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Pontiac 389 Tri Power V-8 What makes it a Classic: The Pontiac 389 Tri Power V-8 Often it's difficult to determine if an old car is truly a classic. However, if you're looking at automobiles from the [Pontiac Motor Division of General Motors], it's a little easier. If you pop the hood on a late 50s or 60s Pontiac of any model and a Tri Power 389 V-8 is staring back at you, you've just found yourself a classic. Join me as we talk about one of Pontiac's [greatest engines of all time]. We'll…

Mitchell explains that “In Rothstein’s words, ‘People with narcissistic personality disorders feel entitled to have what they want just because they want it’ (63).” Gatsby can have no true emotional contact with Daisy, Mitchell explains. As any narcissist would, Gatsby compensates for this by “making exploitive demands upon Daisy and upon the world in general (63).” For example, Gatsby demands that Daisy deny ever loving Tom. It is revealed that, even early in his life, his…

The great Gatsby is a movie overwhelmed with emotions such as jealousy, hatred, attraction, and most importantly, love. In this movie, a bond-seller, Nick Carraway is writing a journal, is fighting with depression and alcoholism caused by the sequence of events he lived with a mysterious man name, Jay Gatsby. Nick’s Doctor listens to him re-encountering the story which led him to his current situation. Nick’s story explains that seven years ago, he moved into a tiny house on Long Island, and had…

Fitzgerald summed this idea up well in The Great Gatsby by saying, “Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry” (57). Even if one didn’t have the means to have the best of everything, it was still expected of them. Myrtle was enraged when she found out her husband didn’t wear his own suit to his wedding. “He borrowed somebody’s best suit to get married in…and the man came after it one day when he was out…I gave it to him and then I lay…

The Great Gatsby as a Criticism of American Society In the novel The Great Gatsby, author F. Scott Fitzgerald criticizes American society through the eyes of his narrator Nick Caraway, as he watches the downfall and pathetic lives of what most consider achievers of the American Dream. Fitzgerald’s criticism of American Society is more prominently proven by his Harsh view of America’s materialistic standard of living, the tragic death of Gatsby, the negligence displayed by Gatsby’s…

Past and Present: Human Nature Portrayed in American Literature The very root of human nature has been debated for as long as humans have been civilized. The topic became ever more intriguing in literature over the last few centuries, as The United States of America was founded. The idea of a common human nature is very debatable and is open to interpretation, which can be seen through various authors’ representations of human nature. While each individual is entitled to their own…

Jay Gatsby: The Manipulator of Reality The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925, is the story of Jay Gatsby and his inexorable desire to achieve the status and dreams he has coveted throughout his life. The dream of profound wealth in the 1920’s is represented through Gatsby’s road from destitution to extreme wealth and social stability at the time many admired those who had it and those who were impoverished desired to achieve it themselves. Gatsby is willing to change his…

Fitzgerald experiments with narrative point of view and presents the female characters through a central male consciousness. In the “Great Gatsby” Fitzgerald fully explores the modern woman’s symbolic significance in an era of disintegration. Women in the “Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald are symbols for the different sides of 1920’s feminism. Fitzgerald offers the public an image of a modern young woman sexually liberated, self-centered, fun-loving, and magnetic. Fitzgerald uses women…

Great Gatsby Nick is the only decent person in the novel, explain: Nick is the only decent person in The Great Gatsby. Nick lived during a time full of government corruption and extreme laws enforced to ban the supply of alcohol. Unlike the many people in his time nick strived to earn an honest living and proceeded to keep this mindset even when tempted a job offering in this type of field. Nicks ability to stick to his morals made him a very honourable character compared to the rest. In the…

Life in the Roaring Twenties revolved around parting and money. The Great Gatsby offers a view of how people probably were back then. Many of the characters refused to live in reality and instead lived with the illusions they had created for themselves. The characters fool themselves and others into believing they are better than they really are. As they turned illusions into reality they created a life of misery and uncertainty. Nick Carraway is the narrator of the novel and the judge of the…