Great Disappointment

would wait years and years to have this one thing. But, when it came down to it, you couldn’t have it. In the novel The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, there is an exciting journey. Jay Gatsby meets his true love from several years ago, and his dreams suddenly turn into reality. Though he receives fame, fortune and almost the girl, Jay’s dreams are better in his head. The Great Gatsby is an example of why dreams are better fantasized than actuality. Daisy meets Jimmy Gatz, a lower middle…

American Dream The Unattainability of the American Dream The American Dream is the concept that the whole nation was founded on. Yet, it is not a reality. How ironic? The American Dream is a belief where every American individual has equal chances to gain success and prosperity through determination and hard work. In other words, the American Dream is this “perfect picture” where everyone supposedly wants to be in it. The picture is of a perfect family with two children, a nice house, and a nice…

given moment, millions of people find themselves striving for the ever elusive American dream- the perfect life. However, many find themselves struck with disillusionment including characters in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and the beings in W.D. Auden’s “19”. Both The Great Gatsby and “19” convey disillusionment through a variety of symbols and examples, three of which are life, religion, and the colour green. Firstly, in “19” Auden frequently uses two different locations- the…

The Great Gatsby as talked about above conveys the message that even the richest man in the world could have many worldly possessions but could still be the lonest man in the world and die alone. That message can speak to many powerful and money hungry CEOs…

Fitzgerald’s Development of Realism In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby there are several bold themes including but not limited to wealth, romanticism, realism, as well as the American dream. Realism being the most prevalent theme throughout the novel is expressed in Gatsby’s pursuit of Daisy’s love. Fitzgerald develops the theme of realism by taking the reader on the long journey Gatsby endures in order to obtain Daisy’s love that was once very much alive when in fact the reader…

background of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald takes place after the Women Rights Movement as the Lost Generation. Jay Gatsby is the "American Dream" of the Lost Generation and tries to become worthy of Daisy. He puts her on a pedestal which will end up with him disappointing of her because of his unrealistic expectations. No matter how well their love was in the past, Daisy will stay with Tom and never be with Gatsby because of their social and money status. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott…

egardless of family history, race, or religion simply by working hard enough. Frequently, “success” is equated with the fortune that the independent, self-reliant individual can win. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald examines and critiques Jay Gatsby’s particular vision of the 1920s American Dream. Though Fitzgerald himself is associated with the excesses of the “Roaring Twenties,” he is also an astute social critic whose novel does more to detail society’s failure to fulfill its potential than it…

“Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known." A quote by Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby. The author portrays Nick as a moral guide through a novel filled with deception. Gatsby, the describes his life story, putting together various parts of information. Allowing rumors to be spread regarding his occupation and his wealth, he does not let much of his identity to be known. Daisy Buchanan is a…

opportunity for everyone to make a new life for himself or herself by having the chance to get a job. Fitzgerald views the American dream as something that is long gone and long since forgotten. He defines it as a dream that was just that, a dream. In the Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby was the epiphany of a failed American dream. He wanted his true love, Daisy Buchanan, to show that she was in love with him as much as he is with her. She is unable to show her true feelings for him because of her…

John Steinbeck’s novel, Of Mice and Men, set in California during the Great Depression, tells the story of two migrant workers, Lennie and George, and their struggle to support themselves and each other. Along their journey to find work, they find themselves on a ranch, where they meet many men who live in a similar condition to them. Two people that they come across, however, do not have the same type of loving, supportive relationship that Lennie and George share. Curley’s wife and Crooks are…