Rayleigh Staba Professor Cohen Reading Literature 121 October 12‚ 2014 The Subordinate Role of Women in The Great Gatsby “I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool – that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world‚ a beautiful little fool.” This is from when Daisy and Nick are having a redundant conversation. It demonstrates one of the key elements of the novel: a classic inferior role for women in the Roaring Twenties. Daisy’s quote suggests an awareness of some superb emerging obstacle
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captures best‚ the lack of morals and the corruption of the American Dream. Towards the beginning of the film when Nick first meets Myrtle she is immediately showing her lack of morals by the way she interacts with Tom‚ giving Nick a sense of their secret affair. In addition‚ the party she hosts at the apartment is over the top inappropriate compared to the one in the novel as Nick is exposed to sex‚ drugs‚ and destruction. But it can be more relatable to the viewers with today’s parties and the
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book are: Tom‚ Daisy‚ and Jordan. Tom seems to be the opposite of Carraway‚ portraying as arrogant and intolerable‚ as advancing in racial remarks during dinner. Daisy appears to be a very interesting character‚ as hoping for her daughter to become a fool. Jordan is portrayed as a very obnoxious character‚ as snooping on Tom and Daisy during dinner. Chapter 2 - What seemed interesting to me is how Fitzgerald paired Tom and Myrtle’s relationship with the settings
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“The Lost Generation” The novel The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ as about the Jazz Age in New York and how a man tries to turn back time to be with the woman he loves. Through our narrator‚ Nick Carraway‚ we learn what happened in the past of his cousin Daisy and his neighbor Gatsby. Symbolism is used heavily throughout the story either using colors or the carelessness of the people in the story. After the Great War‚ the soldiers returning became known as the Lost Generation as
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wealthy. As he and Nick admire his mansion‚ he reveals that it took him “just three years to earn the money that bought it” (Fitzgerald 90). Although Gatsby was once poor‚ he becomes wealthy through resolute hard work over a period of time. This is possible because he is a man‚ and his life is rife with opportunity. He is in stark contrast with Myrtle‚ who also longs to become prosperous. When she is with Tom‚ she pretends to be wealthy and puts on airs. After exchanging words with Nick‚ she “swept into
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manage to make the noble lords and ladies happy with the play and even congratulate the Mechanics with payment. This proves that the Mechanics are not just bumbling incompetent fools that can’t do anything except be a working class citizen that is used for comedy. I believe Shakespeare wrote the Mechanics to appear as
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way. White is used in association with many characters‚ including Nick‚ Gatsby‚ and especially Daisy‚ although I don’t think that white is used to express innocence and class‚ but rather the illusion of it. The first example of white that I noticed in the book was when Nick was invited formally to a party at Gatsby’s mansion‚ and “...dressed up in white flannels [to go] over to his lawn a little after 7” (pg. 27). Although Nick isn’t profoundly rich‚ he wears white flannels to the party to put
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For example‚ he said his gracious next door neighbor Jay Gatsby is “unaffected scom”‚ and the Buchannan couple were “careless people”; even said that his lover Jordan Baker is “incurably dishonest.” Nick is not only the righteous and objective narrator who he claimed to be‚ he is also someone whose sight is muddled by the lavish life of the rich and famous. His internal conflict over the lifestyle of his new life in New York goes on throughout the
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wanting to get Daisy back while Nick is just a spectator watching their love story happen with conflicts and such. Using various literary elements Fitzgerald criticizes the lack of morality‚ American Dream‚ and the wealthy in his novel The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald criticizes the lack of morality by using setting and symbolism to convey his critique. This is shown when Fitzgerald uses the setting of Gatsby’s parties to show the critique of their carelessness. Nick describes what he hears and sees
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Ashes‚ a landfill site solely for ashes‚ is painted by Fitzgerald to greaten our appreciation of American Society and the themes it generates such as social decline‚ moral ambiguity‚ the loss of hope and faith and the dominance of shallow materialism. Nick Carraway labels the Valley as “desolate”‚ thus steering our attention into one which will perceive the Valley negatively. Fitzgerald then paints the Valley of Ashes as a crude distortion of nature. The references to nature stem from a “farm” where
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