Gatsby) the cultural rift between East and West and the contrast between innocence and experience in the narrator's life. the Buchanans and the underworld lowbrows vs. Other motifs in the book include Gatsby's quest for the American Dream class conflict (the Wilsons vs. The discrepancy between Gatsby's dream vision and reality is a prominent theme in this book.
In fact, the triumph of Gatsby's legacy is reached by Nick Carraway's ruminations at the end of the book about Gatsby's valiant, however futile, attempts to regain his past love. Recognizes Gatsby's moral superiority to the Buchanans. By the end of the novel, the reader slowly realizes that Carraway is transformed as he The whirlwind pace of this post- World War I era is captured in Fitzgerald's Gatsby, whose tragic quest and violent death foretell the collapse of that era and the onset of disillusionment with the American dream. In the economic arena, the stock market boomed, the rich spent money on fabulous parties and expensive acquisitions, the automobile became a symbol of glamour and wealth, and profits were made, both legally and illegally. America at this time experienced a cultural and lifestyle revolution. His romantic illusions about the power of money to buy respectability and the love of Daisy-the "golden girl" of his dreams-are skillfully and ironically interwoven with episodes that depict what Fitzgerald viewed as the callousness and moral irresponsibility of the affluent American society of the 1920s. His ill-gotten wealth is acquired solely to gain acceptance into the sophisticated, moneyed world of the woman he loves, Daisy Fay Buchanan. Carraway reveals the story of a farmer's son-tumed racketeer, named Jay Gatz. In nine chapters, Fitzgerald presents the rise and fall of Jay Gatsby, as related in a first-person narrative by Nick Carraway.
These works examine the results of the Jazz Age generation's adherence to false material values. It is considered a vastly more mature and artistically masterful treatment of Fitzgerald's themes than his earlier fiction. In 1925, The Great Gatsby was published and hailed as an artistic and material success for its young author, F.
Scott Fitzgerald 1925 Introduction Author Biography Plot Summary Characters Themes Style Historical Context Critical Overview Criticism Sources For Further Study F.
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