love f...

American Dream Lost Gatsby as a Social Commentary on American Life The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, has been celebrated as one of the greatest, if not the greatest American novel. Yet this is ironic for the society which has so hailed the book is precisely that which is criticized t...

Essay #2-Gatsby Test The novel, The Great Gatsby, has many characters in it. Four prominent characters are Tom Buchanan, George Wilson, Daisy Buchanan, and Myrtle Wilson. These four characters have some similarities, but in reality they are very different people. Tom Buchanan and Ge...

In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the scene of violence in which Myrtle Wilson is hit and killed by Daisy Buchanan in the car contributes to the book's meaning by showing that in the end lovers never win. There is evidence of many characters in The Great Gatsby cheating on one anot...

The Great Gatsby Essay In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, women play the role as scantily clad objects subjected to male distortion at will. It seems that women are just non opinionated, easily persuaded, zombie- like tools which emotions amplify off the persuasion of the male...

If someone robs a bank or kills someone to get some money, people will be looking for that individual and will eventually catch him. People also think they can hide everything behind their money and change their image. But they will always forget about one issue that will destroy their newfound we...

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...

The Great Gatsby:An exam of selected relationships.According to F. Scott Fitzgerald, relationships between men and women do not always work; something always goes wrong. He illustrates this premise quite well in his development of four major relationships influencing the plot of what can be conside...

"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...

Every child on the face of the planet has been scolded by their parents. Their mother or father says, "No means no!" and the child sulks away. The kid can recognize that Mom or Dad is not happy with them because the forceful word choice and brief, abrupt sentence structure convey their displeasur...

There are many characters in the Great Gatsby novel that were each looking for something different Myrtle was one of those characters. Throughout this essay I hope to explain how Myrtle started low and tried to work her way up to the upper class. I hope to explain where she came from and where she...