The Great Gatsby Quote Analysis

she got older, she came to feed off of others validation. The youthful beauty, that others so longed for, became her downfall.

In the classic, The Great Gatsby, the actual author, F. Scott Fitzgerald, quickly begins with a sentence that raises many questions and inferences. Before Nick ends his talk about Gatsby, he finishes with “No-Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men” (2). So, from what Nick says in the beginning, I infer that Gatsby will be fine at the end, and content with himself. However, it seems as if man restricted Gatsby from pursuing his dreams. Using the word ‘preyed’ is an interesting word choice. Usually when I read or hear the word ‘preyed’ I think of animals; so, possibly the people that preyed him were like animals and could not be controlled, they might be wild and vicious toward Gatsby. Dust is typically dirty, so the people that do restrict Gatsby will probably tear him down in a foul and dirty way that is inhumane. I think throughout

In the novel the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the observations of the character named Nick Carraway reflects upon the life of Jay Gatsby and his surroundings. The 20th century is masked by the glamour and parties. It displays a wondrous era full of wealth. Even though money is the key to this fantasy it is just that… a fantasy. The happiness and reality of life fails to complete on behalf of these rich people. Gatsby seems to have all the riches and fame, although these things cannot fulfil the happiness he desires of Daisy Buchanan.

The plot of The Great Gatsby, a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is driven by Jay Gatsby's

During the roaring ages of the 1920s, the thriving economy brings up the idea of the American Dream. People chase this dream in the pursuit of happiness, while others believe wealth can fix everything. People began to idolize Jay Gatsby, just as Nick Carraway idolized him before befriending Gatsby. Gatsby’s identity was unknown to everyone, no one knew the “real” Gatsby, which lead people to idolize the wealthy man who throws the lavish parties. Nick Carraway tells the story of The Great Gatsby sometime after 1922. At the beginning of the story Nick had just moved from the Midwest to

“The orgastic future that year by year recedes before us” is the unattainable goal of those living in Tom and Daisy’s world—a world where lives are wasted chasing the unreachable (Fitzgerald 180). In his 1925 novel The Great Gatsby, author F. Scott Fitzgerald suggests that making any progress whatsoever toward this aspiration often requires people to establish facades that enable them to progress socially, but that a crippled facade will backfire and cause detriment to its creator. In the passage where Nick realizes who Gatsby is on page 48, Nick observes two different versions of Gatsby—one that is reassuring and truthful and another who “pick[s] his words with care” (Fitzgerald 48). Nick is at first attracted to Gatsby’s constructed

After reading The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, I was able to gather a small playlist of songs that can relate to the book. The lyrics in these songs relate to scenes, symbols, and different characters in the book.

Although the timeline is kept vague in The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald makes it clear that his work of art is based in the early 1920’s between World War I and the Prohibition. This was a transitional period in the United States. America changed after the war and as a result, so did life. The idea of the perfect life fluctuated as troops began flooding back to the United States, migrating to cities, picking up jobs, and buying houses for their new or planned families. The economy was booming, jazz became the new popular music, woman (more commonly referred to as “flappers”) and men were expressing their freedom by having parties and hanging out in clubs or bars, Henry Ford just introduced the Model-T which made automobiles

Lavish parties, rich man, huge house, drinking everywhere, rich and poor. This is the lavish life of Jay Gatsby. The Great Gatsby is a story of a man who has almost everything, Money, Huge house, but he is missing one thing, his true love, Daisy. He bought a huge mansion in west egg just to be across the bay from Daisy who lives in east egg. The central theme in the Great Gatsby is that you cannot have everything no matter how rich you are.. In the Great Gatsby, Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald shows many different sides of the complicated character Jay Gatsby, some good and some bad. While Gatsby shows many different sides of him, the sides that are most prevalent are his traits of having a complicated history based on relationships or

The novel, “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald is set in the 1920s America, New York - a class society of money -, depicts a society which exists in a state of moral confusion and chaos, through the eyes of the narrator; Nick Carraway. Fitzgerald condemns the character’s tendencies in the novel to become greedy and materialistic in order to be successful, displayed throughout the chaos that arises as a result of the repercussion of these actions. This chaos continues to grow through the unfaithful marriages and illegal practices that exists extensively throughout the novel. Furthermore, Fitzgerald explores the prejudice discrimination between the newly rich and those with “old money”. Through all of this we come to see that during the “roaring 20s” was one of moral disorder and mayhem.

‘The Great Gatsby’ novel by F. Scott Fitzgeralds is a novel that has symbolic life lessons that have shaped my values and realities of life. This novel is about Nick Carraway, the narrator, that tells the story of Jay Gatsby a millionaire purposing the American Dream at the cost of losing himself. A key quote in the novel demonstrated the reality of wealth doesn’t define a person. But consumes them was illustrated when Carraway first saw Gatsby. “I could have sworn he was

“The American Dream” is for the beneficial purpose of success in an individual’s ambition. Most consisting of living the life of luxury, success, and happiness which pertains to a “perfect” lifestyle. The novel, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is primarily based off the idea of American dreams with the hopes reaching a higher social class. Jay Gatsby illustrates how the “American Dream” can not be obtained from his failures throughout his dedicated and hardworking efforts. In which, his attempt to achieve his American dream lead him to his downfall and loss.

Isolation is a significant and recurring theme throughout the novel “The Great Gatsby”, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, that has had a great impact on its characters. A few in particular are Nick Carraway, Daisy Buchanan, and “Jay Gatsby”. Nick who appears to be everyone’s closest friend and confidante when he is really the most alienated character in the novel. Daisy Buchanan who feels alone and ignored, even while married, with her child, and all the luxuries of West Egg life. And the latter, for which the novel is named, a self-made man with everything anyone could ask for, who throws parties with hundreds of surrounding him still feels alone and that feeling becomes

Nick Carraway, The Great Gatsby’s narrator, grew up in a family of well-to-do people in Chicago, and his family has a little fun tradition of calling themselves the descendants of the “Dukes of Buccleuch,” even though they actually made their money two generations ago in the “wholesale hardware business” (Fitzgerald 7). He went to Yale; he likes literature and considers himself one of the “limited” specialists known as a “well-rounded man”; he also fought in World War I, which he found kind of exciting; and now he’s moved East to work in the finance business in New York City.

“The Great Gatsby” is a novel by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published in 1925, it is set on Long Island's North Shore and in New York City from spring to autumn of 1922. The novel takes place following the First World War. American society enjoyed prosperity during the “roaring” as the economy soared. At the same time, prohibition, the ban on the sale and manufacture of alcohol as mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment, made millionaires out of bootleggers. After its republishing in 1945 and 1953, it quickly found a wide readership and is today widely