The Great Gatsby Research Paper

In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby’s life is seen through the eyes of Nick Carraway. He had recently moved to West Egg, a peninsula off of Long Island. Next door lived an eccentric wealthy man named Jay Gatsby. Across the bay, his cousin Daisy lived with her husband in East Egg. Five years ago Daisy and Gatsby had met in her hometown and fell in love briefly before he had to serve in the war. With the arrival of Nick the two were reacquainted. Though many claim that The Great Gatsby was a tragic love story, it was actually a representation of the unattainable american dream. In the novel F Scott Fitzgerald uses Daisy as a metaphor of what Gatsby could never have and what he needed to complete his dream through the use of symbolism and diction.
He grew up in North Dakota with little to his name. “His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people” (Fitzgerald 98). Since he was a young boy he had dreamed of having wealth and power. “His imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all. He saw big things for himself and he strived to make them come true. However, his aspirations struggled against the hard truth of reality. Although Gatsby does achieve the wealth and power he wished to have, no matter how much money he had, he would always be considered “new money” and the A recurring motif in the novel was the use of colors to