'The Great Gatsby' by F.Scott Fitzgerald.
THE GREAT GASTBY The book which will be studied within this essay is 'the Great Gatsby' by F.Scott Fitzgerald. The method of narration within 'the Great Gatsby' helped me to appreciate two important aspects of the text - theme and symbolism. The author successfully used the development of narration throughout the book in the form of the first person. I found this to be effective because of the narrator's (Nick) unbiased stance towards every situation in the book, as he says: "I am one of the few honest people I have ever known." (PAGE 66) There is also a second method of narration used within the book; this is in the form of breaks in narrating. During flashbacks, other voices chare the job of narrating - for example; Jordan Baker tells us about the time when Gatsby asked her to help him in his quest to win back Daisy. The plot within 'the Great Gatsby' is quite complex with many intertwining relationships causing the plot to come to an abrupt end. The story is focused around people striving to achieve the American Dream for different reasons which are not always kosher. 'The Great Gatsby' is about the lifestyles and secrets held among the higher-class society during the 1920's Jazz Age. The book tells of a man named Jay Gatsby who's one obsession in life was to be reunited with Daisy Buchanan. Daisy Buchanan, was Gatsby's first love, however, they had been forced
The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald.
Jose Acosta September 26, 2003 AP English The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald aims to show that the myth of the American dream is fading away. The American values of brotherhood and peace have been eradicated and replaced with ideas of immediate prosperity and wealth. Fitzgerald feels that the dream is no longer experienced and that the dream has been perverted with greed and malice. The Great Gatsby parallels the dreams of America with the dream of Jay Gatsby in order to show the fallacies that lie in both of them. Fitzgerald reveals that both dreams are complete illusions. Those who follow the dream are manipulated into believing that they lead to true happiness when in fact they are lead to their demise. Throughout the novel, Fitzgerald illustrates his main themes through a perpetual use of a series of colors, specifically green. The color green has two main meanings in the novel. Fitzgerald uses the color green to symbolize Gatsby's hope in his quest to obtain Daisy, but also uses green to symbolize America's obsession with wealth during the 1920s, and in both examples, the novel illustrates that all the affiliates are lead to their inevitable downfall. "He [Jay Gatsby] stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and as far as I [Nick Carraway] was from him I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished
The American Dream.
Greg Reynolds Mrs. May AP English per. 5 February 4, 2003 The American Dream Do you have morals and values that help to achieve your goals in life? Morals and values are inconsistent in life. Those whom they are inconsistent to believe different things are right and wrong. Society goes through times of positive and negative attributes. Likewise, in The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays the decline of the American dream as an era of decayed social and moral values, evidenced in its overarching cynicism, greed, and empty pursuit of pleasure. The American dream of happiness and individualism has disintegrated into the mere pursuit of wealth. In an era of unprecedented prosperity and material excess, he shows the disintegration of the American dream. Jay Gatsby is one of the greatest examples of this disintegration. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us"(Fitzgerald 189). These words conclude the novel and find Nick returning to the theme of the significance of the past to dreams of the future, here represented by the green light. "It eluded us then, but that's no matter-tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther .... And then one fine morning-"(189). He focuses on the struggle of human beings to achieve their goals by both transcending and re-creating the past. "So we beat on, boats
Spring and port wine
Spring and port wine Shaun Logan This play is about a family who all talk about Rafe. Because Rafe even comes up on stage we already get an opinion of him that he doesn't like to see anyone enjoying themselves. Because while he's at work everyone else is at home watching television and doing what they want. Daisy, Rafe's wife is always worrying about money. She says "it's for his peace of mind". "Rafe always likes to come home to everything spick and span". Harold asks what are we having for dinner, Daisy says "fish, Rafe has always liked fish on a Friday". Betsy Jane the next door neighbour comes round and is talking to daisy about money and houses and Betsy Jane says that all the neighbours "they envy you and your nice home". Then Betsy Jane hurries off after borrowing five pound off daisy. Harold is smoking in the room and sat in dad's chair. Florence is warning him "I'd like to see you if he comes in and catches you in his chair and stinking the room with your fags". Harold "that little word if". Hilda's just got home from a party "oh, I had a good time!" (She's had spring and port wine). Harold is telling her to be careful "be careful your dad doesn't hear you". Hilda "he's not home yet". Harold, Florence and Hilda are talking about tea and what there having. Harold is saying how they always have to wait for there dad to come home, he say's "what I say is let's all sit
Symbolism in The Great Gatsby.
Symbolism in The Great Gatsby By 1925, author F. Scott Fitzgerald was known primarily as the historian of the Jazz Age and chronicler in slick American weeklies of the American flapper. Perhaps this is why critics and reviewers were caught off-guard in that year, at the height of the Roaring Twenties, when Fitzgerald published The Great Gatsby, a story cited today as the Great American Novel. It is true, as Magnum Bryant says, "The simple romance of Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan is merely the foundation for a narrative structure that accommodates Fitzgerald's ideas about irreconcilable contradictions within the American Dream and ultimately about the ideal quest itself"(Byrant n.pg.). The intricate weaving of the various stories within The Great Gatsby is accomplished through a complex symbolic substructure of the narrative. The primary images and symbols that Fitzgerald employs in developing the theme of The Great Gatsby are the green light, the Valley of Ashes, and the overlooking eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg. The green light at the end of Daisy Buchanan's dock is the first use of one of the novel's central symbols. The initial appearance of the green light occurs when the narrator, Nick Caraway, sees Gatsby standing in front of his mansion, stretching out "his arms toward the dark water in a curious way" (Fitzgerald 26; ch. 1). From his own house Nick believes that he can
