Morality in The Great Gatsby Essay

Gatsby loved Daisy until the day he died and did not love anyone else. “Oh, who would care to live” (line 10) is Gatsby’s thoughts when he could not be with Daisy. He did not think there was a point in living and he did not care to live if he could not love Daisy. Despite the complicated situations in which Gatsby and Daisy could not be together, Gatsby still loved Daisy until he died and he believed that without Daisy life…

the lives of Fitzgerald's protagonists Amory Blaine, Anthony and Gloria Patch, and most notably by Jay Gatsby's next door neighbor, Nick Carraway. Fitzgerald manages to incorporate numerous hallmarks of this decade into his novels. In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby owns many newly invented cars, which were then seen as a sign of wealth and status. Jazz music began to thrive as the, what was then considered, high-tech, radio played in the background of elusive speakeasies. The author also featured…

Insecurity and low self-confidence can be influential and very determining factors in shortening an individual’s life span; especially if you are an individual who is married and has jealousy issues. In Robert Olen Butler’s short story “Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot Analysis.” we can appreciate the perfect example of how trust issues and not being able to exercise strong communication skills can make you a coward, a miserable, and pathetic low life human being; having such…

Fiction Choice Book Mattie Seals The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is the book I chose to read this summer. An American classic filled with history, one of my favorite topics, a valid reason to make my decision on this book. Tom Sawyer is a young boy that is an unknown age creating a more relatable aspect to the story. Tom has a personality consisting of being mischievous, adventuresome, imaginative, and enterprising, all of which causes him trouble making them weaknesses. As…

himself in order for them to keep living their excessive lifestyle. He never gave up on his dreams, and because of that he wrote his third novel, The Great Gatsby. It was not as successful as his first novel had been, but it put Fitzgerald back in the game and made…

problem with hard to believe?” Explanation: Martel says that any ideal has an unreasonable element to it. The Japanese officials only believe what they see and this baffles Pi. Pi’s belief is deepened as through his journey he saw many things with a great unreasonable element to them but however they were real to him in his animal story and therefore, he believes if such unimaginable things like that can exist so can God. Transition:…

In the book The Good Earth, the character O-lan—wife of Wang Lung—asked her husband for two pearls that she would like to keep. Wang Lung acquiesced, but he did not understand why she asked for them. Later, Wang snatched the pearls away from O-lan and gave them to his concubine, Lotus. The pearls held some meaning to all three of these characters, but it held the most importance to O-lan and affected her the most. First of all, Wang Lung, O-lan, and Lotus all regarded the pearls differently.…

E. Scott Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby, Sylvia Plath’s Ariel and Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie all fit into the category of American literature that examines the ability, “of the individual to transform him or herself-to be self-made”. All three texts portray personal transformation as the process of breaking free from society’s expectations towards the self-made aspiration of a more contented identity. Fitzgerald presents Jay Gatsby as being restricted by the class system and the…

The Struggles of Life In the book The Good Earth, A poor farmer named Wang Lung along with his family face a series of challenges in life. Wang Lung is a farmer who is married to a slave from the House of Hwang named O-Lan.Throughout their life they face a series of ups and downs. Pearl S.Buck writes this book on a common factor that we all share, the struggles in life. That is why The New York Times book review states, “A comment upon the meaning and tragedy of life as it is lived in any age…

Scene 3 of Act 4 is an intense one. Belize and Louis has a confrontation with each other and on the surface, it is two people who dated the same person before fighting with each other, but to dig in deeper, Belize makes a statement about the hypocritical America and white America. Belize says Louis is, “[u]p in the air, just like that angel, too far off the earth to pick out the details. Louis and his Big Ideas. Big Ideas are all you love. ‘America’ is what Louis love” (Kushner 96). He says that…