...One day, not so long ago a family of Steers went on a vacation. The long road trip to Myrtle Beach consisted of many stops, arguments, and exhaustion. When they were traveling along the borders, they couldn't help but stop for some grass. There were certain areas in which no rich grass was planted. The herd would constantly go into panic mode until they approached the thick, tasty greens. The beach was calling their name. Finally they reached the space in which they were going to camp out for the week. The cows specifically had a conversation about not messing with the dolphins, and to walk off. As the day went on Nosey little Bessy decided to take an adventure. Approaching the beach, she found the giant mansion in which the dolphins live. She began to pick up the shiny pearls and start throwing them at the door. Minutes later the main dolphin Nelly was bursting out the door full of anger. This was just the start of an amazing...
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...believe that they are careless people based as they are unethically and lack morality. Ethics and be defined as moral principles that govern a person's behavior. Morality can be defined as the difference between right and wrong. Based on the story Tom and Daisy lack these key principles. To commence, Tom is married to Daisy, his wife, however, he is known to have affairs with other women. Cheating on a spouse is morally wrong, knowing this Tom continues. One includes Myrtle Wilson who is Tom mistress in New York. “As for Tom the fact that he had some woman in New York” (Fitzgerald 25). His continuous actions with Myrtle lead to her unfortunate death at the end of the story....
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...of Gatsby himself, and the setting of the story. Likely the most crucial point is the beginning description of Gatsby, limited though it is at this point. 2. Nick claims to be highly tolerant and a good judge of character. He also describes a bit of his background from a well-to-do family with a thoughtful, quiet father who taught him not to judge. He says this results in earning the trust of many people around him and being told numerous dark secrets. 3. Tom Buchanan is described as wealthy, privileged and excruciatingly accomplished so as to be underwhelmed by anything short of his previous level of achievement....
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...In life, environments and social settings often influence a person’s actions and shape their character. Oftentimes, the people that someone spends a lot of time with is who they become which explains why friends mirror each other’s characteristics. For example, when someone surrounds themselves with a negative crowd, they are more likely to indulge in undesirable behavior. This is also how it works for environments as well. Fitzgerald uses setting in the “Great Gatsby” to create the character’s attitudes. Myrtle, Tom, Daisy, and Gatsby all serve as prime examples of people who have allowed their surroundings to affect the people they become. Fitzgerald uses “The valley of ashes” as a setting to define Myrtle and her attitudes throughout the story. The valley of ashes is an...
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...1. Francis Scott Fitzgerald Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896 – 1940) was an American author of novels and many short stories. He is worldwide recognized as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century and the time called the „Jazz Age”. His most famous works are „The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” and „The Great Gatsby” which have been adapted into films. The Great Gatsby has been the basis for many movie adaptations of the same name in 1926, 1949, 1974, 2000, and the latest in 2013. 2. Baz Luhrmann Mark Anthony "Baz" Luhrmann (1962 - ) is an Australian film director, screenwriter and producer. He is best known for directing Strictly Ballroom, Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge, Australia and the newest version of The Great Gatsby released in 2013. 3. „The Great Gatsby” – the plot of the novel The Great Gatsby is an American novel written in 1925 that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young, handsome and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his unrealistic illusion and passion for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan. Major characters Nick Carraway – a Yale graduate originating from the Midwest, a World War I veteran, and, at the start of the plot, a newly arrived resident of West Egg, who is about 30 years old. He serves as the first-person narrator of the novel. He is Gatsby's next-door neighbour and a bond salesman. He is an easy-going, occasionally...
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...In the novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, a story told about the main characters and their relationships that were torn apart because of cheating, lying, and wealth. This novel may seem like it is about romance, but in the end, it is all about money. The novel’s main focus is about the decay of the 1920’s American Dream. While Tom Buchanan and George Wilson have many differences, they also have some things in common. From Tom Buchanan and George Wilson and their financial statuses, their reactions to being cheated on, their ways of showing violence, and their attitudes towards women can be very similar or very different. Tom Buchanan and George Wilson have many differences. One difference between Tom Buchanan and George Wilson is that Tom Buchanan...
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...Is Gatsby Really Great? Or is he Another Tom? Jay Gatsby, also known as the Great Gatsby, is a well known, filthy rich man who lives in giant mansion. Jay is so friendly with the other characters, such as his party goers, Nick and Daisy. Gatsby is the mysterious and devilishly handsome protagonist in the story The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. On the contrary, we have Tom Buchanan, the husband of Gatsby’s lover, Daisy. Tom is very different that Gatsby looking from the outside in. What makes Gatsby. so mysterious? You might ask. Well, no one knows about Gatsby. No one knows Gatsby except Gatsby (Great). If you knew him, you might even say he’s more like Tom Buchanan on the inside it is almost as if, what Gatsby is hiding inside, is...
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...gender roles play a crucial part in establishing rocky relationships between certain characters. Tom and Daisy’s marriage is completely motivated by wealth and reputation as Tom is unfaithful and mistreats Daisy, yet he still wants Daisy to stand by him in the public eye. Tom also participates in an abusive affair with Myrtle Wilson, an impoverished woman who makes an effort to act as though she is wealthy and takes Daisy’s place. Gatsby sees Daisy as an unattainable dream that he wishes to achieve. Despite this rising period of rebelliousness in women, Daisy and Myrtle continue to conform to the men who possess all the power. Based on pure...
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...throws extravagant parties on the weekends. Nick is unlike the other inhabitants of West Egg—he was educated at Yale and has social connections in East Egg, a fashionable area of Long Island and the home of the upper class. Nick drives out to East Egg one evening to have dinner with his cousin, Daisy Buchanan, and her husband, Tom, a former classmate of Nick during his time at Yale. Daisy and Tom introduce Nick to Jordan Baker, a beautiful, cynical young woman with whom Nick begins a romantic relationship. Nick also learns a bit about Daisy and Tom’s marriage: Jordan tells him that Tom has a lover, Myrtle Wilson, who lives in the valley of ashes, a gray industrial dumping ground between West Egg and New York City. Not long after this revelation, Nick travels to New York City with Tom and Myrtle. At a random, vulgar party in the apartment that Tom bought because of his affair, Myrtle begins to taunt Tom about Daisy, and Tom responds by breaking her nose. As the summer progresses, Nick eventually gets an invitation to one of Gatsby’s legendary parties. He encounters Jordan Baker at the party, and they meet Gatsby himself, a surprisingly young man who talks with an English accent, has a remarkable smile, and calls everyone “old sport.” Gatsby asks to speak to Jordan alone, and, through Jordan, Nick later learns more about his mysterious neighbor. Gatsby tells Jordan that he met Daisy in Louisville in 1917, where she lived at that time, and that he...
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...subjugated social system. The Great Gatsby is a love story, mystery, and a social commentary towards the American Life. This story explores the journey for happiness and wealth through the American Dream, and shows how idealism, dysfunctional relationship, and corrupt occur during the Jazz Age. The Great Gatsby, however, is not the story about a woman’s journey for happiness and improperly shows the representation of females during 1920. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby shows the historically male dominated social system through women being portrayed as shallow beings, which are dominated by men, and seen as erroneous...
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...vulnerable. Stereotypes definitely played a big role in the story. Tom is having an affair with a woman named Myrtle who lives in the valley of ashes with her husband,Wilson. This is strange because Tom comes from East egg which is where people from old money live. Usually someone from this social group would not want to be associated with someone like Myrtle. Tom stops at Wilson’s where he introduces Nick to Wilson and Myrtle. Nick says, “ She was in the middle thirties, and faintly stout, but she carried her surplus flesh sensuously as some women can...Then she wet her lips and without turning around spoke to her husband in a soft, coarse voice: “ (29-30). The way that Myrtle is described implies that she is a very sexual and provocative woman who uses her looks to get what she wants. Nick mentions that she licks her lips which can be seen as seductive and the way Nick describes her body suggest he is aroused. The fact that Tom decides to have an affair with Myrtle, of all people implies that she must be good looking or manipulative. Nick also makes sure to mention Myrtle’s soft voice which again shows the relationship between the women’s voices being that of a luring sirens. All throughout history there has been this sort of expectation that women should do exactly what men say. Men are also allowed to do certain things that would be socially unacceptable for a woman to do. For instance, Tom has an affair with Myrtle and Daisy accepts it acting like it’s not that big of a...
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...People say different opinion about this story which persuade me to buy the book, read it, and find out that how the world looked in those times and how the American dream come true. This book made a huge impression on me and that is way I decided to tell a few words about Mr. Gatsby. The Great Gatsby has been written in 1925 by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, to an upper-middle-class family. His mother was of Irish descent, and his father had Irish and English ancestry. He attended Princeton University which he interrupted in 1917 to join the U. S. Army. In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre and they had beautiful daughter Scottie. In Hollywood he had a mistress, but no woman fascinated him more than his wife. He died in age of 44 because of second heart attack. Francis Scott Fitzgerald was one of the leading representatives of the lost generation of American writers. In his works showed his disappointment and anarchic rebellion against the younger generation of American post-war reality. He finished four novels: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender Is the Night, and his most famous The Great Gatsby. The novel The Great Gatsby tells the story of Nick Carraway, who graduated Yale...
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...People say different opinion about this story which persuade me to buy the book, read it, and find out that how the world looked in those times and how the American dream come true. This book made a huge impression on me and that is way I decided to tell a few words about Mr. Gatsby. The Great Gatsby has been written in 1925 by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, to an upper-middle-class family. His mother was of Irish descent, and his father had Irish and English ancestry. He attended Princeton University which he interrupted in 1917 to join the U. S. Army. In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre and they had beautiful daughter Scottie. In Hollywood he had a mistress, but no woman fascinated him more than his wife. He died in age of 44 because of second heart attack. Francis Scott Fitzgerald was one of the leading representatives of the lost generation of American writers. In his works showed his disappointment and anarchic rebellion against the younger generation of American post-war reality. He finished four novels: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender Is the Night, and his most famous The Great Gatsby. The novel The Great Gatsby tells the story of Nick Carraway, who graduated Yale...
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...Gatsby essay During the twenties woman couldn't do all the things they can do today, today women will marry for other reasons than to be supported by a man. In Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby he writes about the female characters who stand out more than all the others. Even if the Main story is about a man who just wants to be with his woman it shows three women who stand out because they don't have the rights they have today. These women are marrying man with money so they have to worry about being poor. Just like Daisy who married Tom for money”’It doesn't matter anymore just tell him the truth - that you never loved him- and it's all wiped out forever’” ( Fitzgerald, 132). In this Daisy never actually tells Tom she didn't love...
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...English Task 9(western australia 2cd) Analysis of “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby is a comment on society in what was supposed to be the greatest period of American history, the 1920's. Its comment is on our perceptions on wealth, and how people go about gaining and receiving said wealth. It is a critique on the class system and the oppression and misrepresentation of the working class. It is a demonstration of the full spectrum of human relationships and the best and worst parts of America. It’s not just about the love story between the novels central characters, Daisy and Gatsby, but more about the social decay of their society. In the Great Gatsby the story is told from a character voice. The novel is read from Nick Carraway perspective. He is a young man we meet at the beginning in the Great Gatsby novel. Nick moves to New York in 1922 to learn about the bond business, he acquires a house on West Egg early in the novel. This is also where he meets his neighbour Jay Gatsby. Jay Gatsby is a mysterious man who is also filthy rich, the method by he acquired his wealth is questionable. Gatsby is represented in the novel as a symbol for new money and the pursuit of the American dream in the roaring twenties. The roaring twenties was a period of great economic prosperity in the US, there where a lot of individuals who gained their massive wealth during this economic period. Jay Gatsby’s primary goal in the novel is to “own” Daisy Buchanan. She is...
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