The Great Gatsby is a novel narrated by nick caraway, who was once gatsby’s neighbor who tells the story after 1922 when the incident about the book took place (Long & Emmet, 1). Hence this paper tends to analyze the themes and symbols that are displayed in the novel “the great Gatsby," and the message conveyed.
The Great Gatsby is a story of the dissatisfied love between a man and a woman. The main idea of the book entails a much less romantic space. However, the setting of the book takes place over a few months in the summer of 1922 in a circumscribed location in the environs of the long island. The story of the great gatsby is an excellent symbol of meditation in the 1920s in entire America. However, the decline of the American dream in times of extraordinary success and material wealth.
Fitzgerald demonstrates the period of the 1920s as the period of rotten social and ethical values that are identified in predominant skepticism, empty pursuit of pleasure, and greed (Scrimgeour & Gary, 75). The thoughtless jubilance that resulted in the corrupt associations and wild jazz music that is characterized in the great Gatsby. By the lavish parties that Gatsby throws every Saturday night led to the impunity of the American dream as the unrestricted craving for money and desires outshined more decent objectives. At the end of WWI, most of the young men who had battled in the contest were very disillusionized as the heartless bloodshed encountered made the Victorian social, ethical values of the American to be like empty hypocrisy and stuffy in the early twentieth century.
Fitzgerald is seen placing the characters as the signs of these collective inclinations. Nick and Gatsby are thought to have battled in WWI, and they portray the established cosmopolitanism and skepticism that was as a result of the war and the different determined risk-takers who happen to show up Gatsby's events identify the desirous battle for riches. The rattles amid “the old and new money” is seen displaying itself in the play.
The sociology of richness is mainly on how the current cast millionaires of the 1920s v
ary from an associate to the past nobility of the state’s noble people. In the novel, West egg and its residents signify the recently rich, as the East Egg and its residents more so tom and daisy tend to portray the past aristocracy (Kerr & Frances, 405-431). "Fitzgerald tends to demonstrate the freshly wealthy as being flashy, vulgar, ostentatious, and the deficient of the social elegances and taste. For instance, Gatsby is staying in an enormously beautiful mansion, the fact that he's driving an expensive car and is seen reluctant to take the social gestures of the hypocrisy of the Sloanes' request to have lunch. Hence this tends to be ironical to the past aristocracy of possession of taste, grace, and the elegance that is characterized by the Buchanan's exceptional home and the colorful dresses of Jordan and daisy.
In the novel, the valley of ashes amid West egg and New York comprises of along section of deserted land established by the throwing away of the industrial ashes (Scrimgeour & Gary, 75). The Valley of ashes displays the ethical and collective rot that results from the immoral quest of wealth as the rich treat themselves with respect for nothing but their liking. It also demonstrates the fate of the poor, for instance, the likes of George Wilson, who are staying in the dirty ashes and happens to lose their vigor as a consequence.
Furthermore, the green light is linked with Gatsby's hopes and goals for the future, of which he associates it with daisy. The green light tends to be connected with the American goals in Gatsby's desires for daisy as it demonstrates the generalized ideal.
