The United States of America is often referred to as the land of endless possibilities, where everyone can achieve everything. The belief in the so-called American Dream, which gives the people a sense of hope that includes the opportunity for economic prosperity and success, was...
The American ethos is people can create their own lives and attain happiness. America, the new world, represents a person’s opportunity to recreate one’s self and deny past ties. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses his novel, The Great Gatsby, to explore how the American dream is...
In this novel there is lots of reflection on symbolism, and especially colored symbolism. In this novel symbolism is a very important factor, it shows us the difference between the different characters and scenes in the novel. The color green influences the story a lot....
F. Scott Fitzgerald uses a range of techniques in The Great Gatsby to explore the idea that it is often the most unlikely people who display acts of heroism. Many of the characters in the novel show stereotypical characteristics, but act contrary to what is...
The American dream is a concept that anyone could make it in America and achieve their dreams (whether its wealth, love or stature, ect.) if you work hard enough to make it happen. In The Great Gatsby taking place in the roaring 20’s the author...
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, T.S Eliot, Ernest Hemmingway, and John Steinback are some of the most famous authors from “The lost generation of writers”. It was usually said that the lost generation of writers marked the first ripened body in literature to arrive from...
“I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. “ (Fitzgerald 187) Carelessness in the era of the 1920’s was a common characteristic, that was mainly apparent in the upper class and their actions....
The settings of The Great Gatsby and how they are illustrated by F. Scott Fitzgerald’s use of imagery, are the underlying elements to the formation of characters and the overall plot development of the novel, and operate to challenge or cement my understanding of the...
The aspects of the American dream have changed in every time period and every person, as one might want rich while the other wants love. The book “Into the Wild” by Jon Krakauer, is about a young man who wanted to go against the grain...
The 1920’s was a decade that celebrated the end of World War I and was centralised around the prosperity of the economy and the individual. Scott F. Fitzgerald’s novel ‘The Great Gatsby’ (1925) is at its core, a tragic love story that embodies society’s manifestation...
When one is unable to cope with the implications of one’s previous actions, they often create false illusions. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story, “Babylon Revisited”, takes place in Paris during the beginning of the Great Depression. Charlie Wales, who made his fortune by shorting stock,...
Money, success, and happiness seems to always be interconnected to each other, especially within the American Dream. Remarkably, the American Dream used to encompass comfort, freedom, and opportunity. However, as America became prosperous, the American Dream gradually transformed into the idea that happiness is contingent...
‘The American Dream’ is an ideal which states that every man, woman and child should have equal opportunity to be prosperous and achieve the highest possible goals; this principle is supported by the United States Declaration of Independence, which states that ‘all men are created...
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is an essential piece of American literature. While writing about events that were occurring in America in the Roaring Twenties, Fitzgerald included many themes and issues that are timeless and universal. The period was marked by many technological,...
In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and the play Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, both authors use their characters’ living space, the house, as a metaphor for the attainability of the American Dream of security, wealth, and happiness. In...
Baz Luhrmann takes a unique approach in his film adaptation of the novel, with the same name, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. With blockbuster stars such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, and Joel Edgerton, Lurhmann’s Gatsby does an interesting job of tackling the socioeconomic structure of...
The American Dream has always captured the interest of people. It can be defined as a belief in the opportunity to be able to prosper and have success in all areas of a person’s life. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald demonstrates how the...
In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, as Jay Gatsby delves into his pursuit of wealth and need for materialism, his hopes and aspirations become shattered in a world of unobtainable and unreachable possibilities. While Jay Gatsby confidently believes that material excess will ultimately bring...
The Great Gatsby In the novel ‘The Great Gatsby’, the author F.Scott Fitzgerald uses ideas to show the nature of society by dividing the characters into 3 different social classes: old money, new money, and no money. The author leaves a powerful reminder to the...
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, “The Great Gatsby”, is one of the few novels he wrote in 1925. The novel takes place during the 1920’s following the 1st World War. It is written about a young man named Nick, from the east he moved to the...
The protagonist of Fitzgerald’s tragic novel, The Great Gatsby, is that could not use his millions to buy true happiness. The story of Jay Gatsby is a made up lifestyle in which he spends all of his life living the so called “American Dream”. Gatsby...
In literature, color conveys powerful messages, expressing underlying themes when words fail to do so. Recognizing symbolism is an essential part of understanding any literary work. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s American masterpiece The Great Gatsby, colors are used to develop the characters and theme in...
The film Wadjda directed and written by Haifaa Al Mansour explores the cultural orders that perpetuate gender segregation in Saudi Arabia. The film achieves this by following the experiences of an ambitious young Saudi girl, Wadjda, who questions the country’s misogyny with everything she does....
Throughout F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterwork The Great Gatsby, the remarkably capricious character of Daisy Fay Buchanan succinctly epitomizes the ideas of aristocracy and superficiality so readily present in the hedonistic society of the roaring twenties. Regardless of whom she associates herself with, Daisy, through her...
F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American short-story writer and novelist famous for his depictions of “The Roaring 20’s” (Britannica, 2018). Through the novel being set in the 1920’s, highlighting a social class where people were considered “rich” in East egg, “less fashionable” in West egg...
Within T.S. Eliot’s “The Hollow Men” the influences of society and how it can affect the general personality of the public is reflected in Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Countee Cullen’s “Yet Do I Marvel”. Eliot uses the contradiction of hollow and stuffed men to...
In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story, “Babylon Revisited,” the theme appears to be transformation and redemption. Charlie received a wakeup call when the stock market crashed and he was, or it was alluded to, being treating for alcoholism. He returns to Paris, the stomping ground...
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby has been hailed as one of the greatest literary works of Modernism. The Great Gatsby set the tone for the movement that defined American literature in the early decades well into the present day. The characters of The Great...
Introduction “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…”....
F. Scott Fitzgerald writes The Great Gatsby as a manifestation of the literary Inferno, a metaphorical world filled with a lack of grace and love. For example, the relationships throughout the book are marred with romantic affairs and the victimization of women. Furthermore, these connections...
Novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and short story writer
Notable Works
The Great Gatsby (1925)
Tender Is the Night (1934)
Date
September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940
Activity
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American novelist, essayist, short story writer, and screenwriter. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age — a term he popularized.
Works
“Tales of the Jazz Age”, “Tender Is the Night”, “The Beautiful and Damned”, “The Crack-Up”, “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz”, “The Great Gatsby”, “The Last Tycoon”, “This Side of Paradise”.
Themes
Fitzgerald is famous for his depictions of the Jazz Age (the 1920s), especially in his novel The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald conveyed in The Great Gatsby the sense of hope America promised to its youth and the disappointment its youth felt when America failed to deliver. This is a common theme in Fitzgerald’s work. Other common themes in his work include society and class, wealth and materialism, and romantic idealism.
Influence
As one of the leading authorial voices of the Jazz Age, Fitzgerald's literary style influenced a number of contemporary and future writers.[399] As early as 1922, critic John V. A. Weaver noted that Fitzgerald's literary influence was already "so great that it cannot be estimated."
Quotes
“Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
“Human sympathy has its limits.”
“You’ll understand why storms are named after people.”
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