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Essay Galaxy - The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby
Doesn�t it always seem as though rich and famous people, such as actors and actresses, are larger-than-life and virtually impossible to touch, almost as if they were a fantasy? In The Great Gatsby, set in two tremendously wealthy communities, East Egg and West Egg, F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays Jay Gatsby as a Romantic, larger-than-life, figure by setting him apart from the common person.
Fitzgerald sets Gatsby in a fantasy world that, based on illusion, is of his own making. Gatsby�s possessions start to this illusion. He lives in an extremely lavish mansion. �It is a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool, and more than forty acres of lawn and garden.� (5) It models an extravagant castle with a European style. Indoors it h....
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