Narrative Essay On The Great Gatsby

For so many years, he has been invading my thoughts and quiet moments in the garden, at breakfast, while resting… even during the thick of a fantastic plot of an astounding book. For so many years, I’ve been trying to make Gatsby disappear from my mind. But in fact, I can’t just can’t keep him out of my thoughts… I just had to write this entry in my diary for I needed an outlet to express my thoughts.

I’ve only known Gatsby for a few months, and so I’ll start with my first impression. It was summer, and many people came to enjoy his premises. He held huge parties at his mansion every Saturday.1 They were the most opulent and ostentatious parties, typical of the West Egg. All sorts of people came, from the city or just across the lake, looking to mingle and join the wealthy. They basked in Gatsby’s display of wealth, enjoying the alcohol, the music, and the atmosphere. They enjoyed so much of his parties, yet they never got to meet

Gatsby experiences nothing but tragedy in his

“Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so,” once said Charles de Gaulle. This valiant quote by a former president of France accentuates my opinion of the Great Jay Gatsby. From humble beginnings rises our main focus of F. Scott Fitzgeralds’ The Great Gatsby. Young Jimmy Gatz is brought to West Egg from his heavily impoverished North Dakota family. His desire to be something greater than a farmer drove him to fortune and love through any means necessary; his life long obsession, Daisy Fay, infatuates Jay in his own insatiable thirst for her affection. James follows Daisy in the years after he is deployed to World War 1, and when he sees she has married Tom Buchanan he becomes hell-bent on replicating the success Tom has inherited in order to win over Daisy. Through moderately deceitful ways, Jay Gatsby builds his wealth and reputation to rival and even supersede many already lavish family names. Astonishingly, the great Mr. Gatsby, overrun with newfound affluence, stays true to his friends, lover, and his own ideals to his blissfully ignorant end.

In the book “The Great Gatsby” there is many things that people say made Gatsby a great or a not so much of a great person. Gatsby was a great man because he became someone with almost everything anybody could and would want but grew up from with nothing, He made all this money from working jobs that were not so great and people envied him for it even though they did not know what he did, and he was just a very mysterious and many people found that very intriguing about him. person For people that didn’t know who he was when he was younger, they all expect him to be old money and get the money from his parents, but as we learn he made his money by working, good or bad jobs he still made money and he was successful and he was proud of it.

Jay Gatsby, originally James Gatz, was lost in a sense of lying and being stuck in the past with one single dream to guide his life path. Gatsby bought his house in West Egg solely to be directly across from Daisy Buchanan, his childhood love. He hopes that Daisy will become jealous of his house parties, and he wants Daisy to be impressed with what he has so she will come crawling back to him. At his parties, he is not a very good host, and people show up uninvited. As Nick Carraway put it, “In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars” (Fitzgerald 43). Gatsby’s neighbor, Nick Carraway, is actually invited to one of Gatsby’s parties. Gatsby and Nick meet, and Gatsby finds out that Nick is related to Daisy. Gatsby asks Jordan Baker, a mutual friend, to ask Nick Carraway to ask Daisy Buchanan to come to tea at Nick’s house. Gatsby and Daisy have not seen each other in five years, which makes for a very awkward time at Nick’s house. After Nick’s house, Nick, Gatsby, and Daisy go over to Gatsby’s house, where Daisy starts crying because of

I really don’t understand tom and I don’t agree with him having a mistress even though he’s already married and has a kid. I think its wrong and I agree with how nick was reacting on how he was thinkung he should call the police. If I had to say a theme for this chapter It might be money can’t buy happiness. Because with all the money that tom has you would think that daisy and tom would be a happy

In the book during Mr. Gatsby's parties he is know to be the invisible man, the man that throws these massive parties but does not ever participate in them. No one at his parties know what Mr. Gatsby looks like they just know he throws some of the biggest parties in New York. Somewhere you can go and get free alcohol and go crazy and do just about anything, his parties were insane. But he just stood back and watched as tons of people partied and just made his house a mess. He never talked to anyone most people started to wonder if Mr. Gatsby even existed. But then we meet Mr. Gatsby when one of the main characters Nick Carraway was talking to him but didn’t even know it. He had been talking to him and had told him he hadn't even seen Mr. Gatsby before. Gatsby then told him he was talking to him and offered him again to take a ride in his car. After the two new friends had went to a couple parties Nick then finds out why Mr. Gatsby was talking to him he was him to invite his cousin daisy to his house one day, because they had been together before Gatsby had gone off to war but now she was married. After Nick had invited daisy, her and Gatsby started spending more and more time together, they started catching up the time they had lost. And

Through out the whole story, all we read from various characters are rumors about Gatsby. Even after his death only a few knew who he really was.

The American Dream is a fairly nebulous concept that is exemplified by a number of American

Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is a novel that explains the conflicts between love, sin, and death. It is a story of love and how love can be quickly lost or hidden beneath the surface. It reveals what people go through in this decade, as well as the novel’s decade. There are conflicts throughout the novel of lust, sin, and pure evil. It basically explains the way the human mind operates when the heart is completely and undeniably in love with another. The fact that the people in this novel went to the extreme to have the one they loved, innocent people tragically ended up in a realm of violence, betrayal, and their own undeserved death.

“Good show everybody, see you tomorrow.” I had just finished a show of my musical Showboat. I was leaving the stage when a strange man came up to me. The mysterious man gave me a note and told me, “You have been invited to Jay Gatsby's mansion. Please read the note and come at this time.” The man then walked away into the crowd and I studied the note. It said to come to Jay Gatsby’s mansion

Gatsby was a mysterious man who was in power and luxury. His mysterious stems from the fact that he always lied to people about his past life and all the things he was invested in. "Somebody told me they thought he killed a man once." A thrill passed over all of us. The three Mr. Mumbles bent forward and listened eagerly. "I don 't think it 's so much that," argued Lucille skeptically; "it 's more that he was a German spy during the war." One of the men nodded in confirmation. "I heard that from a man who knew all about him, grew up with him in Germany," he assured us positively. "Oh, no," said the first girl, "it couldn

On the dining room table, there were two letters. One had “Nick Carraway” written on it while the other wrote “Daisy Buchanan”. Gatsby knew that the two of us would find him first, we were the only friends he had that truly cared about him. It was no coincidence that they were left for us.

So while out and about he was mowing his front lawn and he saw his neighbor Ms. Peggy Ragger. Ms. Ragger a single lady who is only 27 years old. Mr. Gatsby invited her to his house to have some tea with him. She gladly accepts to his genuine offer. So again Mr. Gatsby offers the exact thing to Ms. Ragger as he did to Mrs. Whitzlbuerg. He got one knee and proposed to Lola. She delighted to be Mrs. Gatsby so later on March 17, 1923 Mr. and Mrs Gatsby get married. They lived happily ever after, so you think. One evening Mrs. Gatsby get out of bed slowly so her husband does not hear her, She opened the gun safe and pulled out 12 caliber shotgun. She yelled “Help, Help, someone got me Jay!” Mr. Gatsby is startled awake by the scream of his wife, but what he does not realize is that the shotgun is aimed right in his face. Instinctively he