Essays on Scott Fitzgerald

"The American Dream" - a dream of an earthly sanctuary for the "single person": in America, the country of equality ordinary person closed the way to the uppermost level of the social ladder. Nevertheless, the consequences of the pursuit of the American dream. Moreover, is the personification of the American dream fortune? These are the questions we touched Francis Scott Fitzgerald in his novel "The Great Gatsby." In this novel, the reader meets with incredible characters and different fates that are tested. However, the price they pay for the hope of happiness and peace is too high. In ...

The Great Gatsby is a story written by Scott Fitzgerald. It is a story about a twisted love affair among the main characters, daisy and Gatsby. The author through his characters shows how striving for wealth defined individuals’ dreams. Moreover, the story revolves around a pursuit of happiness for the protagonist Gatsby who never wanted to let his past go, but was pursuing it through wealth and material things. This entire story represents characters who fail to learn from their past experiences and mistakes. The characters in this book are static, starting with Jay Gatsby, Tom Buchanan, Daisy Buchanan, and Nick. In the ...

Response to the article "The Importance of Setting in the Great Gatsby by

When speaking about Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby first thing that needs to be mentioned - except for the captivating storyline - is the unique and beautiful writing style of F. Scott Fitzgerald. It’s felicitously marked in the article that “Using his extraordinary palette of words and language, he described the decade succeeding World War I. No other writer among his contemporaries possessed a more passionate sense of time and place”. F. Scott Fitzgerald is a recognized talent of his genre with very natural ability to reveal people’s characters. Among the personages of the novel there are ones ...

This paper is going to cover the analysis of the novel “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and how the American dream is threatened nowadays. This paper expresses the point of view that the novel “The Great Gatsby” presents the American dream in pessimistic way. The novel was written in year 1925, and it describes how magnificent and magnetic is the dream about wealth and power in the society. The status means everything, and each American would be incredibly happy to reach this dream, to get his high position and status in the society, to show everyone that ...

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 ...

The question of the importance of money and moral values has always been urgent. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald explores the phenomenon of the American dream. The central theme of the Fitzgerald's narrative treasure is the American way of life described by the author as a human trap. The essay is going to analyze the image of America created by the author of The Great Gatsby and his understanding of the concept to be an American. Making a reference to the characters of the novel, it is going to investigate if Gatsby could have survived in a modern society and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American writer best known for his novels and short stories that describe the so-called American "Jazz Age" of the 1920s ("F. Scott Fitzgerald" 1). He is the author of the novels The Great Gatsby, Tender Is the Night, The Last Tycoon. He is one of the greatest US prose writers of the XX century ("F. Scott Fitzgerald" 1). In the minds of contemporaries F. Scott Fitzgerald was and remains not only a writer, but a living legend, the embodiment of the spirit of the time. In the 1920s he became the idol of ...

English

The Great Gatsby was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and was published in the year 1925 is possibly the most significant work of fiction of the decade and it is considered to be an account of the self-absorption of the affluent class in the 1920s. The Great Gatsby had been praised as an imaginative and material success for the young author of the book, F. Scott Fitzgerald. The book was well thought-out to be an immensely mature and creatively masterful management of Fitzgerald's themes than his previously published fiction. The idea of the American Dream is presented in an ...

“The Great Gatsby” is a 1925 novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Though the novel focuses on Jay Gatsby predominantly, Nick Carraway the novels’ narrator has a considerable role to play. As the novel advances, Nick gradually transforms to become the most interesting character and a major player. He changes overwhelmingly during the course of the novel a fact that makes the novel even much more interesting (Lee 40). Nick Carraway being the narrator of the novel plays a very imperative role owing the fact that the events are narrated from his perspective. Considering that the narration incorporated in this novel for the ...

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 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 ...

Abstract

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s first novel, This Side of Paradise, tells the tale of a young Midwestern university student who falls in and out of love, while eschewing his education for a life in the military. Fitzgerald’s book, a semi-autobiographical tale written around the time of the pursuit of his first love Zelda, combines varying literary styles with a powerful narrative voice to show the idleness and greed of American youth in the 1910s. In the world of This Side of Paradise, the youth of the nation is confused, lost and torn between love, obligation and opportunity, not really knowing where they ...

Dexter Green and Jody Jones

Scott Fitzgerald only lived for forty-four years but he was known as one of America’s famous writers. In his lifetime he published four novels and many short stories; his last novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon, was published posthumously. The story “Winter Dreams,” is a story of two young people, Dexter Green and Jody Jones. Jody is a terrible beautiful girl who goes from one man to another; she is engaged several times but never for long and she is Dexter first and last love. Dexter falls in love with Jody and no matter how many men she courts ...

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 ...

In The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald, every character in one way or another is in pursuit of happiness in their lives. All three of the literary sources agree that even though the main characters in Fitzgerald’s novel are attempting to improve their lives, the harsh reality of life eventually ruins the American Dream they are all pursuing. The primary source “The Failure of the 'American Dream' in the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald” not only provides reputable evidence that points to the failure of the American Dream in the lives of the novel’s characters, but also ...

Ernest Hemingway, the author of The Sun Also Rises, was part of a generation of writers who made their mark on the literary scene beginning in the 1920’s. The end of the Great War had significant effects on the attitudes of many artists, who felt that the values under which they had been raised no longer mattered, because of the sheer horror of the war. The horrific weapons that were used for the first time during this war, such as mustard gas, and the size of the war, which dragged most of the West’s major powers into conflict, ...

Ernest Hemingway, the author of The Sun Also Rises, was part of a generation of writers who made their mark on the literary scene beginning in the 1920’s. The end of the Great War had significant effects on the attitudes of many artists, who felt that the values under which they had been raised no longer mattered, because of the sheer horror of the war. The horrific weapons that were used for the first time during this war, such as mustard gas, and the size of the war, which dragged most of the West’s major powers into conflict, ...

The American lost generation of the 1920s is the generation of the American women and men who came of age immediately after the First World War or during the war. This is the generation that is considered to be experienced in war following their involvement in the war and social upheaval of the time. This group lacked cultural identity because of the cynical nature of the war and the emotional stability. Additionally, the lost generation also includes the writers like the John Dos Paso’s, Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemmingway, F. Therefore, the lost generation focuses on the United ...

Introduction:

F Scott Fitzgerald is perhaps one of the finest authors from the so called Jazz Age which was dotted and permeated by excellent writers throughout. His short story ‘The Diamond as Big as the Ritz’ is a typical enunciation from this era but which also looks back at the nostalgia of the Civil War where there is also a reference to the leader of the so-called Ku Klux Klan, Nathan Bedford Forrest. The author uses a lot of emotive language and also inserts a number of metaphors into the novel which paint Braddock as an arrogant and deeply proud man without much emotion ...