The Great Gatsby is set among wealthy, educated people, who have lots of leisure time and little concern about people who are not in their social milieu. Nobody’s concerned about polit...
The Great Gatsby does not offer a definition of love, or a contrast between love and romance – but it does suggest that what people believe to be love is often only a dream. Gatsby thi...
America in The Great Gatsby is presented mostly through the scope of class: the rich, the poor, and everyone in between are identified by how much money they have. We see America in the micr...
In The Great Gatsby, wealth can be distinguished from class; it is possible to achieve great wealth without being accepted into the elite class, as evidenced by Jay Gatsby’s experience...
The Great Gatsby deals at great length with issues of the past, present, and future. In love with a girl of the past, Gatsby is unable to have her again in the present. He wants a future wit...
The Great Gatsby presents an array of characters dissatisfied with life. No one is happy with marriage, with love, with life in general, and they all destroy the lives of others in seeking t...
Isolation in The Great Gatsby is not the same as being alone. Although the characters are always in the company of others, the isolation is an internal one, stemming from their inability to...
The Great Gatsby culminates in death; one accidental death, one murder, and one suicide. Death takes all forms in Gatsby, including the metaphorical. By creating a new name and life f...
The Great Gatsby questions marriage as representative of love and loyalty. The two marriages we do see here are marked by adultery on the part of one or both spouses. One begins to wonder if...
The Great Gatsby gives us a glimpse into the gender roles of post-WWI America. Gender roles are in part decided by societal roles, as Tom’s upper class masculinity (strength, intimidat...
In The Great Gatsby, education is a must-have for the socially elite. For the most part, characters in The Great Gatsby are well-educated – this is reflected by their speech and...
Deception is a nearly universal trait in The Great Gatsby. While our narrator claims that he is "one of the few honest people" he has ever known, we come to doubt even his integrity. The cla...
The characters in The Great Gatsby all show a unique combination of a willingness to forgive and a stubbornness not to. Gatsby is willing to forgive Daisy’s marriage to another man, bu...
The fact that religion is absent among the upper echelons of society suggests that a moral standard might also be absent – as much is borne out by characters’ actions. When God does app...
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