...The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is established as one of the most famous novels in American literature since its debut in 1925. Many English classes all around the country have had a required reading of the book and the story itself has captivated readers all around the world. Similarly to most well known books, The Great Gatsby was made into a movie in 2013. While there may be some common similarities between the two pieces, there are some distinct differences such as Jordan and Nick’s relationship, the modern spin on the film, along with Gatsby’s death that ultimately distinguish the movie apart from the book. The first difference is one that involves a two character relationship between Nick and Jordan. The director of the movie, Baz Luhrmann, cut out one of the notable side stories from the book: the romantic relationship between Nick with Jordan Baker. Jordan is a friend of Daisy’s who is described in the novel as a famous golfer. In...
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...Bay Lubelski The Great Gatsby Compare/Contrast Essay After reading and watching The Great Gatsby, there are points to analyze between the two different methods of telling a story. The characters, parties, and the setting all differ, yet have their similarities. Daisy, one of the main characters that is portrayed differently in the book than she is in the movie, yet she still is still very similar. The first party in Myrtle’s house was told just a bit differently in the movie than in the book. One of the fine points in the setting is “The eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg” or just the T.J. Eckleburg billboard in the Valley of Ashes. The billboard’s description was consistent between the two forms of the story. The Great Gatsby novel and movie may have not matched exactly, but they did hit important points. Daisy had one main difference between the novel and the movie, and the was her baby. Her character and personality was spot on between the book and movie. She is a popular, proper woman who fell in love with Gatsby before he was drafted into World War, and...
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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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...In The Great Gatsby we see a story of misunderstood love and dreams. The American Dream in the 1920’s was different than it is now. In our time our Country’s Dream is a set of ideals based off of general rights, liberty, opportunity, and equality for all people— in the novel we see a different story. We find the American Dream in the 20’s is full of glam, money, lust, men and women. When people become spoiled it’s often because a society is misled by money and greed and with that you get entitled and horrid men and women. Looking at the characters in the movie I’m not impressed with that generation, the man and women are liars and cheaters. For example Tom, he is an arrogant hypocritical man who is sexist, racist, and treats everybody like...
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...Essay #4 Compare and Contrast Topic: According to the authors of Spark Notes, “The Great Gatsby is a 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.” Compare and Contrast the concept of the American dream in The Great Gatsby with that of Americans today in the 21st Century. Requirements: You may only use two sources: your novel and a database article. Follow these directions in finding the database article below. Researching 1. Use the databases from the Paris Junior College Library 2. Go to the Paris Junior College webpage (www.parisjc.edu). From the Quick Links at the top of the page, choose, Library Services. On the left menu of the Library Services page, choose the Databases (Off-Campus) links. You will be prompted to enter your username (PJC student id) and password (birthdate), just like your Blackboard sign-in. Then go to the database titled Literary Reference Center. At the search bar, type in the last name of our author and the word AND in all caps and the title of the work AND a descriptor word like character and search (Fitzgerald AND The Great Gatsby AND American Dream). You should get a long list of works. 3. Scroll through and look for this source: Pidgeon, John. “The Great Gatsby.” 4. You can tell that it is an academic journal source from Modern Age and that there is a full PDF text version online. Click on the PDF Full Text...
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...Themes Themes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work. The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920s On the surface, The Great Gatsby is a story of the thwarted love between a man and a woman. The main theme of the novel, however, encompasses a much larger, less romantic scope. Though all of its action takes place over a mere few months during the summer of 1922 and is set in a circumscribed geographical area in the vicinity of Long Island, New York, The Great Gatsby is a 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. The reckless jubilance that led to decadent parties and wild jazz music—epitomized in The Great Gatsby by the opulent parties that Gatsby throws every Saturday night—resulted ultimately in the corruption of the American dream, as the unrestrained desire for money and pleasure surpassed more noble goals. When World War I ended in 1918, the generation of young Americans who had fought the war became intensely disillusioned, as the brutal carnage that they had just faced made the Victorian social morality of early-twentieth-century America seem like stuffy, empty hypocrisy. The dizzying rise of the stock market in the aftermath of the war led to a sudden, sustained...
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...Standing the Test of Times Among the numerous novels over the time, Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby reflects the class struggles between society and individualism. Bronte and Fitzgerald’s classic pieces of literature, Jane Eyre and The Great Gatsby, have both been reviewed by countless of readers over whether or not the literary works will stand the test of times. Over the decades, novels typically lose cultural insight and tend to become unnoticed. Both Bronte and Fitzgerald have incorporated classic elements such as: the battle between social norms sophistication in writing, and transcendence of individualism. These aid the novels popularity with the readers in such ways as relating it to the reader’s lives. Through the early nineteenth...
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...through the nine circles of hell in his short story, The Swimmer. Both Dante’s Inferno and The Great Gatsby have an undertone of sin and sorrow, feelings that often haunt alcoholics and are portrayed in all three pieces of literature. Hints that Neddy suffers from alcoholism and a toxic environment are planted in the minds of the reader from the beginning, as the word “drunk” is repeated multiple times in the first conversation (Cheever 726). Here. Neddy maps his journey by the names of each household like Gatsby composes a party...
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...Dr. Parker English 102: Sect. D09 Fall 2014 Paper 1: On Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and The Great Gatsby Format: Follow Easy Writer guidelines and those specified in “Using Quotations Effectively,” “The Thesis Statement,” “Mechanics” and “Integrating Sources” (under “Writing Tips” on Blackboard) Page Length: 4-6 pages (1000-1500 words) Due Dates: Preliminary draft uploaded to Blackboard––Friday, 9/19 (under Course Content/Formal Papers and Oral Presentations) Your draft should include at least the thesis paragraph and five passages that you plan to draw upon in the paper. Rough draft conferences––9/29-10/1 Prepare to read your draft to me during our meeting. Rough draft for peer review––Monday, 9/29 Bring hard copy to class for your peer editor to read. Final draft uploaded to Blackboard––Friday, 10/3 Leave your rough draft with peer editor’s comments at my office. You may choose either the creative or analytical essay option. If you do a creative paper now, for next paper, you will do an analytical paper. Creative Options For all creative treatments, please affix to your paper a one-page analysis of what your aims were in choosing this approach, what strategies your employed to carry out your aims, and how successful you feel you were in achieving your aims. You should draw on the texts themselves. If appropriate, you can incorporate passages from the texts into you own prose. Your...
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...Compare and Contrast: Jay Gatsby and Dick Diver Griffin Gilmore Mrs. Clark Humanities 28 November 2012 In the novels Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night by Scott Fitzgerald the two main characters, Jay and Dick both face problems in achieving their dreams and face much adversity trying to achieve it. In both novels pursuing their dreams leads to their demise due to their failure to realize that success is from within, not from the superficial qualities that the society around them looks up to. The first difference between Gatsby and Dick is how they value money. Jay Gatsby believes that with money he can buy his happiness, he plans on using his money to fall in love with him and have her leave her current husband (Tom) to be with himself. Dick on the other hand doesn't like all the wealth of Nicole and trues to distance himself way from it. When Nicole and himself start out they are living off of his few thousand a year. Nicole's parents then buy them their own clinic. Much like Gatsby his wealth by no means that he is happy. “had wedded a desire for money to an essentially unacquisitive nature … he had never felt more sure of himself … than at the time of his marriage to Nicole. Yet he has been swallowed up like a gigolo, and somehow permitted his arsenal to be locked up in the Warren safety deposit vaults.” This just goes to show how even with their almost endless income, they were not satisfied, which properly illustrates the time period which took place then,...
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...In what ways does Fitzgerald and Williams present the importance of hopes and dreams? Both F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ and Arthur Miller’s ‘A Death of a Salesman’ focus their main ideas on the importance of hopes and dreams. Death of a Salesman, produced in 1949, has become a classic of modern American theatre. It is a story of an average salesman with a dream of being rich and well-liked. Willy believes whole heartedly in what he considers the promise of the American Dream. In the 1940’s The American Dream was as simple as it gets, to have a perfect, successful life with a common nuclear family, a house in the suburbs, a nice car and a life without conflict or family strife. ‘The Great Gatsby’ is a highly symbolic reflection on 1920’s America as a whole, in particular the disappearance of the American Dream in an era of material excess. On the surface, ‘The Great Gatsby’ is a story of the eternal love between a man and a woman. However, in reality the main theme of the novel involves a much larger, less romantic outlook. The 1920’s was an era of decayed social and moral values, which means that the idea of The American Dream was different to what it is now. When World War 1 ended in 1918, the generation of young Americans who fought the war became intensely disillusioned. The rise of the stock market in the aftermath of the war led to a sudden increase in the national wealth and a new found materialism, leading the younger generation to pursue a life of extravagance...
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...headlights under the “twisted pillars” of the railway. By scattering light across the road, Gatsby and his car are symbols of new money, radiating their wealth along the highway as opposed to those who come from old money and live in a more reserved manner. Nick then continues by explaining the sound...
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...Task Terms: A terminology guide to help develop questions for the Reading COE |Reading COE Task Terms |Definitions |Sample COE Questions with Targets | | | | | |Literary/Informational Comprehension | | | | | | | |Categorize |to place somebody or something in a particular category and |“Categorize the types of elephants discussed in the passage, | | |define or judge the person or thing accordingly |‘All Elephants.’ Describe the main characteristics of the | | | |elephant types using supporting details from the passage for | | ...
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...The description of the “valley of ashes” opens this chapter. Literally, what is the valley of ashes? massive trash dump What might it represent on a symbolic level? Note the colors used to describe the valley and the connotations of those colors. The Valley of Ashes in The Great Gatsby represents the corruption of the Jazz Age with its lack of morality and hollowness that results from the relentless pursuit of money Compare and contrast George Wilson and Tom Buchanan. Then, compare and contrast Myrtle Wilson and Daisy Buchanan. Tom Buchannan is a wealthy business man who comes from a well-to-do family from the MidWest. George Wilson is a poor man who owns a gas station in the Valley of Ashes.Daisy is referred to as light and glamorous and Myrtle is characterized as overweight and gaudy in appearance...
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