The Great Gatsby Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald wrote the Great Gatsby during the 1920’s. This book is rather based on a true story in that like the author, Gatsby fell in love with this woman but ended up breaking the guys hearts. This book is about how Gatsby when he was young was in the military and fell in love with this girl. He ended up leaving town and the girl never came to see him again. It happens to be that Daisy was that girl and she moved on to marry Tom. There were two society’s in the book that are called East Egg and West Egg and were separated by a bay. There are a lot of differences between East Egg and West Egg, but there are also differences between main characters. East Egg and West Egg are totally different. East Egg represents …show more content…
Nick is the narrator of the book, and was brought up in the Midwest. He starts to believe that his hometown was not for him anymore, so he moved to the East Coast to learn a little more about business. He rents a small house in West Egg that happens to be right next to Gatsby’s big mansion. He had heard of all these big, fancy parties but had never been invited to one. At first, he thought that Gatsby was a little stuck up, but also Nick noticed that Gatsby never came out of his house. He also finds out that one of his cousins Daisy Buchanan and her husband Tom live right across the bay in East Egg. Nick has not really seen Gatsby at all. It is kind of like in the movies where you see a creepy mansion and sometimes you will see lights on or shadows passing by the windows, but you have really never seen the person who actually lives in the mansion. One day when Nick was in the yard, one of Gatsby’s servants came over and handed Nick an invitation to one of Gatsby’s parties even though he had never met Gatsby. Well the night of the party he walks over to Gatsby’s house and is astonished. While he is there he runs into Jordan Baker, who he met when he was over at his cousins house visiting. This is when Nick meets Gatsby and notices that Gatsby is not drinking. So, Nick and Gatsby get to know each other and Gatsby finds out that Daisy is one of Nick’s cousin. Gatsby desperately wants to meet …show more content…
Gatsby was really, truly a good person but got used and taken advantage of by people and Daisy specifically. If it was not for Nick, Gatsby probably would not have even got to have a chance to even talk to Daisy again. Doing what Nick did for Gatsby, Gatsby has to be very gracious and thankful for that. If Nick would not have done that, Gatsby might not have got his heart broken for the second time by Daisy. East and West Egg both represent the type of people that live there. East Egg is full of people that are stuck up, and will step on people to get somewhere if they need to. They take advantage of people and use them to get what they want only for a short while. West Egg is full of people who are nice and actually care about people. They are not all about themselves but all about others. These people are also they people that get stepped on by others. The Great Gatsby was a great book and it was so good that it makes you want to be apart of the
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s American classic, The Great Gatsby, tells a story of how love and greed lead to death. The narrator of the novel, Nick Carraway, tells of his unusual summer after meeting the main character, Jay Gatsby. Gatsby’s intense love makes him attempt anything to win the girl of his dreams, Daisy Buchanan. All the love in the world, however, cannot spare Gatsby from his unfortunate yet inevitable death. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald utilizes the contrasting locations of East Egg and West Egg to represent opposing forces vital to the novel.
Class identity and social structure was a big thing in the Roaring 20 's. In the Great Gatsby, Long Island was divided into two to three social classes. There is East and West Egg, and then The Valley of Ashes. The Valley of Ashes were where poor people worked, and where Myrtle, a mistress of Tom Buchanan resides. East and West Egg were where old and new money people are. East Egg residents just made tons of money, but still are looked down upon by West Egg residents. West Egg residents had that money for generations. If West Egg residents want to start a new generation with some other rich partner though, where do they stand? Why are the West Egg residents so looked down upon as well by East Egg?
“The Great Gatsby” was a extremely sophisticated novel; it expressed love, money, and social class. The novel is told by Nick Carraway, Gatsby’s neighbor. Nick had just moved to West Egg, Longs Island to pursue his dream as a bond salesman. Nick goes across the bay to visit his cousin Daisy and her husband Tom Buchanan in East Egg. Nick goes home later that day where he saw Gatsby standing on his dock with his arms out reaching toward the green light. Tom invites Nick to go with him to visit his mistress Mrs. Myrtle Wilson, a mid class woman from New York. When Nick returned from his adventure of meeting Myrtle he chooses to turn his attention to his mysterious neighbor, Gatsby. Gatsby is a very wealthy man that host weekly parties for the
Even though he had some thought that the meeting would provoke harmful tensions between Tom, Daisy, and Gatsby, he went along with it anyways, further demonstrating his own innate lack of reservation. Ultimately, Nick is an unreliable narrator who overlooks Gatsby’s lies because of his biased judgment of him. Nick portrays Gatsby as a generous and charismatic figure while in reality, he is a duplicative and obsessed man entangled in illegal business who is determined on an unattainable goal. It is highly ironic that Nick judges others for their lack of morality and honesty; his own character is plagued by lies as he abets Gatsby in many of his schemes.
The novel mirrors the East-West divide of the whole country in the division between West Egg and East Egg. Nick and Gatsby live on West Egg, which means that they have retained their closeness to western values. The Buchanans on the other hand have become Easterners, they represent the corruption of the East.
In the novel, The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a novel was written in the 1920's and during that time society had no civilized manners, they only cared about money. Because the society has no ethics they hurt others and do not realize how greedy they are. The author uses different characters throughout the novel to present his theme. Symbols can also be found in The Great Gatsby. An example would be West Egg which represents the recent rich and East Egg which represents the established upper classes. The West Egg and East Egg symbolize the different social status of society.
In chapter 1 of The Great Gatsby the narrator reveals himself to be Nick Carraway, a man from Minnesota. Nick moved to New York to get a job in the bond business and he rented a house in the West Egg. The West Egg is considered “less fashionable” (5), than the East Egg where all the people with connections live. Nick was invited to dinner at the home of his cousin Daisy and her husband Tom Buchanan, who lived in the East Egg. At dinner Nick meets Jordan, Daisy’s rather laid-back friend, and learns that Tom is having a very open affair with another woman.
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald was published in the year 1925. It is romantic novel between a lot different characters that you get to know in the novel. It is like one big love circle. Daisy Buchannan is married to Tom Buchannan but before their marriage Daisy was in love with a man named Jay Gatsby. Gatsby had to go fight in the war and Daisy never heard or saw of Gatsby again. Only on the day of her wedding Gatsby wrote her a letter explain why he couldn’t see her and that he was coming home, but sadly it was already to late. Daisy was to marry Tom Buchannan and nobody could stop it. Daisy is now in marriage she doesn’t want to be in and she finds out later hat Tom has a mistress in the city. Another side of the novel is about the narrator Nick Carraway. Nick is first cousins to Daisy and they grew up together. Nick knows Tom from Yale they both graduated the same year. Nick moved from the west to West Egg to start over and he shortly discovers that he is neighbors to The Great Gatsby himself. Deeper into the novel Nick and Gatsby become acquainted and become very good friends. Gatsby lets Nick know that him and his cousin Daisy have a past and he would like to schedule to see her but he doesn’t want Daisy knowing that she is going to see him. Nick is told to invite Daisy over for tea and Gatsby just so happens to drop by. This plan is put into full affect and
Nick explains to the reader how Gatsby got his name and what his childhood was like on
The narrator, Nick Carraway, is Gatsby's neighbor in West Egg. Nick is a young man from a prominent Midwestern family. Educated at Yale, he has come to New York to enter the bond business. In some sense, the novel is Nick's memoir, his unique view of the events of the summer of 1922; as such, his impressions and observations necessarily color the narrative as a whole. For the most part, he plays only a peripheral role in the events of the novel; he prefers to remain a passive observer.
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is about Nick Caraway, a man who moved into New York in West Egg. He soon finds out that his house borders a mansion of a wealthy man, named Jay Gatsby, who is in love with Nick’s cousin Daisy Buchannan. Nick describes his past experiences with Gatsby. He is an unreliable first person narrator, for he is extremely subjective being biased towards Gatsby and he is deceptive, with his lying and past actions. His evaluation of Gatsby is not entirely just, due to his close friendship with Gatsby.
... Nick makes a small funeral for Gatsby and Daisy does not attend it. He took the blame for her, and he is dead all because of her, he sacrificed for her. She and Tom decide to travel and take off. Also Nick breaks up with Jordan, and he moves back to Midwest because he has had enough of these people, and hates the people that were close to Gatsby and for bareness, emptiness, and cold heart they have of the life in the middle of the wealthy on the East Coast. Nick realizes, and reveals that Gatsby’s dream of Daisy was ruined by money and un-loyalty, dishonestly. Daisy all she cared about is wealth, she chased after the men that have a lot of money. Even though Gatsby has control, influence, and authority to change his dreams into making it into real life for him this is what Nicks says makes him a good man. Now both Gatsby’s dream and the American Dream are over.
In both books status is the most significant thing in their society. Okonkwo and Tom 's high ranking in their society, reveals the cultural value of status which causes them to be careless. In The Great Gatsby’ social status is an immensely significant part as it separates geographical locations in the novel but above all, portrays the mentality of citizens belonging to different social class. The characters in the novel are separated by the money that they have and where they work or live. East Egg reflects a higher class society where the people are filthy rich, the author refer to them as “old money”. The people in East Egg are usually well educated and they have some sort of hatred towards the “new money”, which is known as West Egg. The people of West Egg are rich, but have only became rich recently.
A seemingly easy read, The Great Gatsby has won over critics around the world, and rightfully so, has become one of today's greatest classics due to its complex literary content. The narrator of the novel, Nick Carraway, grew up in the Midwestern United States and went to school at Yale University. Returning home after traveling a great deal, he is discontent and decides to move to the East in 1922, renting a house in Long Island's West Egg section. Jay Gatsby is a wealthy neighbor living next door in a lavish mansion where he holds many extravagant weekend parties. His name is mentioned while Nick is visiting a relative, Daisy. As it turns out, Jay Gatsby had met Daisy five years before while in the military. Meanwhile Gatsby spent all of his effort after the war to buy his mansion through shady business dealings in order to be nearer to Daisy in the hope that she would leave her rich husband, Tom, for him. Daisy is impressed by Gatsby's wealth and the two begin spending much time together, raising the suspicions of Tom who had also has his own affair with a gas station owner's wife, Myrtle Wilson.
West Egg is known as the “new money” society. The people who live here had to work hard to earn their wealth. Two people that are examples of West Egg are Jay Gatsby and Meyer Wolfsheim. “I lived at West Egg, the-well, the least fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them.” In this quote, Nick introduces the difference between the East and the West Egg. Nick realizes that the difference between them is “superficial”. Fitzgerald is attempting to show that the perceptions that the two have on each other is shallow and that there is no actual difference between the two because both have wealthy individuals. “‘You live in West Egg’, she remarked contemptuously ‘I know somebody there’.” Jordan Bakers shows contempt for Nick merely due to the fact he lives in West Egg. This shows further how the East Eggers don’t see the West Eggers as being legitimate because they have not been wealthy their whole lives. “‘Who is this Gatsby anyhow?’ demanded Tom suddenly. ‘Some big bootlegger?’ ‘Where’d you hear that?’ I inquired. ‘I didn’t hear it, I imagined it. A lot of these newly rich people are just big bootleggers, you know.’” This quote furthermore demonstrates the conclusions that the old rich Americans, like Tom, would make about the “newly rich people”, like Gatsby. Tom assumed Gatsby was a bootlegger just based on the fact that he acquired his wealth