Jay Pritzker Pavilion

F. Scott Fitzgerald explores the difference between social classes during the Roaring Twenties through characters, such as Gatsby, Tom, Daisy and Myrtle, and situations conflicting with women and race in the Great Gatsby. The novel is set in East Egg and West Egg, which are two locations of different class. The people of this novel are either old money, new money, or they have no money. The difference in social classes puts a strain on Daisy and Gatsby’s relationship. Fitzgerald also presents…

Surrounded by vulgar mass-produced decor, she is a mockery of everything she aspires to imitate. In this respect, she resembles Jay Gatsby, whose self-invention parodies Benjamin Franklin’s success story of hard work and moral self- improvement. Nick concludes, with grim resignation, that “Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply” (48). Myrtle’s depiction is more…

the death of Jay Gatsby, daisy and himself had become quite close and were having an affair. When everything came crashing down due to the careless actions of daisy she merely disappeared and showed no sign of remorse for the death of Gatsby or myrtle. Sometime after Gatsby 's death nick says "Just as I was sure there 'd be a wire from daisy before noon-- but neither a wire nor Mr. Wolfsheim arrived. " the reader uses this quote to again symbolise that no one cared for the death of jay Gatsby…

British proposed that they were going to violate the Treaty of Paris, as well as implement the Council of Orders. Fortunately, Jefferson proved his point of leverage when the U.S. entertained joining the Scandinavian countries against the British. John Jay met with the British to negotiate a treaty until Hamilton compromised Jay’s position. The Spanish then feared that Spanish possessions would be invaded as a result of Jay’s Treaty of 1794. Resulting in a…

Nick Carraway is the narrator of the novel and the judge of the events going on. He is an empirical and traditional young man who wanted to get away from his small town, so he moved to New York. While in New York he meets Daisy and Tom Buchanan, Jay Gatsby, and many other interesting people. Nick describes himself…

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…

Like this example Nick learns about the money and crimes that go on around Gatsby. Surrounded by characters with poor morality he flaunts wisdom and good morals even though he is described as not a highly regarded person. Through his episodes with Jay Gatsby, Tom Buchanan, and the other haughty characters in the novel…

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…

every person, despite social class. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses Jay Gatsby, Tom Buchanan, and George Wilson to compare the three levels of wealth in the novel as well as demonstrating the struggles that all people face when trying to reach “The American Dream”. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald created a diverse set of characters who all…

The Demise of Gatsby As Florence King once said, “People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they 're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error” (“Florence King Quote” n. pag.). The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, takes place in post-World War One America, a time when people always want the finest, fanciest things because they feel that they deserve them. This is all a part of their…