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Fitzgerald’s use of the song The Love Nest in The Great Gatsby serves to deepen the idea that love and warmth gives more meaning to life than money and pride. In the song, Hirsch sings, “shall brick and mortar hold warmth and love inside? The answer you may know: Jack solved it long ago.” The last sentence gives listeners the idea that a home should hold love and warmth rather than pride. Gatsby does the opposite, he builds his house and life out of pride “, and this is ultimately the downfall of his character. He was initially attracted to Daisy for her wealth and believes he’s in love with her, however he’s more in love with the idea that he had created of her years ago. Fitzgerald’s use of the song also foreshadows Gatsby’s “faint doubt that had occurred to him as to the quality of present happiness. Almost five years! There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams-not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion.” If his dream was beyond Daisy herself, then it wasn’t a relationship entirely built out of love. Speaking of the house and the relationship “he had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way.” His love nest was lavish but built mainly for pride. The foundation of their relationship is rooted in Gatsby’s desire for success, not “a love nest you can call home.”

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Faith Mills, Sion Kim, Steffan Buchanan, Jordan Mundy 

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Faith Mills, Sion Kim, Steffan Buchanan, Jordan Mundy 

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Fitzgerald’s use of music adds to his work and the tone of the scene. It gives the reader more to look at and interpret. The music can show the impact of emotions that the characters can not show just through words. When Fitzgerald uses the song “Three O’Clock in the Morning”, it is as Daisy and Tom are leaving their first Gatsby party. Nick describes Daisy’s sense of longing, and how she doesn’t want to go. When looking at the lyrics of the song, it also describes a person who doesn’t want to stop dancing with the person they love. However, in the song, the singer gets to stay, but Daisy doesn’t. The song also has chimes at the beginning, indicating the late hour, and it seemed like a Cinderella moment for Daisy. Just as Cinderella must leave the ball and her prince when the clock strikes Midnight, Daisy must leave the party and her Gatsby when the song starts to chime. The music is able to convey a deeper sense of emotions and meanings, even when the characters can’t express these things out loud. Daisy can’t say that she wants to stay with Gatsby, but the song helps to show that.

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Christian Wilson, Ava Manley, Chase Greene, Emma Halfacre

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Christian Wilson, Ava Manley, Chase Greene, Emma Halfacre

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Fitzgerald's use of music served to impact his main text because it helped introduce more symbolism, mood changes, and tone adaptations into the story. For example, when he incorporated the song “The Love Nest,” he changed the mood of the story from light and airy to a more romantic and passionate. Another example was before the song when Fitzgerald wrote, “He [Gatsby] lit Daisy’s cigarette from a trembling match, and sat down with her on a couch,” he wanted to convey that Gatsby was trying to display his interest for Daisy by acting like a gentleman and lighting her cigarette, creating a intimate moment before the song, which assists the mood change that the song brings on.

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Kendall Champlin, David Cordero,Luz Hernandez

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Kendall Champlin, David Cordero,Luz Hernandez

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In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald use of the song “Ain’t We Got Fun” (95) impacts the main text, by adjusting the mood of the text, as well as allowing the reader to connect with the era of which the book was written, The Jazz Age. “Ain't we got Fun” adjusts the book, by bringing an uplifting song into the passage. The Song also allows the reader to understand the Jazz age and how it is important to the The Great Gatsby. The Jazz age relates to the book, as well as Gatsby’s situation by showing that “The rich get richer and the poor get -- children.” Gatsby being apart of the Long Island elite, and living in West Egg he takes advantage of the money he has and throws large, extravagant parties. An Example of this quote from the song, would be the Valley of Ashes and how it represent the poor.  Myrtle and Tom live within the Valley of Ashes and even though Myrtle is Tom’s mistress, she will never be one of the elite. The Song “Ain’t we got fun” ties back to the situation of Gatsby,and all of the elite and how during the Jazz Age they apply to all of the verses that Fitzgerald included into the book.

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Through the usage of music Fitzgerald is able to enforce the interpretation of his texts as well as its underlying meaning. The music exhibits the time of America and provides insight into the details of the luxury and cruelty of wealth. Fitzgerald does this by picking music and lines that are relevant to whatever is being told about in the story. He skillfully inserts excerpts from songs that provides insight into the topic of the relationship between Gatsby and Daisy. This insight can be in the form of foreshadowing, hinting underlying themes, or addressing the elephant in the room. When the song enters the scene between Nick and Jordan when they are talking about Gatsby’s love for Daisy, and how Gatsby has been living, for the past 5 years, with his only goal being getting Daisy to be his. The song that Fitzgerald choses relates directly to this theme by saying “Your love belongs to me.” This line, however romantic, is rather sinister. In this case, it hints that not only does that persons love belong to the speaker, but also that they will go to great lengths to get that love. Through Gatsby’s actions, as symbolized in the song, an unfavorable predicament is created not only for Gatsby but those around him, as many other characters suffer as well.

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Katie Pritchard, Ian Barlett, Mariah Wilson

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Katie Pritchard, Ian Barlett, Mariah Wilson

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The music is used to add to the mood that Fitzgerald creates for the reader. The songs also illustrates the relationship between Daisy and Gatsby, especially their past love for each other. Many of the lyrics from “It’s Three O’Clock in the Morning” serve to produce the sense of longing and nostalgia that Gatsby and Daisy feel. At the end of the party Daisy attends, she wishes for “one more waltz with [Gatsby].” The “melody so entrancing” pulls them together, and their fire is rekindled.

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In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald symbolizes relationships and conflicts by using music from the Jazz Age. The Jazz Age, 1920 to 1930, was an important time in American culture that represented wealth, love, and one's own happiness. By incorporating music and songs, Fitzgerald accentuates important events in the novel that embody those same Jazz Age characteristics. In the scene where Daisy first goes to one of Gatsby’s parties, the author includes the song love song, “It’s Three o’Clock in the Morning”. This song helps set the mood for what Gatsby wishes to accomplish, which is to bring Daisy back to the young girl that fell in love with him. Since Daisy has came to the party, Gatsby feels as if he has finally won her over, with lyrics such as “sounds like a sweet old tune / saying there will soon be a honeymoon”, perfectly capture the thoughts passing through both Daisy and Gatsby’s minds. Gatsby, already thinking about a future, or “a honeymoon” show how confident and secure he feels that Daisy truly loves him. However, Daisy feels more nostalgic because the song is taking her back to a “sweet old tune” when money, status, and pain were absent from her life.

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In the lyrics “Every morning Every evening Ain’t we got fun” represents the pressure the people in the 20’s had to always be having fun and enjoying themselves. However, this was only applicable to the rich because the poor didn’t have the means to live as lavishly as expected to.  An example from the book would be Myrtle and George Wilson who depict the poor masses of the time. They are unhappy with their lives together and the only way that Myrtle found happiness is through Tom and his wealth.

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Mason Murray, Lilly Thurmond, O'Reilly Greiner 

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Mason Murray, Lilly Thurmond, O'Reilly Greiner 

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Fitzgerald’s use of music subtly interprets one of the many points that he makes in the book without Nick stating it directly. Fitzgerald suggests that you cannot constrict characters to their  social norms. With the use of the song The Love Nest, it contradicts the situation between two different lifestyles. According to the song, Daisy would continue to associate with people of higher class and old money. The song implies, given that Gatsby was poor, that he would make nothing of himself and just have children. Fitzgerald uses this song to indirectly make a point that he tries to convey to the readers throughout the entire novel- that you cannot generalize people with their social class. The use of a song allows Fitzgerald to indirectly make a point.

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Jeffrey Whitenack, Natalie Lonabaugh, Tavius Walker, Fiona Arwood

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Jeffrey Whitenack, Natalie Lonabaugh, Tavius Walker, Fiona Arwood

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The inclusion of the song Ain’t we got fun in The Great Gatsby adds to Fitzgerald’s already present lyrical writing style. His inclusion of the lyrics in his writing creates a better understanding of the time and it places the reader in the story.The songs also serve as a way to subtly introduce a theme or reintroduce an old theme. When Klipspringer sings to Gatsby, the song reminds Gatsby of how he isn’t happy with his life even though he is wealthy. “The rich get richer and the poor get laid off, in the meantime, in between time ain’t we got fun.” These lyrics seem to speak to Gatsby in a negative way. The song seems to attack his quality of life, and the best way to remind readers of his unhappiness is with song lyrics.

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Gretchen Waters, Makenzie Welch, Caroline Stubblefield, Amala Cawlson

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Gretchen Waters, Makenzie Welch, Caroline Stubblefield, Amala Cawlson

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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s use of music in the selection serves as a way to influence the characters, as well as to emphasize the theme of the selection. “Ain’t we got Fun” uses symbolism in order to display the separate worlds that the socio-economic classes live in. “The rich get richer and the poor get children,” implements this idea. Gatsby reflects on the song after it is played by Klipspringer, as it poses as a “reality” for Gatsby. Gatsby’s parents were poor farmers so he can relate to the differences in both socio-economic classes. The larger emphasis of the selected music in this chapter implies that Fitzgerald had been a part of the lower social class most of his life, and this contributed to the character’s [Gatsby] view of reality versus his perception of his goals. Fitzgerald also implicates a warning for readers, not to confuse what makes an individual happy and content. In the song, it suggests that “times are bum and getting bummer, still we have fun.” Even though the lower class does not have the resources and advancements of the upper class, they are still content with their lives and make the most of it. The songs (including “Ain’t we got Fun”) were not made for the time period, however, Fitzgerald uses them in the selection to emphasize several themes. The Great Gatsby takes place in the early 1920s, and this is also the time it was written by Fitzgerald. He can pull ideas from the real world and apply them to the selection to educate readers about the differences between class power versus happiness and pursuing goals.

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Emma Kent, Vaidehi Desai, Taylor Jones, Sophia Jones 

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Emma Kent, Vaidehi Desai, Taylor Jones, Sophia Jones 

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Lauren Campbell, Adam Eisen, Katherine Mertz, Molly Malchowski, Imani Dozier 

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Lauren Campbell, Adam Eisen, Katherine Mertz, Molly Malchowski, Imani Dozier 

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Fitzgerald's use of musical references as a literary device in his writing allows for symbolism to occur. Song references give insight into characters and events as they’re happening. Lyrics used from The Sheik of Araby by Harry Connick Jr in chapter four gives insight into Gatsby’s character. The song is about a guy in love with a girl so he stalks her, this is like Gatsby because Gatsby moves across from Daisy and does everything in his life to win her over. These acts make him a stalker. The lyrics “At night when you sleep, Into your tent I'll creep,” are heard by Nick and Jordan as they listen to music in the car. After hearing this Jordan states “ Gatsby bought that house so Daisy would be just across the bay.” The song reminded Jordan of Gatsby pointing towards his obsessive nature. Fitzgerald's use of the song gives us a deeper understanding of Gatsby’s character.

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Nola Goosmann, Sadie Collett, and Andrew Barnett

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Nola Goosmann, Sadie Collett, and Andrew Barnett

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Fitzgerald’s use of music serves to influence Gatsby’s feelings about his possessions and his journey to get Daisy. The song choice is ironic because it expresses the idea that money is unimportant in the long run, while Gatsby is giving Daisy a tour of his extravagant mansion. The line “Not much money/ Oh but honey/ Ain’t we got fun” contradicts Gatsby’s efforts to show off his possessions. All of this was going on while Daisy was realizing what she had missed out on by choosing Tom instead of Gatsby.

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Emma Goodrum, Kayla Schlitt, Mia Lopez and Caroline Allison

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Emma Goodrum, Kayla Schlitt, Mia Lopez and Caroline Allison

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Izzy Sanchez, Lila Berry, Thompson Beavers, & Allie-Grace Poupore

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Izzy Sanchez, Lila Berry, Thompson Beavers, & Allie-Grace Poupore

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Fitzgerald’s use of music is a source of foreshadowing. The song is about an Arab who is stealing pretty women. This foreshadows that Gatsby will steal Tom’s pretty woman, Daisy. This is played at the perfect time because this is when Jordan proposes that her and Nick should try to get Daisy and Gatsby together. A line in the song is “Your love belongs to me,” and and that is how Gatsby feels towards Daisy. He wants her for her love but doesn’t think about the outside forces that could prevent him from having her love.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s use of music serves to interpret how the mood was during that age and time. “The Jazz Age” as Fitzgerald calls it, was a bright and happy period. The nation had just gotten out of World War 1, the economy was booming, and people were busting through the social norm. As “Ain’t We Got Fun” is very uplifting and cheerful, it shows the mood of the 1920’s and even the mood in that time specifically. Daisy was “awfully glad” (86) to see Gatsby again. Eventually, “They were sitting at either end of the couch, looking at each other as if some question had been asked, or was in the air, and every vestige of embarrassment was gone.” (89). Fitzgerald’s use of music helps to clarify the mood of The Great Gatsby during chapter 5 and throughout the novel.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s use of music in the Great Gatsby interprets his main text by further explaining what is happening in the story at that moment. The song The Love Nest in the scene where Daisy explores Gatsby’s mansion fits hand in hand because the song is about a man who built a house, a “love nest”, for a girl. In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby does the same thing when he builds his mansion for Daisy. He not only builds the house to impress Daisy, but he also builds the house as hope for it to be a forever home with her. This idea is exemplified when the song asks “Should we build for pride Or shall brick and mortar hold Warmth and love inside?” Gatsby built his mansion to ultimately impress Daisy, but he also built his house for them to grow old in together. In contrast, Tom, the man Daisy married, built his mansion to show off for Daisy and to uphold his status in society. The song continues to explain Daisy and Gatsby’s situation when it describes the house as “Better than a palace with a gilded dome, Is a love nest You can call home.” The song has two different reasons to build a house; to show off for a person, or to create something substantial and full of actual love. This song explains Daisy’s situation, she is witnessing Gatsby’s “love nest” compared to her house with Tom. The song is explaining the differences between the two men.

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F.Scott Fitzgerald uses highly expresional music in The Great Gatsby to influence the tone and mood of the text.Our group analyzed “It’s Three O’clock in the Morning,” where Fitzgerald uses this song to give more context on how Daisy is feeling in the scene. The song talks about a couple who continues to dance the night away well past the point that one would usually stop. Daisy is leaving the party but the song is enticing her to go back in with the hopes of having a relationship like the one in the song with Gatsby We can infer this from the text when it says “What was it up their in the song that seemed to be calling her back inside?”.Gatsby however interprets the song in a different light, he sees it as a metaphorical ending to him and Daisy's hope.

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Meaghan Skelly, Collins Wyatt, Lily Cross, Joseph Ott, Josh Anand

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Meaghan Skelly, Collins Wyatt, Lily Cross, Joseph Ott, Josh Anand

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Fitzgerald uses music in his prose to incorporate almost a soundtrack to the book that can affect the audience’s mood. It provides a relative understanding of the time period and allows the connection of the audience with the happenings of the time. The book is placed in the 20’s in New York City, this was the epitome of Jazz Age music, which is why the song, “The Sheik,” suits so well. “I’m the Sheik of Araby,” (pg. 78) references both Gatsby’s wealth and his upbringing with; “is the son of some wealthy people in the middle east.” (pg.65) The use of music also allows foreshadowing to be brought into the small portions where it is used. The excerpt of the song in the book foreshadows the fact that Gatsby will be chasing after Daisy throughout the novel.