Why does Fitzgerald contrast “hard rock” with “wet marshes”? What does he mean? Fitzgerald contrast “hard rock” with “wet marshes”…
Last week, I attended one of Jay Gatsby’s lavish parties. It was almost exactly like I imagined it. The raucous women, the greedy guests, the whiskey, the fashion – it was quite the experience. I never received an invitation, but no one truly appeared to have one either. However, the biggest mystery of the party was the fact that Jay Gatsby was never seen. After all, one of the core reasons I had decided to attend the party was to meet him. I left the celebration around 2:00 AM after I lost my hopes. This was a major problem. If you are the host, you should welcome people casually inside your home – do not invite crummy people carelessly looking for sex into the event. As tension of Gatsby’s activities arose, so did the emotion of the people I was surrounded by. “I looked around. Most of the remaining women were now having fights with men said to be their husbands. Even Jordan’s party, the quarter from East Egg, were rent asunder by dissension” (Fitzgerald 51). If Gatsby would have made an appearance, the fighting might have stopped because people would have been more interested in the events. The insanity of it all was generally due to the mass quantity of alcohol consumed. People kept drinking, dancing, gambling, gossiping, and more. Where was Gatsby during all of this? Why would he throw an extravagant party and not attend? Many others wondered where he was, and thus decided it would be a great time to gossip about him. I couldn’t help but eavesdrop on them a little. “‘Somebody told me they thought he killed a man once.’ … ‘I don’t think it’s so much as that,’ argued Lucille skeptically; ‘it’s more that he was a German spy during the war” (Fitzgerald 44). I heard he was a German spy, he killed a man, even studied at Oxford, but what is true? Certainly, all of the gossip wouldn’t be happening if he had decided to make an entrance at the bash. Don’t get me wrong, the party was impeccable – the only…
In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald many themes are presented. One of…
The symbols in the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald in chapters 6-9 suggest that not everything is always as it seems and people may believe they know the whole truth, but that is not always the case. In chapter 6 of the Great Gatsby, everyone created a false sense of happiness in their lives, but in reality no one, but the eyes of Doctor T.J Eckleburg were the only ones that saw the harsh truth. T.J Eckleburg's eyes symbolizes that not everyone knows the whole truth but the eyes of Eckleburg, and that his eyes are always watching... “over the ashheaps the giant eyes of T.J Eckleburg kept their vigil” (Fitzgerald 124). The illusion is that there is always someone watching, but the reality is that just because it seems someone is watching…
It is the widespread smear of blue, the vibrant sprouts of green and the sight of all things on earth.Colors are made up of everything and although what the human eyes claims to see is not certain that every organism sees has played with our imagination through childhood. Each of the infinite colors has it’s own value and personal definition to everyone. It engages the eyes with the mind into imagination and in some ways are deceptive. For example red, was feared in America during 1920’s because it was associated with communism and uncertainty. Red is usually associated in the cinema as the evil force. However, it is also a symbol for good luck in China and India. Colors have their own symbolic definition that are associated with. In a similar…
In Fitzgerlad’s “The Great Gatsby”, the reader knows Wolfsheim is related to organized crime in the 1920’s and is associated with Herman Rosenthal and his illegal gambling operations, which is supported by the facts presented in “The New York Times” as well as Wolfsheim’s quotes from the book.…
Gatsby’s party is almost unbelievably luxurious: guests marvel over his Rolls-Royce, his swimming pool, his beach, crates of fresh oranges and lemons, buffet tents in the gardens overflowing with a feast, and a live orchestra playing under the stars. Liquor flows freely, and the crowd grows rowdier and louder as more and more guests get drunk. In this atmosphere of opulence and revelry, Jordan and I, curious to see this “Mr Gatsby” set out to find him.…
Memory, symbol, and pattern affect the reading of literature by making it easier for readers to understand what’s going on in a literary work. While reading, readers begin to notice the trend or pattern in the devices that they recognize such as themes or symbols. When reading literature, readers tend to recall certain events or small parts from other parts of literature from what they’re reading currently. The recognition of patterns make it easier to read complicated literature by completely comprehending the intended message that withholds in the literary work. A time when my appreciation of a literary work was enhanced by understanding symbol and or pattern was when reading The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.…
Fitzgerald illustrates that futility in Gatsby’s life by exemplifying the pointlessness in materialism. Fitzgerald contrasts the extravagance within Gatsby’s parties with the ‘casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot’, suggesting the fruitlessness of materialism and the pursuit of materialistic possessions. This is further amplified in the chapter when Gatsby’s guests disregard him. Nick…
“Just standing here, old sport.” I felt relieved, at least I had a friend standing in this dark night with me now, I won’t be alone anymore like I was always be. Somehow, I know my face looks really vicious right now. I might be too worried about what happened tonight. Nick seemed to be frightened by me.…
In “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, he uses symbolism in such detailed way. Fitzgerald integrates symbolism into the book so well that it is necessary to read it several times to fully understand it. Maureen Corrigan quotes “Many of us first read it when we were too young to fully comprehend its power.” Even a critic on the book itself had to read the story many times to fully understand all that the book has to offer. Fitzgerald focuses on three main themes in “The Great Gatsby” they are time, loss of appearance, and perspective. Most of the book’s structure is in one of these categories. In order to fully understand the book, we must better understand these three themes.…
I personally enjoy that limitation since it forces the reader to think about what they just read and connect it to his story telling.…
"When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers" - Mark Twain…
In The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald uses magical imagery to emphasize the mysteriousness of Gatsby and his life. Gatsby is a character that no one knows much about. He throws glamourous parties in which most of the people invited have never met him. People make up rumors about Gatsby that no one can confirm or deny, such as the fact that he is an Oxford graduate, or that he once killed a man. Jay Gatsby lives luxuriously and most are jealous of him. They all want this version of the American Dream that they think Gatsby has obtained because they can only see what he shows them. As magicians often say, magic is all about misdirection. The magic of Jay Gatsby is misdirecting everyone from his former identity of James Gatz, a poor farmer from the midwest.…
Lavish parties are abundant all throughout the novel The Great Gatsby. Luxurious bashes thrown by Jay Gatsby attract the “foul dust” of East and West egg like moths to a lamp. Those in attendance at Gatsby's parties tend to be the elite scum of the earth caring for no one and nothing except their own personal social reputations. Two occasions are particularly relevant to the development of the novel; the consistently present soirees and Gatsby's funeral together illuminate the realities of the attendees values, develop the readers empathy towards Gatsby, and help uncover a deeper moral.…