Pat Fitzgerald

2016 The Corrupted American Dream The American dream is defined as the goal of a hard, honest worker, as they successfully fulfil their wants. Cars, clothes, big houses, and family is ideal to the dream, but in The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald interprets the corruption of the American Dream; although many characters from the novel seem to be successful, those characters are immorally feeding their wealth and success towards parties, alcoholism, and materialism. The corruption of the…

financial and social opportunities for anyone willing to work hard, an American Dream. For some, however, striving for and realizing that dream corrupted them, as they acquired wealth only to pursue pleasure. Even though the characters in F. Scott Fitzgerald face through a lot of hard ship, they realize that the American Dream does not exist in the novel. Specifically, the lives of George Wilson, Jay Gatsby,…

In the novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald expresses how one's greedy desire for wealth and power threatens their possibility at genuine happiness. Although money takes on the role of a lavish possession; it blinds people of the significance behind true joy. Fitzgerald renders the character, Tom Buchanan, as a self absorbed man with a sense of carelessness and belief that power leads to happiness. Fitzgerald utilizes Tom’s lifestyle to reveal that while money has the ability to satisfy…

Dorian Gray and Narcissus Several times through The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde compares the titular character to Narcissus. These comparisons are the most obvious in a set of hints that imply that Dorian Gray was written to be a modern Narcissus. Their similarities go beyond simple vanity, although both characters have a considerable share. Dorian is more able to demonstrate all the various facets of narcissism with an entire novel than Narcissus was able to with his one legend. Dorian…

able to take care of her. As a matter of fact he had no such facilities… He knew that Daisy was extraordinary but he didn’t realize just how extraordinary a ‘nice’ girl could be… and Gatsby was overwhelmingly aware of the youth and mystery that wealth imprisons and preserves, of the freshness of many clothes and of Daisy, gleaming like silver, safe, and proud above the hot struggles of the poor. (The Great Gatsby, 130-131) This how Gatsby dehumanizes Daisy, by turning her into an idea or…

Nick Carraway does not get higher position in the society of the East because he carries the Midwestern ideals and characteristics in himself. Nick turns out to be unfit for the society he lives in - wealthy, corrupted, superficial and is some way unreal for him. Tom and Daisy are the perfect examples of Eastern people and Nick describes them as “careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it…

The book “Drown” is a collection of many great short stories written by Dominican author Junot Diaz. Diaz uses the title of the collection “Drown”, to metaphorically demonstrate how some of the characters in the story may be sinking in their own depressions and disappointments. There are three stories that are great examples of this. The first of the three being “Boyfriend”, which tells the story of Yunior, who is trying to get over a breakup with his last girlfriend by trying to get with a…

Where was I from you say? Well I came from the Philippines, but there a little funny story attach to it so while my mom was moving to the U.S my mom already had me in her belly while she was moving. As her trip continued she realized that I was already coming soon but luckily there was plenty of doctors with all their equipment ready to be use for my birth, and I was born healthy as could be. From all the adventuring of moving to California my father’s family was really wealthy. They use to…

the same time? F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, two of the most respected authors in literature, both became expatriates who fled to Paris after World War I in the 1920s. Although both authors had the same historical context in their works, their general writing style was quite different. Fitzgerald used a more flowy sentence structure, full of captivating descriptions, while Hemingway had short, concise sentences which made his writing much more powerful. Fitzgerald, the author of…

The basis of the movie Office Space is a prime example of skimming fraud. In the movie, three co-workers, Peter, Samir and Michael, frustrated by their numerous bosses and their workplace, plan their revenge by uploading a computer virus that is supposed to skim pennies at a time on every deposit the company makes. Michael, the software engineer who developed the program, tells Peter and Samir that the “theft will be so gradual that it will take years before it’s even noticed” (Riedel, Rappaport…