A free short essay about the great gatsby

CENTRO UNIVERSITÁRIO METODISTA IPA
LETRAS INGLÊS
LITERATURAS EM LÍNGUA INGLESA II

Professor Elaine Indrusiak

A free short essay about The great Gatsby: a world of ideas.

Fábio R. Gutterres Fernandes

Porto Alegre, RS.
November, 2007.
Introduction

It is easy to talk about a piece of art. You can find many reasons everywhere to explain your point of view and the point of view of the author. But, on the other side, it becomes difficult to talk about something that was already exhaustively discussed by the literary critics all over the world. So, you have to challenge your mind and discover new things about the masterpiece.
The great Gatsby is exactly this kind of work and the aim of this paper is an attempt to show new opinions about themes and subjects contained in the book written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925.
For a better understanding of this work I would recommend a careful reading of the book first, for those who still have not read. Even though the book was written almost ninety years ago, its issues are very present in our lives today. The story is set in the United States but I would dare to say that it is a picture of the modern society from every western country in the world. The manners, values, gestures, principles and imperfections are the same everywhere. For sure, that is what makes The great Gatsby so fascinating for those who read it. In my short analysis I will try to point some the of main points, like the attitudes of some of the characters, the settings, the consumerist values of the time, a little about the historical and political context and a short description about some characters, contrasting their virtues and flaws.

A free short essay about The great Gatsby: a world of ideas.

As one of the most important novels of its time, The great Gatsby is considered a great literary document of the jazz age, a period right after the World War I. Many conclusions can be taken from the reading because there is a