Category: Scott Fitzgerald

In this essay, I will be discussing the stylistic techniques used by F. Scott Fitzgerald in the novel The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald, 1925). The Great Gatsby is a novel that follows the story of Jay Gatsby`s unrequited love for Daisy Buchanan, narrated by Daisy`s cousin, Nick Carraway. Nick acts as the focaliser as well as…

Where You Are is Who You Are: Importance of Location in The Great Gatsby Wherever we are from plays a major role in how we act, live, and think. Although we may not think of geography as shaping our personality, it correlates a lot with our identity. From social values and political views to even…

Everyone has seen and experienced things that they have questioned and needed to talk about. Well In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald the author starts the story with Nick Carraway the narrator in a mental institution. The story takes place around New York in a place called Long Island. It consists…

Throughout time, The Great Gatsby has been recognized for accurately representing the Roaring Twenties society in the United States, a point in history when the economy grew, and the culture began to focus on spending lavishly to enter a new-found social hierarchy. Styles, cultures, and tastes of high-class society change and a divide is formed…

The novel The Great Gatsby written by author F. Scott Fitzgerald, explores the idea of the American Dream that may be interpreted from a Marxist critical theory lens. The American Dream is the idea that anyone regardless of where they were born or what class they were born into can achieve their own idea of…

With immense wealth and power, tremendous influence is generated within the surrounding society. However, these factors may also create a facade to cover how they do not always lead to greatness. This idea is explored in F. Scott Fitzgeralds 1920s American Fiction novel, The Great Gatsby, through the leading character, Jay Gatsby. Gatsby, an incredibly…

In The Great Gatsby, it happens in New York, plus the Valley of the Ashes represents the disparity between its occupants of West Egg and East Egg, regarding social standing and pay, besides on the grounds that the misery of neediness coming about because of the weakness of its occupants to emerge the financial stepping…

The 1925 novel, Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald follows an upstanding young man, Nick Carraway as he tells the tragic story of Jay Gatsby. Gatsby, a self-made millionaire, attempts to pursue Daisy Buchanan, a wealthy woman whom he loved in his youth. Fitzgerald creates an artificial world where money is the object of…

The novel paints a world of desolation and despair. How far and in what ways do you agree with this view of The Great Gatsby? I completely agree with this view everyone is in despair at some stage in the novel and everyone is depressed even if they dont show it. Myrtle and Wilson are…

F. Scott Fitzgeralds novel The Great Gatsby published in 1925 explores the setting of the 1920s to comment and reflect upon his context. He does this by critiquing his era through the ideas of unfulfillment and superficial values caused by the American dream. He reviews the Jazz Age through his portrayal of celebrations after World…