The Great Gatsby

Abylai Khan Kazakh University of International Relations and World Languages

Culturology

Performed by:105 group Baltabai Banu,Baizhuman Alua,Buketova Manshuk

The film The Great Gatsby is about the great love of a man (Gatsby) for a woman (his beloved Daisy). He devoted his whole life to her, she was his dream, his guiding star, the most desired, the one and only. They are from different worlds - she is a rich spoiled girl, and he is the son of poor farmers, but he was not going to measure up to this. He wanted to become so rich that he could lay the whole world at the feet of his beloved Daisy, give her everything she wanted. And for this, he went to war, after receiving the opportunity to study at Harvard, make useful acquaintances, enter the circle of influential people, then contacted gangsters involved in the underground sale of alcohol (this brought a lot of money, because in America at that time there was a prohibition)... And all this for the sake of the dream of someday marrying Daisy, having reached a high position and possessing a considerable fortune. As he himself tells at the end of the film that all these years, even without being married to Daisy, he felt married, and therefore responsible for their future together. And that's why I took so many risks, worked so hard, pulled so much on my shoulders... He didn't need anyone but her. This is one storyline, a love story. The second is actually about society itself, about this so-called elite of society, about the debauchery, rottenness, hypocrisy of the so-called "upper world". Scott Fitzgerald generally wrote a lot about contemporary American society (this is the beginning of the 20th century), about its mores, about its true face, about its pharisaism. And the novel "The Great Gatsby" is no exception.