Great Gatsby Themes

The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby is a novel written by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald, in 1925. The novel is consumed of fictional characters followed by the fictional towns of West and East Egg in Long Island. The author, Fitzgerald, offers a variety of themes including; the roaring twenties, past and future, and financial class. Fitzgerald sets up his novel into different standards that each follow with their own disasters. By creating distinct social classes- new money, old money, no money. Set aside the different social classes, it reveals the story line that Gatsby is still in love with Daisy Buchanan. Fitzgerald does a great job telling the story of The Great Gatsby, giving a realistic insite of America during the 1920s.

The roaring twenties was the period that emphasized on jazz music, the flapper look, parties, and the large scale growth of technology and automobiles. Fitzgerald’s whole book portrays the roaring twenties and the new society look. Since jazz music was a huge hit in the 1920s; Jay Gatsby's parties were thrown weekly jamming out to jazz music. For instants the playing of jazz was explained in this line, “By seven o’clock the orchestra has arrived, no thin five-piece affair, but whole pitful of oboes and trombones…” Also another roarings twenties conception was that women were looked down upon and had less significance than man. Daisy says it herself, “I’m glad its a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little

Tom, Nick, and Gatsby’s houses define their level of wealth. The novel explains the high dollar house by saying, “we walked through the a high hallway into a bright rosy-colored space, fragilely bound into the houses french window…” Those who worked for their money were looked down on and those who were born into their fortune were considered higher in social ranking. This portrayed in the West and East Egg; for example, “I Lived at West Egg,the-well, the less fashionable of the two..” The West egg was the less fashionable area for the new money and the East Egg was for the old money higher social