Morality in The Great Gatsby Essay

judgement on Lizzie’s social status and wealth due to her choice to continue studying as opposed to working in her firm. And the final theme that was discussed was the theme of morality highlighted by Lydia running away with George Wickham and their subsequent elopement bringing ‘disgrace’ to her family. The societal sense of morality depended on various things but in this particular situation it was Lydia who brought disgrace and not Wickham even though he was much older than her and…

Gatsby set himself on a self-destructive crusade to destroy yet recreate the past. The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald is about Jay Gatsby who uproots his entire life to around his personal quest to be reunited with his lost love, Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby’s mission takes him from poverty to wealth, to a reunion with his beloved, and to his tragic death. The story of Gatsby is the story of a man who is pinned between an ever-consuming shame and immense guilt. Gatsby is ashamed of the fact that…

Lady Macbeth is a character who self destructed on the road of her metaphorical success. She strived for her desires with a one-route journey, forgetting to stop at a gas station. At the beginning she had no second thoughts, complete droopiness, only forces to pick up the scrapes of her very much ambitious yet soft-minded husband, Macbeth. She reached to the point where she sacrificed her feminism only to reach her outrageous intentions. Without considering her feminine aspect plays a big part…

American Dreams written in 1974 is an anecdotal story an amusing short story set in a quite 1950s provincial town in Australia; the town resembles Bacchus Marsh the town in which the author Peter Carey grew up. The story was written in the early days of globalisation. It’s a town of the main highway which begins to attract tourists who come armed with cameras and money but it turns out they expect the townspeople to remain frozen in time, just as they were when their portraits were taken.…

There are a variety of similarities and differences between Rollin Lynde Hart’s “The New Negro” and Franklin Roosevelt’s “The Forgotten Man.” They both are a significant event in US history. They both are fascinating subjects to talk about, and they were roughly written around the same time. Even though Roosevelt’s “The Forgotten Man” was aired on radio in 1932, Hart’s “The New Negro” was a movement, and the term was coined in 1921. After the war, America faced a lot of hardships and obstacles…

The Real Life Message An Analysis of Three Messages from the Great Gatsby The “The Great Gatsby” is an amazing book written in 1925 that depicts the life of the people living in the 1920’s. This time was a time of a love of money, drugs, partying, drinking, and sex. This time period took place right after war and a time of depression and it led to the rise of billionaires and economic wealth. One interesting thing is that no drugs were illegal at this time and doctors actually prescribed…

F Scott Fitzgerald’s “Winter Dreams” includes many types of symbols such as colors to represent different feelings, or to foreshadow what is next to come. “Dexter is associated with green through the golf courses, the money he earns, youthful naivete and hope” (LaHood). The author is trying to express the symbolic connection to green with Dexter. Green is symbolic because it is used to describe money and hope. Which in the story it plays a big role since Dexter’s main goal is to be with Judy…

for Fitzgerald’s protagonists. The features of the object of desire which attract the hero either are temporary, like youth and beauty, or frustrate him, like indifference, and prolong the desire until it breaks under pressure. This pressure kills Gatsby, but leads other protagonists to slowly dissipate their energies and become disillusioned. Satisfying the desire proves to be as fatal because the marriages turn out to be disappointing and bring out self-destructive tendencies of the…

Scott Fitzgerald utilizes the women’s suffrage movement into his writing such as, The Great Gatsby. This is because the reader can recognize the similar characteristics of women to the female characters in the novel. For example, Myrtle represents how women acted before their rights because she does not care how she is treated. On page 37, Fitzgerald…

A stable income and a nice family is usually the picture that pops into people’s heads when discussing the American Dream. The American Dream idea plays a major role in the novel Of Mice and Men and the play A Raisin in the Sun. Because the American Dream plays a huge role in the pieces, all of the main characters have their own American Dream. The effects of having an American Dream to chase and then losing the dream are different on the relationships between characters in Of Mice and Men…