Fitzgerald wrote this second memo while stealing time from what became his other big flop for MGM, a screen adaptation of the Clare Boothe Luce play ”The Women.

The Last Tycoon

Fitzgerald was influenced by writers such as Jon Keats and Joseph Conrad. He is most similar to Keats through his simultaneous use of “romantic lyricism” and “realistic determinism” in his work (Blazek). The poetic nature of Fitzgerald’s work is evident in his carefully crafted character and setting descriptions.

• The Great Gatsby (1926, 1949, 1974, 2000, 2010)
• The Beautiful and Damned (1922, 2010)
• Three Comrades (1938)
• Gone With the Wind (1939)
• The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)
• Tender is the Night (1962, 1985)
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• Bernice Bobs Her Hair (1976)

The Great Gatsby can be considered a tragedy in that it revolves around a larger-than-life hero whose pursuit of an impossible goal blinds him to reality and leads to his violent death. While Gatsby’s criminal behavior is self-destructive, his tragic refusal to see reality ultimately leads to his death.

In The Great Gatsby, Daisy and Tom Buchanan are most responsible for Gatsby’s death.

Nick links the American Dream to Gatsby’s love for Daisy, in that both are unattainable. He did not know that it was already behind him.” In the end, then, both Gatsby and America are tragic because they remain trapped in an old dream that has not and may never become a reality.

Scott Fitzgerald, I believe that Jay Gatsby is described to try really hard to make others happy, his failing to do so is what eventually leads to his depression. His depression and lack of guidance through his life is what indirectly leads to his death. In this book Gatsby tries hard to please and make Daisy happy.

Gatsby wanted was the past back with Daisy. Remember the past is the past. Jay Gatsby is diagnosis with Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

Also, it should be noted that though Nick was in a sanitarium, he wasn’t “crazy.” He was diagnosed with things such as anxiety and depression. Speaking of which, The diagnostics list and suggestion by the doctor to “write it all down” was wildly historically inaccurate for the ’20s or ’30s.

In one of the film’s stupidest choices, Nick ends up in a sanitarium after Gatsby’s death. His pure heart is so repulsed by the cruelty and corruption of the city that he is driven insane. In the book, though, Nick doesn’t see Tom Buchanan and Daisy as decadent.

Nick Carraway Honest, tolerant, and inclined to reserve judgment, Nick often serves as a confidant for those with troubling secrets. After moving to West Egg, a fictional area of Long Island that is home to the newly rich, Nick quickly befriends his next-door neighbor, the mysterious Jay Gatsby.

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Nick Carraway

Nick is the narrator, but he is not omniscient (he can’t see everything), and he’s also very human and flawed. In other words, he’s an unreliable narrator, sometimes because he’s not present for a certain event, other times because he presents the story out of order, and finally because he sometimes obscures the truth.

We call these narrators, or any narrator whose words can largely not be trusted, “unreliable narrators.” Nick Carraway is not a classically unreliable narrator, because Fitzgerald gives no indications that Nick is lying to the reader or that his version of events directly contradicts anyone else’s.

Critics interested in the role of Nick Carraway as narrator in The Great Gatsby may be divided into two rather broad groups. The majority position is the traditional one: Nick is considered quite reliable, basically honest, and ultimately changed by his contact with Gatsby.