Every person has different characteristics, as everyone has different family background, which can make a significant effect on people’s characteristics. In addition, people’s properties can also represent their characteristics. In The Great Gatsby, the main characters, Nick, Gatsby and the Buchanans all have different kinds of houses and we can discover their social positions, lifestyles and personalities by their homes. Nick is the narrator of the whole book. He lives in the West Egg and he rents his bungalow in eighty dollars a month. He comes from the Middle West and wants to learn bond business in here. “My own house was an eyesore, but it was a small eyesore, and it had been overlooked, so I has a view of the water, a partial view of …show more content…
my neighbor’s lawn, and the consoling proximity of millionaires --- all for eighty dollars a month.” (Chapter one p5) According to Nick’s statement, we can find out that Nick is a middle class man who lives in West Egg but rents his house in eighty dollars a month. His house is not a mansion but only a bungalow and also is an eyesore, which does not look as sumptuous as the houses of the millionaires around him. They just ignore his bungalow. Nick’s lifestyle is not as lavish as the wealthy people who live in the East and West Egg a he is not rich at all. He sells bonds and earn money to pay for his bungalow, “ My house was the very tip of the egg, only fifty yards from the Sound, and squeezed between two huge places that rented for twelve or fifteen thousand a season.” (Chapter one p5) As what the quote shown that he rents his house in a very low price compared to those two mansions next to his house, so his lifestyle should be modest. On the other hand, Nick is also an observer as his house is being ignored by rich people.Also he is humble as his house is not as gorgeous as others’ houses. The Buchanans are Tom Buchanan and Daisy Buchanan.
They are really wealthy and live in the East Egg, which is a place where the wealthiest people live. “ Their house was even more elaborate than I knew at all. Their house was even more elaborate than I expected, a cheerful red-and-white Georgian Colonial mansion, overlooking the bay. The lawn started at the beach and ran toward the front door for a quarter of a mile, jumping over sun-dials and brick walks and burning gardens --- finally when it reached the house drifting up the side in bright vines as though from the momentum of its run. The front door was broken by a line of French windows, glowing now with reflected gold and wide open to the warm windy afternoon.” (Chapter one p6) This quote fully shows the luxury life that the Buchanans live. Firstly they are the higher class people in the society as they are really wealthy. Their house represents how rich they are and also express their social position. Secondly, their lifestyle are affected by the money they own and the house they live. They have a deluxe lifestyle because they always fly to another country before they settle down in The East Egg. Also Tom loves polo and his money is inherited, so he lives in a beautiful, grand house which must cost a lot but without having any financial crisis so we can know their lifestyle must be extravagant. Thirdly, They both are superficial, as the house in the East Egg can prove that. Their house is perfect and elaborate and …show more content…
this can shown that the house owners are come from the upper class and they really care about their public image and reputation. They feel prideful with their fancy house and want to show off how costly it is so in conclusion they are superficial, arrogant and prideful as well. In addition, their opulent also cover all their unhappiness as Tom has a mistress outside and Daisy knows it but she needs to be stuck with him so she doesn't talk about it. Jay Gatsby is a millionaire and lives in a enormous mansion, which is next to Nick’s house, located in the West Egg..“ The one on my right was colossal affair by any standard --- it was a factual imitation of some Hôtel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool, and more than forty acres of lawn and garden.” (Chapter one p7) His house is described by Nick on the book.
Obviously, it is a fantastic house though it doesn not located in the East Egg. This represents his upper class position as a wealthy man owns his own mansion. Gatsby’s lifestyle is kind of luxurious as well as The Buchanans because he always holds some parties in his mansion and everyone can come without invitation. Everyone seems to know him but not really know who he is. He is a mysterious person at the beginning of the book as there are lots of rumors about him. His home represents his ambition about money as it was huge and beautiful, also it expresses his belief with Daisy. He wants to stay with her and shows her his wealth. We can see Gatsby is ambitious by looking at at his
house. In conclusion, we can find out people’s social positions, lifestyles and personalities by their symbols. Houses are for people to live in and represents your daily life as people live inside. Therefore we can figure out their characteristics by looking at their houses and properties detailedly. .
Shannon L. Alder once said, “If you want to discover the true character of a person, you have only to observe what they are passionate about.” There are many ways to see the truth about a person whether it is through what they do or how they act. True colors often show when people least expect it and many would be surprised. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, “The Great Gatsby”, Tom Buchanan and Jay Gatsby may seem like very similar people, but there is more than meets the eye.
Tom and Daisy Buchanan had the good life and they also had an enormous house. Their social class was high and they were rich because Tom had “bought down a string of polo ponies from Lake Forest,” (Fitzgerald 10). This indicates that he had a vast amount of space to take care of the horses and have a stable to keep the horses. This also identifies that the Buchanans have been living a luxurious life style with “a string of polo ponies” (Fitzgerald 10) and this explains that they can maintain all of the horses tha...
He rents a house in the West Egg district of Long Island surrounded by newly rich people. Nick is happen to see the garish display of wealth by his next-door neighbor a mysterious man named Jay Gatsby, who lives in a colossal Gothic mansion. Nick plans to meet his cousin Daisy Buchanan, and her husband, Tom, a former classmate of Nick’s at Yale, who belongs to the reputable upper class society in the East Egg, a fashionable area of Long
Upon arriving in New York, Nick visits his cousin, Daisy Buchanan, and her husband, Tom. The Buchanans live in the posh Long Island district of East Egg; Nick, like Gatsby, resides in nearby West Egg, a less fashionable area looked down upon by those who live in East Egg. West Egg is home to the nouveau riche people who lack established social connections, and tend to vulgarly flaunt their wealth. Like Nick, Tom Buchanan graduated from Yale, and comes from a privileged Midwestern family. Tom is a former football player, a brutal bully obsessed with the preservation of class boundaries. Daisy, by contrast, is an almost ghostlike young woman who affects an air of sophisticated boredom. At the Buchanans's, Nick meets Jordan Baker, a beautiful, if boyish, young woman with a cold and cynical manner. The two will later become romantically involved.
“The Great Gatsby” was a extremely sophisticated novel; it expressed love, money, and social class. The novel is told by Nick Carraway, Gatsby’s neighbor. Nick had just moved to West Egg, Longs Island to pursue his dream as a bond salesman. Nick goes across the bay to visit his cousin Daisy and her husband Tom Buchanan in East Egg. Nick goes home later that day where he saw Gatsby standing on his dock with his arms out reaching toward the green light. Tom invites Nick to go with him to visit his mistress Mrs. Myrtle Wilson, a mid class woman from New York. When Nick returned from his adventure of meeting Myrtle he chooses to turn his attention to his mysterious neighbor, Gatsby. Gatsby is a very wealthy man that host weekly parties for the
Firstly, Tom and Gatsby both live opulent lives in Long Island, New York. Tom lives in East Egg, while Gatsby lives in West Egg. East Egg is the area where the old monied, upper-class, and highly respected people live. Whereas, West Egg is a community where the nouveau riche and self-made people
Gatsby yearns to be part of the high society, but, in reality, he is an outsider to his social class. An important note for this is that he is a very wealthy person and has an expensive mansion, yet he lives on East Egg, while the “real” high society people live on West Egg. Near the end of the novel, Nick showed the reader that he was one of Gatsby’s only real friends; it showed when Nick was one of the only three people that attended his funeral. Nick seems to be more or less the only one who cares about him after his death.
he has always wanted. And Daisy, the woman that Gatsby has always wanted. never gets, lives on East Egg. There is also a barrier of water between the two cities that keep people like Daisy and Gatsby apart from one another. and keeps them from reaching their goals and what they want in life.
East Egg is home to the more prominent established wealth families. Tom's and Daisy's home is on the East Egg. Their house, a "red and white Georgian Colonial mansion overlooking the bay" with its "wine-colored rug[s]" is just as impressive as Gatsby's house but much more low-key (Fitzgerald 11)(13). East egg and Tom's home represents the established wealth and traditions. Their stable wealth, although lacking the vulgarity of new wealth, is symbolic of their empty future and now purposelessness lives together. The House also has a cold sense to it according to Nick. This sense symbolizes Tom's brutality, and as Perkins's says in his manuscript to Fitzgerald "I would know...Buchanan if I met him and would avoid him," because Tom is so cold and brute (Perkins 199).
In the setting of the novel The Great Gatsby, Gatsby’s Mansion is where it’s taking place throughout the whole story because Gatsby started out as a poor boy helplessly in love with a rich girl named Daisy. In the story of The Great Gatsby, Tom says “...was a colossal affair by any standard - it was a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy and a marble swimming pool, and than forty acres of lawn and garden. It was Gatsby’s mansion...” (Fitzgerald 5).
Who builds his own wealth and therefore builds his superiority. With a lack of family wealth and self-earned fortune, he represents the opposite from Tom and Daisy Buchanan. While the Buchanans seem to live without goals or ambition, Gatsby has a one track mind – to become wealthy to win back Daisy. Fitzgerald shows Gatsby’s ambitions with the schedule of his daily activities written in his childhood novel (Fitzgerald 164). Gatsby’s father say to Nick “It just shows you…[He] was bound to get ahead. He always had some resolves like this” (Fitzgerald 164). This quote is what separates the East eggers (old money) from the West eggers (new money). Gatsby has earned his social superiority through his drive and ambition. The house symbolizes Gatsby 's upbringing from a poor farm boy to a rich, wealthy New Yorker. His flashy and superficial personality comes from the importance he puts on material items. “[an] imitation of some Hôtel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side,…a marble swimming pool, and more than forty acres of lawn and garden” (Fitzgerald 11), all suggest Gatsby 's desire to be perceived as
Tom and Daisy are "old money", rich and from old established families living on East Egg, which the millionaires inhabit. The East symbolizes fashionable life, sophistication, the "modern society" and the land where anything can happen. This is the world of brutality, corruption, carelessness, materialism and failure of emotion. By moving to the East, the Buchanans lose contact with the deeper values. They are superficial, aimless, irresponsible, empty and lonely. They have no desires, their talks are meaningless and their spiritual values are forgotten or dumped.
Within the debate on who is to be crowned the “Great American Novel,” a valid factor that may be taken into consideration is how ideals in culture become altered with an evolving environment, and therefore, the argument can be made on the behalf of The Great Gatsby to be considered for the title. Due to its more recent ideological concepts, the novel addresses American ideals that are not fully developed or addressed at all within The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. These ideals can be boiled down to primarily two concepts: the fully-developed American dream of richness and upper-class goals, and consumerism in the industrialization of America. While Mark Twain’s piece touches on the “American dream” with Huck beginning the book off with $6,000
He is portrayed as someone that is physically built well and is immensely wealthy . Through these two characters we get learn in their era, what exactly was culturally acceptable. Readers will usually find out that social status is extremely significant to The Great Gatsby and Things Fall Apart, as well as the importance of a male figure.
Movies can enhance the experience of a story, but they aren’t always completely accurate to the book. The movie, The Great Gatsby, by Baz Luhrmann, is a good representation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel; however, there are quite a few differences between the two. Some differences include; the portrayal of the characters, the importance of symbolism, and events that were either added or taken out of the movie.