Blind Side Essay

The Great Gatsby and the Decline of the American Dream The novel The Great Gatsby is a book by F. Scott Fitzgerald based on the 1920’s, also referred to as the Jazz Age. This Jazz Age was a time of American prosperity as well as overindulgence. The overindulgence in the jazz age include wild parties , large consumptions of alcohol, and a spending of money in the kind of way that Gatsby bough an entire orchestra every weekend for his parties. During the novel, the reader follows Nick Carraway…

In the novel The Outsiders, the main character, Ponyboy lives with his two older brothers: Sodapop and Darry. If you’ve read the book, Soda and Darry might seem like polar opposites, but they do, in fact, share many common characteristics. Sodapop and Darry. Yin and Yang. Fire and Ice. Ponyboy’s two older brothers are opposites that attract. Let’s first examine what makes these two so distinctive from one another. They are different in their appearances, their personalities, occupations, and…

In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author uses irony to develop the characters and story. From the introduction of Gatsby’s character all the way to his demise, both situational and verbal irony is transparent. By implementing irony into the novel, Fitzgerald makes the reader feel pity for Gatsby all the way to the end, allowing them to witness Gatsby as a tragic hero that remained pure to the very end. In the opening of The Great Gatsby, Nick starts out by speaking of how Gatsby…

Unfortunately, we cannot travel back to the past to change our actions, however, we can learn from it. Nonetheless, we tend to repeat the past or expect something from it that it cannot provide. The past is merely experiences one went through that one cannot forget. We delude ourselves that the past dictates our lives. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby provides a perfect example of one firm’s attachment to the past. The protagonist, Jay Gatsby, is a wealthy man that lives in luxury.…

Jay Gatsby is usually a controversial character on whether he is defined as a tragic hero or a romantic hero. From my point of view, one thing being certain is that Gatsby is a romantic character drowning in the world of reality. Gatsby funded everything he has in the purpose of winning Daisy Buchanan, a woman in his dream. In the book The Great Gatsby, the protagonist, Gatsby, is a romantic hero in a modern era of realism since he is dominated with the pursuit of the American dream, completely…

F. Scott Fitzgerald takes the concept of the American dream and flips it to show that the dream will not always be the same as most people perceive it, and shows that loneliness drives the characters which leads to the destruction of lives. All of the main characters have their own view of an American dream. Daisy and Gatsby realize that money will never amount to happiness because they both feel lonely. By him taking the attempt to achieve his dream to an extreme, he has an effect on people’s…

In reading “The Disillusionment of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Dreams and Ideals in The Great Gatsby” (Article 1) and “Oxymoron in The Great Gatsby” (Article 2), I learned two differing points on how the concept of the American Dream is presented in The Great Gatsby. Article 1 speaks to how the Great Gatsby symbolizes the American Dream through the characters of Nick Carraway and Gatsby himself, but also explains how it could also be a bad thing to want. From this point of view this novel was believed…

Before people wrote their stories or had the internet, everything was told over and over again at the dinner table or a party. Every region has a story, or has told several stories, and Germany is no different. Their gruesome tales of what are now stories for the children are known throughout the world as the rags to riches of Disney princesses everywhere. But, who took to write down each tale from the mouths of peasants and which ones have been altered and formed into a story fitting for the…

F. Scott Fitzgerald was a short story writer and a novelist considered “one of the pre-eminent authors in history of American Literature.” “No major American novelist of the 1920s generation was more enamored with a lifestyle of excess and pleasure than F. Scott Fitzgerald.” Fitzgerald’s Winter Dreams was part of his writing his style on his stories of wanting wealth and to be upper ranks and this can be supported by his life events, the world around him, and the analysis of Winter Dreams, even…

Jay Gatsby a poor man turned wealthy. A man with one goal; become successful. But this success was not for him it was for the love of his life, Daisy. He loved Daisy dearly but he could never marry her poor. Thus started his journey to capture his prize. But this journey would also be the start of his demise that was brought upon him by more than just himself. Gatsby’s downfall was caused by a number of people. The first person, himself. Gatsby’s intense desire to be rich by any means necessary…