...Alcohol and Drugs Affect on Writers Many great novelists are addicts. For example, novels written by Dorothy Parker, Ernest Hemingway, Edgar Allan Poe, and, Charles Dickens were all written by people who battled addiction. Many of their books were written while under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Alcohol and drugs have enormous influence on a writer's writing style and ideas. For example, F Scott Fitzgerald and Stephen King who were notorious addicts often wrote under the influence or their addictions and often incorporated that into their writing or made connections with their characters with it. Authors who are addicts use their writing in many ways to reveal their thoughts and feelings of their addictions. Fitzgerald is an example...
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...F. Scott Fitzgerald manages to incorporate his own moral principles in his novel the Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald wrote his character Jay Gatsby to embody the characteristics of the modern person of the 1920s: naïve, life risking, and consumed by the prospect of money. Fitzgerald feared that if a person consumed by the dated interpretation of the “American dream”, they too will follow in the direction of Gatsby. Fitzgerald’s fear is expressed through Gatsby’s ultimate death and his inability to let go of the “greenlight”. Fitzgerald makes the narrator Nick Carraway, contemplate the reason why Gatsby was attracted to west egg, to express his own antagonism toward Gatsby and his hatred of money consuming all. Jay Gatsby is a character who is very...
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...Within F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby In The Great Gatsby, greed is the root of all evil that people in the American 1920’s society that weaves its ways through the lives of many. Gatsby’s greed is evident over his obsession over Daisy which leads to them to several rash decisions. Tom Buchanan cheats his lovers because of his desire for power. And Meyer Wolfsheim pulls Gatsby down with him over his criminal organization. From this, in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby, greed plays a prominent and dangerous role through Gatsby’s obsessive desire for Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan’s affair with Myrtle Wilson, and Meyer Wolfsheim’s obsession with crime. During The Great Gatsby,...
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...In The Great Gatsby and “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber”, making someone wait is a significant factor in creating interest due to the cause of surprise, eagerness, and suspense. They both include main characters who create a suspenseful conclusion while forcing their audience to pause when there is a mysterious ending. These novels leave the reader interested in the wanting to read more. The Great Gatsby is an American novel that has several shocking incidents that occur in relation to the two main protagonists, Daisy and Gatsby. This novel demonstrates a sense of wait by surprising the audience. For instance, it is announced that Daisy is the one behind the wheel during the hit and run, in the Valley of Ashes. F. Scott Fitzgerald...
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...takes place during the 1920’s The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald shows both the good and the bad in relation to the twenties. Although 1920’s have been associated with prosperity and luxurious it was truly has a time of hardship and pain because it was a time of social unrest, mobster and bootlegger ran the cities, and money became such a promate role it start to...
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...The American Dream The American dream is an ideal of living. Freedom being one of the factors, people come to this country in the hopes of being free. Wealth is another, people strive to make one more dollar. An ideal that every american citizen should have is an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work. The American dream is shown in both The Great Gatsby and in Mice and Men. The Great Gatsby starts with the main actor Nick Carraway moved to New York's west egg to start in the bound business. He started renting a small house next to a huge mansion owned by mysterious man named Jay Gatsby. Mr.Gatsby throws the biggest parties every weekend and nobody is invited they just show up. One day Mr.Gatsby sent one...
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...not make the book irrelevant. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald takes place in the 1920’s yet the story still tremendously impacts and relates to today’s society. Gatsby blindly pursues former lover Daisy and revolves his entire life around her needs. Daisy does not match his expectations and instead acts carelessly with little regard for the feelings of others. Well aware of her husband Tom’s not so secret affairs, she continues to act oblivious and stay with him in fear of ruining her image, even though she has someone who would do anything for her. Throughout the book, Tom and Daisy constantly step over people as if they do not matter and only care about themselves and Gatsby loses himself by...
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...Aren Lim Jimmy Lopez Ryu Masuda Michael Ta American Literature Period 2 May 13, 2014 The Jazz Age As the 19th century came to an end, the start of a meaningless war triggered an era known as The Great Jazz Age. The year was 1914, as the world came together and fought in a useless war. The naive Americans partied as news spread that the war had ended. By 1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald coined the term, The Jazz age when he published his successful book, This side of Paradise. This era was sparked with ideas of jovial times and world peace. F. Scott Fitzgerald quoted, “Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.” The music was louder and the alcohol consumption was stronger. The correlation of people and alcohol consumption was increasing as the expansion of rebellious youths and usage of Jazz music increased. The effects of the war, triggered an unconditional response that changed American ideals. As hands shook, and papers were signed, Armistice Day marked the end of World War One and ignited a new beginning for America. Everyone celebrated the American victory of the biggest war of the time. In a way, the end of the war was a wake up call. The war helped open people’s eyes and made them realize that life was short and you should cherish every moment you have. Everything seemed to conveniently fall into place. Soldiers were reunited with their families, and the economy blossomed...
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...The Great Gatsby Oct 26, 2012 “Dishonesty” Dishonesty in a relationship exists when one person withholds or manipulates information about themselves or others and presents the facts as a truth. Being dishonest or bending the truth may seem favorable initially, but when the truth is finally revealed, you will have to spill back on more lies which will eventually push the relationship further apart. The Great Gatsby is a novel that shows the reader slyness and fraud around every corner. All of the main characters are dishonest people who portray their lives as nothing more than living in a self obsessed world while making adolescent decisions about love; all these people care about is living in the now. They lie, cheat, and deceive. This was a time when the economy was booming, spreading prosperous jobs in big town cities. This era saw the large-scale diffusion and use of automobiles, telephones, motion pictures, electricity, and unprecedented industrial growth. People dreamed big, and expected better. Everyone was breaking traditions and experimenting with advanced and diverse goods. Fitzgerald depicts Nick Carraway as a moral guide throughout a novel infused with lies and deception. Fitzgerald utilizes many themes throughout the book; truth versus lies, illusion versus reality, or compassion versus apathy. Within the novel, virtually all of the main characters are dishonest to others or to themselves, which exposes each character’s true self to the reader. Deception...
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...The Great Gatsby : Investigating the novel refers to links on www.crossref-it.info Who might we want to criticise in this novel? Of whom might Nick be critical? Do they fit the criteria of not having ‘the advantages that you’ve had’? Do you assume that the ‘advantages’ are monetary? What other kinds of advantage might there be? ‘he meant a great deal more than that.’ What more do you think Nick’s father meant? Could the idea of criticism be extended to include literary criticism or interpretation? Look more closely at the characters of Daisy and Tom. At the end of the novel, Nick comments that they are ‘careless people’. Can you find any evidence showing them to be careless or corrupt? Does this comment extend to Jordan or Nick himself? Consider the structure of this chapter – how does Nick order his recollections and his thoughts here? What narrative devices does he use? Investigating Chapter 2 List the different aspects of Chapter 2 which are concerned with religion. What are the differences between the party at Tom’s flat and the other parties in the novel? Nick observes several betrayals in this chapter – which do you find the most shocking and why? ‘I knew he was below me….But if I hadn’t met Chester, he’d of got me sure.’ How does Mrs McKee’s comment reflect on the marriage of Daisy and Tom? Fitzgerald is here depicting the poorer members of American society – why do you think he chooses to give Wilson the occupation of repairing cars? List...
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...against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past” (Fitzgerald 180). The ending phrase in The Great Gatsby sums up human life; people fight against the incessant stream of obstacles flowing towards them in the path called reality as they are forever linked to their past and their mistakes. The Great Gatsby, as told through the eyes of Nick Carraway, tells the story of a young man fruitlessly striving to overcome the societal barriers to be with his true love: a married Daisy Buchanan. As two separate entities written in different time periods, the novel The Great Gatsby-written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925-and the movie The Great Gatsby-directed by Baz Luhrmann in 2013-converge and diverge on several topics...
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...such great meaning? When is wishing on a star different than wishing on a rock? What has to happen in order to make an object have meaning? What makes a star more important than a rock, or a green light at the end of a dock? In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, the green light and the eyes of T.J. Eckleburg are symbolically different for everyone in the novel. The green light that appears at the end of Daisy Buchanan's dock represents Gatsby’s hopes and wishes. "He stretched out his arms towards the dark water in a curious way..."(Fitzgerald 20). Gatsby is seen reaching out towards the green light,...
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...On the surface, The Great Gatsby seems to be a novel of gratuitous sex, alcohol and partying. There is one man who strives to be like the rest, however fails in almost every aspect. Jay Gatsby has been consistently described throughout this book as a romantic and a gentleman. While all the other flamboyant men drink until faint and provocatively dance with twenty-something’s under the scornful gaze of their wives, Gatsby does not partake in such vices. At his own parties he stands alone with a drink, gazing upon the crowd with melancholy. He throws these colossal parties for one reason, to find his true love. Unlike the rest of the neighborhood Gatsby does not care about his house or money, he only cherishes his true love, Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby is not like the other wealthy socialites of West and East Egg. Jay Gatsby is a G_d among men. At the beginning of chapter six, we hear of Gatsby first resembling Jesus (the son of G_d). Nick describes Gatsby as “a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father’s business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty.”(98) Similarly like Jesus, Jay Gatsby was an immaculate conception. The creation of James Gatz, a poor farm-boy who thought better of himself. Nick describes the creation of Jay Gatsby as the “Platonic conception of himself” (98) which essentially points to Gatsby creating the ideal version of himself. At his parties, Gatsby would watch over...
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...I. INTRODUCTION a. Background of Choosing the Work of Art The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. Fitzgerald was the most famous chronicler of 1920s America, an era that he dubbed “the Jazz Age.” Written in 1925, The Great Gatsby is one of the greatest literary documents of this period, in which the American economy soared, bringing unprecedented levels of prosperity to the nation. Prohibition, the ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution (1919), made millionaires out of bootleggers, and an underground culture of revelry sprang up. The chaos and violence of World War I left America in a state of shock, and the generation that fought the war turned to wild and extravagant living to compensate. The Great Gatsby is highly symbolic meditation on 1920s America as a whole, in particular the disintegration of the American dream in an era of unprecedented prosperity and material excess. Fitzgerald portrays the 1920s as an era of decayed social and moral values, evidenced in its overarching cynicism, greed, and empty pursuit of pleasure. So, choosing The Great Gatsby and had the characters as its focus in this paper because it covers Marxism where each character’s purpose in life is money, and the essence of desire is wealth. It is clear within the text that...
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...Durga Prasad Ghimire Eng.555: Themes and Trends in Fiction Dr. Dhurba Karki August 12, 2015 Characters Psychology Determined by Economy in Wuthering Heights Emile Bronte’s Wuthering Heights embodies an accurate picture of an individual’s psychology determined by the economy. A nineteenth century fiction evokes the photographic resemble of human consciousness obtained by concrete conditions in their world. Getting and keeping economic power is the motive behind all human psychology, including social, economic, political, philosophical and educational activities. Economic conditions, are referred as material circumstances and the psychological atmosphere generated by quantifiable achievement evokes his/her consciousness in the sense that he /she behaves, nurses, and govern their phenomenon according to their concrete prominence. The Bronte’s narrative explores the psychological state of beings launched by the commercial gain, where major characters Heathcliff, Catherine, Edgar, Hindly, and Isabella are steered by substantial belongings. Their individual psyche and its root in the family complex distract the relation to each other. The economic system structures, social, familial, and human behavior. It is a ground where every character plays the game of grade to examine their attainment in the society. At one point Marx underscores capitalism (economy) “every family wants to own its own home on its own land” [Tyson: 56]. In other words it promises to gain...
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