The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby Assessment “A moment later she rushed into the dusk, waving her hands and shouting--before he could move from his door the business was over”. George Wilson ran into the street shocked by what he had just witnessed. It was like the cars only desiree was to hit Myrtle Wilson. George dropped to his knees at the side of his wife. He grabbed her left hand and held it to his face. As he cried into her lifeless palm people gathered around. Soon police should up and pulled George…

American Dream is an idea that all people have the same opportunities to reach their goals. People leave everything behind in their homelands to come to America to live a better life. Unfortunately that dream is no longer obtainable for people. In The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author shows us through characters and people’s homes that the American Dream is now just a dream and nothing more. The American Dream can not be achieved by all people because people can not make it out…

of the Victorian era. Fitzgerald explores this new feminine identity in his stories “Winter Dreams” and “Bernice Bobs Her Hair.” The three central female characters in these stories all explore this identity in different ways. “Winter Dreams” is a Gatsby cluster story in which Dexter lusts after the young Judy Jones. In “Bernice Bobs Her Hair,” Marjorie takes the role of the New Woman, who pushes the Victorian Bernice to modernize herself. Analyzing these two stories allows…

It was ten to three when Gatsby’s driver pulled up outside Daisy’s mansion. Gatsby decided to wait in the car until the clock struck exactly three. As he stared out his window, a cool autumn breeze blew, catching lost leaves and causing them to swirl in the air like a beautiful hurricane. As Gatsby’s attention moved from the movement of the leaves to daisy’s Vanderbilt mansion, a lump of anxiety formed in the pit of his stomach. The palm of his hands became moist with sweat as self- doubt began…

Scott Fitzgerald utilizes the women’s suffrage movement into his writing such as, The Great Gatsby. This is because the reader can recognize the similar characteristics of women to the female characters in the novel. For example, Myrtle represents how women acted before their rights because she does not care how she is treated. On page 37, Fitzgerald…

In The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jordan Baker was portrayed as being reckless and dishonest, having an arrogant attitude, but also having the characteristics of modern day women. The American Dream for women was shown through Jordan Baker’s character. Jordan Baker is depicted to have an arrogant attitude. This is first noticed when she first starts a conversation with Nick. “You live in West Egg, she remarked contemptuously.” She is looking down on Nick for being “new money.”…

In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses music to present the vast extent of human emotion. In relation to the signification gap, music is a direct link between signifier and signified. Music alone can hold the emotional depth that words simply cannot encompass: “Whenever there was a pause in the song she filled it with gasping, broken sobs” (Fitzgerald, 51). Evidently, the stranger’s song captures Nick’s attention because of its haunting, poignant sentiment. The singer’s “gasping, broken sobs”…

the reader without personal opinion, allowing readers to formulate their own viewpoint. On the contrary, commentary is when the author gives information that influences the reader’s point of view on a specific aspect of the story. The book The Great Gatsby, which was recently turned into movie, written by…

Tom Buchanan’s Search for Fulfillment Since The Great Gatsby takes place among the wanton variety of the East, the fact that Tom Buchanan has a mistress does not surprise Nick or anyone else. However, what does appear perplexing is Tom’s continued attachment to Daisy, even when both Myrtle and Tom are dissatisfied with their respective spouses. In the words of Myrtle Wilson’s sister, Catherine, “[W]hy go on living with them if they can’t stand them?” (Fitzgerald 33). Catherine claims Daisy…

less power than men based on the ways they are portrayed in the media. “I hope she’ll be a fool - that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool” (Fitzgerald 20). Daisy Buchanan says this about her daughter in The Great Gatsby. She utters this sentence because she realizes the role that women are supposed to play in the world. If her daughter is…