Examine the contradictions in The Great Gatsby, including its narrative

Examine the contradictions in The bang-up Gatsby, including its narrative styles.The novel moves on two levels Fitzgerald makes you see the magic andromance of Gatsbys vision of ideal love, dazzling the optic withwealth yet, at the same time, the narrator pulls us down to earthrevealing the immorality, waste and corruption of those who surroundGatsby and cause his death.Examine the contradictions in The Great Gatsby, including itsnarrative styles.One of Fitzgeralds main aims is to show the reader that the world heillustrates in The Great Gatsby includes both dazzling wealth andcorruption, both of which be translucent in Ameri sight society of the1920s. These work in parallel and come together as part of the samesociety the wealthy upper class. true(p) away we see this as being acontradiction, as the glittering surface impression of these wealthypeople conceals their true nature as an immoral, slapdash andunsympathetic society.This novel clearly does move on two levels. The auth or enables us tolook into the different worlds of money and romance (and whether ornot they can exist together), as it is not only a story of superficialrichness, but also of lost love and the use of wealth to regain it.These themes but are a contrast, as money is a matter of the mindand love a matter of the heart.Although Fitzgerald glamorises the lifestyles of the rich minority, healso asks us to indecision how attractive money really is, by conveyingto us the destruction and unhappiness that huge wealth can causeunderneath its dazzling exterior.We are led through the various events of the novel by our narrator,Nick Carraway, who is also Gatsbys neighbour. Nick, despite beingsurrounded by e... ...atsbys eventual death.Daisy, by killing a woman in Gatsbys car, represents the fact thatunmaterialistic people are often downtrodden by the wealthy. The richthemselves believe that money can buy them everything, including, asin Daisys case, a guilt-free conscience.An underlying contrad iction of the novel is that Gatsbys rich guestsall thought that happiness be in money, but the truth was that itdoes not, and never will. For Gatsby, the source of his happinessrested in love, and whilst the rich minority took everything,including love, for granted, Gatsby never did, and it proved to be hisdemise. The novels biggest contradiction shows that although love isthe source of life, in this instance it has killed a man in his followingto find it.Kate CockburnBibliography The Great Gatsby, F.Scott Fitzgerald (Penguin ModernClassics).