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The novel “the great Gatsby” is told through the perspective of nick carraway who is a new residence in the neighborhood of west egg. Nick carraway moves from the Midwest to west egg, as he arrives he soon find out his neighbor is Mr. Gatsby. Soon after arriving, nick travels to east egg to meet his cousin, daisy buchanan. Daisy is married to tom buchanan, who is a portrayed as a strong, big and hulking individual. While visiting, nick meets Jordan baker who both attract to each other throughout the novel.

To what extent do you agree that Fight Club is an updated version of Great Gatsby that captures the zeitgeist of modernism?

The American Dream is a dream about possibilities, and a desire for success. Sometimes you can interpret the dream for money, sometimes for love regardless of what the you think it is, the dreamer works hard to reach this goal. In the novel The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is driven by his desire to achieve the American Dream. Unfortunately, Gatsby’s drive to achieve the dream also results in him falling victim to it. Essentially, Gatsby falls victim to the American Dream because he is forced to face the reality that his dream is just that, a dream that is out of reach and unrealistic. The novel also shows what happened to the American Dream in the 1920’s, which is a time period when the dreams became corrupted for many reasons.

Throughout the course of recorded history, humans have nearly always had a heroic story to tell. For the most part these myths were meant to entertain with amazing feats, but there is an underlying common human theme no matter the hero; with the advent of interpreting myth, many have tried to dissect these stories to find the common themes in many culture’s myths using many different methods. One of these methods of analyzing the commonalities of hero myths, is with the 12 steps of The Hero’s Journey by Christopher Vogler (an adaptation of The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell). Through the course of this essay we will discover how the 12 stages within The Hero’s Journey outline the story of the main character, J. Gatsby, from the 2013 film adaptation of the classic 1925 novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, directed by Baz Luhrmann.

Depending on where a person is in life, that person’s idea of what the American Dream is could be completely different in meaning than another person’s idea of what it is. In the book, The Great Gatsby, by, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the American Dream is represented by three different places, East Egg, West Egg, and The Valley of Ashes. All three of these places in the novel represent different views of what the American Dream is by the people living in these places, the looks of the people and the cities, and the types of jobs or things people do with their time in these places. There are many colors used to show the ambiance of the towns. The people described living in the town in the book are not similar in morals or appearance and the American Dream is shown in the people and appearance of these three places. The East Egg and West Egg represent the American Dream; West Egg portrays the American Dream while East Egg is the perfect example of what the dream actually is and the Valley of Ashes represents fading dreams and showing what the reality of trying to achieve the American Dream is.

Money is not the only factor involved in gaining social status and happiness. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is set in 1922, a time of social climbers and the need for money to have a sense of happiness and security in society. The common characterization throughout the novel portrays the common idea that money is a main priority, even before the character’s happiness. For example, the security of marrying into money and social status is often seen as more important than true love. The idea that wealth is a necessity for social class begins to develop. Also present is the contrast between “new money” and “old money.” This is shown through the

Throughout The Great Gatsby many themes are displayed to correlate moral corruption to each character. The Great Gatsby is basically a story about moral and the absentence of morals within the society of the 1920’s. Most characters in the book as only concerned about how society views them and what can they do to be the most rich and famous person that everyone is talking about. Tom, Daisy and Myrtle are three characters in The Great Gatsby who take no responsibility for their actions, in which the lives of others are destroyed and demonstrate how the corruption of the 1920s can ruin one’s life.

The love and effort that you put into a single person or a dream, a desire, will not last forever, it will change shape, sizes and manifestations and sometimes it turns into something we end up dreading. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, our mysterious, yet gorgeous hopeless romantic and portrayer of the rags-to-riches ideal, Jay Gatsby, is haunted by the desire he has for his true love, Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby dreams of a future, “a happily ever after” with her, a married woman. Towards the end of the of the novel, his is love for her is yet again being compared and challenged to that brute of a man, Tom Buchanan, Daisy’s husband, by Daisy herself. Their abrupt confession of love in front of the brute spirals out of control and strains the relationship that reblossomed between Gatsby and Daisy, which soon ends when Gatsby himself passes away. All of Gatsby’s attempts to woo the woman back into his arms, the parties he had thrown in her name and the enhancement of his status in society, turned into dust. He spent years of his life running after a girl who did not want to be chased, the time and effort he put into their affair, all turned to nothing but a distant dream, a “once upon a time”. The author, F. Scott Fitzgerald, does this to show society that when it comes to love, desire is suffering, it is better to live in your reality and to be honest than to lie and stay in your fantasy, and that our biggest dreams, no matter how much effort is put in, in

Is it possible to repeat the past? Can one really recreate something that happened years before? According to Jay Gatsby in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby it is possible; and it has been done for the book The Great Gatsby itself. The Great Gatsby has been adapted into film many times by various directors; however, there are two that are considered most popular. The first really popular The Great Gatsby was Jack Clayton’s version that was released in 1974, and more recently Baz Luhrmann’s version that was released in 2013. Since the two movies are based on the same book, they have some of the same characteristics, but both movies are distinct. The two different movie directors make the movies distinct by: differences in how the characters are portrayed, the parties that are thrown, and the overall mood of the films.

While most novels that are read for school typically use physical objects and maybe even characters as forms of symbolism to convey a deeper meaning within that is not in the same realm as the main plot, The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald is notable for using different colors as symbols to display deeper themes. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses various colors to describe the qualities of different characters and the circumstances of events that take place within the story. Three colors and their symbolic meaning in the novel come to mind with this topic: green is used mainly to convey a meaning of perhaps unreachable hope or desire, the color grey is utilized as an indicator of lifelessness or otherwise a sense of “boredom”, and the color yellow is generally a strong descriptor of death and corruption. Whether or not they showed up for a prolonged period of time, all three of these colors are quite important at different points in the novel.

Throughout the text of The Great Gatsby, we see evidence of the “Roaring 20s” in which it was set and the mindset of the author, F. Scott Fitzgerald when it was written in the 1950s. If we use this book as any indication of Fitzgerald’s thoughts we can see that he did not think very highly of women, especially within the upper class. All of the women in The Great Gatsby are either unpleasant, dishonest, or shallow.

In the book,“The Great Gatsby” by F Scott Fitzgerald is about a group of people set in Long Island. The main characters of this book is Nick,Tom,Daisy,Myrtle,George,and Jordan. However they appear in multiple area 's except for The Valley of Ashes to where all the poor people live. For the most part however it is briefly set between East Egg and West Egg. East Egg is to where all the more older and classy,rich people live while West Egg is for the more new rich people that haven 't completely gotten used to being rich and famous so they have not completely adjusted to the rich life and the way rich people are supposed to work and speak.

"The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It 's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now" - J. G. Ballard

The American Dream is defined as the ideal that every citizen of the United States has equal opportunity to achieve success through hard work and motivation. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald shows the corruption in the idea of the American Dream. George and Myrtle Wilson fail to acquire their dreams because of moral corruption in themselves and society. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald presents the American Dream as unattainable through Myrtle and George Wilsons’ struggles to achieve their individual dreams because of the flawed American society.

From the beginning of film love stories have been part of the industry. They are, no doubt, one of the most popular subjects that filmmakers choose to explore, especially ones from novels and other literary works. The most popular of these, however, is The Great Gatsby. It is a film that explores different kinds of relationships in women and men, and with the use of specific film elements, it puts a twist on the common love story. The film The Great Gatsby utilizes mise-en-scene, character development, and plot to show the estrangement of the main character, Jay Gatsby, from his peers. This is what leads to an uncommon story of boy falling in love with girl.