The Great Gatsby är en berömd roman som först publicerades år 1926 och skrevs av F. Scott Fitzgerald. Den är väldigt kritisk till den Amerikanska drömmen, ett koncept som har blivit starkt kopplat till kapitalismen. Detta gör det lättare att analysera texten från ett Marxistiskt perspektiv trots att marxism aldrig nämns i romanen. Denna C-uppsats kommer att fokusera på vad som motiverar karaktärerna i romanen. Eftersom romanens huvudperson Jay Gatsby redan har blivit analyserad i väldigt många artiklar och uppsatser så kommer han inte analyseras i denna uppsats. Istället kommer den att fokusera på de andra framstående karaktärerna som Daisy, Tom, Myrtle, George och Nick. När deras motivationer analyseras genom ett Marxistiskt analytiskt perspektiv framkommer det väldigt tydligt att dessa karaktärer har insett att samhället de lever i inte uppfyller deras behov, och att detta kommersialiserade samhälle är orsaken för deras olycka. / The Great Gatsby is a famous novel first published in 1926, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The novel frequently criticizes the American dream, a concept which has become strongly linked to capitalism. As such, the text lends itself very well to Marxist theory despite not mentioning Marxism in the novel.  This C-essay will focus on what motivates the characters of this novel. Since the novels main character Jay Gatsby has been analyzed in many articles and essays he will not be analyzed in this essay. Instead it will focus on the other prominent characters such as Daisy, Tom, Myrtle, George and Nick. When their motivations are analyzed through a Marxist analytical perspective it becomes very clear that these characters have realized that society is not fulfilling their needs, and that their commercialized society is the cause of their unhappiness.

This essay focuses on location and class in The Great Gatsby. The essay argues that the aspect of location has a defining role in the characters' effort to become a part of the leisure class. The essay will show that some characters use location to elevate their social status and consequently become members of the leisure class: Jay Gatsby, Nick Carraway, Tom and Daisy Buchanan all use location to elevate their social standing. In addition the essay will show how location works against the characters Myrtle and George in their desire for a better life, and consequently they have to use other methods to try to acquire what they want. Thus, as location is shown to be a method for elevating the characters' social status it also becomes apparent that this method is only available for those who already have a substantial amount of money.

The aim of this essay is to analyze the concept of rugged individualism in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. This paper will also examine the American Dream since rugged individualism is related to the American Dream. Marxist criticism problematizes rugged individualism and the American Dream. The title character Jay Gatsby is portrayed as an exemplary rugged individualist. Gatsby shows several traits of rugged individualism and he can be used as a representative for both rugged individualism and the American Dream.

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The purpose of this essay is to perform a comparative psychoanalytic reading of The Great Gatsby (1925) and The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) in terms of the titular characters’ narcissistic behavior. My claim is that Jay Gatsby and Dorian Gray can be seen as different depictions of narcissism. Literary critics in previous research characterized Gatsby and Gray as narcissists, but, there has not been a comparison between the two with focus on their narcissism. Gatsby and Gray display crucial differences which suggests that they portray narcissism in different ways. Theodore Millon identified four subtypes of the original narcissistic personality in order to better identify different types of narcissists. My aim is to use his subtypes to identify, and provide the causes and effects of Gatsby’s and Gray’s particular narcissistic behavior. My analysis indicates that Gatsby can be seen as a fictional illustration of the unprincipled and compensatory narcissist while Gray can be viewed as a fictional characterization of the amorous narcissist.

Thesis advisor: Christopher P. Wilson / Growing up F. Scott Fitzgerald longed to be a part of the leisure class with whom he socialized and was educated. However, born into a middle class family and destined to be a writer, he never achieved that goal. This preoccupation with the leisure class continued into adulthood and was reflected in his works of fiction. In his writing he repeatedly depicts the outsider, a middle class character who by the means of monetary wealth hopes to rise in society. Through his relationship with the object, this outsider attempts to become a part of the elite and is rejected. Mannerisms and social codes that can only be learned by high birth restrict this individual from reaching social heights. The new wealth of the 1920's creates a paradox for the outsider. The object that the leisure class possesses is easily attainable, however, the upward movement it promises is still out of reach. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2004. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: English. / Discipline: College Honors Program.

Uppsatsen syftar till att analysera påverkan av social klass och status i F. Scott Fitzgeralds roman The Great Gatsby med Max Webers teori om klass och status som utgångspunkt. Detta sker genom analys av karaktärernas relationer och beteende ur ett perspektiv där klass och status är centralt. Resultatet visar hur klass och status påverkar karaktärernas beslut, relationer och liv. Det leder till ett oundvikligt slut för Jay Gatsbys och Daisy Buchanans kärleksaffär samtidigt som konsekvenserna av karaktärernas handlingar påverkas av deras klasstillhörighet.

This thesis examines hierarchies that affect a man’s status in the hierarchy between masculinities in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. In a close reading of the novel, the most important concepts in the thesis are hegemonic masculinity and self-surveillance, which both contribute to the idea of a hierarchy between masculinities. While masculinities in modernist novels have been studied, the hierarchies between masculinities have not been well explored in The Great Gatsby. I suggest that the most notable men in the novel, Jay Gatsby, Nick Carraway, and Tom Buchanan, survey certain features of each other to know their own place in the hierarchy between masculinities. Divided into three sections, this paper first defines Raewyn Connell’s theory of hegemonic masculinity with the help of David Buchbinder, and then the notion’s connection to Michel Foucault’s theory of panopticism. The paper then studies the hierarchies that affect a man’s position in the hierarchy between masculinities in Gatsby. Lastly, the paper examines how men organise each other into a hierarchy by surveying themselves in contrast with other men’s masculinities.

This essay is a documentation of the work that was made for the consultancy company GESHDO Now AB in which a solution was built to facilitate content management of the company’s website with modern frontend technologies. The basic requirement was to create a web-based editor, or a JAMstack-based project with a clear separation between the content and the layout. The requirement was to achieve the highest performance possible. The solution should be deployed with the help of a cloud service. A primary goal in this project is to liberate resources at the company, so that employees who lack coding skills can easily manage the content of the website without having to ask for help from the developers. Technologies such as React, Gatsby, GraphQL and TinaCMS have been used to create a user-friendly interface which lives in a protected environment in which it is easy to manage the content of the website in realtime. When the changes are saved, they will be immediately reflected on the website in production. The project has been built based upon the ideas of simplicity, reusability, scalability and easy maintenance, as well as the possibility to extend the solution and customize it for future needs. / Den här uppsatsen handlar om ett arbete som gjordes åt konsultbolaget GESHDO Now AB där en lösning byggdes för att underlätta innehållshanteringen på deras webbplats med moderna frontend-tekniker. Grundkraven var att skapa en form av editor, eller en JAMstack-applikation med en klar separering mellan layouten och innehållet. Dessutom ska prestandan vara så hög som möjligt. Lösningen ska publiceras med hjälp av en molntjänst. Ett huvudsakligt syfte med lösningen är att frigöra resurser på företaget, så att anställda som saknar kodkunskaper ska enkelt kunna hantera webbplatsens innehåll utan att behöva ta hjälp utav utvecklarna. Tekniker som React, Gatsby, GraphQL och TinaCMS har använts för att skapa ett användarvänligt gränssnitt som lever i en skyddad miljö där man enkelt kan hantera webbplatsens innehåll i realtid. När ändringarna sparas, så reflekteras de på webbplatsens liveversion. Projektet har byggts med enkelhet, återanvändbarhet, skalbarhet och enkelt underhåll i åtanke, och det är möjligt att utvidga lösningen och skräddarsy den utifrån framtida behov.