The Great Gatsby Connection Between My Life
SL3 English Lang&Lit
Qu Shiyi 6.15
‘I disavow any essential connection between my life and what I write.’
Is this a credible view for writers of literature you have studied?
Although writers employ their imagination to create various literary works, there is always some kind of connection between their life and what they write as they draw inspiration from their contemporary times. Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is a novel that largely reflects the life of upper class in the 1920’s America. In this essay, I will anaylize how the writer uses setting and characterization to explore the major themes in the novel, which are also the essential issues that arise in the particular social context of his time.
Fitzgerald sets the story in his contemporary …show more content…
Her luxurious lifestyle is shown by her “white dress” and “white roadster” where the color white connotes a sense of royalty. To support herself financially, she marries Tom “with more pomp and circumstance than Louisville ever knew before” even though she loves Gatsby. Fitzegerald thus reveals Daisy’s materialism as she treats her marriage as a means of obtain greater wealth and denies her true emotion. However, when she reunites with Gatsby, she is amazed by his shirts and says “It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such – such beautiful shirts before.” Her shallowness is shown for her emotion is easily affected by materials like shirts. Her love for either Gatsby or Tom is also doubtful as she hesitates between the two out of consideration that which can provide her a rich, classy …show more content…
For example, when Nick first visits Daisy, Fitzgerald describes her and Jordan as “anchored balloon.” This simile shows the hollowness of the two women and how they are empty-minded just like a “balloon”. Worse than the purposeless drifting like a balloon, they are “anchored” and not able to leave according to their own will. This shows a loss of freedom of these two women. Fitzgerald also writes “they were both in white”. As the color white connotes weakness and paleness, it shows the incapability of the women to take control of their own lives. The motif of white is used throughout the novel to reinforce the idea of weakness of these
Qu Shiyi 6.15
‘I disavow any essential connection between my life and what I write.’
Is this a credible view for writers of literature you have studied?
Although writers employ their imagination to create various literary works, there is always some kind of connection between their life and what they write as they draw inspiration from their contemporary times. Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is a novel that largely reflects the life of upper class in the 1920’s America. In this essay, I will anaylize how the writer uses setting and characterization to explore the major themes in the novel, which are also the essential issues that arise in the particular social context of his time.
Fitzgerald sets the story in his contemporary …show more content…
Her luxurious lifestyle is shown by her “white dress” and “white roadster” where the color white connotes a sense of royalty. To support herself financially, she marries Tom “with more pomp and circumstance than Louisville ever knew before” even though she loves Gatsby. Fitzegerald thus reveals Daisy’s materialism as she treats her marriage as a means of obtain greater wealth and denies her true emotion. However, when she reunites with Gatsby, she is amazed by his shirts and says “It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such – such beautiful shirts before.” Her shallowness is shown for her emotion is easily affected by materials like shirts. Her love for either Gatsby or Tom is also doubtful as she hesitates between the two out of consideration that which can provide her a rich, classy …show more content…
For example, when Nick first visits Daisy, Fitzgerald describes her and Jordan as “anchored balloon.” This simile shows the hollowness of the two women and how they are empty-minded just like a “balloon”. Worse than the purposeless drifting like a balloon, they are “anchored” and not able to leave according to their own will. This shows a loss of freedom of these two women. Fitzgerald also writes “they were both in white”. As the color white connotes weakness and paleness, it shows the incapability of the women to take control of their own lives. The motif of white is used throughout the novel to reinforce the idea of weakness of these