Name: Sherin Khawaja Class and Section: 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
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may show sympathy towards is Daisy. Daisy throughout the novel is oblivious to the fact that Tom‚ her husband‚ has an intimate relationship with the character Myrtle in a very public way. This is one of the ways in which we‚ the reader‚ sympathise towards Daisy‚ not only because of the fact that Tom is cheating on her with other characters but‚ the public way in which this affair is being carried out with everyone aware of Tom and Myrtles relations‚ other than Daisy yet saying very little to her
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Compare and contrast Buchanan and Monderman’s approaches to the production of social order in public spaces. Public spaces are places which we have to share with others and where apply shared sets of values or expectations about how people should behave. Social order is very important in social life. Order is part of the way people practice their social existence. It is about how individuals fit together with others and with things around them. Ordering is all the time practised by people and
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it is very difficult for readers to feel anything other than contempt for Tom Buchanan? It is very difficult for readers to feel anything other than contempt for Tom Buchanan throughout the novel. Fitzgerald uses Tom’s behaviour and attitude from the first time we are introduced to his character in chapter 1 to present him as a bully through his racist and unpleasant language assisted with his tough appearance. Daisy uses animalistic language to describe Tom as a ‘hulking physical specimen’ which
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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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Yesterday civil brawl erupted in the market place of Verona between the Montagues and the Capulets. Being the third civil brawl the fed up prince Escalus orders death on the next participants to take place in one of the petty brawls. In the marketplace‚ two Capulet servants Sampson and Gregory insult the Montague house in earshot of Abram and Balthasar two Montague servants. Remarks such as "’tis true; and therefore women‚ being the weaker vessels‚ are ever thrust to the wall. Therefore‚ I will
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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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