Essay on F. Scott Fitzgerald's Bernice Bobs Her Hair

Each of the main characters have a trait or two similar to Fitzgerald himself along with other

One of the biggest conflicts between Bernice and Marjorie is one over a boy named Warren. Warren grew up across the street from Marjorie, he was “crazy about her” since the beginning; however, the feelings were not reciprocated on Marjorie’s behalf. As the story progresses, Marjorie takes on the task to transform Bernice into a new woman. Bernice’s new appeal is soon taken into consideration when Warren gains an interest in the new Bernice. Even though Marjorie didn’t have feelings for Warren, she still became jealous. Marjorie’s new goal was to destroy the relationship between Bernice and Warren. Marjorie becomes successful in accomplishing her goals by putting Bernice’s reputation at risk.

In the novel, Birdie, Bernice is on a journey to heal herself from her past. After, being raped by her uncle Larry, a lot of terrible events happened to her. Which lead her to live on the streets of Edmonton. While in Edmonton, she crossed paths with one of her cousin, who took her back to the rez so she could visit the rest of her family. While being at the rez she comes across uncle Larry who becomes aroused

This article by Donaldson is about the role of women in Fitzgerald's life and how those women influence the characterization of the females in his books. He then went on to say how Fitzgerald himself was reflected in all his characters, male and female. It was then discussed how the characterization influenced the overall theme of the stories. Donaldson creates a very positive attitude giving an overall positive review. He does not criticize Fitzgerald, only analyses his work.

“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us.… Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.… And one fine morning—” (Fitzgerald 180). In this quote from The Great Gatsby, Nick attempts to describe the nature of Gatsby’s hope and draws the parallel to all of our hopes and dreams that we have as Americans. F. Scott Fitzgerald, an American novelist and short-story writer, was an amazing author who used his work, just like in the quote above, to write about the Roaring Twenties and the hopes of Americans during that time. His earlier works show an idealistic feeling for the potentials of life at college and in “The East,” he attained the sobriquet of “the spokesman of the Jazz Age.”

The Great Gatsby is a beautifully illustrated love story, which one can enjoy over and over again. F Scott Fitzgerald skillfully portrays women as shallow immoral beings throughout his novel, The Great Gatsby. The characters Daisy Buchanan, Jordan Baker, and Myrtle Wilson are depicted in a less than favourable light. From the beginning of the novel and as it progresses, Fitzgerald, time and time again, displays these women as despicable characters. In Fitzgerald’s classic novel he demonstrates to us how the women are shallow human beings. On many events we can see the shallowness in each of the women, in the way they act and respond to particular incidents in the book.

Zelda Fitzgerald began life looking forward to what it could offer her. A popular debutante and success at everything she had yet to try enticed her to believe that she was infallible. It was only during her later life that she realized that life, both physically and mentally, had its breaking point. Though many things have been blamed as the cause of her mental breakdown, there is no specific root to her problem. Diagnosed as schizophrenic in 1930, Zelda would be condemned to spending the rest of her life in and out of mental health facilities, the place where she would take her final breath, killed by a fire in 1948.

. Bernice’s cousin, Marjorie, is the socialite of her town. The Queen Bee. All the girls want to be her; all the guys want to be with her. She has Warren, her unofficial boyfriend, wrapped around her finger. But everyone cannot see the real Marjorie, Her true insecure side. They don’t understand that she puts them down to make her feel better about herself, trying to make herself feel superior. Marjorie is putting on a front to give the idea that she is happy and perfect. Underneath, she is a cold and jealous person. She is the one pressuring Bernice, not knowing that it is the way she copes with her own insecurities. Marjorie, although more confident than Bernice, also shows

The way she told her story was different than any other book I have ever read. It was set up as e-mails going back and forth between characters, or letters written to each other. Most books are set up as narrators telling the readers the novel. However, Where’d You go Bernadette, was written as a narrator telling the story before it went back to the norm of e-mails and letters.

In response to “Rewriting American History” by Frances Fitzgerald, I’d know like to know just why Fitzgerald is so angry with contemporary people that are paving their own contemporary culture. Frankly, it won’t impact everyone the way Fitzgerald exaggerates. Thus—although I respect and agree with some statements—I do not share this concern that “each generation of children reads only one generation of schoolbooks”. In fact, there are many reasons as to why his argument is repugnant. This entire piece was too critical and too condemning of a reasonably flawed process.

Fitzgerald depicts women as self-absorbed, selfish and/or dishonest through the three characters of Daisy, Myrtle and Jordan. They have other qualities as well but those are the three traits that have the biggest role in the way this story takes place. Daisy is so obsessed with herself she can’t afford to think about anything else. Myrtle is so obsessed with having more she becomes blinded to the things she does have. Jordan is so obsessed with making herself be seen as perfect she no longer knows how to do it without cheating. These flaws that each of these women have represent every other women in America during the 1920’s whether they had the same traits or not. Fitzgerald simply captures what life was like during an era in history where

Bernice becomes quite the “Society Vampire.” Pg.6, after the deal she made with Marjorie, and soon the men were actually into Bernice. It’s like a light switch has been turned on, and Bernice very much so like the results. She wore better clothes, and that alone, made her more becoming to the men, Bernice also carried on conversations that were actually interesting to the men. During the dances; she finds herself being cut in on, which was a big deal during the twenties. She was even cut in on by the most adorn bachelor, G. Reece Stoddard! With all this attention, comes jealousy, Warren McIntyre has now taking a liking to

In the two short stories, “Woman Hollering Creek” by Sandra Cisneros and “Bernice Bobs Her Hair” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, both use the theme of societal expectations and discrimination of women as the basis of their plots.

The relationship between Bernice and Marjorie is not good at all: “Though cousins, they were not intimates. As a matter of fact, Marjorie had not female intimates – she considered girls stupid” (345). Bernice is a classy woman educated to be a pleasant object for men. Bernice is an outcast in 1920’s society; her values are the old ones and that does not fit with the new trends. She does not belong to her time and is stuck in her mother’s time when everything was

A few years later Fitzgerald scribbled “Basis of Bernice” on the heading of the letter’s first page. These letters became the basis of the ten thousand-word story, “Bernice Bobs Her Hair”, he drafted in 1919. Fitzgerald sent his story to numerous magazines yet was met with even more rejections. Many editors called it “cliché”, “boring” and trying to please them he cut his manuscript in half and scrapped the ending in hopes of