Parvenu

Myrtle and Gatsby have dramatically different personalities--Myrtle is vulgar and garish, while Gatsby is more classy and refined--but as part of the “no money” working-class, Myrtle represents a past that Gatsby, now a member of the nouveau riche, has monetarily transcended. However, as Fitzgerald illustrates, social standing does not necessarily follow wealth. Gatsby grew up poor with nothing but his love for Daisy, who, as a member of the “old money” class, embodies Gatsby’s lust for both…

David Ives’ off-beat comedy Venus in Fur is not so much a theatrical production as a crafty mind game in which the intrigued audience is presented with a relationship in constant flux, drifting seamlessly in and out of serial hypotheses. (Continuous change; instability/ a flow or discharge {Farlex} fluidity/ mutability/ fluctuation/ change/ instability/ unrest/ unpredictability/ variability/ uncertainty/ unsteadiness/ volatility/ shakiness/ wavering) -The universe is change; life is what…