Ginevra King

People have been blinded by money since the beginning of time. From the 1920s to the 2000s deception has always been an obstacle for those who crave monetary value. In the novel, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Daisy Buchanan is separated and then reunited with her long lost lover, James Gatz, through the story drama brews, causes trouble and ends with unintentional murder. All of the relationships in this novel are not convincing that they are actually in love. However, some evidence…

Throughout history, colors have been used symbolically in most forms of literature, and this color symbolism can be found in almost any famous novel. The reason for this is that colors are the universal language of emotion. Colors, in literature, can show so many traits about people places and objects such as emotional state, social class, and even their meaning in the theme of the story. For this reason, color symbolism is an extremely important part of literature, especial in F. Scott…

Pablo Picasso, a famous artist throughout the 20th century, once proclaimed, “Colors, like features, follow the changes of emotion.” Pablo Picasso, a painter who used colors in his works to convey emotions, explains to us that colors can often be used to reflect different emotions. Artists, authors, painters, graphic designers, and many more people like Picasso have used the technique of color symbolism to portray different points, emotions, or symbols that they wish to express to their viewers.…

In society people judge others on appearance before they judge their actions. The beautiful and wealthy Daisy Buchanan is Jay Gatsby’s one true love. Unfortunately when Gatsby was away in the war Daisy didn’t want to wait for him she selfishly married Tom Buchanan. As time went on Tom and Daisy’s marriage wasn’t doing well since both were having affairs behind each other’s back. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel “The Great Gatsby”, Daisy is behind the deaths of both Jay Gatsby and Myrtle Wilson.…

Does money truly buy happiness? Many people don’t believe that it does, but in The Great Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan lives her life searching for money that she can hide all of her problems in. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, A wealthy man named Gatsby throws outrageous parties to attract his old love, Daisy Buchanan, who lives across the New York Sound with her wealthy and arrogant husband Tom. The novel revolves around a group of affairs and lies told by all of the characters in…

Imagine having to attend a party in which all the guests know information about a person’s affair against their spouse. In this situation, most people would want to share this information with the victim of the marriage, but in the second chapter of The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway does the complete opposite. Nick Carraway was forced to go to a party of Tom Buchanan and Myrtle Wilson’s, where he gains insight on their relationship. Nick remains a silent bystander and does not tell Daisy about…

In 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote an American classic, The Great Gatsby. Then, in 2013, Baz Luhrmann directed an adaptation starring Tobey Maguire and Leonardo DiCaprio. Of course, they have similarities except they also have striking differences. Things such as characters and settings of the book have changed in the movie. The characters differ from the book to the movie. In the movie, it showed that Nick wrote the novel while in an institution, something like a hospital, and had describing to…

In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is a multidimensional character that F. Scott Fitzgerald creates to be the center of conflict, in the book. He is a wealthy man living in West Egg, New York who throws extremely extravagant parties in his gargantuan house. Gatsby’s mysterious past and hard to believe track record makes people interested in him. Gatsby is a hopeless romantic trying to obtain his one and only love, a lavish man who wants everyone to know so, and is so mysterious, people wonder if…

In society color has many meanings such as red and blue symbolizing hot and cold. Also, in society colors represent many different things, yellow represents warmth but also represent caution. The meanings of colors throughout history have changed too, today in society blue portrays sadness but in the Middle Ages it portrayed devotion. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, the luxurious 1920s are precisely depicted. During this prosperous age there were many key factors that shaped…

There was a time in history called the Jazz Age, which took place during the “Roaring Twenties”. This novel’s setting is based in the time era of the Jazz Age and the “Roaring Twenties”. The Jazz Age was a time period in the 1920’s where new music and dances became popular in the United States and even Britain. Everyone started being more rebellious by going to more parties, and always drinking and having a good time. The “Roaring Twenties” are when more people decided to live in cities instead…