The Great Unknown

Tom Buchanan’s Search for Fulfillment Since The Great Gatsby takes place among the wanton variety of the East, the fact that Tom Buchanan has a mistress does not surprise Nick or anyone else. However, what does appear perplexing is Tom’s continued attachment to Daisy, even when both Myrtle and Tom are dissatisfied with their respective spouses. In the words of Myrtle Wilson’s sister, Catherine, “[W]hy go on living with them if they can’t stand them?” (Fitzgerald 33). Catherine claims Daisy…

stark faces of the displaced farmers of the Great Depression one can’t help but feel their shame, anger, despair, and hope. In just one mere black and white photograph, not only is a whole person seen, but rather an entire history. Understanding the importance of photography as an integral form of human communication, photography became the keystone of the Farm Security Administration. By illustrating in a single image the despair and disaster the Great Depression and Dust Bowl brought onto…

“Art completes what nature can not finish.”- Aristotle. Greek art influenced the entire ancient world and a little bit of our world today. Greek art is not only split up by form, but also by era: Classic, Classical, and Classicism. Ancient Greece began what is known as modern day literature, art, music, drama, and other kinds of arts. Greek literature was developed as a national expression with little influence until the Hellenistic period and had a formative effect on succeeding European…

I’m Living the American Dream, Old Sport! When reading The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, an idea or concept of the “American Dream” comes to mind. Some question Fitzgerald portraying Gatsby as the “American dream.” However, many of us view the idea of “American Dream” differently. According to Bob Batchelor’s Gatsby : The Cultural History of the Great American Novel, some may think the dream should consist of wealth and “tangible objects” surrounding them (Batchelor 132). Others might…

Great Depression’s effect on the American Dream Could you imagine going from having everything and being happy to having nothing and being in a nationwide depression? This is what occurred during the Great Depression. People were losing jobs, houses and all of their investments, leading to a loss in faith of the American Dream. The American Dream pertaining to the Great Depression was destroyed for many Americans. The American Dream for many is goals set forth to better your life. Americans…

the air. Jay Gatsby’s parties depict the absence of morality during the infamous Prohibition Era in American history. F. Scott Fitzgerald reached the climax of his writing career in the Roaring 20’s. Fitzgerald’s historic, fictitious classic, The Great Gatsby, was set in the prime of the Jazz Age, in and around New York City, the hub of social and material wealth, when morality was the least concern of the general public. Mobsters roamed the streets. Bootleggers filled drugstores with…

Alexander the Great's contributions to the world are numerous, including the creation of the Macedonian Empire and sparking Hellenistic civilization. But what if he died before he could become “the Great”? When Alexander was twenty two, he fought and defeated the King Darius III and the Persians at the Battle of the Granicus River in Anatolia. He charged into their ranks, and came very close to death after a blow to the head. His bodyguard arrived in just in time to kill the attacker and save…

Today, modern society views cats as little fur balls of attention, and evil yet adorable geniuses hell-bent on world domination. During the course of history though, cats were viewed differently. Mainly tamed for their ability to catch mice, the earliest known feline-human relationship was found in a shallow grave in Cyprus. A human being was found buried with his young cat. Note that cats aren’t native to the island nation at that time, proving that they were being domesticated. Anyway,…

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is a classic American novel that incorporates both marxist and feminist views in order to demonstrate the ways that some of the characters in the story challenged the status quo of society in the 1920’s. The female characters in the novel manipulated their male counterparts in that they started to break away from the norm of being escorted places and doing more and more things that were previously male dominated activities. The novel’s dramatic situation…

meaning the African-American community did not want to show their true colors, who they really are (3-4). America tries to make everyone the same. Never learning to see their own beauty, everyone wants to be the epitome of America. Relating back to The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway struggles with his identity. He grew up in a well-to-do family in Chicago. In the novel, the Midwest is the place of honesty and uncorrupted living. Nick is eager to escape the Midwest. Nick wants to leave his family…