Fitzgerald Essays

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, the narrator Nick Carraway’s loss of innocence and growing awareness is one of the significant themes. Nick moves to West Egg, Long Island, an affluent suburb of New York City, where millionaires and powerbrokers dominate the landscape, from his simple, idyllic Midwestern …

Although Dexter’s dream parallels to that of the American Dream, Fitzgerald presents this idea of idealism in a negative sense, saying that in reality achieving this dream is impossible. The American Dream can be defined simply as the American ideal of living a happy and successful life. However each person has …

The 1920’s have been referred to as a ‘Reckless Year’. F. Scott Fitzgerald showed through his writing that the 1920’s was all about Prohibition, Speak-Easies, new Automobiles, victory abroad, popular fads, and new wealth. That about sums it up; a decade of great recklessness in Social, Political, and economic areas …

What do you think About the View that there are No Women in ‘The Great Gatsby’ With Whom the Reader Can Sympathise? On first looking into the novel ‘The Great Gatsby’, anyone who read it shallowly enough would find it near impossible to be able to sympathise with any female …

“This isn’t just an epigram–life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.” (Fitzgerald 4). This Novel is like an exceptionally elongated poem. Poems are usually meant to be taken apart and analyzed because there are many ways to view it. The Great Gatsby is a …

Being careless can be defined as not showing or receiving care. The tendency to be careless is a quality that exists within human beings. It is possible to be careless about yourself and/or others. While too much care can be a problem, too little care can also prove to be …

Love is a powerful emotion that every human being has experience at least once in their life. There are numerous connotations that refer to this emotion, but there is only one kind of love that can make a person change completely in unexpected ways. It is the kind of love …

In the beginning of the book, The Great Gatsby, Nick could be described as the main character but as the book goes on Nick is having more of a secondary role, instead of the primary role which he was supposed to be. The Great Gatsby is shown through the eyes …

Great Gatsby- Key passage Analysis Key Passage He did extraordinary well in the war. He was a captain before he went to the front and following the Argonne battles he got his majority and the command of the divisional machine guns. After the Armistice he tried frantically to get home …

Sparknotes and Cliffnotes both assist a reader and can help students interpret literature at a more in depth level, and help improve understanding the literary elements, character developments, and plot development that a author uses to help create the story. Both sites provide similar information, ranging from overall plot summaries …