Great Leap Forward

The Great Gatsby is the untold story of F.Scott Fitzgerald the author of novel. The characters in The Great Gatsby resemble many of the people FItzgerald encountered throughout his life time. This novel displays a picture of a man who looked like he had it all together and was living the American dream. With twist, turns, and tumultuous times it gives readers insight on the life of one of the most beloved authors today. Fitzgerald was not only known as an author but also as alcoholic, he and…

deal? Have you ever noticed that women have stereotypical looks and attitudes? Well that is exactly what happens to the female characters Myrtle Wilson, Jordan Baker, and Daisy Buchanan live with every day. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel The Great Gatsby, the scenes of Gatsby’s parties, and the trips to New York portrays the works use of feminism. Feminism reflects on ways authors have incorporated gender issues into their writings. Authors tend to focus on the educational and…

Black Tuesday signified the first catastrophic event in a series to come initiating the Great Depression which latest from 1929 to 1939, marking the deepest and longest economic downturn the Western world has ever seen. Not only did this spark several fundamental government programs that still exist today, but it signified a shift in literature and augmented its growth. Prior to the Great Depression, novels telling of adventure, free spirits, and politics were popular amongst communities. This…

The Summary of The Great Gatsby The book “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald is all about the romance between Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan all the while being narrated by Nick Carraway. Gatsby is the main character along with Daisy. Nick moved to New York to become a sales person after World War one to take a job as a bond salesman. Nick was convinced to move into a house At West Egg, Long Island, where he would soon meet Jay Gatsby. Last minute Nick was bailed on and moved in by himself,…

led to the economic recession. Before the crash, the U.S. had been in a decade of prosperity known as the Roaring Twenties, but on October 1929, the stock market’s collapse caused the U.S. to go into a long period of depression, also known as the Great Depression. This depression lasted from 1929 until about 1939. In 1933, at the depth of the depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt became our 32nd president. Hope was brought to the American people with his election. In his inauguration speech, he…

Throughout the 1900s, wealthy men were considered the dominant gender in the household. This is more detailed in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby, where wealthy men of high social class with many women being considered significant. Tom Buchanan is introduced as a hulking figure with a history of affairs while being married to Daisy who is Tom’s wife. Despite Daisy being aware she is inferior to Tom, she continues her act of obliviousness to Tom’s affairs in order to continue being apart…

classic American works convey a common theme. These classic works are: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, and A Separate Peace by John Knowles. It is apparent in American literature that human nature is driven by the egotistical need to control a given situation, therefore, dominating human relationships. The first novel in which humans’ inherent nature can be seen is The Great Gatsby.…

dream goes as far back as the 1920s, when The Great Gatsby was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. In the literary classic novel, Fitzgerald explores themes of resistance to change, decadence, and tainted love. All of which are characteristics of the American Dream. Through symbols such as the green light, East Egg and West Egg, and Daisy Buchanan, F. Scott Fitzgerald illustrates that the American Dream is unattainable in his twisted tragedy The Great Gatsby. The green light is a recurring…

least eight percent lower in 1940 if the New Deal had never happened. FDR’s strategy was flawed from the beginning because cutting production and raising taxes only yields less jobs and more unemployment. Economists also understand that WWII ended the Great Depression and without it, the country would have sunk further and further into debt because FDR annually averaged a modern day one hundred and ten million dollar increase in deficit spending throughout his twelve years in office. On his…

out of the great depression. I plan on finding out the truths and myths to what really helped build America to become the world’s super power from the late 1930s to mid-1950s. Some major events that took place was the regrowth of the industrial age, equality in the work place, the rise of big government, and America becoming the world’s police force. America became rich at the end of WWII. During the new industrial age boom, Americans showed desire to succeed and prosper. One of the great…