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The Great Gatsby

Introduction

Jay Gatsby, who is the main figure in The Great Gatsby, is the mysterious host of lavish Long Island parties. Along with Huck Finn, he is one of the two most widely recognized characters in American fiction. Gatsby's history is provided by the narrator, Nick Carraway, who does not tell the story in chronological order. He documents the events in the life of the figure who is the subject of speculation as he learns them. Carraway acts as the moral gauge of the novel.

James Gatz, the son of a North Dakota railroad freight agent, is ambitious to escape his origins through his adherence to the American Dream of success; but his boyhood endeavors to become a self-made man in the Benjamin Franklin tradition fail. He had been a Lake Superior fisherman when he warned millionaire Dan Cody that his yacht was moored in a dangerous place and was hired as Cody's factotum (Endres, 2009). This was the point at which Jimmy Gatz became Jay Gatsby. Gatsby is a flamboyant, faintly ridiculous figure. He wears silver and gold shirts and suits.

Discussion

F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece of American literature, The Great Gatsby, holds a prominent place in both the secondary and the college classroom. While offering a portrait of the Roaring Twenties in America, Fitzgerald gives readers a story of love and intrigue and demonstrates the possibility of social class movement within the United States. Jay Gatsby, the story's central character, exemplifies the economic rise of a poor mid westerner to the heights of financial success (Fitzgerald, 2000). His life's goal is to recapture the love interest from his youth, Daisy Fay, a Kentucky native and former debutante, who is wealthy in her own right—and now married to Tom Buchanan. The novel concerns itself with the struggles of reinventing oneself to attain the dreams and pleasures of one's youth (Endres, 2009).

Discussion

Jay Gatsby, who is the main figure in The Great Gatsby, is the mysterious host of lavish Long Island parties. Along with Huck Finn, he is one of the two most widely recognized characters in American fiction. Gatsby's history is provided by the narrator, Nick Carraway, who does not tell the story in chronological order. He documents the events in the life of the figure who is the subject of speculation as he learns them. Carraway acts as the moral gauge of the novel.

Gatsby is a flamboyant, faintly ridiculous figure. He wears silver and gold shirts and suits; his speech is elaborately formal; his defining phrase is "Old Sport."

James Gatz, the son of a North Dakota railroad freight agent, is ambitious to escape his origins through his adherence to the American Dream of success; but his boyhood endeavors to become a self-made man in the Benjamin Franklin tradition fail. He had been a Lake Superior fisherman when he warned millionaire Dan Cody that his yacht was moored in a dangerous place and was hired as Cody's factotum. This was the point at which Jimmy Gatz ...