This Side of Paradise

Daisy have all been corrupted and destroyed by the dream.Fitzgerald shows us the American dream while using every character in some way. Most of the characters either have the happiness and not the material side of the American Dream and those who have the material side of it want the happiness side too. In the book The Great Gatsby the author Fitzgerald shows us that the American Dream is to have money, a car, a…

smoke pollution that hovers from the factories. Nick paints the city gray, giving a depressing sense along with hopelessness, forgotten and death. People who live here are also covered in ash, described as “ash-gray men” as they have no hope escaping this life (page 23). However, Myrtle is the only person who is not covered in ash since she has hope of escaping through her…

While Liberty Slept “Admirals, sailors, generals, privates, ordinary civilians – some 577 participants – have unselfishly joined forces to help me piece together this picture of that famous Sunday” (Lord, 213). Walter Lord, the father to a legion of best-selling historic books, is most avowed for A Night to Remember, the culmination of buoyant eyewitness descriptions from the sinking Titanic. Day of Infamy is an enthralling non-fiction delivering a chronicle of singular takes from the…

J. Eckleburg which represented God watching over them all. FItzgerald used the characters Myrtle, Daisy, and Gatsby, to portray an image of how people are trapped in their lives as a way to criticize society. One of the more prevalent examples of this portrayal of being trapped was shown through the character Myrtle Wilson. Myrtle was a married women, but had been having an affair with Tom Buchanan for what seems to be a fairly long time. George Wilson was Myrtle's passive husband. He was…

Assignment 1.1: Three things I learned from the pre-reading are that Fitzgerald was an alcoholic, that the people in this book want to get rich quick, and that Gatsby does not accept the process of time. Assignment 1.2: Nick’s father advised him not to criticize anyone because all people did not have the advantages he had. We learn that Nick attended Yale and that his family is wealthy. He moves to West Egg which is nice but not quite as high class as East Egg. Nick’s neighbor, Gatsby, is a…

Nick Carraway is one of the few people whom he knows is honest( Fitzgerald , 59). He learns his reserve of judgment from his father. “Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,” he told Nick , “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.” (Fitzgerald , 1). Nick has seen so much he could’ve criticized but he remembered his father’s words and reserved his judgment especially when he was around Tom , Daisy , Gatsby and Myrtle. Most of the strange…

The American Dream is Alive In my personal opinion, I believe the American dream is in deed alive. America has its flaws, it has its ups and downs, but America is a land of prosperity and hope. There is not certain promise that things we be perfect in America, only a recognition of an obtainable goal that all have the ability to reach. In today's society, individuals lurk on our financial status to determine whether or not we have reached the American dream. When people first starting living…

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life during this time period using a fictional story with characters and events that symbolize things in the real world. Fitzgerald shows two different sides of his own personality through two different characters. Fitzgerald also demonstrates the aspects of life in the 1920s that he hated by creating characters with unfavorable qualities. In The Great Gatsby life during the 1920s is portrayed using characters with different qualities that symbolize distinct aspects of life during this time…

of the American Dream. Nick appears to be the only person who sees through Gatsby's mask and truly understands who he is. Gatsby is viewed by others as the embodiment of the American Dream: wealthy, powerful, and physically attractive. Daisy holds this view and is mostly interested in Gatsby again because of the money he accumulated. Because of the defects in the personalities of the two lovers, their fate from the beginning…