Herod the Great

discussing with Lennie the fight he had with her husband. (Steinbeck 81). She explains how she wishes she can do the same and it is clear she is trapped in an abusive relationship. Curley’s wife has also been robbed of her future. Women during the great depression were pressured to become housewives to help raise a family. Curley’s wife’s dreams had to be put aside; “I tell you I ain 't used to livin ' like this. I coulda made somethin ' of myself.” (Steinbeck 88). This quotes signifies how if…

(Rosentreter, pg. 276) Most people believe that recovering from the Great Depression was a result from Roosevelt’s New Deal. The New Deal was a sequence of programs that ratified in the United States between the years of 1933 and 1938. This included laws that were passed by congress and executive orders from President Franklin Roosevelt. They focused on something that was known as the “3 R’s” which were Relief, Recovery, and Reform. The Great Depression ended during the beginning of World War…

Life in the Roaring Twenties revolved around parting and money. The Great Gatsby offers a view of how people probably were back then. Many of the characters refused to live in reality and instead lived with the illusions they had created for themselves. The characters fool themselves and others into believing they are better than they really are. As they turned illusions into reality they created a life of misery and uncertainty. Nick Carraway is the narrator of the novel and the judge of the…

Loneliness Is Inevitable “(and noone stooped to kiss his face)” (Cummings, 26). In Fitzgerald’s novel characters like Jay Gatsby, Nick Carraway, and Myrtle Wilson all have aspects of their personal lives that make it seem as though they are lonely in life as a result of decisions they have made in the past. In Cummings poem there are different ways to interpret the underlying meaning between the words. For his characters, noone and anyone, readers could take them as literally noone and anyone…

One of the unexplained symbols in The Great Gatsby is the billboard display of the absent Doctor T.J. Eckleburg; "The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic—their retinas are one yard high. They look out of no face, but, instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which…

In The Great Gatsby, author F. Scott Fitzgerald shows the change in America’s morals during the Jazz Age in the 1920s by using characters like Jay Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan, and Myrtle Wilson, who all have experienced a large shift in mortality compared to just the generation before them. The novel shows the social change in American society after World War I, which was a time of conservatism, compared to the risqué twenties. Throughout the novel, Fitzgerald continuously brings up…

In the early 1930s, the United States was in a very bad social and economic state. This period, known as the Great Depression, was a period of poverty, job loss, and a loss of trust in the government and Wall Street. Such a great economic collapse had never been seen by Americans. Many political and social leaders were at a complete loss as for what to do. However, one man- newly elected President Franklin Delano Roosevelt- had an answer. His answer, which resulted from a one hundred day long…

into the Great Depression. As many felt devastating consequences during this time, the government frantically searched for a solution. President Franklin D. Roosevelt developed the New Deal to pull America out of the Great Depression.…

The Great Gatsby and “The American Dream” Can we all achieve “The American Dream”? Many people have travelled from all over the world in hopes of reaching “The American Dream” of prosperity and happiness. Unfortunately, through social class divisions and life situations, many Americans do not believe that they can reach this dream. However, Fitzgerald disapproves obtainable of “The American Dream” for every person, despite social class. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses Jay Gatsby, Tom…

FDR’S New Deal The New Deal was a group of programs created by President Franklin Roosevelt. The programs were created due to the Great Depression and the economy not being stable. The New Deal focused on what was called the 3 Rs; relief, recovery, and reform. Relief for the poor and people without jobs, recovery to get the economy back to normal, and reform to keep another depression from happening. The New Deal was broke into two groups, the First New Deal and the Second New Deal. The First…