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with regard to “The Great Gatsby”. It defines the American Dream and how it is reflected in this novel with a view on success, wealth and social mobility. This essay is divided into two parts, for giving an answer to the research question: Why is Jay Gatsby, the main character in F. Scott…

In the 1920's, the rich would take delight in lavish parties and dwell in the security of their wealth. While the poor would yearn for someone to take them out of their poverty. This is how Daisy and Myrtle are in the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Daisy and Myrtle can be immensely different, yet surprisingly similar in ways such as their interests/desires, how the opposite sex treats them, how they treat the opposite sex, and other attributes. It is intriguing to see…

face of authority is significant. Milgram proclaims that “the essence of obedience is that a person comes to view himself as the instrument for carrying out another person’s wishes,” (The Perils of Obedience) and that is precisely the way in which Jay Gatsby acted in the face of authority, and adversity. His obedience at the onset caused him to develop the initial detrimental habits which formed, thus prompting him to become the fabricated symbol of wealth and affluence, yet holding inherent the…

How you party defines who you are. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, a young man named Nick travels from the Midwest to New York, where he meets jay Gatsby, a rich man with an extravagant past. Gatsby shows Nick the world of wealth, but inadvertently exposes him to the corruption that comes with that wealth as well. Throughout the novel, Nick is introduced to two different kinds of parties: those of the rich, and those who mimic the rich. The Great Gatsby contains two different…

relations with her at one time. During this time, Daisy had many advantages over Gatsby but she did not know this because he led her under false misrepresentations. This is shown in a narrative given by Nick, “However glorious might be his future as Jay Gatsby, he was at present a penniless young man without a past... So he made the most of his time. He took what he could get, ravenously and unscrupulously— eventually he took Daisy one still October night, took her because he had no real right…

America has been influenced by many different ethnicities and cultures. “Latinas Make Sweet 16-ish Their Own” by Lizette Alvarez states that the traditional quinceanera party is over done in this generation. Journalist Alvarez’s purpose is to inform the readers that birthday party is a waste of money because many people treat sweet 16th birthday party like weddings; therefore, this statement is a categorical truth. The idea of a quinceanera birthday party started from the Spanish culture. The…

Megan Slusser Mrs. Valentin H English 11 23 December 2015 Effects of the Desire of a Prosperous Reputation In the classic novel, The Great Gatsby, most of the main characters are very wealthy people. They live in the most enormous homes, in the richest of areas of New York, in other words East and West Egg. Obtaining their sophisticated reputations is the key factor to becoming the richest and most powerful people in their society. Tom, Daisy, and Gatsby are described as the most…

A “gadfly” is a metaphor that both Socrates and Martin Luther King Jr. used to describe themselves. They chose this term because the idea can be broken down as such: The enemies of social change are comfort and complacency because when a person is comfortable, he or she has no motivation to change the way things are at that point in time. For there to be a social change, one must be uncomfortable and replace complacency with action. There are some major gadflies of the 21th century, such as,…

The Devil and Tom Walker In Society greed and hypocrisy rule over the aspects of the human mind lending to the ultimate misfortune a trip to hell. In the story “The Devil and Tom Walker” folktale by Washington Irving message was about greed and hypocrisy. Tom Walker enticement of easy money in exchange for his soul. The devil collects his souls and this story ends with Tom being take away to hell on the back of a black horse. No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but to those practice it…

“I Want To Die While You Love Me” by Georgia Douglas Johnson Georgia Douglas Johnson was an American poet and a playwright during the Harlem Renaissance period. She was an African-American women who lived in Washington D.C. with her husband and two kids. Johnson wrote many poems about love and was very well known even though she was African-American. “I Want To Die While You Love Me” is a poem written by Georgia Douglas Johnson that conveys the ideas of love and loving someone so much one…