Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy

quotes from the book because it not only shows how Gatsby felt about Daisy but it also summarizes his entire life. In addition, this quotes shows how he was able to forget all his ambitions just for that one girl, Daisy. Him being in love did not just turn out to be better for him, but also for his future. Daisy was the one who preferred men that were rich so to become the Daisy’s dream man, he had to work hard. Him being in love might have been one of the reasons Gatsby was able to have so much money, and was able to afford to throw stately parties each weekend just for his long lost love, Daisy. Another quote…

to see Daisy, sitting in her car looking out upon Gatsby’s mansion next door. Nick, with an umbrella in his hand, escorted Daisy to the veranda, ever so cautiously minding her rambunctiously ritzy hat sat prominently upon her head. However, it was in this moment that Gatsby decided to leave through the rear door. Appearances meant everything to him and desperation was not an impression he was willing to make. Quickly, yet quietly, Gatsby leapt to the kitchen and seamlessly exited throughout the…

American Dream is a national set of ideals (Democracy, Rights, Liberty, Opportunity, and Equality) in which freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity, and success, and in upward social mobility for the family and children, achieved through hard work. In The Great Gatsby, the author tries to show how the great American Dream is not attainable. For Gatsby, the American Dream was to win back the love of Daisy through status, riches and fame. Gatsby and Daisy's romance started before Gatsby…

American society, democracy and capitalism are encouraged because people from different social class interact with each other daily. Some individuals fantasize to move up in social class to have a romantic relationship with someone who is in a higher social status that they are in. However, despite America claims to be democratic and capitalist, in reality, it is difficult to have the freedom to change one’s social class up. In The Great Gatsby, protagonist Gatsby aims to move up in social class…

One of the main themes of F.Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, is the American Dream, a dream defined as the set ideals of democracy, rights, liberty, opportunity, and equality for everyone. Though each character in his or her own right is in search of promises of the American dream, each character represents different ideas of appreciation, freedom, and sacrifice of the Dream. First and foremost, the way in which the characters gain the American Dream determines their appreciation of…

Though neither of them condemn travel in Self Reliance and Daisy Miller, both believe travellers should be educated. Their version of education is not one’s grasping of basic of maths, languages, or sciences, but instead a fuller understanding of personal freedom, culture, and society. Emerson and James exemplified in Self Reliance and Daisy Miller that one needs to find balance between their own individuality and cultivation to not impede on other cultures. With an education system focused on…

Democracy, freedom and equal opportunity have long been the ideologies associated with the American mindset, and as a result, the United States came to be recognized as one of the few countries in the world where anyone who worked hard enough could become successful and therefore fulfill the American Dream. However, through The Great Gatsby, author F. Scott Fitzgerald confronts this sanguine mentality. That which defines success in the 1920s, the time during which Fitzgerald’s novel is set, is…

the most powerful countries in the world. So some people will ask where the American dream should to go. In fact, the American dream always exist, just in the vicissitudes of history and its connotation and significance continue to develop and change, but the essence of American dream has already gone bad. The prototype of the American dream appeared more than 300 years ago, at that time the American dream was a dream for survival and refuge. From Columbus discovered the American continent to…

happiness, equality, freedom, democracy, rights, liberty, opportunity. In America, people live under an idealism that money and happiness will always translate to happiness. The American Dream tells the world that these things are simply the only things that are needed in order to live in a life without emptiness, however, the characters from the stories strongly explain that this nature is false. America became a nation with the immigration of the people from many places in the world,…

America and Her Roots Through America's indigenous art form; jazz, to the works of American artists such as Jackson Pollock and Romare Bearden, and to the impact of famous works of literature such as The Great Gatsby by Scott F. Fitzgerald. America's culture has a unique identity that has been uprooted ever since the beginning of her history. Throughout her history, America "the great" has forged her cultural identity to be a land of progress, democracy, corruption, and a country full of…