Concetti Chiave
- The Great Gatsby, penned by Francis Fitzgerald in 1925, explores themes of wealth and social class during the Roaring Twenties.
- The novel is structured into nine chapters, providing a detailed narrative development.
- The setting contrasts between Manhattan's old wealth and Long Island's new wealth, separated by a desolate "vale of ashes."
- Gatsby, the protagonist, is a complex and tragic Byronic hero driven by his love for Daisy and his desire to rewrite the past.
- The story is narrated retrospectively by Nick, using poetic language enriched with literary devices like anaphors and oxymorons.
The great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby was written in 1925 by Francis Fitzgerald.
Structure
It is divided in nine chapters.
Setting
Time setting: The Roaring TwentiesPlace setting:
- Manhattan: (east part, where lived rich people who have inherited their money);
- Long Island (west part, where new rich lived: people who has earned their money.
To arrive to the other part they had to cross the vale of ashes, a waste, desolate land.
Characters
- Nick: he lives near Gatsby.- Jordan: dishonest and careless.
- Daisy: beautiful but empty.
- Tom: aggressive and full of prejudices.
The hero
Gatsby is a sort of Byronic hero: he has mysterious origin, is a lonely person, he’s very attractive, he seems hard but tender inside.He’s presented bit by bit: by parties’ gossips. He is introduced only in the third chapter: he is youth and good-looking. Gatsby’s dream is to delete the past and have Daisy back.He’s a tragic hero: he has a flow, Daisy.
He is a romantic hero: he sacrifices himself for an ideal.
He is ‘great’ because he is the only one who lives for something, the others are aimless, drifters and restless.
Style
The story is retrospective: Nick writes it when he is came back from the Middenwest.There is the first person narrator as an observer.
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