The Great Gatsby And Daisy

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F. Scott Fitzgerald came to American literature as a writer of Jazz Age, a short period in American history, which began shortly after the end of the First World War and ended with the onset of the Great Depression of the thirties. Today, that time period seems colorful: the rise of jazz music, luxury cars, brilliant fashion, loose of morals, gangsterism, and America’s unprecedented prosperity. However, it is only one side of the medal, Jazz Age was not like a festival at all: post war generation felt empty, exhausted and lost, enormous wealth contrasted sharply with the abject poverty. There was no more confidence that life is based on a solid foundation. People began to think that it is needed to simply adapt to the rhythm of the age …show more content…

Despite Gatsby’s actions are full of romantic intentions, they are all based on the purpose to show off, to prove the woman he thinks he loves that he deserves her. His large house, his luxury cars and clothes, his huge parties are all the attributes of the life style Gatsby always wanted to achieve. Even when he meets Daisy, he tries to impress her with material things, and he is successful in this, as “Her voice is full of money” (Fitzgerald 128). Daisy is a typical rich woman of her era, she is with Tom because he is rich, she likes Gatsby more than Tom, as he is also rich, but ready to do anything she wanted, while her husband has a mistress. She is confused about her feelings, because she probably cannot love sincerely, as she would never give up her wealth for the sake of love, and she confirms this fact when betrays Gatsby. She and her husband are the symbols of corrupted elite of the Jazz Age, while Gatsby represents the uselessness of wealth, status, and the emptiness of the concept of American dream, as neither his success, nor his beautiful attributes of luxury life could not make him …show more content…

It is not accidentally that Fitzgerald carefully describes the wealthy houses of Gatsby and Daisy and Tom Buchanans, their cars, parties, dishes and many other details, and at the same time, he presents the overview of the valley of ashes which is completely different from the rich world. Two opposite places are different in terms of the level of life, but similar in the desire to have fun while it is possible. Still, this opposition provides the understanding that the prosperity of the USA is just an image as well as the dry law which brings opposite results. It becomes clear why people like Gatsby so desperately try to reach the elite. Moreover, Gatsby and his surrounding are described with the bright epithets like

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