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relationships in life. After going through the whole story, Nick becomes unsatisfied of the people around him and is worried about starting a new life without Gatsby. These all show how dissatisfaction is a very significant theme in the Great Gatsby and how this problem surrounds every character in the…

landmarks in the world, the Eiffel Tower, twice. He was a smooth talking man who understood the importance of “looks.” Knowing this, and with his charm, he was able to swindle money out of anyone from the common man to the governments of empires. Throughout his career, he pulled off some of the greatest scams known to con man kind(Maysh). Anybody today who attempted to live this type of lifestyle would have been caught and imprisoned immediately. So how did Victor Lustig get so many people to…

Dream. During the Gilded Age, greed motivated industrial innovation and for people to improve their ways of living. But with great responsibilities come great consequences, and the consequence of greed, people see greed the same as selfish. Despite this, the positives heavily outweigh the negatives. During the Gilded Age, greed influenced the industrial innovation.…

to tend to be rooted in their pasts. This is because the characters in the book want to recreate the past. The second paradox is that the illusions they embrace are rooted typically in their pasts, even though, as Nick Carraway knows and as many of the others…

elegant and sophisticated party that some might think the wealthy would have. This party had only few guests and contained bottles of alcohol all over the apartment. Nick had not been much of a drinker at all and this was actually his second time drinking in his entire life. He says, “I have been drunk just twice in my life, and the second time was this afternoon;” (29). The alcohol was what made him have a good time at this party, but in actuality the party was not that festive. Myrtle’s sister…

“Gatsby’s enormous gardens” Gatsby’s gigantic residence had this amazing gardens were people stepped and dance or drank all the way through. This showed us how wealthy and how Gatsby maintained his house with a big maintenance. Although he showed it just by letting this parties be so fancy and he take advantage of his enormous space where all the corners of town of East egg fit in. A big quantity came to this classic and modern house were all could happened in just one single night. “In his…

Literary Elements within The Great Gatsby In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby , there is an assortment of hidden meanings and symbolism, from gender roles to corrupt youth this book shows not only the problems of the 1920’s but also the problems of modern day. The carelessness of the youth by spending money wildly for no sought out reason and the wealthy’s obliviousness to problems that sit right in front of their faces are both motifs in which Fitzgerald expresses throughout his book…

a novel based in the 1920’s, where money and drinking is big in New York city. Tom and Daisy are married, Jordan is Daisy’s best friend and Nick Carraway is Daisy’s cousin, Gatsby is someone Daisy was in love with five years before she married Tom. This novel takes you on a rollercoaster ride filled with emotions as you wonder if Gatsby will ever win back Daisy. Nick changes throughout the novel. When we first meet Nick he is a young man who is innocent yet sees the world from a very uniform…

Gatsby knows that he doesn’t have the “right,” the class and economic standing, to get together with Daisy. In this time period, class was everything. Even “new wealth” was looked down upon by the old-money American aristocracy. Still, he circumvents this barrier and “takes” Daisy, or makes love to her. In the previous chapter, it seemed that the heat was a symbol for tension. The cool October setting here suggests serenity and peace…

In this course, American Literature, the four novels we read taught me about American history. In The Things They Carried I learned a lot about the Vietnam War. I learned the hardships of the war by reading personal fictional stories about soldiers and their experience in Vietnam. For example, we learned how much weight the soldiers really carried, mentally and physically. In The Catcher in the Rye we learn a lot about the 1950s and the expectations of how a teenager should act in the 1950s. We…