Works Cited

Citation: Aldifianto, Islam Fickih. PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF JAY GATSBY AS SEEN IN FITZGERALD’S “THE GREAT GATSBY”. Diss. Universitas Mataram, 2015. http://eprints.unram.ac.id/11672/1/Islam%20Fickih%20Aldifianto.pdf

Annotation:

  • This study was made to show the psychological analysis of the conflict of Jay Gatsby. The study found that shame and love are some of the main conflicts and reasons why Jay Gatsby does what he does.
  • This study will be used as support for my argument since I want to talk about the internal battle Gatsby faces himself. The conflicts serve as a way to show that Gatsby did an internal battle and what it cost him.

Quotes:

  • “Gatsby’s struggle to overcome the problems that he faced represent the humans effort to solve of his own problem in order to achieve and accomplish his dream and desire in his life”
  • “Two basic internal conflicts… we learn that his shame of his class. His parents were only a farm workers and they were not very successful. This is the first indication of shame conflict.”
  • “…he was a child and did not accept of being poor”

Citation: Braudy, Leo. Conclusion: The Dream of Acceptability.” The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History. New York: Vintage, 1997: 592-93. Print.

Annotation:

  • This book explores the relationship between fame and the audience. Braudy says how the celebrity is at the hand of the storytellers. The celebrity is a story about a person, but they also have another side of them that is not totally defined by the story.
  • This book is where I got my inspiration for making the topic I want to talk about. The unexpressed and expressed selves are the basis and main point I want to get across, which is why this book is a good choice.

Quotes:

  • “The famous person is thus not so much a person as a story about a person”
  • “the famous person also holds out the possibility that there is another self inside, one not totally defined by that social story”
  • “the talked-of self and the unexpressed self”
  • “In one view, the famous exist on a solitary eminence; in the other, it is part of the audience’s story about itself.”

Citation: Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940. The Great Gatsby. New York: C. Scribner’s sons, 1925.

Annotation:

  • This novel depicts the interactions between the narrator, Nick Carraway, and the mysterious wealthy man Jay Gatsby. The novel additionally consists of Jay Gatsby trying to reunite with his past lover Daisy Buchanan even with obstacles in the way.
  • This novel is what I made the argument over entirely, specifically Jay Gatsby. I plan to use this novel entirely throughout my essay and back it up with other support from different authors.

Quotes:

  • “Can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can!”
  • “The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
  • “Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.”

Citation: Grande, Per Bjørnar. “Desire in The Great Gatsby.” Anthropoetics: The Journal of Generative Anthropology 21.1 (2015). http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.734.4945&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Annotation:

  • This essay explores desire in The Great Gatsby using analysis and research about the characters. The author goes into detail about parts of the characters’ lives and describes how these stories were about desire. This essay also uses Reńe Girard’s Theory of Desire to describe these stories.
  • This article gives me more insight into why Gatsby does what he does. It is a way to understand more about him and look at him in a different light. I will use this as support for my argument.

Quotes:

  • “despite his fantastic ability to hope and no matter how hard he tries, he cannot change his past and he cannot change other people’s pasts.”
  • “Gatsby is in control of that which is new and he owns everything which is desirable.”

Citation: Murakami, Yosuke. “The Great Gatsby as a Critique of the Self-Made Man.” The scientific report of Kyoto Prefectural University. Humanistic science 34 (1982): 39_a-29_a.

Annotation:

  • This essay talks about Jay Gatsby as critique of a self made man. The author uses analysis to describe how Gatsby critiques himself as a self invented man and what his delusion of a self-made man was.
  • This essay has very strong points about Gatsby and his delusion of starting over. It is very similar to my argument of repeating the past and comparing the two arguments would be beneficial.

Quotes:

  • “Self-realization may lead to a dangerous delusion that one can become what he wills to be.”
  • “what Daisy loved was not the true Gatsby, but a fictitious Gatsby.”
  • “…Gatsby was acutely conscious of his self-creation means that his life was characterized by discontinuity and fragmentation.”
  • “He obviously felt that he could at any time remove himself to a new soil and begin again.”

Citation: Sawant, Sanika. “An Illusive Reality.” ITHAKA 2019-20 DICHOTOMIES: 6. https://naac.xaviers.edu/publications/ithaka-journal-2019.pdf#page=16

Annotation:

  • This essay exposes the illusive reality faced by many. The author proposed that Gatsby serves as a hyperreality or an illusion because he is projecting the man behind the illusion which is James Gatz.
  • This is very similar to my argument. This author talks about the illusion of who Gatsby tries to make himself out to be. This is similar to my argument of who he is and who he makes himself out to be.

Quotes:

  • “Jay Gatsby represents not only the American Dream but also a hyperreality or an illusion.”
  • “Jay Gatsby is a projecting image of the man behind the illusion, James Gatz.”
  • “Gatsby is not but Gatz’s attempt at achieving his desires and aspirations by fabricating the truth and presenting it as his reality on a silver platter.”
  • “failure in separating the authentic from the fabricated.”
  • “much like how the falsehoods of his persona are soon unearthed”

Citation: Wojnar, Magdalena. “The bottle of whiskey–a second one–was now in constant demand by all present”: Alcohol Consumption as Cultural Capital and Part of Habitus in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby.” (2020). https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1527719/FULLTEXT01.pdf

Annotation:

  • This essay investigates the status of alcohol in The Great Gatsby. Its main focus is talking about the alcohol-consuming upper-class Americans and how alcohol is seen in these societies. However, it also talks about how Jay Gatsby is an imposter of the elite society.
  • While alcohol consumption may have an effect on who Gatsby really is, I do not think it is because of his consumption. I do believe that Gatsby is different from other people in the upper class and others recognize Gatsby as an imposter which supports my argument.

Quotes:

  • “Jay Gatsby intends to remain sober, however, alcohol consumption’s superior position within the society makes it impossible to remain among the hierarchy. He will always be an imposter”
  • “Drinking alcohol is seen as a valued, cultural capital among the elite society and used as a tool in a competition of power.”

Works Not Cited

Citation: Clayton, Jack. The Great Gatsby. Paramount Pictures, 1973.

Annotation:

  • This movie is an adaptation of the 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby. The 1973 movie tells the story of Jay Gatsby from Nick Carraway’s perspective and shows slight differences from the 1925 novel.
  • I plan to use this as a way to give more insight into Jay Gatsby and a way to compare similarities to the 1925 novel. This will be a way to support my argument and give more information about my argument.

Quotes:

  • “Rich girls don’t marry poor boys, Jay Gatsby. Haven’t you heard?”
  • “I was raised in America but educated in Oxford. That’s a family tradition.”
  • “Summer’s almost over. It’s sad, isn’t it? Makes you want to -I don’t know- reach out and hold it back.”
  • “I’ve never seen such beautiful shirts before.”

Citation: Luhrmann, Baz. The Great Gatsby. Warner Bros., 2013.

Annotation:

  • This movie is an adaptation of the 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby. Even though it is very similar to the novel, it is also slightly different. It shows Jay Gatsby and other characters in a different light and gives a different perspective.
  • With its extra details about Gatsby, I think it can be good to offer a new perspective of him and compare/contrast with the 1925 Gatsby.

Quotes:

  • “You can’t repeat the past.”
  • “Can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can.”
  • “I knew it was a great mistake for a man like me to fall in love.”
  • “I didn’t want you to think I was just some nobody.”