Arnold Schoenberg

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…

Scott Fitzgerald Throughout The Great Gatsby Displays his View of Women Being Inferior When reading The Great Gatsby people often think of the roaring twenties and the glittering lifestyles of the characters, but they often overlook the obvious submissiveness of the women in this novel. In The Great Gatsby the reader listens to a story about the great man, Jay Gatsby, who chases after a mirage of this weak woman named Daisy. This novel ends in the failure of Gatsby and the reckless Daisy the way…

Having written one of the most iconic story about romance, the contrast between social classes, and the American Dream, Francis Scott Fitzgerald was among the most important contributors to American literature during the twentieth century and was among the best American writers of that time. He died of a heart attack in 1940 at the age of forty-four. Among his many brilliant masterpieces, which were fulfilled with his sharp social insight and breathtaking lyricism, was one of the most…

A Search for What’s Missing – The Great Gatsby In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald several characters are searching for something throughout the novel, at times being reckless through their actions to achieve what they are looking for. Their searches are generally for something that is absent or infrequent in their lives, usually taking extreme measures to achieve what they’re searching for and at times losing something along the way. Fitzgerald suggests that society at this…

Crime in The Great Gatsby The 1920s was a time of American decadence and demoralization. Soldiers returning from the war were often disillusioned and the American Dream took on a new meaning; not one of communal prosperity and accomplishment, but one of wealth and affluence. “The first direction in which wealth injures the nation is a moral one. Money replaces honour and adventure as the objective of the best young men. Moreover, men do not normally seek to make money for their country or…