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During the writers’ strike of 2009, Joss Whedon and his team created a forty-five-minute long video entitled Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. Decades earlier, writer Francis Scott Fitzgerald released his classic, The Great Gatsby. While it may not seem like they have anything in common at first glance, relationships in Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog by Joss Whedon were heavily influenced by the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, creating a classic “quest story” that draws the readers…

In the novel The Great Gatsby, the two main settings are the two very contrasting East Egg and West Egg. F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author of The Great Gatsby, uses the distinct differences between New York’s East Egg and West Egg to his advantage by furthering the character building throughout the novel, showing the East Eggers’ pretentious prejudice towards West Egg, and also displaying the East Eggers’ dumbfoundment towards the completely contrasting West Egg lifestyle. These contrasts become…

Recreating a past love through false memories can be painful and degrading. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby, a man of riches and wealth, attempts to revive a past relationship with Daisy Buchanan, the woman of his dreams. A series of parties is thrown in desperate hopes of capturing Daisy’s attention. One heated argument in a New York City hotel room causes Gatsby’s downfall with Daisy; although Gatsby hopes his newfound wealth draws Daisy back into his arms.…

analyzing the lessons learned from both “The Great Gatsby” and “This Side of Paradise” readers will be able to recognize and avoid some of the potential risk’s that may come up along the way. First, be yourself. In both stories the main characters Jay Gatsby and Amory Blaine fall into the classic pitfall of changing themselves in order to fit in. Gatsby becomes a rich aloof in order to get Daisy, Blaine a stuck-up aloof to get Rosalind; both fail to get the girl. Next, get a friend to help you…

Fitzgerald explores the uniquely American tragedy of Jay Gatsby, whose thirst for love and wealth eventually becomes obsessive and illegal, and his downfall parallels that of a society who were corrupted by their desires. Fitzgerald depicts universal and classical themes, relating to issues still relevant today, making this classical novel inspire readers of any era. Love Fitzgerald presents the initially pure, but subsequently impure love between Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchannan, highlighting the…

Wilson, and Daisy are examples of people with failed or corrupt American Dreams. They all reached for the stars but, in the end, only ended up with a handful of clouds, and vapor easily slips through the fingers. From the beginning of the book, Jay Gatsby was portrayed as an extremely elusive and mysterious person; a man of great power and wealth.…

The Valley of Ashes: An American Trap In F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, The Great Gatsby, Gatsby tries to reach his goal of getting back together with Daisy, but is unsuccessful. Other characters such as George Wilson and Myrtle Wilson are also unsuccessful in their quest for the American Dream. In Fitzgerald 's novel, The American Dream is an important theme challenging the values and truths of the American society. However, they all struggle with reaching their dreams and all end up dead. One…

always conform to the ways of society. But is this really true? The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is about a vicious and fatal love triangle between the married Tom and Daisy Buchanan, the mistress, Myrtle Wilson and an extremely wealthy man, Jay Gatsby. Somehow the innocent Nick Carraway gets caught in the middle and finds a love interest of his own, Jordan Baker. “anyone lived in a pretty how town” by e.e. cummings is the anyones and noones vs. the everyones and someones that represent…

Fitzgerald presents Jay Gatsby as one character who cannot see reality. “"Can 't repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!"(Ch. VI. Pg. 117) He focuses so strongly on trying to get what he had in the past that he cannot face the reality that he cannot…

same things. Does this mean that love and obsession can be intertwined into something hysterical? F. Fitzgerald illustrates madness in The Great Gatsby through Jay Gatsby as he is obsessive and desires Daisy Buchanan to the point where she is the only thing he can think about, which shows that love has the potential to become insanity. Jay Gatsby is an example of madness through his obsession over Daisy Buchanan. When Gatsby gets back from the war, he searches for Daisy and finds her living…