This Is Now

he had. The West Egg was described as where the new wealthy people of the city of New York lived. Gatsby did not inherit his money through family fortunes like Tom, but by his involvement with bootlegging as well as other illegal business. “He and this Wolfshiem bought up a lot of side-street drug-stores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter. That’s one of his little stunts. I picked him for a bootlegger the first time I saw him, and I wasn’t far wrong.” (Fitzgerald 133).…

classes and how each of them work. Also, how the people do their own way of running their village. Plus, in this village they have a leader and the leader tells the people what rules to follow and what to believe in. As the book, it says "And to the Master turned; and he made sign That I should quiet stand, and bow before him. Ah! How disdainful he appeared to me!” (Pg. 44, Line 86-89, Canto 4) This quote it showing…

This is a personal story to me, to understand this story we will have to start at from the beginning. I hope you enjoy this story and it is both entertaining and heartwarming to you as I am sharing a personal event in my life. Join me on this journey of discovery as I unveil one of the darker mysteries in my life. It was my fifth and final deployment with the Navy. It had been a long six years and it seemed like I was never home due to all the training evolutions and deployments I had been a…

what it is about. The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder is a play that takes part in three acts. It follows the Antrobus family and their maid as they fight to survive each new disaster by, as the title suggests, the skin of their teeth. However, this is not all the show has to offer. Alongside the main plot another small story arises. The audience follows not only the characters but the actors as well. On occasion, the maid of the family, Sabina, breaks character to become her own self as an…

nothing in your life was wrong. Tom is the master of this. He uses his relationship with Daisy as a form of control but Gatsby threatens his control in this moment. He wants to be the best at other stuff too. Tom turns to Myrtle for instant gratification and puts his marriage in jeopardy throughout the whole novel because of it. On the flip side you have George Wilson. At the end of the novel George kills Gatsby as revenge for his wife and for closure. This is where he and Tom are different. The…

misunderstanding will pursue me till I die.” The adaptation of a great novel is a delicate business but if done correctly highly rewarding. The recent adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald 's brilliant novel The Great Gatsby by director Baz Luhrmann attempts this…

Dad was getting the boat loaded, mom was packing all the bags, Tucker and I were just waking up and getting dressed, and it is 4:30 in the morning. All these things are done to get ready to load up in the truck and drive to Little Gasparilla for a day of fishing. A day of fishing to get us away from our hectic life and to relax. Little did we know that patience was going to be needed that day. We were packing everything in a zombie-like state, still half asleep and groggy because it was so…

Character Analysis of Amory Blaine in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise In This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald follows a young Amory Blaine through his twenties and his attempts to find himself and what he values. After attending the boarding school, he was accepted and attended Princeton, but from lack of desire and the entrance of World World I he dropped out of Princeton and enlisted. Despite growing up in the upper class, through the death of his mother and poor financial…

Gatsby at the time of his death were Carraway and, “an endless drill of police and photographers and newspaper men” (163). In Carraway’s eyes it was him and Gatsby against them all. Before Gatsby had died, people “used to go there by the hundreds” and now it’s at a point where, “Nobody came” (174-175). Everything had fallen apart and Carraway had known how much Daisy meant to him, and how much the wealth meant to Daisy, so he called Gatsby’s mansion a “huge incoherent failure of a house” (179).…

greeted with enthusiasm by friends and welcomed with drinks. At the Graham’s pool, Mrs. Graham states, “Why, Neddy, what a marvelous surprise. I’ve been trying to get you on the phone all morning. Here, let me get you a drink” (728). It is apparent at this point that Neddy Merrill was highly regarded and held a high social status among the community. He was very well liked and had several invitations to parties hosted by his neighbors. But as the story progressed forward, the self-deception of…