The Great Gatsby Essays

Jay Gatsby, my close friend and neighbor was a successful bachelor who created an aura of mystery. Gatsby, a man in his mid thirties, died an unexpected death. A car repairman, George Wilson, from the Valley of Ashes, murdered Mr. Gatsby. During the last moments of Mr. Gatsby’s life, he …

It is often an authors perception of a novel that he is creating that shapes the main character of a literary work. The title of a book is the way he focuses all readers in to what is truly important. Like most other authors, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses a title, …

The green light at the end of Daisy’s dock is a significant symbol within the book. To Gatsby, the green light represents his dream, which is Daisy. To attain her would be completing Gatsby’s American Dream. The first time the green light is seen in the novel is also the …

Settings are given in every novel being important as it helps the reader understand the story better. The settings in The Great Gatsby are specifically very significant as it superbly fits with the storyline. The story is set in the early 1920s in New york because it focuses on the …

‘Obsessive love has the capacity to drive a person to insanity, leading to irrational behaviour, alienation and despair’ Compare and contrast the ways McEwan and Fitzgerald present the complexities of human love in light of this comment. F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ian McEwanpresent obsessive Idealised love as deranged and harmful.Fitzgerald’s …

Complex Characters Cambridge and The Great Gatsby are two novels which have been dubbed as successes by critics. “An American classic” raves critic John Greene about Gatsby “I think this is the best of Caryl Phillips’ novels, a brilliant story of the ambivalences and contradictions and hypocrisies in a slave-owning …

”The Great Gatsby depicts a society which exists in a state of confusion and moral chaos.’ Discuss. The Great Gatsby is a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald set during the 1920s about a man named Jay Gatsby through Nick Carraway’s eyes, and is considered one of the great pieces …

Rain, snow, and sun force people to adapt their lives. Weather can be a powerful symbol of emotion and passion. Writers and authors draw from the natural wonders to enhance their literature. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses weather to symbolize hope in the main character, …

In the following essay, Cartwright discusses ways in which Nick Carraway is sometimes a confused or misleading narrator.] While I have met individuals whom I might describe as more Gatsby than Carraway, I have seldom met a critic I would so describe. As critics, we seem to cherish our disillusionment. …

Fitzgerald presents the negative influence of class on romantic relationships in ‘The Great Gatsby.’ Discuss this opinion and consider how Charlotte Brontë’s ‘Jane Eyre’ illuminates your understanding of the core text. In ‘The Great Gatsby’ love and relationships are the main themes, with Fitzgerald emphasising the differences in class between …