The Great Unknown

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway moves to West Egg and meets Jay Gatsby, a multi-millionaire with a mysterious past. Through a few extravagant parties hosted by Gatsby himself, Nick learns that Gatsby is in love with his married cousin, Daisy. Nick notices that Jay longingly stares at a green light across the bay at night--and realizes that he is staring directly into Daisy’s dock. The symbolism of the green light reflects Gatsby’s unattainable desires that is focused on…

California, Steinbeck dropped out of one of the most elite colleges and worked as a laborer before he became a successful and well known writer. He wrote immensely about the economic problems faced by the hard working and lower class during the Great Depression. He was also a very successful American writer, Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize for literature and the Pulitzer Prize for his book, The Grapes of Wrath, which was written in 1939, that book and many more made John a very known writer.…

Common readers saw it as a masterpiece and classic of literature. However many critics met it with disdain. Much critique saw it as a work of propaganda. A critic for the LA Times has said “The main reason people think it is a great novel is because Ford made it into a great film.” A recurrence in Steinbeck’s career was the polarity of his work between critics and non-critics alike. Around the time “Grapes of Wrath” was published Steinbeck published “Of Mice and Men”. “Of Mice and Men” takes…

Spain, Great Britain and France all had different reasons for exploring and colonizing the New World, however many of the same consequences occurred from their actions. Spain continued their search for gold, as well as for slaves in the New World, which was later named America. Great Britain, although joining later in the century began to explore America as a result of social unrest due to inflation within Britain. France was also experiencing social unrest within the country in the form of…

Power comes in many shapes and forms, for some it is achieving societal recognition over others or by owning commodities, sometimes portrayed as love. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby is faced with the search for power, which is represented by Daisy Buchanan, a young lover of Gatsby’s. He faces a journey to reconnect with his unreachable love that was forbidden from him due to his poor economic background. Gatsby changes his way of life and strives to achieve upper class…

Futile Fantasies, Fatalistic Failure The Great Gatsby, the 1925 masterpiece by F. Scott Fitzgerald, chronicles Jay Gatsby’s pursuit of his American Dream: wealth, status, and love. Yet despite Gatsby’s accumulation of wealth, he falls short of his dream, dies, and never integrates into East Egg society or marries Daisy. While narrator Nick Carraway views Gatsby’s life as inspirational, the reader views Gatsby’s life as cautionary; the novel’s ending reconciles this contrast to emphasize…

Why this happened is unknown. Buddhist writings suggest that decay had come before Asoka's death. Some scholars attribute the decline to economic pressures: revenues from taxing agriculture and trade that were inadequate in maintaining the large military and army of bureaucrats…

by Toni Morrison & The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald were both written around the time collapse of the 1920’s or what its also called the roaring twenties. I will identify the similarities and differences and the environment each story takes place and how it differs from one another. Both of these stories exhibit this occurrence by creating characters like Sula and Gastby. Characters that will do anything to better their personal lives, both writers incorporate great failure into the lives…

notoriously known as one of the darkest days in United States history (Rose, Pg. 64). For it marks the unofficial beginning of struggles for not only stockholders, but to the population of the U.S. as a whole. This time period, better known as the Great Depression, was not only felt by almost every adult resident in the United States, but also by people that had no clue what the stock market even was. Children, women and men alike all suffered from the finical impact of the event that occurred…

For example bananas aren’t always yellow, they could also be green or even brown. Clouds can often be grey, and even Lady Liberty herself wasn’t always green she originally was made of shining copper. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s fictional book, The Great Gatsby this idea that color can mean many different things is frequently applied. The book itself describes a man named Nick Carraway’s experience in New York. Where he comes across a man named Jay Gatsby. Gatsby is madly in love with a married…