...In the story the great gatsby the novel and the movie share many similarities and many differences. The characters in the great gatsby also share similarities and differences between the movie and the book. A very important aspect to the story is the parties and their are differences and similarities also in the book and movie. Finally the book and the movie share a strong similarity with the setting. In the story the characters share a similar and different style in the movie and the book. One example is gatsby, in the book he is portrayed as very mysterious, “where i looked once more for gatsby he had vanished”.(gatsby page 20-21). Where in the movie he is portrayed the same mysterious but a little more outgoing, hopeful, and very neighborly to nick. A character that shares a strong similarity between the book and the movie is tom. He is cold hearted, stubborn, un loyal, and a very bad alcoholic who cheats on his own wife. he is portrayed in the movie the same...
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...To what extent do you agree that Fight Club is an updated version of The Great Gatsby that captures the zeitgeist of modernism? The extent to which Palahniuk’s Fight Club bears resemblance to Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is debatable despite the fact that there are numerous similarities between the two texts in terms of its narrative structure dominant themes and the presentation of characters thus their respective zeitgeist of modernism, both texts have clearly their own mark that make them truly unique. Clearly the extent of the similarities between the two texts cannot be overlooked when Palahniuk stated himself in the Afterword that ‘’Gatsby’s updated a little’’, as both novels have apostolic narratives it can be seen that both reveal the hollow superficial nature that existed within society in both the 1920’s and 1990’s. Fight Club and The Great Gatsby can be contrasted as, Fitzgerald describes Gatsby’s lavish parties, flamboyant suits and mansion to be a template for the narrator’s own existence in ‘Fight Club’. His life is dominated by his IKEA ‘’condo’’ and his own job, which he then finds that he has nothing to live for and is empty inside. He is someone who has ‘’ lost everything’’ and is ‘’ Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete.’’, which also illustrates the impossibility of the American Dream of both novels. ‘’Fight Club’’ thrusts the idea of conspicuous consumption even further as the narrator describes the destruction of material possessions no longer...
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...“Life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.” (Adams 214) The Modern Day American Dream- Has it Changed? The American Dream has long been the ideal that every American has an equal opportunity to achieve success and fortune through hard work, regardless of origin or ethnicity. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby story of success, primarily represented through his possessions such as his mansion, demonstrates how the American Dream during the 1920’s is similar to the American Dream of today because origin remains irrelevant and possessions represent success. The key component of the American Dream is that it is achievable regardless of origin, motives,...
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...English 12 Great Gatsby Assignment ASSIGNMENT The questions below are all very open-ended, allowing you a permissive opportunity to reflect on and draw personalized meaning from the text. The key will not be right answers but how you position and support your reply to each question. As a result, responses should not appear as a question answered, but as an insight revealed. There will need to be an investigative quality to how you use the question to interpret the novel and its possible applications to your own personal and cultural realities. Responses will normally require a paragraph or two (200-300 words; more or less is fine so long as responses are complete). Question #1 Identify three scenarios (specific events or experiences) from The Great Gatsby which portray how some imagine and live out the Dream. Then, comment on what the experience suggests about the character’s underlying belief and motivation about “getting ahead” or having “a better life,” in connection with the greater insight of the novel. Finally, depict three expressions/experiences in cultural life today that bear striking similarity to the novel and comment freely on any relationships they have with its larger theme(s). In The Great Gatsby novel Daisy imagined the Dream as a life of popularity, status, and class. She married Tom who she does not love to achieve her idea of the Dream. Gatsby imagined the Dream when he started working for the rich man who took him under his...
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...of The Great Gatsby Introduction The Great Gatsby was written in 1925. The author, Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) is one of the most outstanding writers in America. As a member of the “lost generation”, Fitzgerald made the short life of Gatsby epitome of the rise, boom and decline of the “American Dream” in “Jazz Age”. This novel shows us unusually rich literary and aesthetic connotation is has by its unique narrative perspective, the ups and downs of plot, superb accurate language, various rhetorical devices and vivid character images. To some extent, the reason why The Great Gatsby can become a famous classic work is that the author uses extraordinary narrative techniques in it. All the techniques are employed skillfully by Fitzgerald. The study of narrative art in this work has been highlighted in the research area in these years. Zhang Jinfeng(2001) analyzes the role of Nick in the novel from the its structure, themes and other aspects. Cheng Xilin(2009) uses the spatial narrative theory to discussed the space narrative art in The Great Gatsby from three aspects: the geography space, social space and the text space. Xiao Dongbo(2009) starts with the analysis on author and characters and expound the connotation of "American dream" and profoundly reveals the historical process of the formation, development and burst of the "American dream". Shang Guanghui(2011) analyzes The Great Gatsby from the narrators of the role and argues that the communication between the main...
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...College Writing I The novels My Antonia and The Great Gatsby have characters that I believe have many similarities and differences. Nick Carraway and Jim Burden were raised in entirely different ways and settings and both characters play key roles throughout the plot of each story. Although these two characters do not draw many similarities at first glance, I believe the two can be connected from one story to the other. My first point being that both Nick and Jim are the respective narrators in their stories and even though the novels are completely different the role these two characters play can be interpreted as similar. Both of these characters find themselves in interesting dilemma’s, in which they reveal their true colors. Even though most people would say these two characters are very much different, I believe a significant connection can be made between these two characters because they both end up chasing their own American Dream at some point throughout the stories. Nick Carraway describes himself as a hardworking, tolerant, open minded intellectual. Nick was born and raised in Minnesota and attended Yale University; he served in the military during World War 1. I believe the fact that he served in the military showed his dedication to protecting the country even though he had plans to become something greater. He later moved to New York in 1922 to become more educated on the bond business. While in New York he meets Jay Gatsby who happens to be his neighbor in his neighborhood...
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...techniques are employed by F Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby (1925) and by Ian McEwan in Atonement (2001) to express the loneliness of their characters. In these books, isolation dominates the mood and events of the story; however, the loneliness of the characters often reflects the cultural restrictions of their historical setting. Arguably, the motif of social change and tension also impacts the moods of the books, to a lesser extent. In the Great Gatsby, the moral decay of the 1920s is epitomized by the juxtaposed valley of ashes and the Eggs, while in Atonement, the sweltering weather of Part One could be to illustrate the tension simmering between characters and the impending change apparent in wider society, for example...
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...narrator to re-define himself as white. Yet this is one of the very warnings his millionaire counterpart warned him of, the true dangers a Negro would face in the southern states of America. That societal norms prohibits and rejects people of color or lower social classes to participate in the American Dream. Additionally, he chose to live a life where he would no longer possess an identity complex, or feel burdened by the race question. In choosing to recreate himself and pass as white, he also re-wrote the identity for his future children, by not revealing his colored descent to them. That in which, he decided that societal beliefs will not categorize his children, as it has done to him when he was a child. That in which, he left behind his desires and wants for fame so his children would not be labelled by society. Similarly with Gatsby, he attained the life he wanted through leaving behind his former identity to pass as someone from an aristocratic background. However, in the end Gatsby died as the man he was seen, unless there were specific people he allows to know the truth of who he was. Yet given the truth was not revealed, Gatsby died the person he...
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...In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, the novel aggregates up an account of the mid 1920's. It was comprised of rich gatherings, misleading men, the plan to acquire the American dream, and wonderful ladies. The part of ladies in The Great Gatsby seem both free, and neglectful in their sentimental lives. The ladies are defenseless and act along these lines in light of their social class structure. In the novel, the two driving female characters, Daisy, and Jordan, speak to one of a kind parts.. They may seem disparate, be that as it may, cash and the impact of it is an association between them both, without inquiry. Ladies took a jump forward in the public arena amid the 1920's and this novel shows this advancement. In the earlier decade long hair, hourglass figure and exquisite customized outfits had all been the required belonging with a specific end goal to be the perfect ladies in that time period. A ladies must be instructed and reliably acting in an elegant way. Finding a spouse and beginning a family were dependably the main needs before whatever else. This commendable...
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...Garrett Hinson American Literature II 3/15/13 The Sexuality of Nick Carraway The Great Gatsby’s narrator, Nick Carraway, belongs alongside the most sexually-complicated characters in all of literature, and while his character is seemingly-secondary throughout the novel, his crucial role as narrator requires that we form some sort of understanding of his enigmatic sexuality, for it has extremely significant implications for the rest of the plot. It is difficult to dismiss Nick’s often-sensual descriptions of men, his vague encounter with the party guest Mr. McKee, and his strangely-distant relationship with Jordan Baker as irrelevant to Nick’s perspective as narrator; each seems to suggest at least a latent tendency towards homosexuality. If indeed we are to interpret these behaviors as homosexual, then the entire attraction towards Jay Gatsby that Nick builds his story upon becomes more complicated. Nick would not merely being telling the story of a person he found to be beautiful, but a man he found to beautiful. This distinction refocuses the novel’s purpose entirely. Nick Carrway may in fact be in love with Jay Gatsby, and because Nick (as a possibly unreliable narrator) may not be able to admit this to his readers or to himself, it falls to us, the readers, to draw our own conclusions. In his first mention of Gatsby, Nick admits that “If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him…” (Fitzgerald 2). While this...
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...Literary analysis of symbols in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Reflective and close-reading analysis ● Present symbols and reason/purpose for each symbol. Use each body paragraph to focus on one symbol in particular. Introduce symbol and where it is prominently shown in the book. Continue by explaining and evaluating its purpose to the novel and its effect on the storyline and characters. I. Intro II. Symbol One: Location III. Symbol Two: Weather IV. Symbol Three: Colors V. Symbol Four: Green Light VI. Conclusion I. Intro a. Introduce what to expect in paper. b. Provide an overview of the symbols that will be analyzed. c. Mention the importance of symbols to a novel. II. Symbol One: Location a. Introduce the symbol of location. b. Explain importance of Valley of Ashes, East Egg, West Egg, New York City, etc. c. Analyze the purpose of location as a symbol (displays social class, conflict between locations, similarities and differences between characters) III. Symbol Two: Weather a. Introduce the symbol of weather. b. Explain importance of the hot summer days, rainy visit with Daisy, and the heat again during the drunken feud. c. Analyze the purpose of weather as a symbol (parallel to emotions and turn of events: heat held conflict, rain held disappointment or renewal). IV. Symbol Three: Colors a. Introduce the symbol of colors...
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...With The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald made a conscious departure from the writing process of his previous novels. He started planning it in June 1922,[citation needed] after completing his play The Vegetable and began composing The Great Gatsby in 1923.[2] He ended up discarding most of it as a false start, some of which resurfaced in the story "Absolution".[3] Unlike his previous works, Fitzgerald intended to edit and reshape Gatsby thoroughly, believing that it held the potential to launch him toward literary acclaim. He told his editor Maxwell Perkins that the novel was a "consciously artistic achievement" and a "purely creative work — not trashy imaginings as in my stories but the sustained imagination of a sincere and yet radiant world". He added later, during editing, that he felt "an enormous power in me now, more than I've ever had".[4] Oheka Castle on the Gold Coast of Long Island was a partial inspiration for Gatsby's estate.[5] After the birth of their child, the Fitzgeralds moved to Great Neck, Long Island in October 1922, a setting used as the scene for The Great Gatsby.[6] Fitzgerald's neighbors in Great Neck included such prominent and newly wealthy New Yorkers as writer Ring Lardner, actor Lew Fields and comedian Ed Wynn.[3] These figures were all considered to be 'new money', unlike those who came from Manhasset Neck or Cow Neck Peninsula, places which were home to many of New York's wealthiest established families, and which sat across a bay from Great Neck. This...
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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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...critical theory today critical theory today A Us e r - F r i e n d l y G u i d e S E C O N D E D I T I O N L O I S T Y S O N New York London Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business Routledge Taylor & Francis Group 270 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10016 Routledge Taylor & Francis Group 2 Park Square Milton Park, Abingdon Oxon OX14 4RN © 2006 by Lois Tyson Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa business Printed in the United States of America on acid‑free paper 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 International Standard Book Number‑10: 0‑415‑97410‑0 (Softcover) 0‑415‑97409‑7 (Hardcover) International Standard Book Number‑13: 978‑0‑415‑97410‑3 (Softcover) 978‑0‑415‑97409‑7 (Hardcover) No part of this book may be reprinted, reproduced, transmitted, or utilized in any form by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying, microfilming, and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without written permission from the publishers. Trademark Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging‑in‑Publication Data Tyson, Lois, 1950‑ Critical theory today : a user‑friendly guide / Lois Tyson.‑‑ 2nd ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0‑415‑97409‑7 (hb) ‑‑ ISBN 0‑415‑97410‑0 (pb) 1. Criticism...
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...THE BIBLE’S INFLUENCE ON ENGLISH-AMERICAN LITERATURE by Zhang Lanlan June, 2007 Xiaogan University Abstract As the sutra of the Christianity, the Bible has a great influence on both English and American literature and offers an eternal theme of their literary creation .English and American writers use stories of the Bible by three main methods. First, they quote person's names or stories of the Bible as the characters' names or plots of the creations from the Bible directly. Sometimes they make some changes on the original stories. Sometimes they quote stories directly from the Bible as the writing materials. Second, they make use of symbolic meaning of the Bible by some technical such as simile, metaphor and symbolism, so that the stories could exert a great influence on contrasting with the new products. Third, they merge the plots of the Bible to give connotative efforts to the readers. Exploring the methods helps us know the western culture and consciousness, have a good appreciation and study for the English-American literature. key words: English-American literature ; the Bible; methods 《圣经》在英美文学作品中的影响 摘要 作为基督教的经典，《圣经》对英美文化影响深远，为英美文化创作提供了永恒的母题。英美作家化用《圣经》故事的主要方法有：直接引用《圣经》中的人名作为作品的人物名称，或直接引用《圣经》故事或对原型故事进行变形或处理，作为创作素材；通过比喻，隐喻或象征等手法，把《圣经》故事的寓意融汇到作品情节中或人物性格里，使这些故事发挥有力的陪衬作用；使作品中的人物，故事和情节与《圣经》故事大体对应，让《圣经》能穿越时空的限制，从而发挥隐含的参照作用。 探讨英美作家化用《圣经》的方法，有助于我们了解英美文化的思想意识，更好的学习，欣赏乃至研究英美文学作品。 关键词：英美文学；《圣经》；方式 ...
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