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From 1929 to 1941, a period of time began in the United States that was referred to as the Great Depression. A lack of confidence led to withdrawals in order to protect money, draining the banks ' reserves and destroying their ability to make loans. This mistrust affected the entire economy and started a dangerous cycle. Since that time, there has been much historical debate over what actually caused it, and many theories have been proposed to explain how a country’s economy could fail so…

The Great Gatsby is a Modernist novel by the author F. Scott Fitzgerald. It deals with the situation of society in the Roaring Twenties, in the volatile time between World War I and the Great Depression. The Great Gatsby is a story that wrestles with a lot of themes, two of which are isolation and unattainable desires. One theme in this book is the loneliness and shallow connections that characters make. Gatsby frequently has hundreds of people at his house for parties, but it is often…

Have you ever had best friends? Do you know what true friendship is? We all have many friends, but we only have a few best friends. We help each other and we are beside our best friends when they need us sometimes. However, having a friend is even more than a best friend; indeed, they are like brothers or sisters to us. Such relationships are not easy to have. Especially, the true friendship between two men is rare and valuable. The friendship between George and Lennie in the story “Of Mice And…

leaving her with a lack of identity and portraying her lower status. This is also to inform the readers how women had no power at all during the Great Depression, and instead, they were just like property to their husbands. Her husband makes her stay in the house because he does not trust her with the ranch workers, which was the same thing during the Great Depression when women had to stay at home and take care of the house and children while their husbands went to work. Although her husband…

The novel The Great Gatsby comments on the society of the 1920’s, the time in which it was written. In the novel F. Scott Fitzgerald uses symbols, motifs and the characters, to criticize the modern society through his characters and their “attitudes” towards different events. It takes place at the time of the “Jazz Age” the time of America 's great economic success, jazz and of glamour and luxury- the "roaring 20s". A social comment can be made through the themes of the American dream, dreams…

push us to get to a goal, but it can also drive us into madness. Obsession has the potential to do the exact same things. Does this mean that love and obsession can be intertwined into something hysterical? F. Fitzgerald illustrates madness in The Great Gatsby through Jay Gatsby as he is obsessive and desires Daisy Buchanan to the point where she is the only thing he can think about, which shows that love has the potential to become insanity. Jay Gatsby is an example of madness through his…

first defined in The Epic of America by James Truslow Adams– promises such, but does it follow through? The answer is no, simply because some groups of people are not allotted the same opportunities as others. Jay Gatsby – protagonist of the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald – and Troy Maxson – protagonist of the play Fences by August Wilson – wish to achieve their dreams and advance in life; however, they are unable to do so because of society’s unjust exclusion of those who are not…

In 'Of Mice and Men ' Steinbeck presents George in a way the reader has never seen. The extract begins with George almost coaxing Lennie, telling him that "the air feels fine." Usually when ever George speaks to Lennie he is always an authoritive figure, and although George is still coaxing Lennie by comforting him, the dynamics have changed. George is no longer this angry, hostile character, but rather we find George being presented in a paternal way, allowing- for possibly the first time- the…

John Steinbeck, the two main characters George and Lennie walked together in the dark. The inseparable pair were caught in a catastrophe, that could not be avoided. John Steinbeck wrote the death of Lennie with purpose of showing an analogy to the Great Depression in which our country struggled with for years.With uses of foreshadowing and character traits the death was easily predicted. Yet was a conundrum if this was an act of devotion toward their friendship, or an act by George to protect…

Scott Fitzgerald did a very well job in The Great Gatsby on conveying the East Egg and West Egg daily lives and there way they portray themselves in the two societies. The East Egg is very admired by the way he shows they act and perceive themselves in being so classy, calm , and respectful because…