Through an examination of themes and plot summary F Scott Fitzgerald reveals how his life directly relates to the story. ... In The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway moved to West Egg to work as a bonds salesman. ... It becomes clear that the "death car" was Gatsby's. ... Throughout The Great Gatsby, there are a couple of themes that pull this story together. ... Another theme represented in this story is where you originate defining who you are. ...

• Word Count: 1021
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby in the early 1920's, he used a variety of sources to develop the setting, themes and characters. ... His mother's father was a self made Irish immigrant millionaire, and his father was a salesman who married above his social class and squandered the family fortune (Reynolds 2360). ... The same daisy (yellow within/ white without) relates her to the books many "eggs- and implies that she is not a daisy but a rotten egg because she does not contain the seeds of life but of death (Stark 61). ...

• Word Count: 1494
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School