The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

In the book, Spy School and Evil Spy School by Stuart Gibbs, the main character ,Ben Ripley, changed over the course of the series due to getting kicked out of spy school.

Tom is an immoral character. He is very unlikeable because of his uncivilized attitude. He is a very arrogant, dominating and boorish man who doesn’t cares about anyone focusing only on what he wants and looks down on poor, helpless people. Not only this, but he is also racist and a complete hypocrite.

According to the newspaper company The Telegraph, daisies can become “serious weeds” and have the ability “thrive in generally inhospitable conditions.” This informative description of a common daisy mirrors F. Scott Fitzgerald’s character, Daisy Buchanan. In his novel, The Great Gatsby, Daisy tries to preserve the stability of her wealthy lifestyle through her marriage with Tom Buchanan instead of pursuing true love with Gatsby. Daisy becomes monotonous and dependent on wealth to act as an equilibrator of her life. Her dependency becomes uncontrollable, and that like that beautiful, innocent flower, she becomes a vile weed rooted in corruption. Fitzgerald implements Daisy as a way to convey the innate destructive property of wealth; it

Even though Tom is now aware of his origin it does not ultimately change all of his behavior and attitude or as it is described in the book “In several ways his opinions were totally changed,…, but the main structure of his character was not changed and could not be changed”. This condition only lasted for a certain period of time until he “dropped gradually back into his old frivolous and easy-going ways…” p.57 A similar thing happens to Chambers by the end of the story after Tom has gotten convicted to murder and Pudd’nhead Wilson has found out about the real identities of Tom and Chambers. Being a free man, the original Tom does not know how to deal with this situation because “his manners were the manners of a slave”. He did not learn how to write or to read, nor did he spend much time somewhere else but in the kitchen.

"Never has symbolism played such a crucial part in the very foundation of a novel as it does in Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, The Great Gatsby." Harold Bloom has written about this book. The author used several types of symbolism in The Great Gatsby. The colours are probably the easiest to be recognized and guessed what they symbolized. According to the definition “symbolism” is "the practice of representing things by means of symbols or of attributing symbolic meanings or significance to objects, events, or relationships."

Many consider The Great Gatsby a beautiful love story. A literary review site, for example, says about Fitzgerald’s most famous work: “The Great Gatsby is probably F. Scott Fitzgerald 's greatest novel […] Gatsby is really nothing more than a man desperate for love”(The Great Gatsby Review). Popular opinion paints Gatsby as such: A man desperate for love, devoid of any evil. But a closer look uncovers a new side of Jay Gatsby because Gatsby, underneath his glorious façade, is a sociopath.

Tom Ripley isn’t entirely sure of who he is, taking on the identity of multiple characters to hide behind a mask of insecurity. We meet him in the beginning of Patricia Highsmith’s, “The Talented Mr. Ripley” taking on someone else’s job as well as pretending to be a well-educated well-mannered Princeton graduate. Tom Ripley has gotten away with all his frauds, impersonations, and forgeries until his past comes back to haunt him. His imagination runs wild as he imagines the horrible deeds he has done manifesting into panic attacks and compulsions. Despite Tom Ripley being an unlikeable character, he seems to capture the reader’s attention by the end of the story.

The point that I am going to talk about the story The Great Gatsby is the way they took care of materialistic things all through the story. A vital topic of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is riches and the procedure of achieving it. This longing for material riches and belonging is known as realism. Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan are both amazingly materialistic and put a great deal of quality into the belonging and abundance of a man while Nick Carraway doesn 't show any materialistic cravings and complements the complexity between characters. Gatsby 's realism is driven by his yearning for riches. He adores the thought of Daisy since she is the encapsulation of riches and the perfect way of life of ceaseless overabundance. Daisy then again speaks to a definitive materialistic way of life. She doesn 't have the same aching as Gatsby since she was naturally introduced to a privileged family. Rather she underestimates inordinate living and is entranced with all things lavish on the grounds that she needs to keep up the riches she has and never lose it. Scratch is the special case to the guideline. He stresses the divergence in the middle of himself and Gatsby or Daisy. He is the control to whom Gatsby and Daisy can be thought about.

In the book, The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby is exemplified through many symbols and idols. Fitzgerald uses cars to represent wealth, success, status, and glamour. As Friedrich Nietzsche states, “There are more idols in the world than there are realities.” Nietzsche’s quote shows how idols and symbols are used to create impressions. Images are powerful and set a stage for others to judge one’s character, enabling human beings to avoid seeing what realities are. Idols are potent enough to mask the truth. In the novel, despite Gatsby 's own insecurities, he is viewed as an idol in society. Idols impact and influence Gatsby’s life and those living around him. Gatsby’s car represents an idol, illustrating his wealth, capturing attention, creating impressions, and covering misconceptions throughout life in the West Egg.

The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, provides a dark and pessimistic outlook into the American life style in 1922. Jay Gatsby, an American wealthy social identity, appears to have it all. But wealth, stature and an extravagant lifestyle seems not to be enough for Gatsby; he still yearns for his old idealistic love Daisy. In an ideal world this has the making of a great love story with a happy ending, but Fitzgerald chose to carry the story as a reflection of the American era the book is set in. An era consumed by appearances and excess and overall pursuit of the American dream.

Mr. Brantley had lots of great things to say about the production. He said, “Then there are Ms. Ripley and Ms. Skinner, who are simply astonishing. Their characters could so easily have become tiresome walking metaphors for the divided self or worse, a grotesque joke. Yet their Violet and Daisy, while nearly identical in

Ripley meet Dickie’s father. According to the book Mr. Greenleaf meet Tom at the bar after following him for some time, while in the movie those two meet at some ceremony where Mr. Ripley play a piano. Mr. Greenleaf approached Tom with his wife and start talking to him. Another change is that in the book Mr. Greenleaf says that his son has a passion for painting while in the book he tells Mr. Ripley that Dickie loves Jazz. When Mr. Greenleaf asks Tom to go to Europe, he gave him six hundred dollars for his expenses while in the movie they mentioned one thousand dollars. Next, according to the book Dickie has a very close female friend Marge, while in the movie they are a couple and are about to get engaged. Furthermore, Merge did not like Mr. Ripley from the moment he got to Mongibello, on the other hand in the movie she liked him (in the beginning). Also, the killing scenes are different. In the book was Tom intention to get out on the boat not Dickie’s like it shown in the movie. When Tom was thinking to kill Marge when she found Dickies’ ring in his belongings he was thinking to do it with a shoe, while in the movie he was thinking to do it with a blade that he holds in his robe packet really tight and hurting himself

Tom Ripley is consistently represented by Highsmith and Minghella as someone who’s always lacked an identity. His overriding ambition to be someone else using the talents of impersonation, forgery and telling lies portrays him as a predator, hunting for congruence, cohesion and meaning in life. From this point onwards, Tom enters a cruel and unstable reality where his obsession with Dickie Greenleaf causes him to kill him and assume his

Across all the texts there is a desire for the protagonist to be someone else. In The Talented Mr Ripley, Tom wants admiration, riches and wants love. The ends up meeting a rich man and gets the opportunity to go to Italy. Tom meets Dickie a rich man in Italy and admires him a lot he even starts secretly imitating him and wearing his clothes. This is because he loathes himself and would rather be a “fake somebody than a real nobody.” Tom feels as though being in the lower class and not being the typical image of beauty (wearing glasses) he will not be able to get the admiration or riches he wants and thinks that it is a better idea to use another identity. Tom ends up killing Dickie and then claiming his identity as his own not without hesitation.

The film opens with Mr. Ripley’s first lie as he is playing the piano at a luncheon in the place of someone else. Immediately after his performance, he returns the Princeton University blazer that he was wearing to its rightful owner and returns to work as a bathroom assistant. Early in the movie, the viewer sees that Tom would rather lie about who he is to get a taste of the limelight instead of stay devoted to his humble line of work. This instance is not immensely extreme because most people would trade the task of brushing rich, pompous men’s jackets for the opportunity to show off raw talent. Here, Tom is willing to fake and lie about who he is as long as it delivers him from the simple life that he currently has and this theme is transcended throughout