Benedict Arnold

The unusual jitteriness Gatsby is showing makes one wonder if inviting Nick out has an ulterior motive behind it. He was composed in all the time he and Nick met before, but it seems that day, Gatsby was nervous of something as he was suspecting for something to happen when he is out for lunch with Nick. Could this revelation be the part of Gatsby’s dream Nick was talking about in chapter 1? As Nick begins to talk more with Gatsby, he starts to believe that Gatsby isn’t as interesting as…

Tom Buchanan, similar to his wife, has an affair in order to avoid his deep fear of intimacy and distance himself from being in a close relationship. On the outside, Tom and Myrtle’s affair seems to be the normal extramarital affair. It appears as though Tom cares about Myrtle and her happiness when he uses his piles of money to buy her whatever she wants, including a lavish apartment in the city. He even buys her a dog, and seems very much invested in her needs. However, throughout the novel,…

Not any man can become a modelizer. “to get models, you have to be rich, really good looking, and/or in the arts,” says Barkley. He’s an up and coming artish, and he has a face like a Botticelli angel, framed by a blond pageboy haircut. He’s sitting in his junior loft in Soho, which is paid for by his parents, as are all the rest of his expenses, his father being a coat-hanger magnate in Minneapolis. That’s good for Barkley, because being a modelizer isn’t cheap- there are the drinks at clubs,…

I think that a man or woman can change his or her stars because if you don’t like how your life is going, then you can try to change it by improving your education, changing how you act, or improving how you live. I feel like if you set goals for yourself and you accomplish them, then you are changing your stars because you accomplished something that you might of thought was impossible. If you work hard for something that you want and you get, you are changing the destiny of how things may go…

Lee Daniel’s film, titled The Butler, describes the life of African-American Louis Gaines and his time spent as a servant in the White House. However, while Gaines is not a real person, his story throughout the movie is mostly based on African-American Eugene Allen and his time as a servant to the White House. Eugene Allen was born on a plantation on July 14, 1919, in Scottsville, Virginia. When Allen became a young adult, he began working as a waiter at a Virginian resort (cite). He then…

Jay Gatsby and George Wilson fail to see the reality of the world around them, which inevitably leads to their tragic deaths. Gatsby’s illusion is that of romance and ambition. He spent all his post-war time creating a new persona and acquiring wealth solely to fit into Daisy’s sophisticated world of money and to gain back her love. All of his actions are strongly focused on attaining what he had in the past that he cannot face the reality that he cannot have Daisy. Even when Daisy admits that…

In their society, they feel that to be in a higher class they have to have money. In East Egg, the environment is a lot different than the environment in West Egg. In East Egg, the society is more wealthy and more elite than the society in West Egg. In West Egg, the society is not as wealthy but both areas still have a lot of money. Robert and Helen Roulaton, in their article The Great Gatsby: Fitzgerald’s Opulent Synthesis, tell readers that “Tom tastes, moreover, are certainly closer to…

The Europeans set sail to the land of the unknown with their minds set upon this idea of a new chance in life, a rebirth. This second opportunity given to help achieve their dreams. They entered a land of fresh greenness symbolizing their rebirth. Their desire to be successful in life is what drove these people to constantly work hard through the rain and pain. These Europeans came to fulfill the American Dream. The American Dream, what was once such a powerful idea, instilled in American…

In today society, there is a doctrine that we acknowledge called success: according to this law, we label a person either normal or successful based on his or her values. We have blindly followed this law; however, Mr. Gladwell with your book Outliers, you expand our current ideal of success even further with compelling anecdotes, vivid statistics, and interesting culture to reinforce the doctrine. Typically in America, we define success as a title granted for geniuses, who have executed one or…

F. Scott Fitzgerald, originally Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, was born to a family that “was considered socially prominent and genteelly poor” (1557). With the help of relatives he attended Princeton and in 1917 he left Princeton and served in World War 1. While in Alabama for military training, he fell madly in love with Zelda. Fitzgerald wrote his first novel, This Side of Paradise and it appeared in March 1920. About one week after This Side of Paradise appeared Fitzgerald and Zelda married,…