This Week

Jim Cullen defines the American Dream to be derived from the goals of the puritans which was to achieve a better life. This is seen through two elements within Cullen’s definition which are the social mobility and accumulation of wealth. Social mobility is basically the ability for one to elevate their social status or economic standing. The accumulation of wealth is described to be self-explanatory and is the ability of one to earn an immense about of wealth. These elements are embodied…

wrong, Ethan knows it is wrong and the reader knows it is wrong. Everyone involved, including the reader, knows that this is madness motivated by more madness and things can only turn out badly, assuming there is a fundamental morality to the book (Raphael, 1991). And therein is the poetic justice: Zeena and Ethan do end up together, forever, albeit not in bliss, but in misery. This is because Zeena and Mattie have effectively changed their roles in Ethan's life, Zeena is now the invalid and…

Bougie, it’s a word that my brother has called me multiple times and I was never a hundred percent sure what he was really calling me. In an attempt to contradict him I looked up the meaning of the word, and sadly I couldn’t contradict him a bit. The word bougie is stolen from the French word bourgeois, which means -according to Webster's dictionary- marked by a concern for material interests and respectability and a tendency toward mediocrity. In America, the slang word bougie translates to…

The American Dream, is a belief that even the poorest people have a chance to become “someone” in life through hard work and determination. But not everyone agrees with this statement as seen with F. Scott Fitzgerald in his novel,The Great Gatsby,as he portrays his opinion that the American Dream is dead through his various characters and his use of devices and symbols throughout the story. Fitzgerald shows how even when people try their best in completing their “American Dream” it is most…

After Gatsby had left for the war, she was left alone. Daisy was confused and didn’t know who she really loved. This caused daisy to meet and fall in love with another man, Tom Buchanan. Not too long after that, Daisy and Tom married. This left Gatsby heartbroken, just like Dexter. Judy was a player and didn’t settle down for a while. She hopped around from man to man trying to find the one with the most money, the one who…

Despite his claims of scornfulness, he infinitely and questionably titles his book as “The Great Gatsby”. This leads one to inquire as to if Nick is honest to himself in his relation to Gatsby, and if he only makes such claims to stay true to the feigned sense of reserve in his judgment. This brings one to wonder what Nick Carraway truly sees in Jay Gatsby, and if his stay in East Egg inadvertently caused him to reevaluate the advice he has kept in…

attention span. He is used to getting everything he wants in life and more. So, when he doesn’t get something he wants immediately, he looks elsewhere for it. For example, he felt like he wasn’t having as much fun as he wanted in his marriage with Daisy. This drove him to infidelity and “he got some woman in New York”(19). However, Gatsby did everything in his power in order to get what he wanted. He joined a gang to become wealthy for Daisy, he bought a house right across the bay just to be…

“Luckily the clock took this moment to tilt dangerously at the pressure of the head, whereupon he turned and caught it with trembling fingers and set it back in place. He sat down, rigidly, his elbow on the arm of the sofa and his chin in his hand.” (Fitzgerald 91) Gatsby broke…

After reading the Outsiders, Readers learned that people are different and never the same. Even if people are diverse, we shouldn’t judge them, or make fun of. Each person has a special gift, like Ponyboy, he would never gave up and shows courage and perseverance, that is why he is my Bae. Cherry is Soc and lives on the other side of town. She would always stand up for what is right and hates when the Soc’s and Greasers fight, that is one reason she is my BFF. On the other hand, my frenemy…

A Nightmare “Money makes the world go round.” This is a common, yet deceptive, phrase everyone has heard. The negative consequences of wealth are always overshadowed by the status and material possessions associated with money. Money produces corruption, and this is evident in both fiction and the real world. Raymond Chandler contrasts the oil fields at the beginning of The Big Sleep to their appearance at the end to convey the destructive corrupt quality of money as it allows crimes to be…