The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald - 1645 Words

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic American novel â€Å"The Great Gatsby† is a consummate summary of the ‘roaring twenties’ and a devastating show of the ‘Jazz Age’. Nick Carraway Chasing his own American Dream, lands next door to a mysterious, party-giving millionaire, Jay Gatsby young, handsome, and remarkably rich always seems alone in the crowd, watching and waiting although no one knows what for. Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the super rich, their illusions, loves and deceits. As Nick bears witness, within and without the world he inhabits, he pens a tale of impossible love, incorruptible dreams and dynamic tragedy, and holds a mirror to our own modern times and struggles. The novel also reveals the moral failure of a society†¦show more content†¦Among them, the West Egg is the less fashionable of the two, on which live Nick and Gatsby. Across this courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along t he water, on which Tom and Daisy live their carefree and lazy lives. The two Eggs represent a difference of social class, while the bay symbolizes a tremendous gap between the two which will never be able to come together as one. Although only a bay separates them, the differences between the two eggs could not be greater. As well as representing old and new money, the two Eggs also represent the ideas of living in the past and present. East Egg epitomizes how Daisy and Tom both live with old world ideas and an old fashioned way of thinking. As a result of this, they refuse to move on into the west where new, exciting things are. West Egg tells us how Gatsby and Nick are living in the present, trying to be ideals of today s society, and so having the greatest and most extravagant possessions. We know, through this, that the west eggers live in the future and aren t afraid to move on in life. Gatsby and Daisy live on different eggs and this means that the come from entirely different social backgrounds. Gatsby and Daisy, before the war had a fling but when Gatsby moved on to fight in the war, Daisy met Tom and married him as she knew Gatsby wasn t wealthy like Tom. Daisy