Arnold Rothstein

In The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald ends the novel portraying Nick Carrawayś thoughts on both Gatsby and the future. This passage is used as a way to end the story and conclude Nickś narrative while he is on his way back to the Midwest due to the corruption he has seen in New York. After Gatsbyś death Nick realizes how the people in New York look out only for themselves in the way that Klipspringer did when he refused to go to the funeral. This scene illustrates the theme of the…

Character Analysis Sebastian. J SG15 The title character and protagonist in the story, known as Gatsby, is a wealthy young man who lives in West Egg in his immense mansion. We got to know him through the parties he threw every weekend, parties that he was famous for hosting. Although, Gatsby’s identity remained unknown until Nick was first invited to a party that’s when Nick first met Jay Gatsby. Gatsby, born as James Gatz, grew up poor on a farm in North Dakota. It was from here he ran away…

The cartoon “The American pipe dream“ by Mike Keefe, from 2012, deals with the American dream in our days and the impossibility to make it. In the center of the background, you can see a big villa with a garage and two cars, as well as a garden. It has white walls and green pitched roofs. The doorway is big and there are many windows and a chimney. The house looks like a perfect family home and is obviously the aim of the young family, you can find in the lower left corner of the first layer of…

As its title suggests, place and space figure heavily in Jhumpa Lahiri’s latest novel, “The Lowland.” The reader finds herself journeying from the craggy shores of Rhode Island, to the bustling streets of Post-independence India, and finally in the hyacinth filled pools of the titular lowland area of Tollygunge, Calcutta. It is here that the mystery and tragedy of Lahiri’s novel takes place, a compassionate tale of family, betrayal, and political ideology set against the backdrop of the Naxalite…

“No one would have taken them for brothers.” Truth be told, this is the main thought that can be drawn throughout the whole short story, “The Rich Brother” by Tobias Wolff. From the very beginning of the story this is said to the reader, it’s clear that these two brother Pete and Donald are polar opposites of one another. The reader will discover from this that Pete and Donald no matter what time it was in their life, they had had problems with one each other. This would infer that Pete and…

The American Dream was originally about the discovery of happiness and equality. However, In the novel “The Great Gatsby”, Fitzgerald manages to illustrate how this dream became perverted into a desire for wealth and the belief that money is the key to happiness. For many, the prospect of achieving the “American Dream” became a moral vacuum and led to recklessness, selfishness and destruction. Fitzgerald uses symbols and motifs including decadent parties, the valley of the Ashes, the Eyes of T.J…

Charles Sobhraj doesn't call what he does as a "murder"; he calls it 'cleaning'. Charles Sobhraj, the unimaginably enchanting man with a vile criminal personality, had a novel usual way of doing things. He would tempt different ladies, bed them and take their travel passports. He could figure out how to do this since he was super-sure of his alluring capacities. Charles has ventured to drive force his break from a Delhi high-security jail - and maybe his own recover, as well - to abstain from…

The grandfather in the film represents our generation, the generation that takes too much, and can never get enough… 6 billion people wanting more than they need. Do you think this is a fair description of the state of our world? Are we headed towards the future depicted in the beginning of the film? I think this is an accurate description of our world today because people are constantly consuming more and more, when for centuries people have lived happy, productive lives with far less than what…

The Greatest showman - Synopsis and some thoughts about it. I hope you enjoy it. The Greatest showman takes place in New York city and tells the story of P.T. Barnum who grew up as a poor boy and one day founded a circus with very bizarre attractions. He brought up the concept of entertainment even though the show was made with a lot of fake sideshows. Moreover, he had all the support of his wife, who was a childhood love, and his two daughters. There were many conflicts through the movie and…

The Wind that Shakes the Barley (2006) director Ken Loach has repeatedly admitted that The Battle of Algiers (1966) has had a large influence on his own filmmaking career. In Martin Evan’s interview with Ken Loach about the Gillo Pontecorvo film, Evans says “[Loach’s] film-making is committed to a realist style; one that strives to give a voice to ordinary people and their daily lives.” The Pontecorvo film as an early example of postcolonial film is a good place to start when looking at The Wind…