The Power Of Responsibility In The Great Gatsby

     In Of Mice and Men, George shows the weight of responsibility on taking care of Lennie. George knows he could be better off without Lennie. “When I think of the swell time I could have without you, I go nuts,” George finally expresses. He even tells

Gatsby's death is quite important to this idea as well. No one attends his funeral but Nick, his dad, Owl

The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a story about a wealthy man named Gatsby. Gatsby lives a luxuriant life in West Egg of New York. Gatsby’s wealth has an unknown secret because nobody seems to know where his wealth emerged from. Despite of having so much fortune, Gatsby’s true American dream has not been achieved. In the great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald develops Gatsby as a failed American dream to show the impossibility of the American dream in the 1920’s.

The Great Gatsby as Fitzgerald’s explanation of an American Reality which contradicts the American Dream

During the holiday season, everyone is reminded of how good it feels to give gifts to one another, and how it can almost feel better to give a gift than receive one. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald are two novels that help readers understand the satisfactory feeling connected with giving. In the story, Of Mice and Men, two men who travel together in an attempt to find work with an ultimate goal of buying land and living together in peace and harmony. The Great Gatsby is a novel about Nick Carraway, a man from the midwest moving eastward to New York. The novel focuses of Nick’s encounters with the man Jay Gatsby. Nick is surprised by the aristocratic nature of the upper class and the preposterous measures people will take to get what they want. In Of Mice and Men and The Great Gatsby, Steinbeck and Fitzgerald use the characters George Milton, and Jay Gatsby to portray how the desire for material possession is often driven by the pleasure of someone else.

“ The price of greatness is responsibility” (Winston Churchill) . Responsibility plays a role in the novel The Great Gatsby in multiple ways. However, irresponsibility of the characters has more of an impact on the novel. The characters did not take responsibility for their actions throughout the novel, they were also irresponsible in their use of money and also Daisy and Tom with their child. The example of irresponsibility that had the biggest impact was their driving. The lives of the characters are heavily impacted by the irresponsibility of others or themselves.

The Great Gatsby and Of Mice and Men are both great stories that teach us a life lesson. In both stories, they have a dream, we all have a dream, something we want to accomplish in life, something we would feel proud and happy if we make it come true. The Great Gatsby was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published April 10, 1925 in New York City by Scribner’s and Of Mice and Men was written by John Steinbeck and it was published by Pascal Covici in February 6, 1937. The Great Gatsby represents the American dream that we all want. Jay Gatsby was a poor kid from North Dakota who later became a rich man with a big house and always threw big parties in his house. While Of Mice and Men, Lennie and George wanted to own a place and live of the fat

     In The Great Gatsby, the author F. Scott Fitzgerald shows the destruction of morals in society. The characters in this novel, all lose their morals in attempt to find their desired place in the social world. They trade their beliefs for the hope of being acceptance. Myrtle believes she can scorn her true social class in an attempt to be accepted into Ton's, Jay Gatsby who bases his whole life on buying love with wealth, and Daisy, who instead of marrying the man she truly loves, marries someone with wealth. The romance of money lures the characters in The Great Gatsby into surrendering their values, but in the end, "the streets paved with gold led to a dead

Morality is the idea of knowing between proper and off beam choices, and it allows one to distinguish between decisions from the values and principles given to them. However, due to changes in their environment and society, one’s morals may change. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the characters behave differently based on their lifestyle and social class. When Westerner Nick, goes to live in the East, he realizes his experiences led him to know his tolerance to negative events associated with immoral people, which makes Nick hate his surrounding environment (Fitzgerald 2). In, The Great Gatsby, the characterization of Tom, Daisy, Jordan and Gatsby demonstrates that social status determines morality.

As I slowly crossed the flight of steps wondering what was going to happen, the butler led me upstairs inviting me to enter the study. I desperately searched for a look from Nick, who was already searching around for someone to talk with.

Everyone has been through a rough situation sometime during their life but covered it up like nothing was wrong. A great amount of people have issues with relationships, their social status, and families in life and become very stressed which could lead to bigger problems. In the novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald conveys the hardships of Tom and Daisy’s relationship, the dissatisfaction of wealth between the Wilsons, issues with Gatsby’s and Daisy’s relationship, and also Gatsby’s rough past. These issues with the characters lead to even bigger problems including the death of Jay Gatz, Myrtle Wilson, and George Wilson.

The characters such as Daisy, Jay, George and Myrtle, and the themes such as; crime and loss of innocence in The Great Gatsby reflect the troubles women faced during the 1920s. The twenties was a huge period of change. People all over the United States listened to the same music, wore the same clothes and used the same language. Although it caused a lot of conflict, it was a “roaring” time period. Money was definitely not an issue for the higher class, they bought things like electric refrigerator and radios. It was during the 1920s that radios became popular. Every fourth american had a radio in their home. The most important product that was huge during this time was the automobile. Prohibition had an enormous issue that led to the abuse of women and their rights.

Through the years the concept of the American Dream has stood the test of time proving to be a vibrant and unique concept that most Americans identify with and define in diverse ways depending on how it relates to their lives. The significant aspect behind the coining of the American Dream is that it is not limited to any lineage, religion or any other shared form of history, unlike other identities in the world, on the contrary, the American Dream is defined by shared collective values. These collective issues are ingrained in individualism, self-reliance, self-discovery and self-actualization where all people are capable of fulfilling their own destiny and being self-reliant through hard work and perseverance in life. The American Dream ideology is firmly embedded in the American cultural landscape, as it describes the American experience, as a land with endless opportunities for all people to attain self-reliance through hard work. The American Dream ideology has stood the test of time since it promotes an aspirational experience that lies in finding fulfillment in one’s life. Through the examination and analysis of the texts, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Self-Reliance and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, the essay will demonstrate how from one literary period to the next, one generation to the other, these texts are significant since just like the American Dream they are ingrained in the themes

The Great Gatsby is about Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby. It tells the story of how James Gatz, a young farm boy turned himself into Jay Gatsby, a rich and lively man. Always chasing after one thing, Daisy. Of Mice and Men tells you about the struggles of the 1930’s workers in California through George and Lennie. George and Lennie are two workers who always stayed by each others side through thick and thin.

In the game of chess, two versatile opponents sit face-to-face, pitted against one another in hopes of claiming the illustrious winning title. During the game, if the player makes one wrong move, the game could end instantaneously, bringing the naive hopes of the contestant to a screeching halt. By exquisitely portraying the life of the fabulously wealthy during the 1920s in his novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald elegantly details the account of the exhilaration, lavishness, and lack of morality that occurred during the Jazz Age, a time full of expensive belongings and excessive drinking. Nick Carraway, the narrator of the novel and a man of the middle class, recalls the events of his firsthand experience of the summer in the up-and-coming New York City. Although New York City seems enamoring and awe invoking, halfway between the excitement and extravagance of the city and the wealthy neighborhood of West Egg lies a desolate place filled with despair and debris called the valley of ashes. Nick Carraway crafts humdrum imagery and pessimistic diction into the pawns of his game-like story in order to convey the negative effects of humanity and loss of morality, creating a wasteland for human injustices.