Dark side

In August 6th, 1956, I danced with Manuel in the dance organized in my village, at an orange grove that was placed near the public washing place. The walls had recently been whitewashed and the moon corroborated that whiteness. It seemed day to me, I swear it seemed day. The stars were placed by our waist, they were so many that started tickling us, wrapping us. I danced with Manuel as I was dancing with the eternity. I remember quite better his hot breathing in my neck than his awkward words he…

Jack Benton Mrs. Maggeart English Honors III 16 March 2016 The Corrupted American Dream The American dream is defined as the goal of a hard, honest worker, as they successfully fulfil their wants. Cars, clothes, big houses, and family is ideal to the dream, but in The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald interprets the corruption of the American Dream; although many characters from the novel seem to be successful, those characters are immorally feeding their wealth and success towards…

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And then one fine morning—So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. After World War I, America seemed to promise unlimited financial and social opportunities for anyone willing to work hard, an American Dream. For some, however, striving for and realizing that…

In the novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald expresses how one's greedy desire for wealth and power threatens their possibility at genuine happiness. Although money takes on the role of a lavish possession; it blinds people of the significance behind true joy. Fitzgerald renders the character, Tom Buchanan, as a self absorbed man with a sense of carelessness and belief that power leads to happiness. Fitzgerald utilizes Tom’s lifestyle to reveal that while money has the ability to satisfy…

thus making Daisy a victim of Tom’s infidelities. The way Tom dehumanizes Daisy is by making her seem small, almost fairy-like and by not allowing her to express herself. Though, he’s not physically putting his hands on Daisy, he still has a violent side and is doing a violent act of not allowing Daisy to be herself. Daisy accuses Tom for her bruised “little finger” where Daisy refers to him as “a brute of a man” and “hulking” in which Tom responded y saying “I hate that word hulking” (27). And…

Daisy have all been corrupted and destroyed by the dream.Fitzgerald shows us the American dream while using every character in some way. Most of the characters either have the happiness and not the material side of the American Dream and those who have the material side of it want the happiness side too. In the book The Great Gatsby the author Fitzgerald shows us that the American Dream is to have money, a car, a…

In “The Great Gatsby” the valley of ashes is an industrial area that is between West Egg and New York. It is described as “a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the form of houses and chimneys and rising smoke” (page 23). Although, it is not actually covered in ashes, it seems like that because of the gray smoke pollution that hovers from the factories. Nick paints the city gray, giving a depressing sense along with…

While Liberty Slept “Admirals, sailors, generals, privates, ordinary civilians – some 577 participants – have unselfishly joined forces to help me piece together this picture of that famous Sunday” (Lord, 213). Walter Lord, the father to a legion of best-selling historic books, is most avowed for A Night to Remember, the culmination of buoyant eyewitness descriptions from the sinking Titanic. Day of Infamy is an enthralling non-fiction delivering a chronicle of singular takes from the…

In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the narrator is Nick Carraway. He is able to give a fairly unbiased account of the events that happens in the novel. Many symbols are present in the book, for example, the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg which represented God watching over them all. FItzgerald used the characters Myrtle, Daisy, and Gatsby, to portray an image of how people are trapped in their lives as a way to criticize society. One of the more prevalent examples of this portrayal of…

Assignment 1.1: Three things I learned from the pre-reading are that Fitzgerald was an alcoholic, that the people in this book want to get rich quick, and that Gatsby does not accept the process of time. Assignment 1.2: Nick’s father advised him not to criticize anyone because all people did not have the advantages he had. We learn that Nick attended Yale and that his family is wealthy. He moves to West Egg which is nice but not quite as high class as East Egg. Nick’s neighbor, Gatsby, is a…