Essay On Homes In The Great Gatsby

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Homes in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Home a place where we all feel safe and secure a spot where we can find peace, a warm and welcoming place, where we can hide from the rest of the world and where we become a king or queen of our own world. Each home have their own story and just by going through someone’s house or even hearing about their home we can have a good first impression of the owner. You can tell what kind of personality does the owner have just by their home are they clean or messy, do they like luxury or maybe they are in poverty, do they like things big or do they prefer smaller items and so on. “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald a book that uses characters homes to illustrate their position in society, lifestyle or even their personality. The author shows us how somebody’s living place is a reflection of the owner. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel homes of three important personas are displayed with quite some detail. The homes of Daisy’s and Tom’s Buchanan’s, Nick Carraways and main character Jay Gatsby’s.…show more content…
His mansion represents a typical starter house of an upcoming or new rich person, because it was built to look as if it was built a long time ago even though it is newly built. Trying to make the house look older then it is also indicates that Gatsby is trying to make a name for him self and pretend that he belongs in the West Egg community of “new rich”. Having such a huge mansion you could imagine Gatsby had a huge family or lots of friends but that was not the case. His home most of the time was empty, only during the weekends when Gatsby held his grand parties the entire neighborhood would come to visit, but not because they were friends with Gatsby they came just to have fun. The big, grand mansion can lie about its owner’s social position, like in Gatsby’s case, he was quite lonely and
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