Ginevra King

Weeping that her baby is a girl, Daisy is dependent on men to make her key decisions for her (133, 151): secure in and yet remote from male ownership and ardor, "making only a polite, pleasant effort to entertain or to be entertained" (12-13), she radiates a carefully girlish charm of irrationality and whimsy: "Do you want to hear about the butler's nose?" (14). Woman, it appears, is presented only as romance, in the restless world of glamour where there are only the pursued and the pursuing. As…

Popular Canadian Author, Gordon Korman, who is also the author of the Bruno and Boots Series, has written a new book- Son of the Mob. It was published in 2002 by Hyperion books. The setting of the book is in New York City, where seventeen-year-old Vince Luca begins dating the daughter of a FBI agent, Kendra Bightly. It just happens that Vince's father also has a strange job, a 'vending machine fixer' as they call it. Actually, Anthony Luca is the head of organized crime in New York City.…

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 's novel that has interesting Characters and is a great book for those who like romance and mysterious. In this novel Some of the characters change at the end of the book. The name of this novel, The Great Gatsby, has different meanings on why it is titled The Great Gatsby. Why did Fitzgerald name this novel The Great Gatsby? All book titles have a meaning to why the book is titled that and usually the title says it all on what the novel is going to be…

In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald many symbols are used to support the themes and characters. The Valley of Ashes is a symbol that represents death, poverty, moral decay, and the unattainability of the American Dream. It reveals a lot about the themes, such as the gap between the hollow rich and the hopeless poor, and the characters, like Myrtle and George Wilson’s lives and deaths. The Valley of Ashes was a dumping ground between Long Island, or the East and West Eggs, and New York…

F. Scott Fitzgerald was a nerd with weird hair. In 1924, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby while he was in France. In 1925 the book was published, but it did not become the picture of the ‘Roaring Twenties’ until ten to twenty years after his passing (Fitzgerald, 1995). The Great Gatsby is a reflection on the American Dream and how it differs for each individual. It showcases the good and the bad and reveals what some people will do to achieve it. The American Dream is essentially the…

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, a large focus is put on the evolving presence of women in society throughout the early 20th century. During the period following World War One, and predating the Great Depression, women began to be seen in a different light. They were granted some of the same fundamental freedoms as men. They were given the right to vote in elections; the right to property ownership as well as the ability to work in roles formerly filled by men. In popular culture…

The Great Gatsby shows the darkside and the temptress. The darkside, a character in a novel that is usually not adored by the readers. The temptress, a character archetype that possess what men desires in a novel. The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald emphasizes the character archetypes temptress, portrayed by Daisy Buchanan and darkside characterized by Tom Buchanan. The character archetype, temptress, fits the character Daisy Buchanan because she possess the desire of male…

“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.” (180; Ch.9). This is a quote said by Meyer Wolfshiem of the The Great Gatsby. This quote reveals the theme in both “anyone lived in a pretty how town” and The Great Gatsby because they both involve the carelessness of people and the effects on the main character. The fictional story The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and the poem “anyone lived in a pretty how town” by Cummings are about carelessness…

Blue, in its many variations, is prevalent all over the world--in the color of the sky, the feathers of a bluejay, and even in the music genre “the blues.” No matter what form it may be in, blue serves as a color symbolic to people of all ages, being the traditional color to represent, in the simplest of terms, sadness. Mentioned numerous times throughout the The Great Gatsby, there is no question that the color blue serves as more than simply a descriptor. Similarly to other colors, such as…

In the story of The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott. Fitzgerald, the two towns of West and East Egg are created. West Egg is established as an area for new money or people that just were not born into their wealth and had to earn it themselves. On this side, Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway settle next to each other. However, Nick is not “new money” and instead is living in what looks like a shack near his neighbor’s homes. As for Gatsby, his house is one of the most extravagant. On the other side of the…