Following a move to the French Riviera, Fitzgerald completed a rough draft of the novel in 1924. The novel was inspired by a youthful romance Fitzgerald had with socialite Ginevra King, and the riotous parties he attended on Long Island's North Shore in 1922. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan. The fact that the novel ends with Gatsby 's murder and the slipping relationship between Gatsby and Daisy, the realization that goes through here, with Gatsby kissing Daisy, with her lips blooming like a blossom, is by all accounts the negative connotation and expression of the American Dream in the 1920’s.The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. This specific section focuses to the ‘glorious’ ways of Gatsby, the abstract image of him and his actions reflection upon himself that help support the title "The Great …show more content… In spite of the fact that the symbolism gave in the above section is delightful and sentimental, with the walkway "white with moonlight" and the cool climate and "calm lights," the message Fitzgerald is trying to pass on is a discouraging point of view.
In the section of chapter 6 pgs 117-118 Fitzgerald expresses literary craftsmanship that suggest abstract ideas such as Gatsby’s image, relationship with Daisy, and the unrealistic dream of Gatsby. Fitzgerald’s effective use of literary elements such as symbols, imagery, and diction amplify his abstract craftsmanship into the novel and its integrated ideas. As well as characters for expressing the high society’s corruption of that time along with their morals and lifestyle. Fitzgerald uses characters like Gatsby to express the ‘American Dream’ and its flaws and lies.
In F.Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, the American 1920’s are accurately presented on the social and economic aspects of life.
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