Fitzgerald and The Great Gatsby
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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece, The Great Gatsby, reveals thin threads woven between himself and the novel, revealing the truth about a corrupted society filled with discontentment and superficiality. From marriages to women to an impossible dream, all these aspects of Fitzgerald’s life influences his work, The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald’s novel quite closely resembles his own circumstances through his portrayal of the characters and the society of the 1920’s. Though Fitzgerald himself lived in a society of shallowness, he was able to portray that the emptiness in society would not bring anyone happiness. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the characters in The Great Gatsby to represent the people in his own life and to show that wealth causes corruption. Mirroring his own unsuccessful love story, Fitzgerald incorporates the idea of failing marriages into his novel. ““Neither of them can stand the person they’re married to” (Fitzgerald 33).” Fitzgerald implies that marriage in the 1920’s was so corrupted by wealth that though the couples nearly hated each other, they still remained together for monetary and convenience purposes. Fitzgerald’s wife, Zelda Sayre much like Daisy, married Fitzgerald for money. Until Fitzgerald started to become rich off his first novel, she had refused to marry him, much like how Daisy broke her promise to Gatsby and married Tom Buchanan. Zelda also cheated on Fitzgerald with a French naval aviator, mimicking Myrtle Wilson who pursued her own American Dream through having an affair with Tom (Willett). Not only was Zelda portrayed in the novel but Fitzgerald himself identified a character similar to himself: Jay Gatsby. Both men spent lavishly on parties that had been held to impress the love of their ... ... middle of paper ... ... would fare in the real world, and how Zelda caused Fitzgerald great grief and strife. The novel reflects his own ideals and places them in society where they fail, as it is reality. His themes of a failing romance show he doesn’t believe in relationships or the like. Works Cited Bryfonski, Dedria, and Phyllis Carmel Mendelson. "F. Scott Fitzgerald." Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Detroit: Gale Research, 1978. Print. Kirby, Lisa A. "Shades of Passing: Teaching and Interrogating Identity in Roth's The Human Stain and Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby." Philip Roth Studies 2.2 (2006): 151. Literature Resource Center. Web. 15 Jan. 2014. Will, Barbara. "The Great Gatsby and the Obscene Word." College Literature 32.4 (2005): 125. Literature Resource Center. Web. 15 Jan. 2014. Willett, Erika. "F. Scott Fitzgerald and The American Dream." PBS. PBS, Web. 16 Jan. 2014.
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how fitzgerald's masterpiece, the great gatsby, reveals the truth about a corrupted society filled with discontent and superficiality.
- Analyzes how fitzgerald incorporates the idea of failing marriages into his novel, mirroring his own unsuccessful love story.
- Analyzes how fitzgerald identified a character similar to himself: jay gatsby. both men were delusional, thinking that their love’s success should rely only on their economic success and thus were unsuccessful in keeping themselves from corruption.
- Analyzes how fitzgerald's masterpiece, the great gatsby, reveals the truth about a corrupted society filled with discontent and superficiality.
- Analyzes how fitzgerald incorporates the idea of failing marriages into his novel, mirroring his own unsuccessful love story.
- Analyzes how fitzgerald identified a character similar to himself: jay gatsby. both men were delusional, thinking that their love’s success should rely only on their economic success and thus were unsuccessful in keeping themselves from corruption.
- Analyzes how the deaths of these characters bring up complicated questions about identity and success.
- Explains that neither gatsby nor fitzgerald came from extremely poor circumstances, but they still strived to join the upper classes of the 1920s.
- Explains that even fitzgerald was not immune to the corruption of the 1920's and that it brought people to ruin.
- Analyzes how the great gatsby characters closely resembled fitzgerald's life. the novel reflects his ideals and places them in society where they fail, as it is reality.
- Cites dedria and mendelson's "f. scott fitzgerald." twentieth-century literary criticism. detroit: gale research, 1978.
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- Analyzes how fitzgerald defines carraway as an honest man, different from the self-serving characters of jordan baker and tom and daisy buchanan.
- Analyzes how carraway, like the other characters, has his faults. he arranges the meeting between gatsby and daisy buchanan, promoting adultery, and falls in love with baker.
- Analyzes how fitzgerald's inclusion of carraway in a novel full of shallow and greedy characters underscores the importance of his development as an honest character and narrator.
- Analyzes how carraway's integrity is symbolic of midwestern values, while the buchanan greed symbolizes eastern values. he doesn't have the capacity to live in the corrupt environment of the east.
- Analyzes how fitzgerald chooses and constructs a narrator in the great gatsby to tell the story and critique the mass disillusionment with the american dream. carraway's honesty makes him ideal to represent all that the buchanans lack and legitimizes his admiration.
- Cites bewley, marius, and hobsbawm, eric. the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald.
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- Analyzes how fitzgerald's the great gatsby was written to criticize and condemn the ethics of the rich.
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- Analyzes how tom and daisy buchanan demonstrate the wealthy class's lack of integrity. their lives are filled with material comforts and luxuries and completely empty of true purpose.
- Analyzes how fitzgerald's the great gatsby was written to criticize and condemn the ethics of the rich.
- Analyzes how myrtle wilson represents the shallowness of the wealthy. she seeks to escape her own class and stoops to the low point of betraying her trusting husband.
- Analyzes how tom and daisy buchanan demonstrate the wealthy class's lack of integrity. their lives are filled with material comforts and luxuries and completely empty of true purpose.
- Analyzes how daisy's husband, tom buchanan, shows his ridiculous morality in different ways, such as his search for power, his possessiveness, and his shallowness.
- Analyzes how gatsby, the supposed hero of the novel, is related more to idealism and his faith in life's possibilities, rather than social ambition.
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- Analyzes how in john green's looking for alaska, the main characters confront the idea of "imagining the future as a kind of nostalgia".
- Analyzes how nick's admiration of gatsby makes him an admirable character and motivates him to pursue his dream of being with daisy.
- Analyzes how gatsby displays radical idealism through the ridiculous lengths to which he goes to win daisy over, in the honest belief that she will fall for him.
- Analyzes how in john green's looking for alaska, the main characters confront the idea of "imagining the future as a kind of nostalgia".
- Analyzes how nick's admiration of gatsby makes him an admirable character and motivates him to pursue his dream of being with daisy.
- Analyzes how gatsby displays radical idealism through the ridiculous lengths to which he goes to win daisy over, in the honest belief that she will fall for him.
- Analyzes how gatsby maintains his hope even in the face of direct confrontation. he is either blind to all but his own idealistic conceptions of reality or is extremely arrogant.
- Analyzes how fitzgerald shows a clear comparison in this type of relationship that is fundamentally impossible to sustain.
- Analyzes how daisy's infatuation with gatsby is a display of love for his wealth and what he represents. the shirts cause daisy to cry, but they do not win her
- Analyzes how the scene of the first reunion of daisy and gatsby conveys the message well.
- Analyzes how gatsby's failure is not his inability to see what is obvious, but his sheer denial of reality.
- Analyzes how gatsby is the "nobody from nowhere" because he has no past, no identity to fall back on, and hopes, even when to hope is absurd.
- Analyzes how gatsby's failure is due to his missteps and arrogant beliefs, and his inability to recognize his own failures.
- Analyzes how gatsby's death and failure, following the death of his dream, was due to his own flawed conception of reality.
- Analyzes how anne crow explores the mystery of jay gatsby.
- Explains that magill, frank n., "f. scott fitzgerald." critical survey of long fiction.
- Opines that magill, frank n., "the great gatsby" was published in marshall cavendish's survey of american literature.
- Analyzes o'donnell, patrick, and david w. madden's critical essays on thomas berger.
- Describes stallman, r. w., "gatsby and the hole in time."
1799 wordsRead More - Similarities Between The Great Gatsby And Zeldaanalytical essayZelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald never owned a house. Instead, they rented homes all over the world. They threw parties with hundreds of people almost nightly, to the point where guests would never leave. Once they had lost control of their house and who was living there, they would pack up and move away. The Fitzgeralds were icons of youth, spontaneity, and carelessness in the 1920s, and they were known for their extravagant parties. To anyone who has read Fitzgerald’s masterpiece, The Great Gatsby, this should sound familiar. Fitzgerald wrote his life into his stories, making characters like Gatsby and Nick representatives of himself. The characters and themes in The Great Gatsby greatly reflect the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald.
In this essay, the author
- Explains that zelda and f. scott fitzgerald never owned a house, but rented homes all over the world. they were icons of youth, spontaneity, and carelessness in the 1920s.
- Analyzes how gatsby and fitzgerald both craved an impossible idea of success, fame, and wealth.
- Analyzes how fitzgerald wanted to have a stable and faultless relationship, but it was impossible. the theme of marriages lasting after affairs is prominent throughout the great gatsby.
- Explains that zelda and f. scott fitzgerald never owned a house, but rented homes all over the world. they were icons of youth, spontaneity, and carelessness in the 1920s.
- Analyzes how gatsby and fitzgerald both craved an impossible idea of success, fame, and wealth.
- Analyzes how fitzgerald wanted to have a stable and faultless relationship, but it was impossible. the theme of marriages lasting after affairs is prominent throughout the great gatsby.
- Analyzes how zelda accused fitzgerald and hemingway of being in a homosexual relationship. nick carraway's love for jay gatsby could allude to fitzgerald being attracted to men.
- Analyzes how fitzgerald wrote the great gatsby without achieving the american dream. he was famous, but he was never successful in his own eyes.
1082 wordsRead More - The Great Gatsby Essay: The Great Gatsby is Not So Greatanalytical essayF. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is an absurd story, whether considered as romance, melodrama, or plain record of New York high life. The occasional insights into character stand out as very green oases on an arid desert of waste paper. Throughout the first half of the book the author shadows his leading character in mystery, but when in the latter part he unfolds his life story it is difficult to find the brains, the cleverness, and the glamour that one might expect of a main character.
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how the novel is sensational, loud, blatant, ugly, pointless, and there seems to be no reason for its existence.
- Analyzes how scott fitzgerald's the great gatsby is an absurd story, whether considered as romance, melodrama, or plain record of new york high life.
- Analyzes how fitzgerald's the great gatsby is a parody of itself. the presentation of his character puts the whole concept in question again, without being intended as criticism.
- Analyzes how the novel is sensational, loud, blatant, ugly, pointless, and there seems to be no reason for its existence.
- Analyzes how scott fitzgerald's the great gatsby is an absurd story, whether considered as romance, melodrama, or plain record of new york high life.
- Analyzes how fitzgerald's the great gatsby is a parody of itself. the presentation of his character puts the whole concept in question again, without being intended as criticism.
- Analyzes how nick carraway is one of the finest examples of reader manipulation in literature. his sympathy towards gatsby is exaggerated, not so much in actions, but in the much praised language.
- Analyzes how fitzgerald's book overwhelms the reader with poetic descriptions of human feelings, of landscapes, buildings, and colors.
- Analyzes how fitzgerald uses "cinematic" techniques like flashbacks and extensive foreshadowing to make the reader identify with gatsby's struggle.
- Analyzes how fitzgerald thinks gatsby's vision, his "gift for hope," is best to be called great, which is why he chose this title.
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