Jealousy

Jealousy is a very common thing in the Great Gatsby. Jealousy is the feeling that you get when you really want something that another person has. In the book, there are plenty of jealous people, and this jealousy makes people do things that they normally wouldn't do. The jealousy between Tom and Daisy is very prominent in the book. Tom is married to Daisy but he is also having a relationship with Myrtle Wilson. Myrtle Wilson is also married to George, and he doesn't know of her secret relationship with Tom. Myrtle is very jealous of Daisy because she married Tom. Daisy knows about their relationship but she doesn't do anything to stop it. Tom pretends that his affair doesn't effect his relationship with Daisy.

Jay Gatsby is a very rich man and he becomes jealous very easy as well. He is mostly jealous of Tom because he married his dream girl, Daisy. This jealousy causes Gatsby to throw huge parties every week hoping that one day Daisy would come to one. This seems odd because in the book it says that Gatsby doesn't even like to party. In the book, the Great Gatsby, it is obvious that many people are jealous of other people's spouses and their lifestyles.

Even though Nick doesn't show his jealousy, he can also get jealous as well. I believe that he is jealous of Gatsby's riches. Since he lives right next door to him, he probably wishes he can have a nice house like that. Gatsby has a good way with woman and money so I think that Nick can get a little jealous because of this. This shows that jealousy can be portrayed in many different ways. In the Great Gatsby, people's jealousy can be either bad or good. However, many people's jealousy can go for the worse in this book.

The Great Gatsby- F. Scott Fitzgerald

Selfish People

There are many selfish people in the book "The Great Gatsby". Pretty much every person in the book can be considered selfish for some kind of reason. Even Gatsby can be selfish sometimes. Gatsby is selfish because he doesn't care how Tom feels about his relationship with Daisy, and how it can effect Tom. Daisy is also very selfish because she doesn't care how her husband, Tom, feels about her relationship with Gatsby. There are plenty of selfish characters in this book. All they care about is themselves, and they don't seem to care about other people's worries or thoughts.

Personally, I think that Gatsby is the most selfish person in the book because he has a big sum of money and he can use it to his benefit. Gatsby's dream in the book is to find Daisy and try to renew their relationship together, but he is being selfish because he knew she was married and he didnt't even think how it be if Tomwere to find out about them. If Tom were to find out then there would be even bigger problems. Instead of sharing his wealth with other people, he only spends it on parties and entertainment, instead of helping the poor and doing other nice things.

Gatsby isn't the only jealous person in the book, Tom also doesn't care about how Daisy feels even though she knows that he is cheating on her. I also think that Myrtle is one of the most selfish people in the book. She has a loving husband who works hard in a garage shop all day to help pay for her, but she doesn't even appreciate him. She also doesn't care that Tom is married to a woman that loves him for who he really is. Myrtle doesn't care about her husband's feelings because she doesn't even care if he catches her cheating with someone.

Great Gatsby: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Unrequited Love

The defenition of unrequited love is when one person has strong feelings towards another that are not reciprocated. In the story the Great Gatsby, an example of unrequited love is between Tom and Daisy. Daisy married Tom just for his money basically. Tom doesn't have much of any feeling for Daisy because he has a mistress girl that lives in New York who he goes to visit once a week. Tom never has her come to his house, he always is the one traveling up to New York to see her, and it's usually on Sunday's because he says he has nothing better to be doing.

Mr. and Mrs. Wilson are another example of unrequited love. Mrs. Wilson is having her secret affair with Tom who is cheating on Daisy. Mr. Wilson was oblivious to all the clues and signs that were poitning to Mrs. Wilson having an affair. Tom would come down to the repair shop and talk to Mrs. Wilson, they would then secretly make arrangements of where to meet up to be together away from Mr. Wilson. Tom never felt threatend by Mr. Wilson finding out because he didn't think he was even smart enough to catch onto what was going on.

Many of people have to deal with unrequited love now a days. Alot of people marry there spouse just for the money or extra's they have. Sadly this will usually eventually lead to a divorce. Alot of people are attracted to this life style though because they are to lazy to work and would rather just marry into a rich family and not have to do anything.

Source: http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-unrequited-love.htm

"The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Old vs. New Money

In the book, the Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the term "old money vs. new money" as a way to contrast two different types of people. The people who live in East Egg, like Tom and Daisy Buchanan, are portrayed as the "old money" type of people. Unlike them, Gatsby and the people of West Egg are known as "new money". The definition between the both is pretty self explanatory, meaning that the old money people have been rich their whole life, and the new money people just recently became rich.

Throughout the story, we always hear people make remarks about the people known as new money and old money. Tom relates the the new money people as a bunch of bootleggers who just recently fell into a big load of money. He suspects that Gatsby is a bootlegger because he knew that he just earned his wealth, and he didn't grow up being very rich. Nick doesn't believe this because he admires Gatsby and he still thinks that he was related to very rich people from the past.

The way that F. Scott Fitzgerald talks about the old money people is that they are very stubborn, and have no morals. They are very selfish people, and they don't care for anybody else except their own wealth and riches. These are the people who have been raised by rich families and they will constantly be rich through their whole life. They have no idea what it means to actually work for money and everything is handed to them. There is a big difference between the old money and the new money people. The way they earned their money and the way they spend it is what distinguishes them.

Dan Cody

Dan Cody is a character who in the story plays a huge role in Jay Gatsby's life. Dan is not really mentioned at all throughout the whole story except in chapter six where he is introduced. He is the one who is really credited with getting Jay his job after getting out of the war.

Dan Cody and Gatsby became friends with each other back when Jay was working in Lake Superior, digging for clams and fishing for salamon. Gatsby had heard that there was a big storm that was coming towards Lake Superior, so Gatsby got in his boat and rowed out to a yacht to warn the man that there was a storm coming. That man happened to be Dan Cody, Dan invited Gatsby onto his yacht. After that they were bestfriends, Jay was now Dan's personal assistant and they were working together a whole lot. James and Jay were so close as friends that Dan had convinced Jay to change his name to Jay Gatsby, because prior to that his real name was James Gatz.

Dan Cody was living the ultimate life and Jay really wanted to live the same lifestyle as him. Dan had eventually passed away, and when he did he left Jay $25,000. So that gave Gatsby to find away to make easy money. Once this started, Gatsby got into the whole bootlegging buisness. In the 1920's when prohibition had occured getting alcohol was a serious topic, so Gatsby did just that. So with all of Gatsby's sucess most all of it can be credited towards Dan Cody.

Women of Gatsby

There are three main women characters in the Great Gatsby, and they are Daisy Buchanan, Jordan Baker, and Myrtle Wilson. Daisy is Nick Carraway's cousin, and she is also the woman that Gatsby loves. Daisy grew up in Louisville, and that is the place where she met Gatsby before the war started. She had promised Gatsby that she would wait for him while he was at war. But after a while a man named Tom Buchanan asked Daisy to marry her, and she decided not to wait for Gatsby after all. She lives in East Egg with Tom and they have a very wealthy lifestyle. Daisy has a habit of putting on a fake act in order to cover up her true feelings.

In the beginning of the book, Jordan Baker was introduced as Daisy's good friend. Jordan is known to be very good at sports, especially golf. She was actually accused of cheating in a recent golf tournament. She is also said to be a very dishonest person. Throughout the story, Jordan starts to develop a relationship between Nick after Daisy suggests the idea to her. Jordan represents one of the new women of the 1920s. She is cynical, boyish, and self-centered.

In this book, Myrtle Wilson is the women that is having an affair with Tom. Not only is she having relationships with Tom, but she also has a husband named George Wilson, and they both live in New York City. Her husband has no idea that she is being unfaithful in their marriage. She enjoys drinking alcohol and her manners are a little off. She is a big loud-mouth and everything seems to be revolved around her. In chapter 7 of the book, she gets hit by the car that Daisy and Gastby were driving and she died from impact.

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The Men of Gatsby

In the story “The Great Gatsby” there were three main characters, Nick Carraway, Jay Gatsby and Tom Buchanan. Each character has their own special trait and main role in the story. The first character I will introduce is the narrator of the story, Nick Carraway. Nick says that is family is very prominent, and they all come from the Middle Western cities. Nick’s dad owns a hardware business that had been inherited from Nick’s grandfather. Nick had lived in the East Egg for a long time, but eventually he decided to move to the West Egg and pursue the bond business. When Nick moved to the West Egg he purchased a very small house that was squeezed in between two huge houses, one of them being Jay Gatsby’s house. Nick is slowly starting to hang out with Jay more and more. He is said that Nick and Jay may soon be business partners.

Another very important character in the story is Jay Gatsby. Gatsby is a very strange character. At the beginning of the book you really don’t hear much about him and everything seems to be very secretive with Gatsby. We know Jay has a very big house that is right next door to Nick Carraway. Gatsby has really big parties and has hundreds of people come over, most of who he doesn’t even know of. Jay had invited Nick to go have lunch with him and that really was what started the whole friendship between them. It is later discovered the Gatsby’s real name was James Gatz. As the book goes on Gatsby was really starting to grow fond and slowly flirt with Tom’s cousin, Daisy Buchanan.

The last important character in the story is Tom Buchanan who is a very wealthy man. Tom is married to Daisy who has a thing for Gatsby. Tom and Daisy are always fighting. It is believed that they want to get a divorce but are not allowed to do to their catholic religion. Tom has a very arrogant personality. He is known to have some anger issues and has had some violent encounters with other characters. Tom also is having an affair with another one of the characters Myrtle. Tom has no respect, and doesn’t care what he says or people think of him. He does not try to follow any kind of conduct at all.

East Egg vs. West Egg

East Egg and West Egg are very identical and are seperated by a body of water. There are two major differences between the two and that is the so-called "old money vs. new money" concept. In the Great Gatsby, East Egg is known to be the old money and West Egg had the reputation of new money. The similarity between the two eggs is that they both have a love and a desire for money, but the difference is how they got the money and the way they used it.

East Egg is known to be the more fashionable and elite of the two. Since they are said to be the old money, this means that they have always had a large sum of money. The people who settle in East Egg have lived in rich families or have been apart of wealthy traditions for their whole life. Tom and Daisy are a good example of this, because they grew up with extremely wealthy families. These people are known to be very rude, with little personality. They are very selfish people and all they think about is their riches and personal needs. The East Eggers are so spoiled that they literally don't have to do anything, and they would still be completely covered with money.

Unlike the East Eggers, the West Eggers have not been rich their entire lives. They are newly rich. These people of West Egg have worked very hard to earn everything they have. They weren't spoiled like East Eggers, and they actually had to work for their money. Like Gatsby and the rest of the West Eggers, they are known as new money because they recently received their riches, and they didn't grow up in wealty families their entire lives. I believe that West Egg represents more morality of the two because nothing was given to them and they had high hopes and dreams to get them where they were.

http://www.bookrags.com/essay-2006/5/23/94857/9061

Mafia vs. Gangsters

Mafia's had first emerged in Sicily. They are an association of criminal groups who share the same dislikes in something. Mafia's are alot bigger than gangs and they have a full structure to them. They had a boss then under him an under boss, Caporigeme, then solders, and under the solders associates. Mafia's put alot of structure together and are formed together very securely and everyone is assigned a position unlike gangs.



Gangs have been present in the world for as long as there have been inhabitants dating back to 1200 AD. Gangsters are well known to have hand signals and their own kind of slang. Gangs were slowly starting to become well known in low income neighborhoods. Gangs tend to form in large urban cities such as Los Angeles and Chicago. As drugs were increasingly getting imported to the United States gangs were now turning into a business type gang, and violence was dramatically increasing.



With a comparison between Mafia's and Gangs, it is known that a gang tends to be alot smaller in size compared to a mafia. Also Mafia's are much more organized and have a structure to them. Gangs are more just a group of people who say that they are a part of the gang and they don't have to do very much to get into the gang.

Source on Gangsters: http://www.gripe4rkids.org/his.html
Source on Mafia:http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Structure-of-the-Mafia&id=1480883

The Green Light

The Green Light is one of the most important symbols in the book. The green light represents Gatsby's hopes and dreams for the future. Gatsby relates this symbol with Daisy because he is in love with her and he hopes to be with her in the future. In Chapter 1, he reaches toward the green light in the darkness to reach his goal. Because the green light is representing the American Dream, it symbolizes a more general ideal.

Source: The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota. He first started writting stories in the St. Paul Academy where he published his first book in 1909. Fitzgerald went on to enter Princeton University in 1913, but once he failed to become a football star he dropped out in 1917 due to poor grades. Right after he dropped out of Princeton he joined the United Sates Army during World War 1. Fitzgerald did not get shipped off and was not able to fight in any kind of battle.

In 1918 Scott met his future wife Zelda Sayre, and in 1919 landed a short lived job with an advertisment company. As years past he started to grow in a serious amount of debt and to make times harder Zelda discovered she was preganant and they went on to have the baby in 1921.

Scott Fitzgerald's next book he wrote was The Great Gatsby. This book did not make him much money at all, but on February 2, 1926 at the Great Ambassador Theater, they released a dramatized version of the book. The success of the play allowed them to make an actual movie on The Great Gatsby which too became very sucessful.

After the huge sucesss from the Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald was travling bacl and forth from Europe and America writing numerous books.

Scott Fitzgerald had been struggling with a severe alcohol problem since his college days. He kept suffering from multiple heartattacks due to his alcoholism. Sadly on December 21, 1940, Francis Scott Fitzgerald died before he was able to complete his book The Last Tycoon.

Source:

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/fsfitz.htm

The 1920s

The period of the 1920s was a time of celebration. The biggest thing in this era was the new and hip jazz music. Everybody loved dancing to this new style of music at jazz clubs. Radios were by far the best thing of the 1920s. The 1920s also started the invention of sound movies. There was plenty of great things that happened in this time period. The popular dances of the 1920s were the Charleston, the Fox-trot, and the shimmy. People attended dance marathons for fun on the weekends. Another big thing of the 1920s was the radio. People listened to the radio everyday to hear jazz music, sports games, and live events. One of the most popular musicians was named Louie Armstrong, or the King of Jazz. The movies were also one of the biggest things. The start of the 3-D movies and sound movies began to come out in the 1920s. The 1920s was also a huge breakthrough in medicine and science. Penicillin and the discovery of insulin for diabetics was founded in the 1920s.



The 1920s had plenty of entertainment to offer. For example, people started to attend more and more movies. Also, women started to play a big role in the 1920s society. A women name Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming became the first women to be elected as a governor of a state. Even though all these great things were happening in the 1920s, they would soon reach a downfall at the end of the decade. The stock market crashed on October 29, 1929, causing the Great Depression for the United States. This day was known as Black Tuesday. More than 16 million stocks that day became pretty much worthless, and that left many people homeless and penniless. The 1920s seemed to be such a great era, and who knew that it would only take two weeks to ruin an entire decade

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Flappers

The flappers started a brand new revolution for women in the 1920s era. They didnt want to live the ordinary life of an everyday women, so they turned to different styles of clothing, makeup, and hairstyles. At this time, this style was very inappropriate to many groups of people. In the Roaring Twenties women were starting to have more rights, and this may have contributed to the rise of the flappers. Also, Prohibition could of started the rise of flappers because they wanted to rebel the act of forbidden alcohol.

These women were known to be risk takers for all of their crazy acts. These flappers listened to new types of jazz music and they performed new dances at jazz clubs. Flappers dated more men and they didnt treat sex the way women used to. They had sex more often with guys that they were not in relationships with. Women of this era started to drive cars and ride biciycles. Despite the Prohibiton, they still drank out in the public. Flappers also started to smoke cigarettes and they started to experience other drugs such as cocaine.

The flappers were best known for their new sense of style. In the 1920s they introduced a more boyish look. These women showed more skin by wearing short skirts and they cut there hair very short to make it look more boyish-like. They also wore an ample amout of makeup on their faces. Kohlin rimmed eyes and bee-stung lips made the flappers so different from the ordinary woman. They also came out with layered necklaces and horn-rimmed glasses. High heels and short dresses were the flappers attire when it came to dancing at jazz clubs.

http://www.life123.com/beauty/fashion/flappers/flappers-of-the-1920s.shtml

PROHIBITION

Prohibition was a period during the 1920's when the

United States outlawed the sale, manufacturing and transporting of alcohol. This was created because after the American Revolution drinking was on the rise tremendously. Wives liked this new movement cause they felt their husbands would now stop spending their families income on alcohol.

The Volsted Act was then passed that clarified the 18th Amendment that stated that "beer, wine or any other malt or vinous liquors is illegal."

This period of time opened up a new form of gangsters. The most popular one being Al Capone, an American Gangster from Chicago. The gangsters would go and hire men to smuggle in alcohol from either the Carribean or Canada. They would then open up secret bars called "Speakeasies" where men would secretly go and drink and socialize with friends.

In 1929 the stock market crashed severly. People and the goverment were starting to look at Prohibition differently. The people were in need of jobs and the goverment needed money. So they realized that legalizing alcohol would create more jobs for people and create sales tax for the goverment. On December 5, 1933 the goverment ratified the 18th Amendment and created the 21st Amendment stating that alcohol is legal again! The 18th Amendment is the only Amendment to ever be repealed.

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