This is excellently portrayed in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s outstanding American classic, The Great Gatsby, in which the theme of superficiality is explored through the characterisation of the glamorous, but shallow lives of the wealthy. Fitzgerald’s 1925 bestselling masterpiece serves as a critique of the superficial and materialistic world of fantasy and grandeur in which the novel is set, and remains a relevant novel, pertaining to a contemporary audience.
The world of extravagant parties and enormous wealth that Fitzgerald conceived when writing The Great Gatsby, was ultimately a world not too distant from his own. The background of Fitzgerald’s reserved narrator, Nick Carraway, appears to directly mirror Fitzgerald’s own upbringing. Carraway and Fitzgerald were both Ivy League-educated men from the Midwest, who ventured east after World War I to seek opportunities in their respective careers. Fitzgerald effectively utilises Nick’s objective character to expose the superficiality of the upper class. To quote Nick himself, he is “within and without” as he serves as an unbiased narrator throughout the novel, actively taking part in the events of the novel while also offering further …show more content…
Kris Jenner, the mother, and manager, of reality TV’s most famous group has crafted a strange new form of family business — and forever changed the nature of celebrity. After the release of her daughter, Kim’s, sex tape in 2006, Jenner reportedly seized the opportunity to launch her family to stardom. In The New York Times review of the show’s first episode, reporter Ginia Bellafante wrote: “As a parent, Kris Jenner, was concerned for her daughter, she explains. But as her manager, she thought, well, hot-diggity.”. Furthermore, Kris Jenner herself has been quoted saying, “It is my job to take my family’s 15 minutes of fame and turn it into
The world of extravagant parties and enormous wealth that Fitzgerald conceived when writing The Great Gatsby, was ultimately a world not too distant from his own. The background of Fitzgerald’s reserved narrator, Nick Carraway, appears to directly mirror Fitzgerald’s own upbringing. Carraway and Fitzgerald were both Ivy League-educated men from the Midwest, who ventured east after World War I to seek opportunities in their respective careers. Fitzgerald effectively utilises Nick’s objective character to expose the superficiality of the upper class. To quote Nick himself, he is “within and without” as he serves as an unbiased narrator throughout the novel, actively taking part in the events of the novel while also offering further …show more content…
Kris Jenner, the mother, and manager, of reality TV’s most famous group has crafted a strange new form of family business — and forever changed the nature of celebrity. After the release of her daughter, Kim’s, sex tape in 2006, Jenner reportedly seized the opportunity to launch her family to stardom. In The New York Times review of the show’s first episode, reporter Ginia Bellafante wrote: “As a parent, Kris Jenner, was concerned for her daughter, she explains. But as her manager, she thought, well, hot-diggity.”. Furthermore, Kris Jenner herself has been quoted saying, “It is my job to take my family’s 15 minutes of fame and turn it into