Oluwatumininu C. Tyndall Mr. Matt Hohn
English-10
16 October 2015
The Race to Wealth and its Demise
The Great Gatsby is a classic novel in which money is the center of focus in the characters lives, but after all money can’t buy happiness. This specific novel is often referred to as “The Great American Novel”; it gained its title because it portrays the prosperity and success of achieved goals. The book also interprets these following characteristics: immorality, obsession, and dissatisfaction of unfulfilled dreams for upward social mobility. This novel is set in 1922 and interprets the “American Dream” and its downfall.
The American Dream is the chance opportunity of success and upward social mobility achieved by hard work. Nick Carraway …show more content…
These following characteristics aren’t technically bad or negative but they brought out the true self of the each specific character. Obsession, Mr. Gatsby expresses this certain character, almost through the whole book, it is possible to say that this character is the mastermind of all his massive parties just to impress the love of his life Daisy. According to Nick, when he was walking to his house he had saw a man looking of to a green light, which is the same light on Daisy’s dock. Next, immorality, Nick was invited to have dinner with his cousin at her house with Tom and a special guest and it was an extremely weird dinner. Tom kept getting phone calls that happened to be unexpected. Everyone new Tom was having an affair even Daisy, but she just acted like it wasn’t a big deal to her (p.12). He continues to have the affair with the newly introduced character named Myrtle Thomas. Then there’s Daisy, she doesn’t start showing this character until the beginning end when her love for Gatsby comes back and they become a love affair. George Wilson represents the dissatisfaction of unfulfilled dreams because he is a mechanic, the most exceptional according to Tom. George constantly asks Tom to sell him his car (p.25), Tom responds saying that he has a man working on his car and he bring it in next week,
English-10
16 October 2015
The Race to Wealth and its Demise
The Great Gatsby is a classic novel in which money is the center of focus in the characters lives, but after all money can’t buy happiness. This specific novel is often referred to as “The Great American Novel”; it gained its title because it portrays the prosperity and success of achieved goals. The book also interprets these following characteristics: immorality, obsession, and dissatisfaction of unfulfilled dreams for upward social mobility. This novel is set in 1922 and interprets the “American Dream” and its downfall.
The American Dream is the chance opportunity of success and upward social mobility achieved by hard work. Nick Carraway …show more content…
These following characteristics aren’t technically bad or negative but they brought out the true self of the each specific character. Obsession, Mr. Gatsby expresses this certain character, almost through the whole book, it is possible to say that this character is the mastermind of all his massive parties just to impress the love of his life Daisy. According to Nick, when he was walking to his house he had saw a man looking of to a green light, which is the same light on Daisy’s dock. Next, immorality, Nick was invited to have dinner with his cousin at her house with Tom and a special guest and it was an extremely weird dinner. Tom kept getting phone calls that happened to be unexpected. Everyone new Tom was having an affair even Daisy, but she just acted like it wasn’t a big deal to her (p.12). He continues to have the affair with the newly introduced character named Myrtle Thomas. Then there’s Daisy, she doesn’t start showing this character until the beginning end when her love for Gatsby comes back and they become a love affair. George Wilson represents the dissatisfaction of unfulfilled dreams because he is a mechanic, the most exceptional according to Tom. George constantly asks Tom to sell him his car (p.25), Tom responds saying that he has a man working on his car and he bring it in next week,