Georgian Bay

Imagine you are walking through the woods with your family when you stumble upon a round, ugly, grey rock. You pick it up to show your family how funny it looks when, all of a sudden, you drop it. The rock splits open, revealing a gorgeous, deep purple inside. Some people are like that rock; rugged on the outside, gorgeous on the inside. Tom Buchanan, in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is not one of those people, in fact, he is the complete opposite. Tom was often times described as…

“Colors, like features, follow the changes of emotions” (Pablo Picasso). Almost all writers use colors to form real images of their characters, the characters’ emotions, the scenes, and the events in the novel. Colors play a very important role when writers mention them in their novels. Readers can read a novel and see how colors can describe the characters and their emotions. A certain book, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a very good example of a book that has color symbolism.…

When thinking of the color red it may be seen in one of two ways. Positively red symbolizes warm feelings of passion, cheer and love. Red also has a dangerous negative side that symbolizes the expression of anger, aggression and power. Red can be used in many ways to call attention to either side of the intense emotions affiliated with the presentation of the color. F. Scott Fitzgerald, an author of many accredited novels, uses color to give his work “life.” He uses color symbolism to show major…

philosophy of nature is his irresistible love for nature as seen in Ancient Mariner where he took voyage to the wild seas away from the real world of men. Romantics gave a luxuriant display of natural objects. They adorned, devoted, loved, followed and accepted nature religiously. They had enjoyed various bonds, ties, and relationships with nature- it being their guide, friend, philosopher, generator, provider and many more. The Victorian Age was such a period in the history of English…

The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald takes place in the 1920s in New York City. In the tragedy there are several colors that are symbolic towards the story. The main colors include grey, white, yellow, and green. Grey symbolizes sadness and the lack of confidence. White symbolizes innocent, purity, and a new beginning. Yellow is one of the main colors associated with Gatsby as it symbolizes money and power. Lastly, Green symbolizes growth and freshness. The many colors of The Great…

The American Dream truly existed when our founding fathers fought for our freedom that we have today. Now the Dream is more an illusion, a hoax tied within the continual unsatisfied Americans that we currently are. In the period of when our Declaration of Independence was born we Americans “...began with optimistic individualism that exuded both idealistic hunger for liberty and a materialistic thirst for property().” In this less complicated era our American Dream began with life, liberty and…

guest was the Chicagoan merchant Mr. Vernon. By 1905 Clevelanders were rediscovering the abundance of small-mouth black bass, wall-eyed pike and muskellunge. A group that had been staying at Stanley House on Lake Joseph on opposite shores from Gordon Bay stayed over a the Summer Resort: Dr. Frank Bunts, a surgeon and his brother-in-laws Hugh Wicks, a banker, Alexander Taylor, a real estate broker and John Baxter Cochran son of an Eire Railroad vice-president. Not every season was good however. A…

of the object ‘gold’ symbolizes the success of Daisy as a result of the present American Dream. Also the house that the Buchanan’s live in is displayed as “Cheerful Red and White Georgian colonial Mansion looking over the bay” once again reinforces their superiority in society as they are presented as ‘looking over the bay’ looking over society and through there material wealth dictating the actions of all social groups bellow them. The use of colonial Mansion reinstates their colonial roots and…

Throughout the novel, The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the main conflict exists between three distinct social classes: the old-money, the new-money, and the no-money. Tom and Daisy Buchanan descend from old-money and, therefore, felt as if they should inherit certain rights. They believe that their birth gives them power, similar to the idea of divine right. New-money is represented by the character Jay Gatsby. While the source of his money is originally unknown, it is obvious…

Gatsby’s mansion is located on the edge of the West Egg, which is the “less fashionable” of the two eggs. Nick Caraway also lives in the West Egg, in a small, quaint cottage by Gatsby’s mansion. Daisy and Tom Buchanan live in an elaborate Georgian Colonial mansion on the bay of the East Egg, directly across from Gatsby’s mansion in the West Egg. Some parts of the story take place in New York City, in a little apartment owned by Tom and in an exclusive club for the wealthy deep within…