The Death and Life of Great American Cities

The Great Gatsby chronicles the plight of Gatsby, an enigmatic self-made millionaire, and his efforts to achieve his dream. Gatsby is in love with his former girlfriend Daisy. She left him for the wealthier Tom, who is now having an affair with a woman named Myrtle Wilson. Gatsby and Daisy briefly rekindle their relationship but after its deterioration, Daisy accidentally kills Myrtle with Gatsby’s car. George shoots Gatsby and himself; falsely led by Tom to believe that Gatsby had affair with…

Fitzgerald and The Great Gatsby, a Coincidence? While researching texts and websites about Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald and his novel The Great Gatsby, it is noticed that there are parallels between Jay Gatsby and Fitzgerald’s life. Introducing enough background knowledge about Fitzgerald and The Great Gatsby will show the parallel between the authors and this fictional character. Information about the life of Fitzgerald; such as, early years, schooling, his wife, literature, and his death will…

novel is a boy being unnamed, who moves from village to the city life. He becomes a money bag in a nameless city of South Asia. This novel is also a love story and talks about opportunity and inequality. The inter generational divide in the domestic oppositions between relations is efficiently portrayed in this novel. Hamid presents the psychoanalysis of the character belonging from a middle class South Aian society. The novel ends with the death of the hero who is surrounded by his ex-wife, his…

mindset of Kurt Vonnegut through the voice of Billy Pilgrim, the protagonist of Vonnegut’s novel, Slaughterhouse Five. The strength of Vonnegut’s novel lies in his own personal experiences, as he himself was an American prisoner of war, was captured in Germany, and then was transferred to the city of Dresden. Throughout the novel, Billy Pilgrim suffers flashbacks of the horrors of war, specifically those associated with the bombing of Dresden. By narrating the novel through the voice of Billy,…

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald as the geography surrounding the characters would create vastly different personalities if set somewhere else. Not only does the state The Great Gatsby is set in impact the whole story, but also the location of where the characters live and, as Thomas C. Foster mentions in How To Read Literature Like A Professor, how “humans inhabiting space. . . the spaces inhabiting humans” (Foster 174) have a profound effect. Set in the city of New York, The Great…

Scott Fitzgerald’s "The Great Gatsby" is an American classic, the book is written in a time period where the American people wanted to escape the harsh realities of the world, escape the reality of war. . I strongly belive that The Great Gatsby should not be banned from schools because, The Great Gatsby is a reminder of Americn history and what is was really like to live in the Jazz Age Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota. When he was thirteen years old he…

their everyday life. For instance, people may make decisions solely based on their own dream. In the United States, a common ethos is the American Dream. The American Dream is, "a set of ideals in which freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity and success, and an upward social mobility for the family and children, achieved through hard work in a society with few barriers" (Wikipedia). Through the American Dream, citizens believe that they can be successful and create a new life by…

The two short stories “Deucalion and Pyrrha” and “The Great Serpent and the Great Flood” both revolve around a natural disaster destroying their society without any notice, and they include certain characteristics that are peculiar to the present world. In “Deucalion and Pyrrha” one of their beloved gods were angry at how humanity is behaving, so he decided to drown the world in a flood. In “The Great Serpent and the Great Flood” a serpent was killed by the main character Nanobozho, which caused…

perspective on World War II and the lasting effects that it had on the men who fought through it and went on to live out their lives in “normalcy”. The author, Kurt Vonnegut, uses irony, dark humor, and spontaneity to create an unorthodox depiction of the life of one of these said soldiers, Billy Pilgrim, the main character in the novel. In this light, he uses Pilgrim’s experiences in World War II to demonstrate the true nature of war to those who were fortunate enough to never experience it for…

religion, and responsibility. Malcolm X faced many obstacles during his life, which influenced both his impact on African American culture and his mental state as a man. Some scholars believe that although Malcolm X misled some people into thinking his legacy was one of racial profiling, he really inspired a generation of African American men. It's safe to conclude that Malcolm's legacy is still developing even after his death, no matter whether people believed he was someone who wished to…