The Great Gatsby, Invisible Man, And The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is told from the perspective of one of the main characters, Nick Carraway. Nick tells the story of a man named Jay Gatsby, who is his neighbor in the West Egg. Fitzgerald portrays Gatsby as a man who everyone wants to know and copy but deep down are very envious of him. Gatsby trusts few people and those whom he trusts know his life story. To everyone else, he is a mystery. Everyone seems obsessed with Jay Gatsby. For this reason the novel revolves about rumors of Gatsby rather than the truth.

Diaz strategically uses Yunior to narrate a majority of the novel. Though Yunior’s identity as the narrrater was not revealed till almost the very end of the novel, Yunior gave a very descriptive and satirical version of the life of Oscar Wao. Yunior was Oscar’s roommate at Rutgers, the boyfriend of Oscar’s sister, Lola, and the reader

Throughout literary history, one main theme most writers favor to focus on is the human condition. The Things They Carried and The Great Gatsby are just two examples of many written in which this theme is present. The Things They Carried, written by Tim O 'Brien, is about O 'Brien telling his personal experiences and stories of the Vietnam War, and how the soldiers are fighting two wars, a war with the Viet Cong and a war with themselves. The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is set in the Roaring Twenties as it follows the story of a young man named Gatsby as he tries to achieve his version of the American Dream. Throughout the two novels, one can find that the loss of one 's humanity emerges as one of the main topics they both share. The Things They Carried and The Great Gatsby explore the loss of humanity in the 20th century through facing death, experiencing hardships with the intention of forgetting or bringing back that moment, and upholding one 's reputation.

The conclusion of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz is satisfying because the ending revolved around Oscar’s death, the separate stories of the novel now intertwined because of him. His transformation and new personality was ultimately the cause of his death, but in a sense it can be considered happy because it seems just right. Oscar becomes a new person and breaks free of his nerdy and rejected persona. Diaz seamlessly weaves the ending of Oscar Wao’s story and all the characters around him due to their natures and the preceding actions. The ending of this novel is convincing and logical because of Oscar’s new transformation which led him to do things which he would have not done before. These things that he did, most specifically pursuing a woman he should not have, led him to his death. Despite the morbid ending, it is not unreasonable; it is certainly logical and therefore satisfying to the

Writers are people of great influence; they write for many reasons including to inform, express an emotion, or even to persuade. With skill in rhetoric, writers may have the power to convince readers to succumb to their beliefs. In the novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz displays this great influential power of a writer and compares it with the ideas of dictatorship. Díaz uses two types of dictators in the book: a Dominican dictator named Rafael Trujillo and the narrator of the story, Yunior. Both hold a similar dictatorial power over groups of people whether they are citizens of a country or readers of a novel; writers can dictate what they wish their readers to know, just as dictators of a country can divulge or withhold any information they wish their citizens to know. The character Yunior, a friend of the de León-Cabral family, narrates the stories of the family’s lives to give an account of the effects Trujillo and the curse of the fukú had on them. Through his account of their life stories, Yunior uses his writing to counter Trujillo’s power creating his own counterspell, or zafa, to reduce the negative effects of the fukú. Yunior serves as a dictator by writing the book as a zafa through withholding information from readers and degrading Trujillo in the story, all while displaying the problems of a dictatorial voice.

Ambition. It is a vital characteristic required for an individual wanting achieve their goals. Being ambitious alone is crucial to success as it is the drive that propels one toward it. It is and always will be a human trait. Perhaps that is why the theme of ambition has been so prevalent in literature. It is the dominant theme in The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald, William Shakespeare 's Macbeth, Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller and The Wolf of Wall Street by Jordan Belfort. In this essay, I will discuss the two ways over ambition can cause an individual 's downfall. The first is setting unattainable goals which we can see in The Great Gatsby and Death of a Salesman. The second is trying to achieve your goals unethically, seen in Macbeth and in The Wolf of Wall Street . The idea of ambition and striving for achievement is highly valued by our society today. However, many people forget that too much of anything can be catastrophic.

The two novels The Great Gatsby and Of Mice and Men are very similar in many ways. In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby spends his whole life working towards a dream. He grew up dirt poor, and eventually made himself into a millionaire. However, his entire dream was centered around one person, a married woman named Daisy Buchanan. Right when he was the closest to achieving his dream, Gatsby was shot and killed for something he didn’t do. In Of Mice and Men, Lennie and George make every decision in life with one thing in mind, their dream of owning their own ranch someday. Lennie’s life revolves around that dream; it is all he thinks about. Lennie even dies while still envisioning how he desperately wanted his life to turn out. In these two novels,

Due to such timeless fictions as The Great Gatsby and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, the literary world celebrates 1920s author F. Scott Fitzgerald. But Fitzgerald didn’t just write lively For one, he brought his novels to life by weaving in his own real-life experiences. For instance, he fictionalized his wife’s mental illness—and his subsequent alcoholism—in his last completed novel, Tender is the Night. His relationship with Minnesota debutante Ginevra King inspired Daisy and Tom Buchannan’s character—with Daisy representing Ginevra and Tom representing Ginevra’s father. Ginevra King’s amateur golf star friend Edith Cummings also inspired Daisy Buchannan’s fictional friend Jordan Baker. An abundance of current events also affected

Materialism is one of the fundamental American attitudes and encompasses a wide array of desires, such as those for power, wealth, and excess. As outlined in L. Robert Kohls’ piece “The Values Americans Live By,” the value of materialism is used in The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway, to illustrate how collecting or consuming an excess is used in attempts to stave off regret. Characters in both novels show how far Americans take this, and help to perpetuate Kohls’ ideas regarding self-indulgence and its effect on people and their relations with others.

The point of view in a corrupt society can thoroughly express the selfish people, the greedy individuals, and the uneasy thoughts brought among us. Well, the three excerpts The Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby, and Death of a Salesman could interpret this. The three excerpts have been shown to be a base for “the American Dream,” or basic “Alienation,” but to look deeper into the source at hand and their distinct features; the clear status of showing the reader how corrupt society can be. The way these three novels have set the stages for corruption and it 's ongoing timeline that leads to either death or being pushed into a mental hospital.

When we’re living our life, sooner or later we’ll have to confront one event where it will make us reevaluate our life choices and it will be considered as an epiphany. This emotional turmoil is one of the issues, if not, the biggest reason Winter Dreams is such a treat to most readers. Winter Dreams was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, an American author born in Saint Paul, MN in 1896, and deceased in December 21, 1940 in Los Angeles, California. During these 44 years Fitzgerald’s works achieved an enormous recognition and appreciation from the public, to the point where these works became staples in today’s literature with stories like The Great Gatsby, Winter Dreams, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. These pieces became staples in the American literature mainly because Fitzgerald developed an expertise to illustrate the Jazz Age in his artworks.

Both The Great Gatsby and A Streetcar Named Desire are set in post war periods, when the act of emerging undefeated from the ravages of The Great War and the Second World War respectively, gave rise to a physical and spiritual euphoria. This ignited hopes of a more fulfilling and less restrictive life for many Americans. However, it 's imperative to note that within this newly obtained freedom, many people also discovered the pleasures found in sin such as promiscuity, illegal activities like gambling and drinking and such like. There was widespread disregard for pre-war values, particularly in the towns and cities in the United States, as the 1940s and more so the 1920s were periods of time in which all manner of impulsive behaviour was tolerated. Both Fitzgerald and Williams present and explore such issues, for example in their illustration of the rise in criminality, gambling, corruption, alcohol consumption and infidelity; all factors which tainted traditional marital morals. By 1920, there was a spike in post-war divorce rates, family breakups were becoming a national crisis and continued to increase right up to the 1940s. Fitzgerald and Williams, however, present marriages that, although fraught with tensions and suspicion, withstand hardship and don 't result in divorce. Initially, the audience or readers may view these lasting relationships as a show of admirable resilience, however the authors are actually accentuating the reasons for and the lengths to which

The one thing that Gatsby really wanted to show to Daisy was the mansion and the valuable belongings he owned. The reason he was so focused on making it sure it happened, could be for various reasons. When Daisy left Gatsby to marry Tom, Gatsby was heartbroken. The reason was not because she didn't love Gatsby, it was simply due to the fact that Gatsby didn’t have enough wealth back then compared to Tom. Daisy came from a not so wealthy family and having wealth played an important part in her life. So when she had an option to choose Gatsby, someone she loved or Tom, a person who had a lot of wealth, she chose money over love. Now that Gatsby has earned more money than Tom, he is trying to gain Daisy, wanting her to realize, that he has everything she wanted and can provide and support anything she wants.

Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, is a highly recognizable figure in American literature. Born in Florida, Missouri Mark Twain and his family moved to Hannibal, Missouri where Twain discovered and fell in love with the mighty Mississippi River. The river and his life in Hannibal became his inspiration and guiding light in most of his writing. Although Twain loved the river and did a great deal of traveling, he eventually settled down at the age of 35 and had a family. He married Olivia Langdon on February 2, 1870 and was the father to their four children, Langdon, Susy, Clara, and Jean Clemens. The family would reside in Hartford, Connecticut, a mere 60 miles from the town of Redding where Twain would die at the age of 75.

Starting in the late 1800s, fictional writing became increasingly popular with American readers and writers (Hornsby). Fictional literature is known for being a mirror or representation of the world at that point in time. Although American authors in the early twentieth century recorded different events and changes in the United States, they also wrote about their personal struggles and experiences throughout their lives. In particular, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote multiple novels that directly reflect his own life. During his life, he wrote and published four complete novels: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night. Each of these novels mirror the people, incidents, and surroundings present in