The Great Gatsby: Fitzgerald’s Psychoanalytical Therapy
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterful depiction of the Jazz Age through the book of Great Gatsby was really his way of wearing his heart on his sleeve to survive the 1920’s greed. He deals with the injustices of his surroundings by putting them directly in his stories. “Gatsby surely represents one of Fitzgerald’s trials of self, an incomplete one, however, in contrast with the less dramatic experience of Nick (Hanzo). Fitzgerald uses his life experience and frustration, to portray himself through the characters of Jay Gatsby, and Nick Caraway, and Zelda Fitzgerald as Daisy Buchanan.
In the novel, Gatsby is characterized as a mysteriously wealthy, extravagant figure. Gatsby actually comes from a “shiftless and unsuccessful farm people” (Fitzgerald 98). Fitzgerald comes from a poor, Midwestern family. His father’s wicker business fails and family must live off the…show more content… “Her life [needed] shaped now-..by some force- of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality (151).” Daisy’s life centered on the promise of comfort and indulgence. That desire guided all of her decisions as did it Zelda Sayre's. Fitzgerald “moved to New York City hoping to launch a career in advertising lucrative enough to convince Zelda to marry him (Biography).” Without the guarantee of a comfortable life, Zelda would not settle down with Fitzgerald. Tom states it best- “Her voice is full of money (120).” Gatsby ‘s dream of hope and prosperity displayed in the novel, Great Gatsby, is a portrayal of Fitzgerald’s earlier self when he believed in the American Dream. Nick is his self-portrayal after he realizes the lie of a society he was living on that was merely living on superficial pleasure. Daisy is modeled from his wife whom is solely absorbed in the materialistic society known only as the Roaring
