Great gatsby

In Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald showed us that one of the major topic explored in this novel is the sociology of wealth, especially how the newly minted millionaires of the 1920s differ from and relate to the old aristocracy of the country rich families, who had important names. In the novel, people who lived in West Egg represented the newly rich as Gatsby, while East Egg’s people, especially Daisy and Tom, represent the old money people. He portrayed the newly rich as being vulgar, gaudy, ostentatious, and lacking in social graces and taste. Gatsby, for example, lived in a monstrously ornate mansion, wears a pink suit, drives a Rolls Royce, and does not pick up on subtle social signals, such as the insincerity of the Sloanes invitation to lunch. In contrast, the old money people possessed grace, taste, subtlety, and elegance, epitomized by the Buchanan tasteful home and the flowing white dresses of Daisy and Jordan Barker.
Also the other major theme is American dream, which symbol is Gatsby’s Dream. Gatsby’s dream of Daisy and the perfect life he believes he could have with her. When Nick first met Gatsby, he is shocked to discover the man, who he thought is real



 

 
   
 
  
 
 
 
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The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg work in the same fashion, although their meaning is less fixed. Until George Wilson decides that they are the eyes of God, representing a moral imperative on which he must act, the eyes are simply an unsettling, unexplained image, as they stare down over the valley of ashes.

While reading Great Gatsby, I also found two important symbols, they are the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock and the eyes of Doctor T.J.Eckleburg. The green light is only a green light, but to Gatsby it becomes the embodiment of his dream for the future, and to lead him to his goal. He focuses on the struggle of human beings to achieve their goals by both transcending and re-creating the past. We can see that humans prove themselves unable to move beyond the past: in the metaphoric language used here, the current draws them backward as they row forward toward the green light. This past functions as the source of their ideas about the future (epitomized byGatsby’s desire to re-create 1917 in his affair with Daisy) and they cannot escape it as they continue to struggle to transform their dreams into reality. While they never lose their optimism,


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F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby, Arnold Rothstein, Daisy, Dream, Roaring Twenties, James Truslow Adams, Struggle, Fitzgerald,

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