Essay - The Great Gatsby the Era of the 1920's from Which...

The Great Gatsby

***** era of the 1920's from which The ***** Gatsby emerges is a time ***** partying and debauchery. Immediately, the audience is thrown into this world through the eyes of Nick—the quite unreliable narrator, as he describes the hero, Jay Gatsby. Nick doesn't like ***** very much, for the most part, because he is jealous of Gatsby's wealth, and wary of how he might have acquired it. Thus, t***** ***** certainly can't trust Nick's description ***** Gatsby, ***** ***** is a poisoned well.

Though Nick ***** G*****tsby live in the same wealthy part of Long Island, known as the West Egg, *****y come from very different backgrounds. Nick is educated at Yale, and has family connections on the more fashionable East Egg of long Island—th***** is, Tom and Daisy Buchanan, his cous*****s. ***** wealth, on the other hand, is newly-acquired, and Nick is suspicious ***** how—with good reas*****, as it *****s from bootlegging alcohol.

***** ***** ***** introduce Nick to a beautiful woman named Jordan, who, after fashioning a sort of rel*****tionship with him, tells him Tom is having an affair with a ***** from a poorer ***** ***** town named Myrtle Wilson. At about the ***** time, the audience learns that Jay Gatsby and Daisy have a sort of *****tory between them, and roots for Gatsby, the seeming underdog to win out in the end. ***** is truly in love with Daisy, while ***** seems ***** see her as a trophy, ********** continues his ***** with Myrtle.

***** night, while driving Gatsby's car, ***** accidentally hits and kills Myrtle, who runs into ***** road, thinking that it is Tom driving the car, as she had seen him driving it earlier in the story. Though ***** accident ***** Daisy's fault, Gatsby plans on taking the blame because he is so in love ***** Da*****y. Thus Tom ***** Myrtle's husband ***** it is Gatsby who has killed his wife, and ***** the end, Myrtle's husband kills Gatsby ***** of *****.

The most important aspect of this story seems to be the notion of the separation of class. The true rich live in the East Egg. The newly rich live in the West Egg, and the poor live ***** the valley ***** ashes that lies *****tween. Gatsby was a poor m*****n who ***** hoped to live the American dream by pulling himself up by his bootstraps, ***** making something of himself, that he might win ***** love of t***** woman he has adored since his y*****h, but was *****o poor to be w*****h. In the end, he is essentially punis*****d for wanting to make something of *****. Rising ***** ***** "ashes," so ***** speak, and becoming a m*****n of means in order to get the girl of his **********, ***** ***** end, kills him. F Scott *****itzgerald seems ***** want the audience to—if nothing else—have empathy ***** the people in ***** *****'s position. ***** we underst***** his dream, and root for the