This Perfect Day

Throughout The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald displays societal corruption and the American Dream, or rather, the American Nightmare. Nick Carraway represents the grace within simplicity, an unbiased and slightly naive view of New York during the roaring twenties. Although captivated and intrigued by the excitement of lifestyles such as the Buchanans’, Gatsby’s, and Jordan’s, the façade wears away, revealing the merciless face of moral degradation. Fitzgerald portrays the 1920s as a time of…

Celebrity fascination is not healthy for adolescent girls. Girls around the ages of 11 to 17 are most influenced to get that ‘perfect’ look that they see on the cover of their favorite magazine. (Spettigue) These ‘influences’ that young girls have are setting unrealistic and unhealthy standards. For most girls they are striving for a thigh gap and small waist which they’re trying to achieve by starving themselves or taking medications that could be potentially dangerous. The thing with dieting…

F. Scott Fitzgerald uses double vision throughout the book, The Great Gatsby. An example of this is shown when Nick leaves Gatsby to go to work on page 154. After Daisy had proclaimed her love for both Tom and Jay, Jay still wanted to protect her, and was still hoping for Daisy to call him. He is so blinded by this love that he will do anything to be with her. The reader is drawn into this emotional attachment to Daisy and hopes that the relationship will work out. But, we see through Nick's…

headache from hell, I collect my composure and grab my belongings in a hurry. I have a flight to catch and I can’t be late to the airport. Another all-star weekend in the books. This year? A low level professional basketball ball player. I know, not that impressive. My plan was to meet a superstar, but somehow ended up in this bed. He is still sleeping like a baby. Some women in my shoes would go through his belongings and look for their own payout but that’s not me. I do give him a nudge so we…

working hard towards wealth, fame and success. This dream can be described as a materialism pursuit of pleasure as it is only achieved when a person successfully having a fancy car, a lot of money, luxurious house, happy wealthy family, fame and nice clothes. However, in order to achieve this dream, most of the character in The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald has turns to be someone who is selfish and materialistic. American Dream in the 1920’s, in this novel has caused destruction that can be…

looms over his life, that causes struggles and allows his body to be plundered, and yet is the utopic ideal that everyone wishes to flee to. This “Dream” that Coates refers to is not too far away from the “American Dream,” if not identical to it; where people are living regular lives with no struggles in a completely “free” society. The reason why Coates phrases this idealistic society as “The Dream” is because, like other dreams, it does not exist. In fact, The Dream is built on the foundation…

friend of the family’s children in college. He tells stories about the family that only someone that would be close to the children would know. Flan allows Paul to stay the night at their beautiful New York apartment and gives him money for the next day. To Flan and Louisa’s surprise, Paul invites another man into their house to make love and is caught in the act the next morning. Both, Paul and his lover, are immediately told to leave. The con artist has successfully left with money and an…

to join the United States Army. He worried he would never be published, so he quickly crafted his first novel titled The Romantic Egotist. The novel was unsuccessful, but the editing company told him to keep writing. In hopes of being published one day, Fitzgerald continued his writing. The novel The Great Gatsby was published in 1925. Fitzgerald portrays similar characteristics of his own life and how he tried to live up to the social standards of the time through the character Mr. Gatsby in…

The chapters 6-9 deal with the main theme of betrayal. Many people were betrayed throughout this book whether it was infidelity, untruthfulness, etc. Gatsby was untruthful in his rise to becoming rich. His original name was James Gatz. The untruthfulness made people rethink how they felt about Gatsby. Gatsby was born poor and was not born rich he was supposed to be left inheritance by one of his mentor figures but that did not come through. Although tensions were high between Tom and Gatsby…

Ayn Rand once said, “Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.”Nothing reflects this more than in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. The novel focuses on the highly rich struggling with their own personal problems, dealing with deceit , wanting to evoke the past and, not being satisfied with what they have in life.The characters in Gatsby remind the reader even when seemingly untouchable by the world everyone is human. Through the…