The Ashes

A Bundle of Death: Millay’s Favorite? Poetry in itself is form of art. It is art created not by conventional methods, but crafted through the rhyming and free flowing of words in verse form. It is an old form of literature that has lasted the test of time. Many have used it, but not as many have been as memorable as Edna St. Vincent Millay. Millay, an American author wrote dozens if not hundreds of poems in her time. She tackled dozens of subjects such as: love, adventure, pain, anger,…

Socioeconomic Status Classification According to a former writer Will Lavender,“ Literature is a writer’s secret life record in symbols.” The Great Gatsby is a story that takes place during 1922 where the narrator Nick Caraway guides the reader into the American dream, Jay Gatsby tries to achieve throughout the plot of the book, but he fails and is murdered by another character George Wilson. Fitzgerald creates an artificial world in The Great Gatsby in which he symbolizes a socioeconomic class…

Symbolism in the Great Gatsby The acquisition of wealth is alluring from the outside looking in, but those who possess it are not guaranteed happiness. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby describes the shallowness and impurity that often accompany excessive materialism and the unfulfilling relationships that develop among people obsessed with the capitalist game. His depiction of the seemingly glamorous lives of the upper classes on Long Island communicates themes pertaining to the myth of…

F. Scott Fitzgerald made The Great Gatsby as an critique to the American society during 1920s The Great Gatsby is an outstanding novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, which portrays all the different aspects of the American society during the ‘Roaring Twenties’. It tells the story of a man who followed the American dream and went from nothing to everything. However, even though he has all the materialistic goods a man could ever need he is missing out on the one thing he desires the most. His old but…

Dream can not be achieved by all people because people can not make it out of where they came from. In the beginning of the book Nick describes the other place where people live: “This is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms…

these literary devices. Symbolism is when an object represents something different than what it actually is. The Great Gatsby is full of symbolism. For example, the eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg, which are painted on a fading billboard in the Valley of Ashes. Fitzgerald was smart by making this a big part of the book, these eyes could be symbolized to mean many things. Analyses quickly draw the conclusion that Eckleburg represents God, and that both are all-seeing. When i all reality Fitzgerald…

couples cheat on each other. In Francis Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, relationship issues are a major conflict throughout the story. The couples in discussion are Tom and Daisy, the rich couple, and George and Myrtle, occupants of the valley of ashes. They are comparable in some cases, although financial and societal views show contrast between them. The two couples are similar in many aspects. The most obvious is that cheating is a very prevalent issue between the group throughout the…

“Traditional gender roles cast men as rational, strong, protective, and decisive; they castwomen as emotional (irrational), weak, nurturing, and submissive. These gender roles havebeen used very successfully to justify inequities, which still occur today, such as excludingwomen from equal access to leadership and decision-making positions (in the family as well asin politics, academia, and the corporate world), paying men higher wages than women fordoing the same job (if women are even able to…

the hard way. In the beginning of chapter three Nick describes the Valley of Ashes. He describes the men whom work here to be the ashes as if they were already dead. “...Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak, and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud…”(Pg.23). Fitzgerald puts the Valley of Ashes in his book as a symbol of poverty. He is also trying to compare the working…

Arizona. Victor is not very close to his father because he left when Victor was relatively young and did not try to keep their relationship steady. However, Victor still has a generic love for his dad which causes him to want to get his father's ashes. Victor lives in Spokane, Washington and is too poor to afford a round-way ticket to Phoenix, Arizona. Victor seeks help from the tribal council, but they're only able to give…