Ella Fitzgerald

In The Great Gatsby, a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, a middle class man, named Nick Carraway, rented a house next to most popular guy in West Egg, Jay Gatsby. While at his cousin’s, Daisy’s, house, one of Gatsby’s parties came up in the conversation. Taking place during the “Roaring Twenties” or The Jazz Age, Gatsby threw the best parties; everyone came to them. The reader later learns that Gatsby was and still is passionate about Daisy and through the parties to impress her. Nick finally gets…

In the drama A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, an African-American family struggles to achieve the American Dream. Meanwhile in F. Scott Fitzgerald 's novel The Great Gatsby, a wealthy man attempts to enrapture his eternal love. Each of these book 's portrays the American Dream except it is in two contrasting ways. While Walter Younger struggles to make ends meet and provide for his family , Jay Gatsby throws lavish parties and lives in a voluminous mansion in West Egg. Through…

find again” (Fitzgerald 2), Nick Carraway, Daisy’s cousin describes Gatsby’s external side very well in this quote. To many that know Gatsby or know of him, they think of his outward appearance, money, and charm. Gatsby take pride in his fortune and is very confident in…

The evolution of people seem to only rely on whether you were born with money or worked for it and there was no in between. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a story the narrator/ main character Nick Carraway on his journey from Minnesota to the big city of New York. Nick learns the struggle of the people in the valley of ashes to the luxurious life style of the fat cats living on east egg, nick would live on the west side invested in bond business. There was James Gatsby/ Jay Gats with…

In the story, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, there is a major symbol apparent throughout the story: a billboard with a pair of eyes that represent Dr. T.J. Eckleburg’s eye doctor business. This billboard is situated in the Valley of Ashes between the “Eggs” and New York. As the story progresses, a few of the book’s characters give insight about the possibilities of what the billboard might represent; the billboard symbolizes God, moral decay, and the death of the American dream. One…

Scott Fitzgerald explains the death of someone important in Gatsby life, his name is Dan Cody. “ Ella Kaye came on board one night in Boston and a week later Dan Cody inhospitably died.” (Fitzgerald 107) Dan Cody lost his mentor and his guide, after he left his parents Dan Cody become his figure and him losing that changed Gatsby. Gatsby losing him made…

to Daisy Buchanan in Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is obsessive and dysfunctional; I believe that some of his actions, although ultimately tragic, prove Gatsby to simply be a man blinded by love who wanted to be with the person he loved. Fitzgerald introduces Gatsby after Nick Carraway spots Gatsby at the dock of his lavish mansion, describing him as powerful…

“softmindedness” (Fitzgerald 105) and susceptibility to drunkenness which Dan Cody possesses is an undermining fault that is contrary to the nature of the American Dream. In chapter six of The Great Gatsby, narrator Nick Carraway describes Cody as a drunk, and, inferably, a frequenter of parties. It could be reasoned that it was at one of these parties where the reporter Ella Kaye “came on board [Cody’s yacht] one night . . . and a week later Dan Cody inhospitably died” (Fitzgerald 106). Cody’s…

  "(...) Daisy, who was sitting frightened but graceful,  on the edge of a stiff chair."   Then there is Gatsby,  who is so conscious of his appearance,  that he almost knocks over the clock.  Again the reader is presented with evidence of nervousness and awkwardness,  as it is very common behaviour to be rather clumsy when one is unsure of ones self,  due to the presence of a person one is attracted to.  After this small incident Gatsby also…

On the dustjacket on which Fitzgerald had insisted for Gatsby, a pair of sorrowing beautiful eyes, presiding above orgiastic neon, bears a foetus. And in this novel, high above the urgent, suave contestings, like an adult far removed from the fevers of sibling rivalry, a craved symbolic…