Money, success, and happiness seems to always be interconnected to each other, especially within the American Dream. Remarkably, the American Dream used to encompass comfort, freedom, and opportunity. However, as America became prosperous, the American Dream gradually transformed into the idea that happiness is contingent...
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby relates to today’s society with corruption and unhappiness that money brings. The novel shows how people’s morals back then and today are basically the same. If Gatsby has money and all the rich nice things, like his house and...
It is in attribute that there is a lot of power in wishes, and there are a lot of corrupt actions one should attempt to attain it. In Shakespeare’s tragedy sovereign, a Scottish noble’s looking for power leads him to do to to terrible deeds,...
Throughout The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald represents the unforgiving reality of life through the depiction of Jay Gatsby’s intense love for Daisy Buchanan. Right before Nick departs from New York City, he returns to Gatsby’s house and walks out onto the deck for one...
The Great Gatsby In the novel, The Great Gatsby the author creates a corruptive and harmful society for the protagonist Jay Gatsby. He fails in multiple instances throughout the novel to reach success. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel Jay Gatsby gets inescapably pressured by society...
The American dream is a concept that anyone could make it in America and achieve their dreams (whether its wealth, love or stature, ect.) if you work hard enough to make it happen. In The Great Gatsby taking place in the roaring 20’s the author...
Maybe not everyone loves money, but no one will resist the happiness brought by money. But if you become a slave to money, it is easy to “get out of the fire”. Losing yourself will lose more precious time. Losing yourself will make you Success...
It was literary critic Lionel Trilling who quite aptly described the collective entity Jay Gatsby when he wrote, “Jay Gatsby [stands] for America itself.” Jay Gatsby lives his life entrenched in unfathomable wealth. His true roots are rather mysterious, but they revolve around an anti-Calvinistic...
Jay Gatsby is a character that is full of mystery. Throughout the early chapters, there are many details of Gatsby that are left unexplained. It is revealed that Gatsby was actually born into poverty and worked his way up from there. In chapter 6, Fitzgerald...
According to late civil rights advocist Dorothy Height, greatness is “not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.” Height’s declaration embodies the idea that dedication to a vision, rather than the...
There are many popular compositions from the past that are in that specific time period, then are forgotten about. However, some novels are popular generation after generation. Francis Scott Fitzgerald is recognized as one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century. One of...
Just because society follows the ‘American Dream’ of monetary wealth, does this mean we must chase the dream? In all generations people strive to be rich and famous like it is a timeless behaviour. People are pushed to chase the dollar above anything else. In...
Arthur Miller’s play ‘The Death of a Salesman’ and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s film ’The Great Gatsby’ both address one linked theme, striving for The American Dream. This unrealistic idea condenses to a happy way of living that is thought by many Americans in which freedom...
The Great Gatsby is one of the greatest texts of the 1920s and is widely known as a critique of the American Dream. The American Dream is the aspirational belief in the United States in which all individuals are prone to the opportunity of success...
Love is an intense feeling of deep affection. Hope is a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen. These are two words that describe the events and plot twist of by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Love describes the feelings and affection of the...