Ella Fitzgerald

Sunday again.--He had made love to Stella as he might attack some matter to be cleaned up hurriedly before the days end." (Fitzgerald 13) Joel and Stella make the affair official by making love to each other. An accident appears. Miles Callman is killed in a plane crash. "--the plane just fill this side of Kansas City. The body of Miles Calman has been identified--." ( Fitzgerald 14) In all the drama, Stella begs Joel not to leave her. Joel being in Stella 's life is like having Miles alive…

that women let it restrict their freedom for far too long. Furthermore, even after women gained the vote, they were still viewed as subordinate to men. In the 1920’s novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald writes, “She’s a nice girl...They oughtn’t to let her run around the country this way,” (Fitzgerald, 18) about Jordan, a female character who supports herself by professionally golfing. This evinces an obvious negative attitude towards independent women. Another blatant disregard of…

deep perspective in writing as F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald captured the spirit of the American Dream in his writing and truly revitalized American literature. Despite F. Scott Fitzgerald’s disappointing upbringing, wild adult life, and tumultuous downfall, he is considered one of the most influential and profound authors of all time and is still celebrated globally to this day. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896. Fitzgerald lived a relatively comfortable…

question your dreams? To me the answer is no, however, I don’t think there is a right or wrong answer to this question because everyone has a different point of view of almost everything. The book The Great Gatsby, which was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a American style novel describing a millionaire also faces many judgments from others, characters in this book clearly performed how the society is, hates, love, jealousy, having doubts, and somehow can reflect today’s society either. It’s…

even the average reader become convinced that Daisy should flee the scene. Indeed Nick describes Daisy’s situation at the end of the first chapter as “It seemed to me that the thing for Daisy to do was to rush out of the house, child in arms ...” (Fitzgerald 23). From Tom’s racism on page 16, to his mistress calling during dinner on page 17, both the reader and characters have plenty of reason to dislike Tom, but Daisy remains with him regardless. Unfortunately for Tom, this mistreatment of…

new form of art, jazz music. America during this time was less conforming to traditional values and more fascinated by creating individual social acceptance and modernism through gaining wealth. The book and film “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald embodies the Jazz Age through the character Jay Gatsby’s pursuit of wealth in…

1. Nick describes himself as a nonjudgmental person. 2. Nick describes Tom as a 3. Jordan Baker is an old friend of Daisy’s, also a professional golfer. Nick likes that Jordan is extremely pessimistic, with a mannish, cold personality. 4. Gatsby is standing alone on his lawn looking out over the water towards the green light that marks where daisies home is. 5. Nick 's tone when he is describing tom portrayed that he was not fond of toms existence 2 1. Nick meets Tom’s mistress when tom…

Gatsby was one of many creative stories F. Scott Fitzgerald successfully wrote during his era. The 1920’s brought new things to Fitzgerald and his newly wedded wife, but once all the fame and glamour ended so did they. Fitzgerald’s life eventually came crashing down in depression and misery following the 1920’s, and he would never be the same. Fitzgerald became very vulnerable to this era and could not control himself, which came back to haunt him. Fitzgerald wrote the book in first person…

husband. Due to her words in the first time Nick join the party they have in New York City. “‘I married him because I thought he was a gentleman,’ she said finally. ‘I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn’t fit to lick my shoe.’”(Fitzgerald, pp.37) She blamed his husband that he was poor. Apparently wealth is more important than love in commonplace. Gatsby knows it very well. As a result, he makes his success in by using his money. It influence the way about Gatsby doing things…

Within the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald the journey of the newly rich protagonist, Jay Gatsby, is recounted in relation to his love for Daisy Buchnana. Gatsby is a charming and confident man who grew his empire of welath himself to attract his true love Daisy. While many believe Jay gatsby is an unforeseen hero, due to his obtained wealth and persistence for love, I believe that Gatsby is a tragic hero due to his flaws, naiveness, and finally his tragic fall. What brought Gatsby…