The Great Gatsby

seemed like it could not get any better. Although everyone has individual ideas for what the dream is, it always contains wealth. The dream exists and can be achieved, just not by everyone. Money plays a big role in how the dream plays out. In The Great Gatsby, it shows that there is a much darker part of the American Dream: it is not attainable for everyone, despite the hard work that goes into it. The characters George and Myrtle Wilson, help depict this dark part of the dream. No matter how…

Prohibition Era in his novel The Great Gatsby. Jay Gatsby in the novel throws lavish parties, fully stocked with alcohol, every weekend to show off his riches in hopes of attracting the public, and of course a girl. One of the main ways Gatsby obtains to throw these parties is through prohibition. His real business is syphoning liquor as the “side-street drug stores here [in New York] and in Chicago that sold grain alcohol over the counter,” and ultimately helped Gatsby achieve his wealthy…

The Boa – The Great Gatsby As I was clenching the charred piece of wood in anger at the lie that we had all been living in, the piece of wood started to glow and I was transported to a different location. This time, I was transported to in front of a great mansion on Long Island Sound. It was night and there was a magnificent party going on in the mansion. I, anticipating a great time ahead, entered the party and stood with my mouth hanging wide open. The person who owned this mansion had to…

Michaels starts off the piece with the topic of classism. But instead of taking the traditional approach, he decides to use the writings and opposing viewpoints of Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. As he breaks down the classism in The Great Gatsby, he introduces the way people seek separation and makes a transition into the topic of diversity. From there he explained how the living definition of diversity has changed over time and is now a widely accepted concept. However, he highlights…

In the ageless novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald depicts the struggles of a exceptionally wealthy young man, Jay Gatsby, who strives for a dream that he has no chance of achieving. Throughout the novel, Nick Carraway, the narrator, uses an excellent variety of adjectives (I would caution you against this diction/word choice as it makes the reader focus on adjectives ONLY, and not look at the larger picture that you go on to touch upon in your thesis---maybe reference the quotes one…

Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, introduces one of the key ideas which features as a universal theme throughout literature. With all the themes presented across the ages, it seems undeniable that love, and sometimes its consequent obsession, resonates the most; from friendship to platonic love or lust to romance. Be it love for another, love for pleasure or love for power, love can be seen as the origin of…

Not even the effeminate swank of his riding clothes could hide the enormous power of that body — he seemed to fill those glistening boots until he strained the top lacing, and you could see a great pack of muscle shifting when his shoulder moved under his thin coat. It was a body capable of enormous leverage — a cruel body”. It is established by the passage the fact that Nick didn´t like Tom at all. For him, Tom seems to be the representation…

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby centers around many different love relationships that are all interconnected. None end particularly successful or happily ever after in the way we would conventionally view the progression of love, but the stories succeed in other ways. It can be expected that a relationship started on superficial gain or one made out of pure convenience will be doomed over time but Fitzgerald creates his characters in such a way that the stories seem believable and in…

proves very true throughout the novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The three female characters in Great Gatsby fit into the superficial world of New York by manipulating their intelligence, their actions, and their appearances to fit the expectations of 1920s New York City. Even today, the superficial people of New York remain shallow in their attitudes towards appearances and women. Even when Gatsby hosts his famous parties, partners are…

The Hero Saves the (Trage)Day Renowned author F. Scott Fitzgerald once said, "Show me a hero and I 'll write you a tragedy." Whether he is personified through Jay Gatsby of Fitzgerald 's The Great Gatsby, or Homer 's Odyssey, a hero is evident in any tragic work of literature. This idea is similarly presented in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 's novel Purple Hibiscus. In this work, Adichie exemplifies Father Amadi as the main hero of the novel due to his actions regarding Kambili 's freedom from her…