Benedict Arnold

Many people believe that elite social status and acquiring expensive materialistic possessions are possible in a prosperous country like America. As a result, countless Americans by the name of Abraham Lincoln, John D. Rockefeller, and Henry Ford have set an example and were able to rise to financial and social success. In the same way, the characters Jay Gatsby, Myrtle Wilson, and Daisy Buchanan, in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, are clear examples of the pursuit of the American Dream,…

Throughout The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, it is clear that the character Jay Gatsby has multiple personas. The first is his Gatsby persona— who is a suave, sophisticated, big shot businessman millionaire. The second is James Gatz, who is a poor, immature seven-teen year old, who created the Gatsby persona as a means to get a fresh start in life in order to achieve his dream of making it big. However, in the process of all this, he meets a girl in Louisville, Daisy Fay, who he…

The Great Gatsby is a very important novel from the 1920 's, that goes into the minds of the people from that time. It provides a very good insight into the way people acted and how they perceived America at that point in time. Jay Gatsby goes from rags to riches, throughout the novel. With his riches, Jay Gatsby is trying to achieve the American Dream. But in the end, even with all the money that Jay Gatsby had, he fails at his dream. Hardly anyone attends Jay Gatsby 's funeral, this shows that…

Relationships can be complicated, especially when there are multiple people involved. Sometimes people get so tied up in their relationships that it becomes their life, their passion, and their one goal, to perfect the relationship. For Jay Gatsby, this case is true. He fell in love with a girl he never could see himself with, and she fell in love with him. However, not all relationships always will work. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald is trying to convey how even if you try your best…

In the short novel, The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby proves to be a static character through the entire book. Within The Great Gatsby, we learn that Jay Gatsby is a dreamer, that he is motivated, and that he can become very easily manipulated. Gatsby had been proven to be a static character because from start to finish he doesn’t change; from the beginning Gatsby is just as idealistic, motivated, and easily manipulated as he is in the end of the story. Throughout the book, Fitzgerald makes it…

To obsess over someone is to have them occupy or fill your mind of that person continually, intrusively, and to a troubling extent. In the book “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, obsession is shown greatly by the main character Jay Gatsby. Jay Gatsby is a man who wanted a life so magnificent, successful, and rich in order to accommodate the life of Daisy Buchanan. Daisy Buchanan is Gatsby’s first love and he did anything and everything for her. After attempting to wait for Gatsby to get…

In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby is a rich, hopeful, and charismatic man who is in love with Daisy Buchanan. Daisy is married to Tom, but even that doesn’t stop Gatsby. Nick, Daisy’s cousin, brings her and Gatsby back into each others lives after five years. The book and the novel were portrayed slightly different from each other than one would imagine they would be. I feel as though the novel gave more depth to the feelings of the main characters, whereas, the characters…

In a relationship, whether romantic or friendly, it takes time to get to know a person for who they really are. Unfortunately, as the knowledge of another person deepens, there are often aspects of themselves that do not seem as enchanting or real as they did previously. The person 's flaws are overlooked or attempted to be ignored, and it is only later than the results of these actions are not positive. In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the journey of seeing someone for who…

Throughout the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzGerald first published in 1926, there were a lot of division between people with class and money. This caused a lot of up roar during the 1920s because of the boom in economy and the unfairness of how all the money was divided upon the citizens. There also was a lot of wealth because came about when the bootleggers made profit on the illegal sale of alcohol. There was a lot of mysteriousness between Gatsby and who he had worked for, when he…

Women in the 1920s The “Roaring 20s”, a great time for many people especially people in wealth. Many new things and opportunities arose throughout this time, especially for women. In the 1920s, the expectations of women were very straight forward; be faithful, listen to your husband, and not be very independent at times. But, in the 1920s the expectations of women would change and go into the other direction. The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a story about told by Nick Carraway…