Judge Reinhold once wisely said “I was spoiled and I was arrogant. I was very demanding, had an overblown image of who I was and got a reputation for being difficult, and rightfully so”. The word supercilious means, behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others. The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays a character that has a supercilious manner, Tom Buchanan. Tom is a wealthy man of old class money, living on East Egg, married to Daisy, and went to Yale. Tom has many immoral and careless actions, of betraying his wife, having an affair, and eventually leading to the deaths of many people. Tom’s supercilious nature leads him to his affair with a low-class woman, a ruined marriage, ultimately resulting in the death of many.…
"A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth"(page 2, lines 6-7). This quote appears in chapter 1 of The Great Gatsby , when Nick remind of his father's suggestion. This quote is significance because it gives the readers the meaning of this novel. This quote means money isn't the only thing that people are born into. Some people are naturally just nicer and more honest. The essence of men has nothing to do with their wealth and social class. According to The Great Gatsby, Tom and Daisy are belong to the upper social class and are "old rich". However , they have less "sense of fundamental…
The Great Gatsby, which was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a story that reflects the life of the 1920's in New York. The 1920's was a decade of prosperity and opportunity, but also of prohibition and organized crime. The life in the 1920's was filled with moral decay (immoral decisions) and corruptness. Throughout The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald shows how the American Dream is dead through immoral decisions and corruptness in Gatsby's and Myrtle's life.…
In The Great Gatsby, many characters were portrayed, all with their own little quirks and characteristics. However, one of the most interesting characters is Tom. That is because he is one of the most arrogant, self-serving characters in the book. He sometimes bursts out with white supremacist ideas, such as when he mentions that whites created civilization. He also has the habit of putting people down, such as when he has an affair with Myrtle, and makes fun of her husband. Lastly in an attempt to save himself, he sets a mourning George Wilson onto Gatsby.…
In the novel “The Great Gatsby” written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Daisy is described ieaders in various ways. In the beginning of the story Daisy is described “by far the most popular of all the young girls in Louisville”. This quote described by Fitzgerald tells the reader that Daisy holds a degree that she has immense beauty which has blinded many men. It means that she holds the popularity status because of the beauty she has. She is also described as “ a beautiful little fool.” This also indicates that Daisy is simply just beautiful just like an angel pure and white. And in which white could also means lack of morality.…
The theme that is portrayed throughout The Great Gatsby would be a deviant sense of love. Even though Tom and Daisy may seem somewhat loyal and affectionate towards each other in the beginning, their true feelings begin to show as the novel develops. As we see with their unfaithfulness to each other, they are clearly not in love. Tom begins seeing Myrtle, George’s wife, and Daisy has an affair with Gatsby, her former lover. Ever since Gatsby had laid eyes on Daisy, he’d wanted to be with her which is why he, “bought that house so that Daisy would just be across the bay.” (Fitzgerald.78) It’s largely evident that Gatsby is in love, but with what? With Daisy? Or with a dream of Daisy? He’s always had fantasies about loving Daisy, but now that…
Analyzing F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, confirms Fitzgerald's realism and outlook of life during the 1920s. He uses literary devices such as symbolism, metaphors, and hyperboles to manipulate the idea of the American Dream, repetition of diction to put emphasis the characters situations, and he uses tone shift to represent the controversial feeling the characters had for one another. Fitzgerald focuses on the corruptions of the American Dream and the lack of morals in human society. Gatsby, the main character in Fitzgerald’s masterpiece, seeks to repair his relationship with the only women he loves, Daisy. Daisy leaves Gatsby, while he is at war, for a man of wealth and high social status.…
With the moonlight beating down on Gatsby with an almost sad, dim glow, Gatsby’s heart slowly breaks watching Daisy and Tom share a meal, talking, neither of them unhappy, just peaceful. Gatsby knows he has lost, but he is unable to let go of Daisy, and thus, he waits outside of her and Tom’s apartment until the early hours of the next morning just holding on to the smallest bit of hope that he has left. At this point, Gatsby is pathetically waiting for what he had been hoping for throughout the whole novel, something he knows he cannot have. Perpetually stuck in his past and obsessed with his love for Daisy, Gatsby is unable live a day of his current life without striving to make the past become reality.…
The Great Gatsby is a tragic American literature novel that represents the hopeful American dream. Fitzgerald throughout the entire book uses certain literary devices that add onto the sophistication of the novel. In the last passage of The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald conveys Nick Caraway’s perspective and attitude towards Gatsby through imagery, symbolism and irony.…
About half way between West Egg and New York the motor road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land.1 This is a valley of ashes2 — a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak, and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud, which screens their obscure operations from your sight.3 But above the gray land and the spasms of bleak dust which drift endlessly over it, you perceive, after a moment, the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg.4 The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic — their irises are one yard high. They look out of no face, but, instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a nonexistent nose.5 Evidently some wild wag of an oculist set them there to fatten his practice in the borough of Queens, and then sank down himself into eternal blindness, or forgot them and moved away. But his eyes, dimmed a little by many paintless days, under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground.6…
“No.1 has faith in himself, tough, slow sullen and unshakable. Mine has worn thin in the last few years... The fact is: I no longer believe in my infallibility. That is what I am lost.” (Page 101, Paragraph 2)…
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a novel exploring the roaring twenties and the American Dream. The story is told from the perspective of Nick Carraway during the summer of 1922. The novel explores the wealthy and mysterious Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful and fickle Daisy Buchanan and how it affects the characters around them, including the also wealthy Tom Buchanan, Daisy’s husband. Marrying him allowed Daisy to be as rich as Gatsby, but it also revealed that she and Tom had fundamentally different values than Gatsby. Although Gatsby’s and the Buchanans’ home lives appear similar, the small variances represent the fundamental differences between the occupants. Gatsby and the Buchanans both hold grand parties, but while…
If you have a dream, protect it, because if someone can't do something themselves, they'll tell you that you can't do it" - Straub "Know what you like, know what you makes you happy, stick to your gut and state it with confidence" - Connor "The society structure that people follow is seen as black and white. But in reality, it is an infinite amount of colours and shades, not just black and white" - Anon tblr "Reality rarely lives up to life's expectations" - Connor, 5 "All I know is I need to keep moving forward in the direction I'm happy with" - Connor, 209 "We can be our worst and harshest critics" - Connor, 113 "For the deep thinkers, big dreamers, and innovated creators" - Connor, DP "Sometimes we lose sight of why and what we are doing. We get sick of certain aspects of our lives and forget the end goal. But everything has a purpose.…
Gatsby lives a life full of lies. Nick tells, “His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people- his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all. The truth was the Jay Gatsby of West Egg; Long Island sprang from his platonic conception of himself “(104). The Gatsby that is introduced at the beginning is different than the one known now. Throughout the book so many things about Gatsby that were covered up by his lies are discovered. Nick says, “He might have despised himself, for he had certainly taken her under false pretenses…he had deliberately given Daisy a sense of security; he let her believe that he was a person from much the same stratum as herself—that he was fully able to take care of her. As a matter a fact he had no such facilities—” (149). Daisy fell for Gatsby because she thought he could take care of her but he is not able to do so. If he is truthful he will not hurt so many…
"The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. That’s what I hope to give you forever. " That quote is from the notebook a movie that is story book love not what we are talking about today. In the book the great gatsby Tom is the best person to look at for 21st century love based on he loved Daisy but cheated on her a lot, he does not want daisy that bad till he does not have her anymore, he was hurt when daisy cheated on him.…