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- 61: The Changing of the America Through Literature
- The Changing of the America Through Literature The authors of these two novels, Mark Twain with The Adventures or Huckleberry Finn and F. Scott Fitzgerald with The Great Gatsby, both used their stories to try and get the reader to reflect upon themselves and the time period they were discussing. They were both trying to ... is now known as the Roaring 20’s or the Jazz Age. People are into their own thing and there is a lot of drug and alcohol abuse. F. Scott Fitzgerald discussed the effects of greed, superficiality, senseless violence and to an extent, racism had on the people in The Great Gatsby. Even though the slaves had been freed from emancipation, they still were not looked upon as equal. Fitzgerald does mention a few times about a well-dressed Negro man, but they are basically still serving the rich white man. Now they are now being paid for their ...
- 62: Great Gatsby
- ... with which to satisfy Daisy. He lives in the past on a moment of absolute happiness hoping he can relive that state of emotion sometime in the future. F. Scott Fitzgerald published the book in 1925 using the actual time in history, the Roaring Twenties to help create Gatsby's character. Gatsby's participation in the bootlegging business, the extravagant parties he throws, and the wealthy, careless lifestyle the Buchanans represent, are all vivid pictures of that time frame. Fitzgerald's portrayal of the time period creates lifelike characters in the novel. By creating these personable characters, Fitzgerald is allowing the reader to associate himself with Gatsby, and letting him use his imagination, so that in the end, the reader can decide if the Great Gatsby is ...
- 63: Materialism - The Great Gatsby
- ... often causes people to strive for material perfection, rather than a spiritual one. This has been a truth since the beginnings of America, such as the setting of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, which is an example of this set in the 20’s. The characters in this novel are too fixed on material things, losing sight of what is really important. The characters in The Great Gatsby take a materialistic attitude that causes them to fall into a downward spiral of empty hope and zealous obsession. Fitzgerald contrasts Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway to display how the materialistic attitude of the 1920’s leads many to hopeless depression and how materialism never constitutes happiness. Fitzgerald uses Jay Gatsby, a character who spends his entire adult life raising his status, only to show the stupidity of the materialistic attitude. Rather than hard work, Gatsby turns ...
- 64: The Great Gatsby: Portraying A Morose Tone
- The Great Gatsby: Portraying A Morose Tone F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby paints the picture of the way life was in the twenties. This society has the characteristics of an egotist and one who pays no attention the character of themselves. Fitzgerald's style influences the reader to portray this era as a carefree "do what feels good" society. However, Fitzgerald introduces the countless number of tragedies that take place. Through diction, imagery, and details Fitzgerald creates a morose tone. The writer evokes the reader's feelings through particular words ...
- 65: The Great Gatsby 3
- ... with which to satisfy Daisy. He lives in the past on a moment of absolute happiness hoping he can relive that state of emotion sometime in the future. F. Scott Fitzgerald published the book in 1925 using the actual time in history, the Roaring Twenties to help create Gatsby's character. Gatsby's participation in the bootlegging business, the extravagant parties he throws, and the wealthy, careless lifestyle the Buchanans represent, are all vivid pictures of that time frame. Fitzgerald's portrayal of the time period creates lifelike characters in the novel. By creating these personable characters, Fitzgerald is allowing the reader to associate himself with Gatsby, and letting him use his imagination, so that in the end, the reader can decide if the Great Gatsby is ...
- 66: The Great Gatsby: Symbolism in Colors
- ... automatically feel what the artist is trying to express. When the artist uses bright colors you feel warm and you feel happiness. In the novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald is like an artist. He uses colors to symbolize the many different intangible ideas in the book. He uses the color yellow to symbolize moral decay decadence and death. Then he uses the color white to symbolize innocence. He also uses the color green to express hope. Fitzgerald's use of the color green the strongest. Although these are not the only colors that Fitzgerald uses for symbolism, they are the ones that he expresses the most. This book is a very colorful book in the sense that it uses colors to cover so ...
- 67: The Great Gatsby Ending
- One of the greatest endings in American literature can be found in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald ties in many themes that were used throughout the entire novel together in the last seven paragraphs to produce a unified piece of literature. Since the ending is the last ... compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder." The picture that Fitzgerald has painted in our minds with the entire book and this paragraph is bleak and mournful. The big shore places being closed, few lights, a shadowy ferryboat moving across ...
- 68: The Condition of African Americans in the 1920’s Compared to Amory Blaine
- ... narrow group of people, the Caucasian upper class from the northeastern section of the United States. Therefore, Amory is an example of the typical type of person this novel represents. Fitzgerald does not mention African Americans in this novel. However, during the nineteen twenties African Americans were often deprived of a quality education by several means. This is where my argument ... not the most, expensive universities in the country. In addition to this, he also received an allowance from his parents. This still did not seem to satisfy Amory. F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of This Side of Paradise, explains that, “His father had been experimenting with mining stocks and, in consequence, his allowance, while liberal, was not all that he had expected” (36). This shows Amory’s true selfish nature and his unappreciative personality. An allowance of any sort would be greatly appreciated by any African American during those times. Fitzgerald sums it up by stating that, “Once a day Amory indulged in a club sandwich, cornflakes, and julienne potatoes at Joe’s…(36). Although Joe’s is an unsanitary ...
- 69: The Mystery That Was Gatsby, T
- The Mystery that was Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald s most famous work of literature is unarguably his great American novel, The Great Gatsby. This is plainly evidenced by its frequent and familiar appearance in the American classroom. The ... details that surround Gatsby s life and history. This causes Gatsby s character to seem that much more mysterious. Other characters in the novel, major or minor, are described by Fitzgerald much more deliberately and with much greater precision. Though other characters play roles subordinate to Gatsby s the details that surround their lives as they relate to the story are ... about his line of work, Gatsby claims to be in the drugstore business. Drugstores were a common means of bootlegging liquor during prohibition since pharmacists could sell whiskey by prescription. Fitzgerald is never quite clear as to just what extent of illegal activity Gatsby was involved in. At some points, he may even seem like a legitimate business man. It ...
- 70: The Great Gatsby And The Pursu
- ... was no way of achieving this success. The American Dream eliminated the barriers between people that social class had held for centuries in Europe. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, shows the corruption of the American Dream from what it used to be in the past. Not only does Jay Gatsby achieve his success without hard work, but this success ... being able to achieve just like every other person. His success is just a result of the I want materialism of Gatsby s time, the 1920 s. The figures in Fitzgerald s book all represent different outlooks on the American Dream. Nick, who comes from the Midwest, represents the traditional morality that this country used to have in the past. As the narrator, Fitzgerald is making the reader look through the eyes of America s old morality to see what the American Dream has become. Tom and Daisy Buchanan represent those who were ...
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