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Great Gatsby is the epitome of the writer's motto "Write what you know." One does not have to look far to see that the story was inspired by elements of Fitzgerald's own life and surroundings.(2)
Those people who had acquired newfound wealth were Fitzgerald's neighbors in Great Neck, while Manhasset Neck across the bay was home to those who came from old money.(2)
More specifically, the unrequited romance between Daisy and Gatsby is reminiscent of the author's own relationship with both Ginerva and Zelda, women who were concerned with wealth and status, which a young Fitzgerald had not yet attained at the time of either courtship(2)
Nick is a character who is more than an autobiographical footnote. As a transplant from the Midwest who has not yet attained wealth and status, and as a second cousin of Daisy Buchanan and a resident of West Egg, he is both insider and outsider, and thus, his employment as narrator and the specific details of his background are supremely functional.(4)
We receive this assurance via his reflections on his father's advice:"whenever you feel like criticizing anyone...just remember that all people in this world haven't had the advantages you've had"(4)
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"after boasting this way oif my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit" At this point Nick is ready to tell it like it is. (4)
Meanwhile, all of the other characters remain ensnared in their own lies, deceit, and hypocrisy throughout the course of the story.(4)
The fact that all of the other characters are incapable of honesty lends credibility to Nick's observations, and thereby readers are made to pay closer attention to what he has to say.(5)
The view that Fitzgerald presents is remarkably thorough, inclusive of the era's grandeur, its excess, the sense of opportunity and possibility, and ultimate, its overwhelming failures (5)
one would have to revise this statement to that a major theme of The Great Gatsby** is the corruption* of the American dream, "corruption" being more accurate than "withering" (5)
Many people began experiments with hedonism, allowing themselves to put more focus on individual satisfaction and less focus on any moral or societal responsibility(6)
The residents of West Egg appear to be more refined (visually speaking), but they are also depicted as being more emotionally removed.
While Nick represents the recognition that innocence cannot be regained, Gatsby represents the unrelenting human desire to regain what has been lost by revisiting, and even repeating the past.(7)
The dialogue does more than hint at the characters' disregard for others, their selfishness, and their air of apathy when it comes to moral responsibility.(8)
"They were careless people...they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they made.(8)
Daisy, mother of young Pammy Buchanan, treats her daughter like an afterthought and at best like a doll.(8)
Despite their wealth, none of the characters are happy in their current circumstances.(9)
"The American dream, which used to be about attaining security for one's self and one's family and happiness, has been corrupted by people who money for money's sake, for status, and for other shallow and selfish reasons(9)
Although money infiltrates much of the story and much of the story revolves around social class, the story is about more. It is about greed, the instability of human nature, and the failed pursuit of a dream.(10)