The Mansion

Great Gatsby Final In chapter four of the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald a scene that really made me think was when Gatsby introduced Nick to his friend Meyer Wolfsheim. One of the most strange details of Mr. Wolfsheim was the strange decorated buttons on his jacket evidenced when Wolfsheim said ‘’I see your looking at my cuff buttons….. Finest specimens of human molars.”(Fitzgerald, 72). A human molar on a jacket is possibly one of the strangest/disgusting things I have heard to be

However, in Citizen Kane, the film starts off with Charles Kane dying on the floor of his mansion, saying “rosebud.” Then the film cuts to a newsreel about Kane’s life, which is dismissed as too impersonal. Subsequently, a reporter, Thompson, is sent to discover “rosebud”. Throughout the movie, Kane’s acquaintances tell Thompson about his life, few mentioning rosebud. Finally, the movie ends in Kane’s mansion, reporters cataloguing all of Kane’s possessions. Thompson is asked by fellow reporters if

hunted by the General. His reaction or his instinct to this internal conflict is to reveal is hunter self and turn the hunter into the hunted.  In the story Rainsford crashes a yacht and is forced to swim stranded on a Island. He finds a mansion and in the mansion a man named General Zaroff, he recognizes Rainsford from his hunting book. The general tells Rainsford that he has no sympathy

In Richard Connell’s, “The Most Dangerous Game”, the antagonist General Zaroff has a twisted sense of reality. To begin with, General Zaroff lives in a luxurious mansion with servants, fine food and amenities that one can only dream of possessing. Someone who lives in an environment like this would normally have morals and be civilized. But Zaroff has a warped vision of what being civilized is. He has manners, exceptional hospitality, and has the presence of a classy, prestigious man but the way

Michigan has several disc golf courses, and we got to enjoy one that was next to our next destination. A mansion built in 1928. This mansion was built by a successful inventor to be his wife’s summer home. This colossal building is in the middle of being restored and it is being funded by the people who tour it, who pay a small admission fee. This included a living room,

? In “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell this is how Rainsford gets trapped on an island in the middle of nowhere. Suspense is built using the setting by the scary description of the water, the sketchy jungle island, and the unrealistic mansion. The first reason the setting builds suspense is by the scary description of the waters. For example, “The cry was pinched off short as the blood-warm waters of the Caribbean Sea dosed over his head.” This setting made me feel suspenseful because

similarities. In the movie Edward Scissorhands and the book Of Mice and Men, both main characters have caretakers who at one point had regrets on taking care of them. Edward’s dad, creator, passed away leaving him all alone in the mansion until Peg, Avon seller, goes to the mansion looking to make a cell but instead she notices that he is all alone and takes him home. Lennie’s, Of Mice and Men, only living family member,

what is known as West Egg, Long Island. The only connections Nick had in the East were his cousin Daisy and her husband Tom Buchanan, whom he had met at college years ago. Daisy and Tom, along with their young daughter lived in the East Egg. The mansion next to Nick’s house belonged to Jay Gatsby. In the beginning of the novel, Nick makes it known to readers that he hasn’t seen Gatsby even though he was throwing large, loud, and outrageous parties almost every night. However, when Nick and Gatsby

In the great American novel The Great Gatsby by Scott F. Fitzgerald it is clear that Jay Gatsby’s past with Daisy shaped his life and revealed how resistance to moving on will lead to the downfall of man. Jay Gatsby dedicated his life to rekindling the love he shared with Daisy during his training in the army. When he moved to New York he joined Meyer Wolfsheim to become wealthy and threw extravagant parties to attract Daisy. Acquiring Daisy as his lover would complete his ultimate goal of rising

Me and my friends and my two brother had ever had. But it sounded fun at that time. So we did it. There we were, at top of a giant hill. Unknowingly to us, laid at the bottom of the hill were about five houses and a mini mansion. We all looked at each others in assurance that we were gonna do it. Then we went down it. We were about half way down the hill when I looked to my right and saw my friend crashing into the weeds. I then looked to my left