Analysis Of Carline Hawthorne 's ' The Great Gatsby '

The 1920s in America, known as the "Roaring Twenties", was a time of celebration after a destructive war. It was a period of time in America characterised by prosperity and optimism. There was a general feeling of disruption associated with modernity and a break with traditions.The Roaring Twenties was a time of great economic prosperity and many people became rich and wealthy. Some people inherited "old money" and some obtained "new money". However, there was the other side of prosperity and many people also suffered the nightmare of being poor. In the novel,The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby is portrayed as a wealthy character

In book, “The Great Gatsby,” F. Scott Fitzgerald depicts how the American was corrupted through wealth. Fitzgerald provides many examples. The most common example shown was Jay Gatsby. Gatsby’s idea that to achieve his American Dream must be to acquire wealth. In order to show this, Fitzgerald uses various literary elements. Two of those being imagery and foreshadowing, these played a critical role in describing the theme, and specific moods to show what was to come and as well as describe the story as a whole. These play a vital role in representing Gatsby’s life and journey to acquiring Daisy, his version of the American Dream.

Mallard is sitting in her room her sister Josephine is knocking on the door. Josephine begs her sister to open the door thinking she is going to make herself sick. She tells Josephine to go away, while her thoughts are still running about the days ahead of her. “It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be long.” ( 548) As she opened the door to the room her sister was standing there and clasped her waist and they both headed to the stairs. Richard who is Mr. Mallard’s friend was standing at the bottom of the stairs. While they are all standing at the stairs the front door opens and Mr. Mallard comes walking in with his grip-sack and umbrella. He was nowhere near the accident and did not even know that there was one. “He was standing there amazed by Josephine’s cry; then at Richards’ quick motion to screen him from the view of his wife". ( 548) He was too late. With Mrs. Mallard’s heart condition and the joys of being free only lasted a short while. When seeing her husband walk through the door, it became too much for her to bare and it killed

Dreams are a compelling force in people’s lives. They are what propel them forward each and every day in an effort to reach something better. The American Dream has been sought after by millions all over the world for hundreds of years. This country was founded on the belief that anyone could achieve their dreams. However, in the 1920s these hopes and aspirations began to splinter until they ultimately shattered. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses symbolism, setting, and theme to depict the unattainability of the American Dream.

Amidst the dense and desolate forests of the Stampede Trail, located in Alaska, lies an abandoned bus. In this decaying automobile lies a blue sleeping bag, containing much greater than what initially appears to be simply an unshaven beard and a pair of dark, sleep-deprived eyes, shaded temporarily by resting lids and a tangled mess of lashes. Instead, here lies an adventurous mind that would no longer have the capability to wander, a mere twenty-four year old life stolen from a brother, a son, a friend, a bundle of ideas that would never be given the opportunity to seep their way into the minds of others. Here lies: Christopher McCandless. Alongside these remains lie plenty

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is a novel that highlights the stark contrast between the rich elites of East Egg and the dirt-poor ashen people of the Valley of Ashes through the reckless power that the wealthy of this world can exert on the unfortunate. As concluded by Nick in the novel, “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy – they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness [...] and let other people clean up the mess they had made” (Fitzgerald, 179). By thoroughly examining the thoughtless actions of Daisy and Tom Buchanan and their consequences, Baz Luhrmann's rendition of The Great Gatsby portrays the carelessness of the elites more effectively than the novel. Through the inclusion of additional scenes and the omission of some, Baz Luhrmann conveys the utter disregard that Tom and Daisy posses towards other characters in the novel.

In The Great Gatsby, the author, F Scott Fitzgerald depicts the post - war roaring 20’s, a time of overwhelming prosperity and a new found sense of hope for the future. While this novel is often perceived as a romance, it is also a criticism on the devastating nature of the elusive american dream. The story of Jay Gatsby is a representation of what had become the values of the individual at the time. With the progression of the early 1920’s the vision of the perfect life, or the american dream, had been skewed. It was replaced with greed, and an abundance of reckless spending in which the wealthier individuals placed their misguided ideas of happiness. In the Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald chooses to expose the hidden truth behind the illustrious concept of the American dream. Through his use of literary devices such as, symbolism, metaphor, and, irony the central idea of the truly unattainable American dream is supported throughout the novel.

Gatsby cannot be classified as a truly moral person who exhibits goodness or correctness in his character and behaviour. Gatsby disputes most moral damage throughout the novel. Gatsby exhibits characteristics explaining the reason behind moral decay in society. Corruption and lies are responsible for the destruction of humanity. Gatsby’s whole life’s basically is a lie as he created a fake identity for himself. A whole new persona, Jay Gatsby is not even his real name. Gatsby

When Montag and the other firemen got the call, he was shocked. They arrived at his house and as soon as they appear at his house Mildred picked up a few items, put them in a suitcase and WAS DRIVEN OFF IN A TAXI OR drove off

Key Events Montag feels sick the next morning Montag asks Mildred if she could turn off the parlour walls b/c they were noisy and were making him feel worse; but Mildred had said they were family & she turned down the volume. Montag understands that authors of each book had spent lot’s of time thinking about the book and how in minutes he can burn it.

The next three days were a blur. Emotions were running wild with the fear that Mildred would show up, knocking on their door, ready to take away what little they have. As the third day approached, Montag came to a realization that his wife wasn’t coming after all. They all relaxed and started thinking about their next move.

Over the next couple of days, Montag experiences a sequence of odd/alarming events. First, Mildred, his wife attempts suicide by taking overdoses of sleeping pills. Next, when he and the Firemen Squad respond to the alarm of an old woman with books, the

When Montag tries to speak to Mildred about what happened, she kinda ignores him and goes back to her 3 wall tv room and watches tv. Montag runs into Clarisse on his way to work later that day, and she questions him about his wife. Later on at the fire station, Montag walks by the Mechanical Hound(a robot dog). Montag being scared of the dog asks captain Beatty about it, but Beatty just puts the question aside and talks about something else. After a couple days Montag hasn't seen Clarisse on his way and way back from work. But with news of a possible war on tv, Montag starts to think about the human beings whose books and homes he destroys almost like a guilt trip. When Montag is at the fire station the fire alarm goes off, calling the firemen to an old house in which the owner, a old lady, doesn't want to leave her home. The lady sets off a match and throws it on the floor which is covered with kerosene, causing her and her house to burn down. During all that Montag steals one of the old ladies books and takes it home with him. When Montag gets back home, he tries hard to not recall what just happen.As he gets ready for, Montag forgets where Mildred and him met. He asks Mildred if she remembers, and she doesn't,she seems

Montag later goes to the fire station and gives one of his books to his chief Beatty. He tells montag that books are awful and that they should be burned. The alarm goes off and they run off to answer the call only to find out it was at montag’s house mildred gets into a taxi and leaves montag because she couldn't bare to be in the same house with the books, she betrayed montag. Beatty forces montag to burn his house, he then place montag under arrest for reading and hiding the book. Montag throws the flame thrower to beatty setting him on fire, he knocks the other firemen unconscious and

Clarisse and Mildred are two very different women. They do not have much in common besides Montag and they handle their situations very differently. Clarisse is warm in every way Mildred is not. Mildred represents the average citizen of their society whereas Clarisse is an outcast. However, when you consider their starkly different backgrounds there really was not much choice in who these women became.