Ella Fitzgerald

flappers, teenage girls and women that were described to listen to jazz and brought a new style of fashion rose due to this liberation of freedom. Literature bloomed during this time and many memorable books like The Great Gatsby were written. F. Scott Fitzgerald used his own knowledge of the 1920’s and his life experiences and incorporated them into his stories. He did a great job of writing an interesting novel that catches the reader 's mind while giving the reader a bit of knowledge on how…

extremely hard to regain the affection of Daisy which ultimately leads to his death. Nick realized that “ it was after we stated with Gatsby toward the house that gardener saw Wilson’s body a little way off in the grass. And the holocaust was complete.”(Fitzgerald 162) Gatsby was tragically willing to die for Daisy. Even though he did not deserve to die he took the blame for her actions and paid the price for it. Much like the Gatsby the Joads experience a lot of tragic heartbreaks as well. With…

of women but when it came to Daisy his whole idea has changed about how he viewed women. He is apparently not the type to prey on another man 's wife. “Yeah, Gatsby 's very careful about women. He would never so much as look at a friend 's wife"(Fitzgerald 73). Gatsby is apparently to be careful of the women he chooses but he decides to take it upon himself to be with Tom 's wife which is Daisy. He is not so careful because the woman he loves is a married woman who has a family and everything…

the tip of the iceberg. With this label in the way, women become discouraged and tend to fall under the image they are given, making gender discrimination even stronger throughout the years. In the novel, The Great Gatsby authored by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Daisy Fay radiates stereotypical womanly traits. Due to said time period, Daisy being a woman is seen as naïve and weak. Women have no say in issues, or events, nor do they have…

In The Great Gatsby (1925), F.Scott Fitzgerald tells the story of how a fabulously wealthy young man named Jay Gatsby, who is obsessed with both his past and his position in society dedicates his entire life and future to his quest to relive his memories and win over the girl from his past. Ultimately, Gatsby is revealed to be a fraud and his goal is proven to be unattainable as his carefully constructed life falls apart, eventually ending in his murder. In Contrast, the main character of John…

The American Dream was founded by people who believed that they had every right to attain what they desired despite any factors that may try to hamper their success. This creates two facets to the Dream: the belief that hard work will justify a fulfilling life and the belief that because a person wants something, they deserve to have it. At its creation, the American Dream is a beautiful concept that can deliver money, happiness, and freedom, but through the years has evolved into an excuse for…

“What is the city over the mountains/Cracks and reforms and bursts in the violet air/Falling towers/Jerusalem Athens Alexandria/Vienna London/Unreal.” Images such as this are prominent throughout T.S. Eliot’s poem, The Waste Land. These images depict, quite literally, the wasteland that society has become, and displays the fear that the author has for the future. Images of wastelands-desolation, isolation, destruction, ruin, the fall of nature- are dominate theme within modernist literature and…

In the words of Nick Carraway, “It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment” (Fitzgerald 104). This is especially true when looking through the typically pessimistic eyes of any modernist author. Modernism is a movement made to disillusion individuals to the shortcomings and negative aspects of the society in which they live. Many authors of the early 1900s had many similar experiences while growing up in wartime. They…

In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the colors green, gold, and grey to symbolically show the wealth in the American dream, which ultimately proves to be shallow and false, these colors also represent Gatsby’s quest to obtain the American Dream to impress…

A dream deferred can be described as having a specific goal in mind, but that goal somehow ends up delayed. In both “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald the idea of deferred dreams is clearly portrayed through the characters of Walter Younger and Jay Gatsby. Walter Younger and Jay Gatsby are two completely different characters, but they are similar in wanting to achieve their dreams. Walter dreams of owning a liquor store but that has not been…