Great Gatsby
Throughout the twentieth century America as a nation has seen many social and cultural changes. From sock-hops to the sit-ins, out of all the decades, one of the most intriguing was that following WWI, the "Roaring Twenties". The electricity, corruption, wealth, and booze are all shown vividly and accurately in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby. The characters, throughout the story each represent a special symbolism of the culture of the age. The plot of this story shows a certain type of wholesome narrator, Nick Carraway, exposed to sleaze and deceit, whose life path was changed from a life among the rich and wealthy to a life of modesty and morals the moment he met Jay Gatsby. Nick Carraway is a young man, just recently out of college and the war, beginning a life on his own. The bond business is where he looks to earn his living, a beginning job where he has some hopes of moving up and gaining wealth. Carraway has come from a life of money, but is now setting out to make a life of his own, starting by renting a house in the area of West Egg, where the residents are of "new money" and lack the class and honor of the "old money" in East Egg. Upon moving into his new residence he observes his neighbor's extrav
After these events Nick comes to the complete realization that the wealthy were not the people he wanted to live his life with. Nicks sees while trying to arrange Gatsby's funeral that these people he had been with were exactly like he had first assumed, but didn't say. They were all superficial with little or no moral values. Nick begins to become more involved with the lifestyle when Gatsby starts to use Nick to get to his true love, Daisy. Idolizing his romantic lifestyle, Nick happily caters and follows Gatsby's requests. From this point, Nick sees things that he previously related to other people's lives, but now he saw them as part of his own. He had become a part of the daily corruption in the lives of the wealthy. Nick becomes accustomed to the idea of excess, he rides in expensive cars with Gatsby, he also indulges in hydroplane rides with him. What was the exception in everyday life for Nick had become the norm. Even though Nick has little wealth of his own, he does feel like the lifestyle is part of his. This first invitation was the first event that brought Nick into the unseen world of the wealthy, the world that he would become a temporary part of all the while continuing his movement away from it. Before Nick was formerly introduced to Gatsby he had visited his cousin, Daisy Buchanan, her husband Tom, and her friend Jordan Baker. At this gathering Nick was more just a guest in the world of the wealthy than a member of it. He saw the underlying chaos of their lives. He found out that Tom was having an affair with a woman from the city, while he was living with his wife and their child. Not only did Nick see a husband cheating on his wife, he saw that it was most likely that Dai
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Approximate Word count = 1163
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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