Eugene F. Kranz

Both originate from the Midwest, however Daisy lives in East Egg which is considered to be classier, more upscale, and respectable than gaudy, fresh, and disreputable West Egg where Gatsby lives. This social status divide in Daisy and Gatsby’s relationship dates back to when they were first courting five years ago: “... he had deliberately given Daisy a sense of security; he let her believe that he was fully able to take care of her. As a matter of fact he had no such facilities” (Fitzgerald…

She is not part of the first class like most of the other characters in the book, but she still wants the material things just as bad. One way that Myrtle uses money to her advantage is throwing parties. The parties lead her peers to believe that she is wealthy, which she is not. Another way that she is influenced by money is pursuing in another love interest other than her husband George. “He borrowed somebody's best suit to get married in, and never told me about it, and the man came after it…

NAME : CRYSTAL MORGAN ID # : 620068655 TUTORIAL TIME : TUESDAY 9-10 AM TUTOR’S NAME : DR. MICHAEL BUCKNOR COURSE CODE : LITS 2301/E 23A COURSE NAME : KEY ISSUES IN LITERARY CRITICISM ASSIGNMENT : COURSE WORK #1 DUE : 18th SEPTEMBER, 2014 STATEMENT : #3 While their financial lifestyles were misguidedly extravagant, it is not only emotional ruin that these characters faced. The Great Gatsby also explores the concepts of economic,…

words, the women of the Roaring Twenties completely defied society’s expectations of them, and they obtained more independence than ever before. Of course, this rebellion caused negative feelings in the nation, which may be no better illustrated than in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby.…

away from the rest of the world? Even live in an illusion? Just how much are we truly willing to sacrifice? Well, two novels try to show us just how far a human will go through two very complex and tragic figures. Jay Gatsby from “The Great Gatsby” By F. Scott Fitzgerald, a wealthy, suave but mysterious gentleman who wanted nothing more than the love of a woman to complete his American Dream, while the other, Holden Caulfield, from J.D Salinger’s “The Catcher In The Rye”, a feisty young…

add onto that revealed in the text. The irony of the title of this book is another thing that makes it so great and out of the ordinary. Fitzgerald was a pioneer in bringing to light the flaws within the American Dream. By writing The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald successfully revealed the typically overlooked downside to striving for…

His real name was James Gatz. But he had a dream and ambitions of breaking free from the place he was born into. He created a new name for himself that reflected his true self identity. When a rich man Mr. Dan Cody on the yacht stopped at the bay, James warned him of the upcoming wind that would break soon. Mr. Dan Cody saw this young ambitious boy and asked his name and that’s how Jay Gatsby was born. A few years later, Gatsby appears as a very rich and lavish man who is having parties’ every…

31, P. 243). Unfortunately, it only took the ransoming of her own son and the death of Ralph Marvel to achieve it. Like her second husband, Raymond de Chelles' family held titles, property, and possessions worth money; however, their lifestyles were much less than ostentatious. Undine wanted grandiose surroundings and to hob-knob with all the social elite. Regrettably, this was not going to be apart of her future with Chelles, nor would her past behavior be tolerated with her new husband. It…

I watched the movie "Happy Gilmore" staring Adam Sandler. Its about a guy, how thinks he's a hockey player but really sucks at it. So he ends up playing golf too buy back his grandmothers house. It came out in 1996, and made $38,624,000. This movie had more than one subgenre. It was a screwball comedy because it had a man and a woman battling there differences and eventually falling in love in the end. I think this also had slapstick comedy tendencies because it used violence to make people…

The characters move through various locations that reference scenes in the film, with Hanratty always one step behind but getting closer and closer to Frank, until they both share the screen at the end of the titles. The credits fade to black just as Hanratty is about a catch up with Frank, leaving the ending open and emulating the suspense that features throughout the movie. A subtle touch of humour in the title credits, which work to establish the light-hearted tone of the film, is…