EMOTIONS IN THE WORKS OF F.S. FITZGERALD’S “THE GREAT GATSBY”

Abstract

Annotatsiya: The Great Gatsby is a story about the impossibility of recapturing
the past and also the difficulty of altering one’s future. The protagonist of the novel is
Jay Gatsby, who is the mysterious and wealthy neighbor of the narrator, Nick Carraway.
Although we know little about Gatsby at first, we know from Nick’s introduction—and
from the book’s title—that Gatsby’s story will be the focus of the novel. As the novel
progresses and Nick becomes increasingly drawn into Gatsby’s complicated world, we
learn what Gatsby wants: Daisy, Nick’s cousin, the girl he once loved. Anything and
anyone that stands between Gatsby and Daisy becomes an antagonist. Although Daisy’s
brutish husband Tom is the most obvious antagonist, a variety of more abstract
concepts—such as class difference, societal expectations, and Gatsby’s past lies—can
also be considered antagonists. The most powerful antagonist is time itself, which
prevents Gatsby from recapturing what he lost. This article analyses some other sides
which emotions used in this work.