The Great Dictator

All the characters in The Great Gatsby have almost a non-existent relationship with nature. When one thinks of the colour green, they usually associate it with nature or the environment. For Gatsby, however, this is a symbol of his dream to have Daisy. When Tom and Daisy run away from East Egg, Gatsby realizes that “the colossal significance of the light has vanished forever.” He attaches all of his dreams, hopes and goals to this green light so much, that when it is suddenly gone, he is…

Particularly, the Great Depression had a great effect on John Steinbeck’s work showing his frustrations with freedom versus confinement, justice, and man vs. nature. To illustrate his dismay, Steinbeck uses the theme of freedom versus confinement to show how his main characters live…

after the completion of the daily farm routine. Even though each town set their own schedule, often communities, including Bradley, South Dakota, chose to remain open for business on both Wednesday and Saturday evenings. In the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression of the 1930s, South Dakota prairies thirsted for moisture, wetlands dried up, and months of toil in the fields yielded meager returns. Although the weather mocked the farmers, as dark clouds gathered and even sent out…

American dream. Throughout the 1930’s the United States was enveloped in the depths of a Great Depression. During this time, the dream of a better life was hard if not nearly impossible to achieve. If you were an African-American during this time, you were even further from grasping any dream. With all the hardships and loneliness associated with the Great Depression, what was there left to dream for? During the Great Depression, John Steinbeck took the dream for a better life that many people…

itself—Japan suffered from anemic performance for a “lost decade.” (See BBC) Don’t be fooled by this, Japan is the third largest economy on the globe. In addition, remember how difficult it has been for the U.S. economy to come back from the 2008 Great Depression. Bad times can be stubborn, protracted, sometime insoluble for countries. For instance, developing countries find it difficult to lift themselves out of the grips of poverty.…

be understood using Carl Jung’s theory of the “archetype” (Nye 2008, 136). Jung’s theory states that there are some “fundamental symbols with meanings and associations” (Nye 2008, 134) shared universally, or by all human beings. In the case of The Great Gatsby, I will focus on only the people within the “universe” of the book, i.e. the analysis of symbols and the people’s beliefs in them exist only within the Valley of Ashes (outskirts of New York City). There are many important symbols in the…

Critical Research Paper: First Draft The Female Characters in The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is a historical novel. The author employs a narrator, Nick Carraway, to allow insight into the upper class society of New York during the early 1920s. Socially, women enjoyed enormous changes during this era as hem lines shortened replacing long skirts and corsets, hair was bobbed to resemble a more masculine style, and women attained the right to vote. Women, predictably,…

Tom loves who she actually is. He may have many affairs, but he still loves her. During the novel Tom says: “I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife” (99). In this quote Tom is saying that he still loves Daisy, despite his affairs, and that he will not stand by and be silent if his wife is sleeping around. So while Tom is in love with the real Daisy Gatsby loves the image of her that he has created over the past five years, since he last…

In the beginning of the novel, Nick admires the wealth of Tom and he reckons Tom’s house “is even more elaborate than [he] expected(Ch.1).” Nick tolerates Tom despite Tom’s arrogant attitude annoys him because he reserves judgment to anyone just like his father tole him so. So Nick remains silent to Daisy Buchanan after knowing Tom is cheating on her although with resentment feelings for Tom. He tolerates Tom’s dishonest instead of to tell the truth, as a person with higher moral standards would…

Fitzgerald summed this idea up well in The Great Gatsby by saying, “Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry” (57). Even if one didn’t have the means to have the best of everything, it was still expected of them. Myrtle was enraged when she found out her husband didn’t wear his own suit to his wedding. “He borrowed somebody’s best suit to get married in…and the man came after it one day when he was out…I gave it to him and then I lay…