11SD Q: Compare and contrast Jay Gatsby and Tom Buchanan. How are they similar and how do they differ? Given that Tom is portrayed negatively‚ why does Daisy choose to remain with him instead of leaving him for Gatsby? In the novel ‘The Great Gatsby’ written by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ two men‚ Jay Gatsby and Tom Buchanan‚ fight over Daisy‚ an upper-class woman from an old‚ wealthy family in the time after the first world war during the age known as the ‘booming’ or ‘roaring’ twenties. In this
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Essay #4 November 7‚ 2011 Change for the Better? In both John Staddon ’s "Distracting Miss Daisy" and Albert Shanker ’s “The Smiley Face Approach" essays‚ both authors are primarily concerned with change. The essayists have both looked at two very different situations and have either decided that change would‚ in Staddon ’s case make things better‚ or as in Shanker ’s case‚ make things worse. According to Staddon’s‚ changing signage and traffic controls on American roadways might bring about
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September 14‚ 1931 Today‚ as the rain was tapping on my window‚ I stared out at the storm clouds casting shadows onto the long green fields of spring. As I was watching as the grass and the leaves in the trees on the horizon sway with the wind‚ my mind was recalled to a time that I’ve been trying to hide away for a long while now. Almost exactly five years ago‚ under the exact same rain and grey‚ that Gatsby fellow was killed. He was murdered. Rain and grey‚ I tell you. His life was taken
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To any one who still cares? This is a note to explain to you why I have done this. I want to be with my family‚ the only people who actually care. I was brought up in a kind and caring environment far away from the city‚ evil murders and drunks. By the time you are reading this I will no longer be here‚ I will be in a better place with the rest of my family. If you didn’t already know I was pregnant then you do now. I just didn’t want my child to be let into a world of such evil‚ it just wouldn’t
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of Henry James’s “Daisy Miller” and Edith Wharton’s “The Other Two” In Henry James’s “Daisy Miller” and Edith Wharton’s “The Other Two‚” the narrators each disclose the complications of their party’s social formalities during circumstances within their own society. In both short stories‚ Winterbourne and Waythorn try to figure out their adored ones character and motives but for different reasons. In “Daisy Miller‚” it’s noticeable that Mr. Winterbourne ends up longing for Daisy Miller as he tries
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For this paper I have chosen to analyze the similarities between Daisy Miller and Huckleberry Finn. Though the novels containing these characters seem to be of very different genres‚ with very different subjects and content matters‚ the two main characters are in all actuality very similar‚ both in personality and background. The first and most striking similarity between Huckleberry Finn and Daisy Miller is that neither cares a whit about social norm - what is proper; what is expected of them.
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achieve a greater image‚ the morality of the people became quite corrupt. Dishonesty and infidelity are two qualities that the upper class of the 1920’s upheld. F. Scott Fitzgerald was an author who decided to portray the twisted time through the writing of a novel. In The Great Gatsby‚ Fitzgerald depicts the skewed morals of the upper class in the 1920’s through the utilization of Jordan Baker’s dishonesty and Tom Buchanan’s infidelity. Jordan Baker is one character who represents the way in which
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morally deficient. The Great Gatsby has three major female characters: Daisy Buchanan‚ Jordan Baker‚ and Myrtle Wilson‚ all of whom display moral corruption and have a negative impact on the male characters of the novel. Although the male characters in the novel are depicted as complex individuals with varying degrees of morality‚ the female characters do not receive the same treatment. Jordan Baker is defined by her dishonesty‚ having earned media attention after she cheated in a golf tournament
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judgments about Jordan Baker‚ Tom and Daisy Buchanan‚ and Jay Gatsby. As the narrator and an intricate character in the plot‚ Nick Carraway probes into the lives of the other characters and then forms judgments upon them. Through this experience‚ the reader learns about the insight and morals of the narrator. For example‚ during his affair with Jordan Baker‚ Nick discovers her lying habits. "She was incurably dishonest.... It made no difference to me. Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame
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Tom willingly admits his affair‚ yet Daisy has come to ignore it‚ at least outwardly. Tom thinks that Daisy will understand his affairs‚ believing "Once and a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself‚ but I always come back‚ and in my heart I love her all the time." The fact that Daisy refuses to condemn Tom’s actions adds to Fitzgerald’s portrayal of society’s view on sin during the 1920’s. Because society
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