Ella Fitzgerald

named Francis Scott Fitzgerald sits over a desk pondering the events that he just barely avoided. This is the birthplace of a quite influential lovechild, The Great Gatsby. A book filled with the embodiment of the times, anxiety and worry dotting a big illuminated banner. The American dream-- quite the ambitious idea to tackle-- is something present in all, despite the label of ‘American’.The idea of just wanting something so bad, even obsessively so, is something Fitzgerald heavily criticizes.…

Celebrities nowadays, such as Amanda Bynes and Lindsay Lohan are going crazy and getting addicted to drugs because of their fame and the pressure that comes with it. It is difficult to pinpoint an A-list star who hasn’t experienced some degree of insanity or addiction resulting from the stress of being in the spotlight all of the time. Why does the desire for fame and being famous seem to always cause some sort of mental breakdown in celebrities? Linden Hills is about a man named Nedeed who…

stable on the outside, but on the inside it can be unbalanced and frail, the same philosophy goes with people; you can never really tell what a person has truly gone through just by looking at them. In the novel The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald a man named Jay Gatsby has come a far way, from poverty. Gatsby works his way up to becoming a wealthy man in order to reach his dream of being with the one he loves, Daisy, even if that means being something that he is not. In chapter…

have any romantic interest in Nick Carraway to begin with. Fitzgerald used the dishonesty of Jordan Baker in order to show the dishonesty of the people living in the…

or myth. For example, Hearne says, our supposed perfection and idyllic “ease” is a myth, and like, Gatsby, we are “way off [our initial] ambitions, getting deeper in love every minute” with an illusory vision of what it is to participate in (as Fitzgerald sees it) “ the last and greatest of all humans”- the American Dream(189)” (Hearne 191). It is clear that George’s appreciation of the American Dream is one of hard work and…

to do anything he desired. Therefore, the innocence of not being exposed to wealth when he was younger incorporates itself into the romantic idealism that he has during the story that he can buy the person he loves anything she desired. Scott F Fitzgerald portrays in Jay Gatsby the kind of materialistic man that believes anything is possible, “He presents it in Gatsby as a romantic baptism of desire for a reality that stubbornly remains out of his sight” (Bewley 2). Since he has a substantial…

According to Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby is the a masterpiece in American Literature. A masterpiece takes a great deal of work with the development of the characters and the plot of the story. Nick as the narrator does this by giving brief crucial descriptions of both the major and minor characters. Nick repeatedly demonstrates how almost every character has been consumed by the need and want for money. The greed within the hearts of both the East Eggers and West Eggers blinds them to the…

“bestselling” but when it has stood the test of time. It is an expression of life, truth or anything about the universal condition, and continues to be relevant to inspire emotional responses to people across all time periods and cultures. F. Scott Fitzgerald 's novel, ‘The Great Gatsby’, published on the 10th April, 1925, follows Jay Gatsby, a man who revolves his life around one desire, to be reunited with Daisy Buchanan, the love he lost five years earlier. Gatsby 's quest leads him from…

A home is a pure reflection of the people who occupy it. The people who live in a house fill the house with things that they like and enjoy, things that show their personality. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald we meet the characters Jay Gatsby, the Buchanans, and Nick Carraway, all come from diverse lifestyles and backgrounds. The Buchanans and Gatsby live in very big and opulent mansions, while Nick lives in a tiny shack. All of them are very content with where they live,…

Conrad Grimmer Ms. Waterman American Literature (H) 2/24/16 Shades of Grey Some things in life are completely unclear to us, we may feel a certain way about something and at the same time we feel the opposite. This lack of clarity is called ambiguity, and if you understand that some things can have more than one meaning, things will become more clear. The idea of Jay Gatsby is ambiguous because of his questionable life, although everything he does is because of his love for Daisy Buchanan.…