Essays on The Great Gatsby

Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby as a parody that remarks that remarks on the American standards during the 1920s. He shows the lack of regard of everybody during the time by depicting them in two communities East Egg and West Egg. One theme that we...

The American Dream is defined as the ideal by which equality of opportunity is available to any American, allowing the highest aspirations and goals to be achieved as well as an upward social mobility for the family and children, achieved through hard work in a...

“The Great Gatsby” written by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925) utilises the setting of the 1920s, the decade of transition. It was the period when traditionalism shifted to modernism. Concurring with the rise of modernism was prohibition and the advancements of technology. This led to society...

Set in America’s “roaring 20’s”, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a novel told through the eyes of a man named Nick Carraway. While showing what life was like in the 20’s, Carraway also gives insight to the lives of many people who...

The Great Gatsby is a popular novel that was written by Francis Scott Fitzgerald and is based around a long lost relationship between two old lovers and a new friendship that has bloomed as a result of it. This novel brings you back to an...

The word modern may be thought of something that is the most current form of something for example a new make or model of a phone, which is correct, but when talking about modernism the word, “modern” or “modernism” means something completely different. Modernism is...

In the 1920s during the Jazz Age in the United States, American literature grew. One of the best writers in the 1920s was Francis Scott Fitzgerald. Everyone called him F. Scott Fitzgerald. At this time, there were three Republican presidents in a row from 1920...