Scott Fahlman

The Great Gatsby The novel, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald takes place in a time where parties and relationships meant everything. Gatsby and Nick are very good friends, but there are some problems with their friendship. Gatsby is in love with Nick’s cousin Daisy, but she is married. Nick is not happy with his friends and is starting to become disgusted with them. Fitzgerald uses irony, imagery, and characterization to show Nick’s disgust towards his friends. Fitzgerald uses irony and

“I don’t care too much for money, money can’t buy me love.” – The Beatles. The Beatles would choose happiness over money, would you? Most people would probably not think about it and choose money, but a few would choose happiness. In this theme paper, Jay Gatsby, Tom Buchanan, and Daisy Buchanan show us that dissatisfaction and the want for more can lead to worse things. Jay Gatsby was one of the richest people in West Egg. He had everything that he could ever ask for, but he still wasn’t happy

Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game is one of the most celebrated books in the twenty-first century. It is also one of the few books to receive the Hugo and the Nebula award. Ender’s Game is about a young mastermind named Ender, who has been given the responsibilty to command the IF fleet to end the war with the formic. Throughout the book many of the kids have been put under extreme amounts of pressure. The adults have stated many times that they could not bear this pressure. If the adult who is bestowing

exceptional novels by distinguished authors have managed to start this new concept of “historical fiction”. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Jazz by Toni Morrison are two literary novels that pioneered the movement of historical realism in fiction as well as influenced literary writing styles and United States culture for generations following their creation. Although F. Scott Fitzgerald and Toni Morrison were born 35 years apart and have two separate backgrounds, they still managed to be two distinguished

Is the American dream accessible to all? In the Jazz age/Modernist novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald suggest through Jay Gatsby, a new-money millionaire with a mysterious past, that its impossible for one to achieve his/her american dream. Fitzgerald narrates the novel through Nick Carraway, a old-money stock broker who has moved out to West Egg, “the less fashionable of the two” for the summer of 1922. The other “Egg”, named after their strange shape, East Egg, is where

Hemingway used his written work as a depiction of his own life experiences in a number of ways. Like many other author’s he uses his stories and his poems to show his life. In stories such as “Soldier’s Home”, A Farewell to Arms, and “In Another Country” he portrays the characters as a reflection of himself. In each of these examples Hemingway explains multiple different aspects of his own life including, his life prior, during, after the war, and his love of a woman named Agnes. Although these stories

"Literature is a luxury: Fiction is a necessity" (Chesterton). Literature is a single phenomenon that will always remain in the lives of people throughout the years. According to Andre Maurois, "In literature, as in love, we are astounded by what is chosen by others." Fiction Literature is one of the most fascinating types of Literature. There are many types of Fiction Literature read across the world and with much selection, the greatest are short stories. Out of those, one very memorable short

How much do we learn about Gatsby's character and how is it revealed to us? Throughout The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby appears to be motivated by the pursuit of wealth and a life with Daisy, but how does this show up his character? What we know about Gatsby is severely limited by the information that Carraway, who himself only meets Gatsby at the start of the novel, feeds to us. During the short summer, in which the book takes place, our information is limited by the format of the story i

and stay true to themselves, they can achieve their dreams. The Great Gatsby, set in the early twenties, displays that socio-economic power is obtained through inheritance, forming an aristocracy of power and wealth. The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, demonstrates how geography and location dictate where the social-class level of an individual exists permanently in society. Furthermore, illusion and affectation portrayed in the novel to conceive the image of power and wealth in a way

     While there are numerous themes throughout the text of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, the most prominent is that of the American Dream. The American Dream is the idea that any person, no matter what he or she is, or from where he or she has come, can become successful in life by his or her hard work; it is the idea that a self-sufficient person, an entrepreneur, can be a success. In this novel, however, it is the quest for this ‘dream’ (along with the pursuit