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Helen Keller once said, “The only thing that is worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” This could relate to The Great Gatsby because there are many characters in the book that are able to see but are blinded by things in life. Some of these characters include Gatsby, a man-made coming of wealth that is blinded by love. There is also Daisy, a women of old-money who thought she was in-love but is driven by money. Although Gatsby, Daisy and The Wilsons are blinded by some form of…

The idea of the American Dream is treated in a similar way in The Great Gatsby. Nick perceives Gatsby as “so peculiarly American” and can be considered for much of the novel as the embodiment someone seeking the American dream. (Fitzgerald 64). However, when Gatsby is killed, and “nobody came” to the funeral, the reader comes to the conclusion that the American Dream is an impossible one (176). Part of the allure of both of these characters is their personal aesthetic. However, while Dean…

In his novel The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald attempts to show that Americans resort to illegal and immoral means in order to exceed their own grasp. Fitzgerald has no problem with setting goals, but he clearly shows that there is a problem once one strays from their morals, as many do throughout the novel. Specifically Daisy is worried about protecting her image and stability that comes along with class, but the only way she is able to attain this is through immoral ways that involve her…

Humans define Morality as a set of principles designating the good from the bad in behavior and ideology. We use it to guide each other and set parameters for acceptable actions, but these parameters change over time. In the 1920’s, several factors resulted in a looser morality, much of which encouraged dishonesty, including drinking in backlash against prohibition laws. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, which takes place in this era, characters constantly lie to or outright deceive…

In the drama A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, an African-American family struggles to achieve the American Dream. Meanwhile in F. Scott Fitzgerald 's novel The Great Gatsby, a wealthy man attempts to enrapture his eternal love. Each of these book 's portrays the American Dream except it is in two contrasting ways. While Walter Younger struggles to make ends meet and provide for his family , Jay Gatsby throws lavish parties and lives in a voluminous mansion in West Egg. Through…

Thesis Statement: I believe that wealth does not immediately define the morals and sins of those who are possession of it, due to many lower class characters partaking in immoral acts, morals being shaped by upbringing, not bank, and that lower class citizens have a wealthy and greedy mindset, but are, in fact, not wealthy themselves. Subclaim 1: In The Great Gatsby, a majority of the characters portrayed as being part of the lower class are shown to be just as immoral as those who were born…

“Desires push people to give up something that they’ve had for something that they want.” In The Great Gatsby, many things are hinted at and there are many themes and interpretations that can be made from the story. In my case, I based my findings off of desire. One of my main reasons for this is because of the amount of love that flies around in the story. It’s pandemonium in a sense. Even from the beginning, we learn early in the story that Daisy and Jay are in love. But when Jay left for war…

To take a photo, cameras absorb light through the lens allowing the image to focus and be digitally broken down. To change how a photo is taken and furthermore interpreted, the lens is the most important component in photography. Often times, photographers will try many different types of lens before deciding on one that provides the most clarity. Of the tools a writer is given in the constraints of written words, characterization is perhaps the most useful in conveying the central themes in…

In this novel we notice how the men all come from different socioeconomic backgrounds and different breeds of money. We also see through the actions and motives of these men that they are the same at heart in the sense of their possessive and materialistic propensities, but if for a moment we shift our attention to the more dainter character leads we’ll see less coincidence between them. The women in this play are drastically different from each other in contrast to how the men are basically…

The Great Gatsby’s American Dream. The Great Gatsby, did he live his life pursuing the American Dream, or did he spend it chasing down the woman of his dreams? Jay Gatsby, while being a wealthy man, a party host and an assumed bootlegger spent most of his days following wealth and chasing it down with huge, crazy parties. Doing all of this just in thought that he’d lure the woman of his dreams, Daisy Buchanan, in one night and repatch the old love they had for eachother, but it also brought…