Essays on Jay Gatsby

In A Street Car Named Desire and The Great Gatsby, Tennessee Williams and F. Scott Fitzgerald present characters who are destroyed by the worlds they live in. The settings of the stories prevent the protagonist’s dreams from being realized thus destroying their lives and later leading to their demise. In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby fails to achieve the genuine love he spends his lifetime searching for because he ends up all alone. On the other hand, in A Street Car Named Desire, Blanche fails to find human compassion and kindness in the society she lived in. Therefore, ...

I would like to see the movie "The Great Gatsby", filmed in 1974 by the director named Jack Clayton from the standpoint of psychoanalysis ("The Great Gatsby (1974)"). I will consider the film through the prism of the basic tenets of the theory, developed by the Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud. I will make out a few key points that define psychoanalysis as a theory and show how these postulates are related to the main character of the book by Francis Scott Fitzgerald and Jack Clayton’s film, Jay Gatsby. Immediately, it should be noted that this film is not ...

The Great Gatsby written by Scott Fitzgerald is a representation of an infinite variance of ideas. For some, it is the image of the character that has been played by Leonardo DiCaprio while portraying the role of Jay Gatsby in the movie. The argument that has been presented in the essay is that the novel or the movie is more than just a symbolisation of the American Dream or an exquisite viewing pleasure. The greatness of The Great Gatsby has been applicable for all leaders over various organisations, whether the organisation is a business run by a family or ...

The main event which happens in the first chapter is the introduction of the narrator, Nick Carraway. He is the person who is related to Daisy which is why he is befriended by Jay Gatsby along with the fact that the two of them are neighbors. Nick is a wealthy man who graduated from Yale and he chooses to support all of the characters in the story. He is unbiased and the readers find out everything they need to know from his point of view. At the beginning of the story Nick introduces himself as the man who has ...

The Great Gatsby and the Cathedral

Introduction The film the Great Gatsby is adapted from the novel by the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald' written in 1925.It tells the story of young man who strives to become wealthy so as to win the heart of a lost love. The story is based during the prohibition era where sale of alcohol had been deemed illegal. The book is named after its major character, a 30 year old man, who was able to rise from an impoverished background in North Dakota to become one of the wealthiest men. Jay Gatsby is this man whose life rose ...

Introduction

Francis Scott Fitzgerald characterized his main character as “great”, yet the author managed to insert several meanings into this notion. Gatsby is overwhelmed with money, luxury, parties, but this emphasis on the material things emphasizes another issue in the novel. It is possible to claim that Fitzgerald makes the main hero to disguise himself behind the trumpery of ongoing parties and mysterious reputation. The main purpose of Gatsby seems to be rather controversial, as he is clearly avoids fulfilling his mission to win his love (Matterson 5). It is difficult to find that notorious greatness in the character’s ...

Film studies

Film music has being written for over a hundred years. Almost for such a long period, film music technologies of its creation and functioning are being studied through examining pictures of completely different genres, ranging from short documentaries of the epoch of silent movies to “supersonic” blockbusters with their sophisticated computer music and noise audio equipment. Today, when the history of cinema has passed for centenarians, and the history of radio and television to are approaching this border, it is clear that music and sound have become an essential part of screen and microphone synthetic arts. For my study, ...

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald is one of the greatest American writers, who entered the history of world literature thanks to his wonderful novels about American life in the 1920s. Fitzgerald brought to literature, not only his talent, but also gave many people a part of himself through his art. He teaches the readers the mistakes of his life, mistakes of his generation, and they carefully heed this lesson. With his works, we can evaluate an entire generation, and through his talent of storytelling we live together with the characters of each story or novel. The main theme of his ...

The Great Gatsby

Movies are often a reflection of the political and social changes that are occurring at the time of their creation. Movies typically reflect the views and attitudes of society and do so in a way that is dramatic and captivating. This holds true for The Great Gatsby, both during the time period in which it was written as well as during the 1970s when the motion picture was released. Written by F. Scotts Fitzgerald, the story takes place during the Roaring Twenties, a time in history many refer to as a period of great transformation and wealth. Following World ...

Fitzgerald is one of the few who managed to convey the very spirit of the Roaring Twenties, immortalized in the novel “The Great Gatsby.” The story perfectly expresses the tragedy of the era, that lies on the surface of luxury and fun, and under them, despair and death. An image of the protagonist is vague and dual. He is a romantic who, for the sake of his love, as a valiant knight, joined the battle with life and won, as he got the honor and glory, which in modern language is called wealth. On the other hand he is a bootlegger, closely ...

Dishonesty is one of the most challenging things that occur in relationships. It is so challenging that it brings out a sign of betrayal to the relationship, which happens especially when the relationship incorporates a man, and a woman who intend to marry in the near future or are already into marriage. Dishonesty and betrayal breaks relationships by cheating, lying, and manipulating. Relationships cannot be built on lies. Neither can it survive without trust and respect. Ideally, morals are among the most important elements of life according to the themes of the American dream. Engagement of this behavior fully discourages the art ...

Jay Gatsby, the protagonist of “The Great Gatsby” is the archetype and represents the tragic hero. This archetype is the one the audience sympathizes with and whose luck changes throughout the story from best to worst. In most cases the tragic hero dies and it happens because there is a flaw in his character. Jay Gatsby is fortunate at the beginning of the film when he meets Daisy and falls in love with her. However, his poverty prevents him from marrying her, so he goes away and returns as a wealthy man, but only to see the love of his life ...

The Great Gatsby is a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The 1925 novel is neatly crafted with an exceptional understanding of social stratification. Fitzgerald’s evocative work offers a brilliant glance of the American life in the 1920s. Although a variety of themes, such as greed, justice, power, and betrayal are brought out, social stratification theme is well developed in this novel. Fitzgerald begins the novel by creating distinct groups to differentiate social classes (Yardley par.4). The novel concerns a young millionaire whose life revolves around his desire. Gatsby’s motive was to reunite with his former love, Daisy Buchanan, but his ...

Plot Summary

The Great Gatsby is a book that focuses and tries to give the events of a fictional town and characters. The plot is focused on Nick a former graduate scholar and a war veteran who is the narrator of the story that the novel aims at putting across. Nick takes up employment as a salesperson in the City of New York, where he settles and takes up residence in long island near the exclusive mansion of the rich mysterious jay Gatsby. Jay Gatsby is known in the town due to the exclusive and huge parties that he holds in his residence. During Nick’s ...

Jay Gatsby is the protagonist of the novel The Great Gatsby. He is a very wealthy man living in a Gothic mansion in West Egg. As narrated by Nick Carraway, Gatsby is famous for the lavish parties he throws on Saturdays but no one really knew where he came from, what he did or how he got his wealth. As the novel progresses, we soon learn that he was born James Gatz in North Dakota. He acquired his wealth through the sheer determination and also through criminal activity, as he vowed to do anything to win Daisy. Tony Buchanan, on the ...

The American Dream is the idea that anyone can fulfill their goals and dreams if they work hard enough. It is rooted in American ideals set out in the Declaration of Independence, and usually focuses on upward social mobility and materialistic success. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is set in the summer of 1922, which is the beginning of the “Roaring Twenties” or the “Jazz Age”; and a golden age of American materialistic success. The stock market was booming, illegal alcohol was flowing and societal norms had relaxed after the horrors or World War I. (Saunders 343-358). In ...

Written by Fitzgerald, F. Scott, the first publishing of “The Great Gatsby” took place in 1925. Thus, finding a basis in the original publish of the novel, it is safe to argue that the narration attempts to capture the changes in the United States as of 1925. During the 1900s, the United States was witness to transformations in the political, monetary and public ideologies of its people. Fitzgerald’s work presents characters from different backgrounds and different scenarios that question the peoples’ characteristics, values, and principles. Consequently, while communicating his views of America, readers observe an analysis of morality in ...

American literature knows many authors who had a tragic destiny, who quit early and did not implement what their gift engaged for. Amid an American life, these authors were perishing from loneliness and alcoholism. They stayed with no help and without a word of participation, as if they were in an abandoned desert. Every event like this repeatedly calls the attention of intellectual people all over the world to vice of American capitalistic culture and American lifestyle, which is extremely indifferent to people’s destinies. In the period of time “amid two wars”, there was the most evident drama – the tragic ...

The Great Gatsby was one of the most awaited book adaptations in recent years. Film is based on the book by Francis Scott Fitzgerald of the same name. Despite the fact that the film received very controversial reviews, it is definitely a very high quality work. Plot, decorations, actors’ play, music are simply magnificent. The film tells us about Nick Carraway, a graduate of Yale University, who stays in the resort, where he is being treated from alcoholism. He tells about a man named Gatsby, whose fate brought him to New York. It is difficult for Nick to talk about it, ...

Introduction

After the World War II, the US became one of the most powerful nations in the world in par with the United Kingdom. The span of American power is not determined by its highly trained military units and rich wealth distribution; the American power primarily lies on the cultural aspects especially most writers, both foreign and native Americans discuss the premise of the American Dream, a philosophical ideology which became an integral part in forming the nation’s identity. As early as 1931, the famous American historian named James Truslow Adams envisioned an ideal land which follows the utopian ideals in ...

The titular novel “The Great Gatsby”, is considered one of the greatest pieces of writing of the 20th century and hailed as a classic by readers everywhere. In this novel, one can find, not only an intriguing story, but a tangled web of psychological complexities between its characters. It is a tale of desire and deception, of how reality comes crashing down on us when we appreciate it the least. It is a tragic tale, and a cautionary one at that, but with so many themes at play, like all great classics, there is always something to be discovered with each reading of the ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author of “The Great Gatsby”, develops his characters in such a way that that they seem to contradict each other’s personality traits. Such a set up essentially allows the readers of the novel to notice and understand these characters in an almost equal magnitude. The best depiction in this set up is brought put in the two major characters in the novel, Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway. The two characters’ traits are hugely contradictory of each other. On one hand, Nick Carraway is a character who exhibits great development throughout the story while Jay Gatsby is a man ...

Dishonesty in Relationships Dishonesty is one of the most challenging things that occur in relationship. It is so challenging that it brings out a sign of betrayal to the second party; this happens especially when the relationship is incorporates a man and woman who intend to marry in the near future or are already into marriage. Dishonesty and betrayal breaks relationships by cheating, lying, and manipulating. Relationships cannot build on lies. Neither can they survive without trust and respect. Ideally, morals are among the most important elements of life according to the themes of the American dream. Engagement is behaviour that ...

Introduction

"The Great Gatsby" is an Australian-American film released in 2013 based on the bestselling novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald written in 1925. Directed by Baz Luhmann, "The Great Gatsby" provides the source of this academic discourse. The analysis of the sociological issue of deviance portrayed in the 2013 movie "The Great Gatsby" connects to the immoral actions of the era about ill-gained riches, social snobbery, racism, sexism, and excess in a time of national economic depression, immorality and marital infidelity, and murder.

Ill-gained Riches

The underpinning deviant behavior of the key player in this movie is Jay Gatsby who gains his wealth ...

Jay Gatsby was a mysterious man who was seen to create himself, or at least some sort of illusion of himself that he wanted people to see. He was self-conceived because of a dream that he had, yet in the end, he was crushed by reality. The story written by Fitzgerald shows the visions people had for America. It represents their struggles through characters. The story shows that there is no such thing as the American dream, and that the dream should stay a dream forever. Gatsby, as a character, suggests that once the dream is realized, it becomes bitter and ugly. The ...

Movie Review:

Movie Title: The Great Gatsby Director Name: Baz Luhrmann Social issues: Since the individual actions are reflective of the social impact, social undertaking and social standing, thereby sociological studies and observations apply to the behavior.

With context to the movie:

Social class conflict and stratification: The social narrative of the movie is depicted in multiple modes, one in form of presence of a fact that is part of every society, another in form of a deviance. The existence of multiple social classes is the former reference, while the deviance in form of unprolific competition is the deviance depicted. Originally hailing from a lower ...

"The American Dream" is a society of equal opportunities, not constrained with class prejudices. It is a dream about an ideal of equality of opportunities, unlimited scope for individual, community of people, natural happiness unconditionally accepted by the Americans. An individual was never given even a chance to accept either rejects the “dream”, and it took the possession of him from the moment of birth. The main trend is the Fitzgerald's work is the reference to the problem of "the American dream" and its influence on the destiny of man. The main task the author sets for himself is the ingress ...

In the end of the first quarter of the XX century the world of literature was highlighted with the most famous novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald ‘The Great Gatsby’. The action takes place in 1922, so we can say for sure that the author’s modernity is described. The novel appears to be as a kind of a bridge between two of the most major events in the history of America – the World War I, which came to end in 1918 and the Great Depression which was to break out in several years. The period between them was known to be ...

All things truly wicked start from an innocence. – Ernest Hemingway

The narrator tells us that Jay Gatsby “was a son of God – a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that” (105). Note the text after the dash: it seems to be pointing the reader somewhere, but it actually points the reader nowhere. Much like the billboard advertising Dr. T.J. Eckleburg, calling Gatsby a “son of God” is an empty rhetorical action, what Barthes might have called a signifier without a signified. Going “about His Father’s Business” (105) gives the reader a bit more information about what that sort of work might entail, given the fact that the sacred appears to have left ...

Compare and contrast the character of Gatsby with Fantine:

This essay will compare and contrast the Character of Gatsby and Fantine from the ‘The Great Gatsby’ and ‘Les Misérables’ respectively. One of the common traits in both characters is that they play a central role for the development of both books. Gatsby is the main character of this book. He is around thirty years old and a young man who arises from a considerably impoverished childhood in North Dakota rural areas. He later becomes fabulously wealthy. In spite of this fact, he achieves this desired goal through active participation in organized crime. On the other hand, Fantine is arguably the ...

Not for nothing does the story carry the name of its main character. To my mind, Jay Gatsby is the most interesting and complex character. He is the protagonist; however, the reader does not get to know him from the very beginning. Quite the contrary, first our attention is drawn to the novel’s narrator. However, while tracing the life of Jay Gatsby, three different states can be seen. The character of Mr. Gatsby is complex and dynamic. The road of the character can be traced through three periods: before the wealth, with the wealth, result. As a young ...

The American Dream lured wave after wave of immigration, primarily from Europe, in the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. This dream taught that if you came to America and worked hard enough, you would succeed. There was enough room, enough of a market, enough hope, and enough freedom for everyone who came to the United States to do well. This dream enticed so many people to come to the country from overseas that the government decided to put quotas in place to limit the number of immigrants from each country in the years before World ...