Ginevra King

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Willa Cather’s A Lost Lady have been captivating readers for almost a century. However, many readers have failed to see a hidden connection between the two novels. In fact, Fitzgerald wrote to Willa Cather “to explain an instance of apparent plagiarism.” He wrote that he had been reading A Lost Lady when he wrote The Great Gatsby and noted the similarity in description between Cather’s Mrs. Forrester and his own Daisy Buchanan. The resemblance between…

The Great Gatsby Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald Nick’s Narration… A Complete Fail… Or a Novel Engenius Success? The Great Gatsby, a great book right? And the narrator, What a great job he does by giving the story… or does he?... In The Great Gatsby, Nick remains uncertain about the “greatness” of Gatsby, showing that perhaps Gatsby isn’t as great as the rumors make him out to be. Nick begins the story as a low minimum wage worker trying to get through life in Crazy 1922 New York and trying…

In the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald the rich care about nothing more than self benefit. All of the characters with the exception of Gatsby consistently move through their daily life with no regard for others. They are motivated only by the prospect of improving their life even at the expense of others. Throughout the story both Daisy and Tom do and say things that they hope will either benefit themselves or paints a higher picture of them. Tom thinks about himself almost as if…

In the novel, “The Great Gatsby,” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the quality of life is overall depicted as negative and dull. People are characterized as more selfish and uncaring compared to other time periods or novels. It is apparent that friendships and relationships are valued extremely low, and true rich relations are often very rare, as we only see a few throughout the entire novel. Common friendships in “The Great Gatsby” are usually based around a certain thing. For instance, Gatsby, the…

After the post war of World War I, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the novel The Great Gatsby in the year of 1925 to comprehend the economic struggles on achieving the American Dream in regards of class statuses. Some readers can argue that The Great Gatsby fails to establish a true development of what the American Dream really is, while other readers can argue Fitzgerald did accomplished the definition of an American Dream. From the rising 1920s, the idealistic view for an American Dream enticed the…

Literary Criticism Seen with the Theme Society and Class Society and class is a constant theme seen in many different works of literature. It also can be depicted in many different ways. The literature can show the harsh realities of living in society, expectations of society, values of society as a whole, how one tries to change their path in society, the superficial nature of society, etc. In the masses of literature we read, we see characters that are shaped by society and also characters…

The roaring 20’s people called it. Industry and development were high, and so were the businessmen. Behind closed doors in the extravagant parties thrown were the bootleggers, gangsters, stockmen; all there to make a profit before the unbeknownst Great Depression came. Alongside the antics of the men were the new women; the flappers, who had short hair, smoked, drank and most importantly, were beginning to have rights. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 tragic love story, ‘The Great Gatsby’ opens a time…

Innocence does not mean immortality. As J.K. Rowling said, “Always the innocent are the first victims.... So it has been for ages past, so it is now.” In the Jazz Age novel, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby is a self-made, extravagantly rich young man who lives on the West Egg of Long Island. His love interest is Daisy Buchanan a married old money girl with whom he had a romantic past. As their relationship progresses, it becomes clear to everyone but Gatsby that it is not the…

Love Kills All Wealth, Love, and power are all things people want in the world. Gastby had them all. He became wealthy for love. With his wealth gave him power. Each, wealth, money and power, have a different affect on people. It took its toll on a fair share of people in The Great Gatsby. They all especially affect Gatsby. He was a one of a kind. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald delicately describes how Gatsby’s deranged obsession with Daisy caused the corruption associated with his…

“You can never make a second first impression.” This age-old saying is used in our society to emphasize the importance of making a good, memorable first impression. Any initial encounters with new people, places, and things are significant because it is human nature to make quick judgements and formulate opinions without having the whole story. The wealthy socialites of West and East Egg residing in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, are far more concerned with outward appearances…