“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.” (180; Ch.9). This is a quote said by Meyer Wolfshiem of the The Great Gatsby. This quote reveals the theme in both “anyone lived in a pretty how town” and The Great Gatsby because they both involve the carelessness of people and the effects on the main character. The fictional story The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and the poem “anyone lived in a pretty how town” by Cummings are about carelessness and hope. It reveals that most people are careless. They only care about themselves and have no originality at all.But, there are a few people that are hopeful and the authors show how they are the people that go through the most hardships. The authors
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Compared to the great distance that had separated him from Daisy it had seemed very near to her, almost touching. It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was again a green light on a dock. (98; Ch.5)
This quote occurs after Gatsby and Daisy reunite. Fitzgerald says this because the green light was the closest Gatsby had gotten to his dream in five years, but now that he had Daisy the green light lost all meaning. Cummings shows hope in his poem through the character noone. noone is in love with the outcast of town and could easily ignore him too. But, noone sticks with him until the end and they live a happy life.In stanza four Cummings shows this by saying “anyone’s any was all to her” …show more content…
It eluded us then, but that’s no matter- tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And one fine morning- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. (189; Ch.9).
In “anyone lived in a pretty how town” Cummings shows hope through syntax by rhyming. In stanza four, lines 13 and 14 the poet says “when by now and tree by leaf / she laughed his joy and she cried his grief.” This rhyming portrays hope because it’s the author’s way of making the reader feel a positive way, it makes the reader hope that anyone and noone have a happy ending. But by using the word “grief” it foreshadows that they will not. So, to conclude, the themes of The Great Gatsby and “anyone lived in a pretty how town” intertwine with each other and are not necessarily one positive and negative. Gatsby’s hope ruined every one’s lives, including his own. Tom Buchanan never got any sort of punishment for being so careless. The “someones and everyones” from the poem were indifferent to anyone’s life , but in the end it was anyone that died. Both authors used these themes to explain to people that this is the corrupt society they lived in, and that we still live in
Compared to the great distance that had separated him from Daisy it had seemed very near to her, almost touching. It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was again a green light on a dock. (98; Ch.5)
This quote occurs after Gatsby and Daisy reunite. Fitzgerald says this because the green light was the closest Gatsby had gotten to his dream in five years, but now that he had Daisy the green light lost all meaning. Cummings shows hope in his poem through the character noone. noone is in love with the outcast of town and could easily ignore him too. But, noone sticks with him until the end and they live a happy life.In stanza four Cummings shows this by saying “anyone’s any was all to her” …show more content…
It eluded us then, but that’s no matter- tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And one fine morning- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. (189; Ch.9).
In “anyone lived in a pretty how town” Cummings shows hope through syntax by rhyming. In stanza four, lines 13 and 14 the poet says “when by now and tree by leaf / she laughed his joy and she cried his grief.” This rhyming portrays hope because it’s the author’s way of making the reader feel a positive way, it makes the reader hope that anyone and noone have a happy ending. But by using the word “grief” it foreshadows that they will not. So, to conclude, the themes of The Great Gatsby and “anyone lived in a pretty how town” intertwine with each other and are not necessarily one positive and negative. Gatsby’s hope ruined every one’s lives, including his own. Tom Buchanan never got any sort of punishment for being so careless. The “someones and everyones” from the poem were indifferent to anyone’s life , but in the end it was anyone that died. Both authors used these themes to explain to people that this is the corrupt society they lived in, and that we still live in