Pat Fitzgerald

Junot Diaz’s This Is How You Lose Her is an intricate tale of love, deceptions, and longings. The characters are excellently brought to life by Diaz’s pen accompanied by a storyline that is built from many viewpoints including from a female immigrant named Yasmin. The novel is a compilation of stories revolving around Yunior, the protagonist of the story who tells his readers about the struggles that he had gone through all his life of romance and deceptions that he had made towards his former…

Envy is the sign of admiration; jealousy is the feeling of envy, wanting to have what someone else has. Throughout the novel the narrator, who stays unnamed, shows how her life revolves around jealously over Rebecca. Because of her age and insecurities the narrator starts to wonder why Maxim decides to marry her. As the narrator starts learning more about Maxim’s dead wife, she starts comparing herself with her. As her jealousy grows it gets to a point where she concludes that Maxim is still in…

The Falling Star Edwin Arlington Robinson, even in his youth, was a pessimistic child. Robinson at the age of six wondered why he was even born. Although Robinson was undoubtedly a successful poet, the likes of twenty-sixth president Theodore Roosevelt praised his work. Readers can see Robinson’s bleak sense of like through his poems, (Web 1). While rising to heights in his career, he most certainly kept a dark outlook toward the world. In one of Robinson’s famous works ‘Richard Cory,” he…

The color red suggests a position of power and intense emotion. When first arriving at Tom's house Nick says “their house was even more elaborate than i expected, a cheerful red and white Georgian Colonial mansion overlooking the bay”. (Fitzgerald 9) Tom is very wealthy, even though it is all inherited it still puts him in a position of power in the world. Tom is an emotional person most commonly seen as a short temper, when his mistress Myrtle was talking about Daisy, Tom became upset and…

The character of Dexter in Winter Dreams The main character in the short story “Winter Dreams” written by F Scott Fitzgerald, is a fourteen-year-old boy named Dexter. Dexter is kind of a nut case when winter comes around He goes into an intense and emotional melancholy." It appears that winter severely affects Green’s psych; it makes him "tremble," "repeat foolish sentences" and "command imaginary audiences." In winter, he fantasizes – primarily about golf games, which he plays "over the…

America is known as the land of opportunities. In Laurence Shames’ essay, “The More Factor”, he discusses how America has an obsession with the concept of growth and having more. According to Shames, the quality of life and other values have been underdeveloped, since Americans value having more. In the context that Laurence Shames uses the term “frontier”, it does not show any contradiction, when saying that the American “frontier” culture focuses on measurable expansion, and then using the…

Thousands of imposters have come and gone in this little world of ours. However, only a few were given a title and known for their artistic work of manipulating others. Most imposters impersonated others, tricking their clients into truly believing something completely false. Victor Lustig, born as Robert to the Miller family on January 4, 1890, in present day Czech Republic, is one of the world’s most famous and smoothest con men ever. He was a “gifted student with a seemingly bright future…

When introducing the essay “Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream”, Joan Didion describes the story of Lucille Miller, a main character in search for a dangerous illusion known as the American Dream. Didion’s essay might be viewed as a commentary on the social issue of Hollywood manufacturing the American Dream. Throughout the introduction, she sets the tone and describes the background to support her argument. Within the first paragraph itself, the time the story takes place, October, is told to be…

The Great Gatsby is a novel written in 1925 by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in 1922, the describes the short lived affair of Jay Gatsby and the narrator’s cousin, Daisy. This book was adapted into a film in 197 and later adapted into another in 2013. Though they are based on the same book they have many differences, such as the character portrayal and the level of extravagance in each film. They also had few similarities, such as the length of the film and the overall plot. The way the characters…

In August 6th, 1956, I danced with Manuel in the dance organized in my village, at an orange grove that was placed near the public washing place. The walls had recently been whitewashed and the moon corroborated that whiteness. It seemed day to me, I swear it seemed day. The stars were placed by our waist, they were so many that started tickling us, wrapping us. I danced with Manuel as I was dancing with the eternity. I remember quite better his hot breathing in my neck than his awkward words he…