The Great Unknown

Entering chapter three of Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, one will encounter the everlasting protagonist of the story, Jay Gatsby. Gatsby has only been mentioned by name throughout the book, however he is revealed in chapter three and is quite different than one would think. Gatsby is notorious for throwing lavish parties and still sustaining a life of wealth, almost as if to gain reputation. Yet, Gatsby is a humble man who sticks to the sidelines at his own parties. Even the storyteller,…

The trumpet screams out, colliding with the steady cymbals of percussion and with that rolls the great roars of the trombone. Out walks a short haired blonde, barely wearing anything. The bar is filled with cigarette smoke and the sweet scent of scotch on the rocks. Suddenly, the woman singer’s voice throws a note or two down the spine. She’s telling a woeful story of her dead lover that beat her. Dim lights and half naked dancers surround her presence, all given to guests in downtown Chicago.…

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time written by Mark Haddon. The story, written in a tone of fifteen years old boy Christopher, who is suffering from Asperger’s symptoms; limit his personal social ability and affect his relationship with others. In Christopher’s world, everything is so simple that has no access to complicated information, so he does not understand metaphors or human face expressions. That’s why he likes math, because it’s all reasonable, logical, and give him a…

feel special and provides us with a goal that we then strive towards. However, love can also cloud our judgment and not cee the entire truth. The 1819 poem, La Belle Dame Sans Merci, by the British Romantic Poet John Keats and the 1924 novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald demonstrates that love is a powerful emotion that blinds us and makes us think of an idealized world. Love infatuates us and makes us do anything and everything for the person we love. This has its merits but…

Mickey Spillane received an abundant amount of hate for viewing woman as only sex objects, however, no one could disagree about how incredible he was as a writer. On March 9, 1918 in Brooklyn, New York, Frank Morrison Spillane was born. His father swiftly nicknamed him Mickey after a family friend. Spillane did not want to be a writer while he was growing up, later claiming that he only wrote for money. He enjoyed playing with his dogs and swimming before his death on July 17, 2006. Spillane…

In the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby was trying hard to not associate himself with his past that he wasn’t pleased with. From a young age Gatsby believed that he was destined for more than his “unsuccessful farm people” of parents. Because he could see himself as more, he worked hard and waited for an opportunity to present itself where he could become a wealthy man. This hard work, allowed him to have a dream that he wasn’t going to give up on under any…

they should judge if they had ability to achieve it. In conclusion, the symbolism in every elements in “The Great Gatsby” such as background, objects and characters, collectively reflects the mistaken modern idea that was once flourished in the Jazz Age: the excessive egoism and hedonism. These ideas brought corruptions to the society, evoking vanity and selfishness in people’s minds. “The Great Gatsby” symbolizes not only one generation, but also all generations of America in the past and…

Before the Depression, a woman's traditional role was to be a homemaker. Working outside the home, and providing for herself was unknown to people living in the nineteenth century. The Great Depression changed the traditional role of woman in the United States because women were entering the workforce to provide for their children and families. Given the desperate economic conditions, females needed to support themselves and their families by accumulating an income. Men were no longer the only…

Within The Great Gatsby tensions rise and fall like the wind. Many of the characters, needing change in their life or wanting to live it to the fullest, become intertwined with others which only leads up to nasty confrontation. As the rising tensions become blistering hot, not all the characters can take the heat without being burned. It is a very steamy afternoon for Jay Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan, Jordan Baker, and Nick Carraway. Temperatures rise in parallel to the flaring tensions…

The great Nelson Mandela said, “There is no passion to be found playing small--in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living”. Reinvention is possible for anyone willing to try and is what some might say keeps them interesting and content with their lives. Throughout The Great Gatsby, many of the characters like Gatsby, Daisy and Nick undergo changes in order to reinvent or better themselves. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald conveys the idea that reinvention…