Category: Scott Fitzgerald

In The Great Gatsby, it happens in New York, plus the Valley of the Ashes represents the disparity between its occupants of West Egg and East Egg, regarding social standing and pay, besides on the grounds that the misery of neediness coming about because of the weakness of its occupants to emerge the financial stepping stool. Hence, the valley speaks to the disappointment of the Dream that America guarantees, which is the ideal of equivalent open doors for all, identified with the New World.

The job the East Egg versus the West Egg plays is significant all throughout the entirety of the novel. The East Egg, where Tom and Daisy Buchanan live, speaks to set up riches and legacy. Those living on the East Egg have consistently been rich and are unmistakable from their proud, materialistic mentalities. The extremely shallow, degenerate nature of the East Egg society is truly caught inside the novel as Nick depicts, ‘They were imprudent individuals, Tom and Daisy, they crushed up things and animals thus withdrew into their cash or their tremendous thoughtlessness, or whatever it had been that kept them together, and let individuals polish off the wreck they’d made’. The rich East Egg residents, while they need a plenitude of money, need conventionality, habits, and social refinement.

The valley is portrayed as a ‘barren’ place where ‘remains to develop like wheat into edges and slopes into odd nurseries’. Cinders that rule the world appear as regular greenery. The expression ‘bizarre nurseries’ utilizes similar sounding word usage, to highlight the odd blending of remains and greenery.

Remains are identified with death while edges and ‘gardens’ speak to the possibility of prospering and developing inside the guarantee and ideal of fairness as in ‘the trees that had cleared a path for Gatsby’s home, had once pandered in murmurs to the last and most noteworthy of every single human dream.’ The trees that after remained here had the option to address man’s fantasies, which insinuates America, the land ready to address man’s fantasies and limit with regards to ponder. This is frequently supplanted by dim debris that chokes out the occupants, limiting them to their financial class. This presents a distressing picture of the misery that encompasses the valley.

Also, remains to take the shape ‘of debris dark men, who moved faintly and right now disintegrating through the fine air’. The solid, frail developments demonstrate its occupants to be scarcely alive.

These men have the indistinguishable absence of life and essentialness as their environmental factors do. this is frequently observed inside the occupants of the valley. George Wilson, from the world-class rich, who have a silver spoon. Tom likewise asserts that Gatsby ‘tossed dust at you rather as he did in Daisys’, and might be supposed to utilize his bogus abundance to misdirect and befuddle Daisy and Nick into believing he’s somebody of their principles, which shows that Gatsby isn’t perceived joined of their group. This undermines the glitzy abundance identified with Gatsby, and along these lines the ideal of equity inside the yearning.

By investigating the actual site of the valley, trailed by the occupants of the valley – George and Myrtle, George speaking to the financial class and Myrtle about the exemption, stretching out this to the references of the valley to Gatsby’s modest inceptions, the Valley of the Ashes speaks to the low social versatility and furthermore the disappointment of the aspiration.

Ordinarily, we know about society’s impact on individuals; society impacts the manner in which individuals think and act. Scarcely referenced is the converse: people groups’ activities and ways of life influencing society as a whole and the manner in which it’s described. Hence, society could be an impression of its occupants and inside The Great Gatsby, it is a no man’s land depicted on the grounds that the ‘valley of remains.’ Since the characters of this novel structure up this no man’s land, would they say they aren’t the waste? Emblematically, this waste speaks to the deficient morals of the 1920s general public and progress rot. inside the Great Gatsby, ethical insufficiencies like nonattendance of God, childishness, and inertness are intelligent of a general public as bound as ‘the valley of remains.’

Assuming that the valley of cinders is in a real sense a valley tossed with remains, there emerge certain specialized concerns. Cinders are light and just blowing a couple of Sahara desert is anticipated, yet the residue storms Nick portrays are fairly manageable, conjuring up recognizable human pictures even the individuals who Wilson sees are delicate and fabulous. Maybe this state may accentuate the lack of progress, yet would even now neglect to represent the shortage of impact downpours have. A downpour would wash away the cinders, or at least make a large number, yet it neglects to attempt to thusly the valley of remains stays, neither overwhelmed nor washed enduring or some likeness thereof would need to ultimately cleanse the valley of its remains if an exacting understanding is held to.

They are, the eyes of God, continually watching and noticing the activities of everybody. Notwithstanding the established truth that Wilson probably won’t have the foggiest idea about the truth about Myrtle’s undertaking and passing, he realizes that ‘you can’t trick God’ since ‘God sees everything’. However, the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg represent the defilement seen through the roads of late York. moreover, the eyes represent the loss of profound qualities in America and subsequently the tricky conviction and disappointment of the desire. The announcement, practically like the significant estimations of America, is excused ‘as his eyes, diminished a touch by numerous paintless days, under sun and downpour, brood on over the grave unloading ground’.

At the point when Gatsby is first observed, he expanded his arms toward one green light, moment and much away, which may be the highest point of a dock. The green light that he seems, by all accounts, to be going after is the light on Daisy’s dock. In Gatsby’s youth, he had a sentimental relationship with Daisy.

Notwithstanding, he disappeared to war and when he returned she was hitched to a rich individual, Tom Buchanan. Gatsby deduced as far as he could tell that to win Daisy’s affection, he excessively needed to get well off. After he set up himself monetarily, he purchased a house straightforwardly over the water from Daisy and her green light. He connects Daisy with the green light, and it turns into a logo of her all through the novel. the general existence of Gatsby exists just in the importance of what the green light represents. Gatsby turns out to be so beguiled by the green light that it’s as though Daisy doesn’t exist. She turns into no sentimental dream inside the green light on the dock.

In this way, for my assessment, the valley of remains is a higher priority than any of the images, in light of the fact that the valley of cinders shows us that there is some awful stuff on the planet like the dim conditions such as a relative passed on or an auto collision or something. That resembles speaking to the cinders since the remains resemble a dim to a dark kind of shading. Life isn’t continually going to be all bright like a rainbow consistently. The Valley of Ashes instructed me to search for the great occasions rather than the awful occasions. At that point when the terrible occasions come around to search for the decency that emerges from it. Like in the book with the auto crash, Gatsby assumes the fault for Myrtle’s passing so Daisy doesn’t fall into difficulty, since it exhibits his certifiable love and worry for Daisy. Something kindness consistently emerges from everything and anything. It resembles taking a gander at everything as excellent speculation of what’s to come. Somebody uncommon I know instructed me that.

In The Great Gatsby, the Valley of the Ashes delineates the imbalance between its occupants of West Egg and East Egg, as far as social standing and pay, further on the grounds that the misery of destitution coming about because of the absence of its occupants to stand up the financial stepping stool. However, the valley speaks to the disappointment of the Dream that America guarantees, which is the ideal of equivalent open doors for all, identified with the New World. The valley is depicted as a ‘ruined’ place where ‘remains develop like wheat into edges and slopes into abnormal nurseries’. The expression ‘unusual nurseries” utilizes similar sounding word usage, with juxtaposition; to zero in on the odd matching of remains and greenery. Also, remains to take the state of ‘debris dark men, who move faintly and as of now disintegrating through the fine air’. These men have the indistinguishable absence of life and imperativeness as their environmental factors do. This undermines the glitzy abundance identified with Gatsby, and hence the ideal of fairness inside the fantasy. over and again we know about society’s impact on individuals; society impacts the manner in which individuals think and act. Assuming that the valley of cinders is in a real sense a valley flung with remains, there emerge certain specialized concerns. underline the shortage of progress, yet would in any case neglect to represent the lack of impact downpour has. They are, the eyes of God, continually watching and noticing the activities of everybody. that resembles speaking to the cinders since the remains are kind of a dark to a dark style of shading. The Valley of Ashes instructed me to appear for the extraordinary occasions instead of the awful occasions.

The 1925 novel, Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald follows an upstanding young man, Nick Carraway as he tells the tragic story of Jay Gatsby. Gatsby, a self-made millionaire, attempts to pursue Daisy Buchanan, a wealthy woman whom he loved in his youth. Fitzgerald creates an ‘artificial world’ where money is the object of everyone’s desire. Capitalism drowns the characters, the setting, and the plot, manipulating the morals of the constructs. The 1920’s therefore marked the time when capitalism and a desire for wealth overtook religion. In the novel, there are few, if any, characters displaying faith in God, the spirit, or principled ideals. It consists of disapproval towards religion and a lack of morality presented through tone, personification, and (something of structure) and utilizes characters such as Catherine, Tom, Wilson, and Gatsby to reveal the trends of living in modern society. The novel provides commentary on the social life of America in 1920.

The religious influence in ‘Great Gatsby’ was presented to be from the 1920s, also called the progressive age. It was a time when religious beliefs were challenged by capitalism and where religion was not dominant at all and rather it was looked down upon. Characters of the upper class who lived in East Egg have a noticeable lack of a godly presence in their time in the novel, Daisy and Tom Buchanan married couple have such a deep unethical understanding. It starts with the obvious fact throughout the novel: they’re both cheating on each other. Tom with Myrtle, Daisy with Gatsby. They both know they’re doing it; the immoral feature comes up from the wrongful act of adultery. More evidence against Daisy’s lack of spirituality is made with a comment from Daisy during one of Tom’s parties at the secret apartment, “she’s a catholic, and they don’t believe in divorce’. Nick then informs the reader, ‘Daisy was not a Catholic’. This is humorous in a way to read because Nick as the narrator is informing us of how every irreligious Daisy is by seeing through this simple lie. Catherine speaks of Catholicism in a disapproving tone, using it as an excuse for Tom’s refusal to abandon Daisy. She judges Daisy to be the ‘antagonist’ for not letting Tom divorce her when that is definitely not the case. Daisy’s lack of spirituality is highlighted when she cheats on Tom herself. Someone with a deep-rooted religion would not judge as Catherine does and would recognize that what Tom is doing is morally wrong. Through Nick’s perspective, we come to realize that religion is very truant from the construct’s lives. In this situation, religion simply serves as an excuse for Tom’s not accepting Myrtle’s marriage proposal. Tom’s case is different. Openly despises the idea of a god as he, ‘ exchanged of frown with T.J. Eckleburg’. Tom exchanges frowns with Eckleburg. Not only is this moment a sign of God looking down upon a decaying society who have disregarded good morals and religion, but it also shows us how Tom personally doesn’t believe in a God and has no morals himself. Tom’s frowning illustrates his disapproval of God and is even angry that anyone had the audacity to judge him. This can be seen as Tom’s condescending attitude to even God.

Set in Roaring Twenties, The Great Gatsby vividly captures the historical moment of the economic boom of post-war America, the new raging parties, and the free-flowing illegal liquor. As Fitzgerald describes it, the era was “a whole race going hedonistic, deciding on pleasure.’ It was an era where the morality of the people was changing as they began to now spend time and wealth on money-oriented treasures with a complete loss of religious direction. Religion had always been the foundation of many people’s lives, providing them with an ethical framework and enriching people’s morals, for the welfare of the individual themselves and the society at large. In ‘The Great Gatsby’, the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg symbolize god and the way traditional religion and morality disappear from everyday life. The only character that invokes God is George Wilson who expresses that ‘God sees everything.’ This statement holds all the characters to account through the eyes of T.J. Eckleburg. Nick, besides Wilson, is the only other character to recognize this allegation. He frequently describes the eyes as (YEE). The personification of the billboard in the lines giving human-like qualities to a divine entity provides relatability to the reader. This also presses overwhelming emotions of dejection onto the reader as ‘God watches’ his ‘children’ lose faith in him and live their lives with immoral standards. The fading yet dominant image of the ‘eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg’, who is explicitly identified as ‘God’ through symbolism, is also quite ironic. Wilson is shown to be a troubled hermit, standing outside the borders of traditional religion. He draws on his infatuation with an all-knowing and hypercritical presence in his married life to account for his manipulative and disciplinary attitude towards his wife. With an intent to provide comfort, when Michaels asks Wilson if he attends church, Wilson replies, ‘Don’t belong to any’. This suggests that Wilson doesn’t really have any value for religion in his life, and he merely uses it as a way to excuse his horrid behaviors. The only hope of a character who could have had some connection with god is now disapproved as his lack of connection with a church leads him to the rage that comes with wanting to kill Gatsby. This just comes to show you that the traditional ideas of God and religion are dead here and the American dream is direly corrupted. The fact that religion is absent among even the lower levels of society where there is a desperate need for hope and happiness, suggests that a moral standard is absent. This, in turn, generates and highlights the idea that capitalism and the desire for wealth have replaced faith and trust in religion.

**Instead of being guided by the moral precepts of religion or of God, a majority of the characters find other codes to determine their behaviors: a father’s advice, a self-serving mantra, a jaded viewpoint, or an undying love.

F. Scott Fitzgerald lived in an era that had a major change in morality. It was a time when it became more common to fight the traditional living aspects and grow older with the arising of flappers, constant threats of prohibition, accumulation of wealth, and disregard or a lack of empathy for others. The fact that F. Scott Fitzgerald almost completely excluded the presence of a god-like figure in his novel, creates a new standard of immorality in the characters. The characters in Great Gatsby serve as figures of privilege, people who see themselves as being unbound by standard morality. This is challenged when Myrtle is run over by a car and Gatsby is killed as a result. The elitism of the rich, in the end, is nothing more than an excuse for bad behavior. It does not protect them from the repercussions of immoral behavior. The example of Jay Gatsby is central to a discussion on the special morality of this group of people. Gatsby puts a great emphasis on achieving a certain dream of love. This dream is, in itself, pure. Yet, to achieve his goal of marrying Daisy, Gatsby must break up the marriage (between Tom and Daisy), effectively undoing two lives in order to make his own life. (YEE) Gatsby never doubts the validity of his position, morally or otherwise, and maintains confidence even in the end after Myrtle has been run over. He waits for Daisy to call. George Wilson comes instead as an arbiter of misplaced moral justice and Gatsby’s dream comes to an end. Jay Gatsby, the dreamer and romantic, is a liar and a criminal (as a bootlegger) and even Nick sees him as being a low sort of person at first. Regrettably, Daisy did not wait for Gatsby. She was more engrossed with wealth and the social power that came with it. So when Gatsby went to war, Daisy did not wait, rather she married Tom Buchanan who had lots of ‘old money’. Daisy serves as the mouthpiece of the society she lives in as she leaves a man she loved simply because she couldn’t be patient with him and because he didn’t have sufficient funds to support her lavish lifestyle.

The lack of a presence of a god turns the characters in Brick Gatsby into wrongful and truly immoral people with their actions and beliefs caused by this void in their lives. The theory of evolution and the desire for wealth and social standing have altered the way religion is perceived by the people. Due to the absence of religion, there is an observed decrease in the morality of the characters in Great Gatsby.

‘The novel paints a world of desolation and despair.’ How far and in what ways do you agree with this view of The Great Gatsby? I completely agree with this view everyone is in despair at some stage in the novel and everyone is depressed even if they don’t show it.

Myrtle and Wilson are an unhappily married couple, they live in a small rundown town. Myrtle is Wilson’s everything, he loves her so much and everything he does is to please her. Myrtle is having an affair with Tom Buchanan. Wilson does not know about this. Tom treats Myrtle very differently from how he treats Daisy, he treats Myrtle with no respect. Even though he lavishes her with gifts Myrtle is still not happy. Myrtle is in despair because she wants the life Daisy has, permanently. She will never be happy if she and Tom are only having an affair. Yes, when he looks after her she has a good life, but when they’re not together she goes back to Wilson and her life is dull again. “Myrtle Wilson’s face seemed purposeless and inexplicable until I realized that her eyes, were wide with jealous terror”

This is when the Buchanans, Gatsby, Nick, and Jordan all drive into town for the day. Myrtle sees Jordan in the car with Tom and instantaneously assumes that she is Daisy. I feel that this shows because she is extremely jealous. “Wide with jealous terror,” I think that she is feeling that she is losing Tom, and seeing “Daisy” makes her jealousy grow. She then despairs over these thoughts while she is locked in her little room.

With Daisy and Gatsby now having an affair Tom gets paranoid about whether she will leave him or not. When Tom sees how they act around each other Tom starts to worry more about whether Daisy will leave him and go and live with Gatsby. If she did, then he would have lost the main part of his life. “The immediate contingency overtook him, pulled him back from the edge of a theoretical abyss”

The “theoretical abyss” was the thought of Daisy and Gatsby having an affair. But then Tom, who had made some investigations into who Gatsby was, realized who Gatsby was and what he did and reassured himself that Daisy wouldn’t leave him. This thought still put him in despair because just the slight possibility of losing his wife made him feel that way.

Even though Tom and Myrtle is just an affair he really does care about her. This shows that deep down Tom does have a heart and he does care about his actions. “I heard a low husky sob and saw that the tears were overflowing down his face” Tom is crying because he has lost Myrtle. I feel that this shows that he really did care for her, otherwise, he would be unaffected by the death. The use of the adjective “overflowing” gives you a better idea of how much he was crying. I think that a small part of the tears could be tears of joy because now he doesn’t have to have an affair anymore and he can be faithful to Daisy.

Wilson is in complete despair when Myrtle is hit by the yellow car and murdered; he out of all the characters is in the most despair. He doesn’t have money or popularity to fall back on; the only good thing in his life was Myrtle. “Then would have collapsed to his knees had not Tom held him upright”

Wilson is in despair at the death of Myrtle, she was the one good thing in his life and he lost her. Wilson is weak, and “collapsed”, due to the fact that Myrtle is dead. He is depressed and sad. The way Fitzgerald writes this paints a picture in your head of how Wilson must look at this point.

In the novel Nick is probably the character that is in the least despair, he is living with and witnessing all the events that are taking place but he is not living them. This makes it easier for him to be happy, but he is alone. He has Jordan for a short while but he seemed to push her away. “I’d had enough of all of them for one day”.

Nick is in despair with all the other characters, because of their displays of selfishness and shallowness. I feel that Nick is the only character who isn’t obsessed with what others think of them or how they are seen in society. I can relate to how he is feeling at this time.

This is another point in the novel where Wilson is in despair. This is where he is worse off and it shows the consequences of the characters. He almost has to deal with everyone’s wrong and he is warily affected, along with Gatsby. “Wilson’s body a little way off in the grass, and the holocaust was complete”

This is another quote that shows Wilson’s despair. Fitzgerald uses “holocaust” which signifies a great destruction resulting in loss of life. When he says this I think he could be referring to the whole novel. Nothing good has come from anything; everything has only resulted in despair and desolation.

I conclude that the Novel Great Gatsby paints a world of desolation and despair. Everyone is in despair at one point in the novel. Some are more than others; I think that even though they can all be in a room together they are still all alone in life.