Bernice Bobs Her Hair

jealousy occurs in the hearts of people because they seem inferior or when someone superior feels threatened by another superior. People love the see others doing good, just not better than them. This same idea can be found in Bernice bobs her hair. Fitzgerald use of manipulation and hair as a form of imagery effectively reveals the story’s theme of jealousy.…

of the wealthy is “Bernice Bobs Her Hair.” At the beginning of the book Bernice starts off as an outcast, who just wants to fit in with her cousin. Soon after taking some advice from her cousin Bernice becomes part of the wealthy/popular group. Her cousin, Marjorie, gets jealous and talks Bernice in to bobbing her hair. After Bernice bobs her hair all of her "friends" leave and she is back to being an outcast. Bernice soon becomes upset because of the quick and short ending to her popularity all…

Palace”, and “Bernice Bobs her Hair”. Sally Carol told Harry, her fiance,…

that, but it all happened all because of one love that gave him inspiration to write the gatsby. He also talked about the modern heroine in one of his short stories “Bernice Bobs Her hair” he talked how one woman that had to have revenge of a very disastrous accident, the woman follow the wrong side of life until her families gave her helped. The theme of the short story is very entertaining as well. All of Fitzgerald's great works had magnificent…

Daisy Buchanan, Jordan Baker, and Myrtle Wilson. Daisy Buchanan, as the book said was the “Golden Girl” every man could fall in love with her. We also have Jordan Baker, a golfer, she was considered the “new women” in this book she was a liar, competitive and very self-centered like Nick described her,“her chin raised a little, as if she were balancing something on it which was quite likely to fall,” (8). Then we have Myrtle Wilson who was described very different than…

Edward Fitzgerald, a hard worker without a good income, and even though he drank more than he should, he was the one to teach his only son manners. Scott Fitzgerald’s mother, Mary “Mollie” McQuillan couldn’t provide any aristocratic connections from her family. Because of this reason, she took pride into having married Edward Fitzgerald,…

According to the article " 'Gatsby ' Author Fitzgerald Rests In A D.C. Suburb” (2012), “Fitzgerald was the writer who defines the Jazz Age, with stories of carefree youth, flappers and millionaires. He became an emblem of the era, living out many of its excesses.” Fitzgerald wrote many famous stories that are still admired today. Some of these were praised so much that they have been turned into movies; however, what most people don’t know is that some of these books/movies were written based on…