This Side of Paradise

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…

Daisy says she loves Gatsby. Gatsby spends years making the money by becoming a bootlegger. He believes that this money would buy Daisy’s love, “Her voice is full of money, he said suddenly. That was it. I'd never understood before. It was full of money – that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it” (120). Gatsby lives a corrupted…

but it will not provide you with desires”( Ayn Rand; The Atlas Shrugged). In Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby money and love are intertwined in almost every way. Fitzgerald writes about the distinction between old money and new money- represented in this novel by Tom Buchanan and Jay Gatsby. Gatsby lived in West Egg, a neighborhood in New York of the newly wealthy. Mr. Buchanan lived in East Egg, amongst those of old money. Both men find themselves trying to buy the love of one woman, Daisy…

obviously isn’t the truth. It makes whoever said it come off as an unreliable narrator. This quote and many others hint that some of the things the main character, Holden Caulfield, in The Catcher in the Rye says may not be true. It doesn’t specifically say whether or not Holden is lying in the book, but some things are suggested at. “That sort of scared me a little bit. "Well, I know it's quite late," I said, in this very mature voice and all.”(pg. 64) If Holden wouldn’t have said ‘and all’ it…

Encased in One Although Gatsby tried his hardest to fulfill his goal of the American Dream, the goal became sidetracked when lying, cheating, and his tempting love for Daisy came about; therefore, Gatsby tried to fulfill his dream but made the wrong decisions to reach his goal. In Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, Gatsby is the most responsible out of all the characters for his death showing that being too hopeful and confident can prevent a person from reaching the American Dream. Firstly,…

but Gatsby was not wealthy enough for Daisy at the time. It would have been frowned upon for her to marry a man of lower social class and wealth. Since then she has married Tom, because he was of higher social class, even though she didn’t love him. This is one of the issues with the society at that time. People got married for wealth and money rather than their feelings for one another. The social standards being as strict as they are caused two people who truly loved each other to not end up…

to Campbell. This is the stage where an event happens in the hero’s life that shakes up the…

In the novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses strong characterizations to depict the character, Jay Gatsby, in order to give him some depth and personality. Jay Gatsby, a mysterious yet alluring man who lives in West Egg, hosts these lavish parties hoping to draw in some attention to his lifestyle and statute. Nick Carraway, a former war soldier and homeowner of a flat in West Egg, is invited to Gatsby’s party and says some regrettable statements to the host Gatsby, “[Gatsby] smiled…

Fitzgerald uses the concept of money to reveal a side of human nature that is not all that great. Everyone in the novel possesses wealth, but each uses his money in a similar way: to make himself or another happy. However, within the holding of money comes a fickle feeling in the beholder which cannot keep him content. The characters in The Great Gatsby exhibit a strong desire for money as satisfaction in their lives. Daisy is a powerful example of this. When Gatsby took Nick and Daisy on a…

care less about you? In this essay I will be comparing and contrasting John Smith’s and William Bradford’s colonies. To see which would I prefer and for you to decide which you want. Also, this is my opinion and don’t speak for others, everyone has their own opinion. John Smith’s colony was very fascinating, but can be a real buzz kill at the same time. For example, John smith really loved his riches and was one of the reasons why he went to the Native American side of the world to…