Jay Rosen

was an integral part of literature produced in the twentieth century. Identity crises in literature are most often faced by adolescents and migrants, both of which accurately describe James Gatz in The Great Gatsby. Young James Gatz, also known as Jay Gatsby, migrated all the way from North Dakota to the southern shores of Lake Superior then on to Minnesota and eventually to Long Island, New York all before the age of 23. Compared to most, Gatz’s identity crisis was a rather large one. He left…

attempt to reclaim Daisy. He believes that wealth will impress her and she will divorce Tom and marry him” (Verderame). Growing up, Gatsby lived in the lower or working class of society. He went from being a “nobody” names James Gatz to being the great Jay Gatsby. In Fitzgerald’s words, “James Gatz – that was really, or at least legally, his name. He had changed it at the age of seventeen and at the specific moment that witnessed the beginning of his career – when he saw Dan Cody 's yacht drop…

intimacy about the picture and anybody would’ve said they were conspiring together” (155), it is obvious that the glue of their relationship was Tom’s fortune, which alone seemed to be enough to make her to stay with him, even when she wanted to be with Jay Gatsby instead. Neither Tom nor Daisy are particularly happy with their life together, leading them both to have affairs, but Daisy does not see this as sufficient reason to abandon the comfort of Tom’s riches. Towards the end, it is noted…

Blue is used in “The Great Gatsby” mostly in association with Jay Gatsby and his lost dream. Gatsby and Daisy had fallen in love five years earlier in Louisville when Gatsby was sent to the war. Daisy promised him that she would wait until he returned, but he was not able to make it back to her right away. After Daisy…

give individuals materialistic happiness, it does not give them actual, prolonged happiness, which leaves the individual feeling empty. In turn, the individual will eventually feel empty because there is only so much money can buy. The protagonist, Jay Gatsby, was brought up poor and later became a part of the upper class. Since “his parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people” (58), he resented his past lifestyle and the way people perceived…

The American Dream is a devil in disguise. While many see the American Dream as an opportunity to a better, more fulfilling life, it misleadingly entices those who pursue it. Individuals who try to follow his/her own American Dream usually face disappointment after being misled by the false facade it presents. The United States is understand to be a place that offers space and freedom to succeed for those desperate to escape their miserably disappointing reality. However, our perceived…

twice, The Great Gatsby. The movie that will be described is the most recent one that was shown in 2013. The movie takes place during the roaring 20’s around the outskirts of New York. The main characters are as follows: Tom Buchanan, Daisy Buchanan, Jay Gatsby, Nick Caraway (narrator), Jordan Baker, Myrtle Wilson, and George Wilson. Nick Caraway finds himself living next to the famous Gatsby who threw countless amounts of parties, but no one ever knew why. The endless amounts of parties is…

The “Roaring Twenties” was a time of extravagance for the United States Of America, the stock market was rising. The market rose to a new point where it reached an all time high as some like to say. The rise of the stock market had factories and businesses booming. In the twenties several new things were being produced. New costly things being introduced consisted of washing machines, cars and toasters. This made the world very modern, it was the first time it had ever been like that. Not only…

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…