The Great Gatsby

The gold streamers and silver confetti falling from the ceiling. Girls wearing shiny flashy silver dresses, and alcohol getting sloshed around from corner to corner. The music has been blaring for hou…

Literary devices such as symbols, irony, and contrast are frequently used in literature to both enhance and develop a theme. F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby demonstrates how one can becom…

In society, some people are born into immense wealth and power and utilize that to their advantage to get away with the mistakes they made. In the Great Gatsby, it is shown that throughout the entire …

Basing your opinions on someone from your first look at them is the worst thing to do. Doing this ruins relationships and can even cause death. Misjudgment in characters is used in The Great Gatsby by…

"No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart" This is spoken by the narrator of the Great Gatsby Nick Caraway, who is one of the most important character…

The Adaptation of The Great Gatsby (2013 directed by Baz Luhrmann) displays the difference between the wealthy and working class through the self- indulgent image of the rich. Comparatively the book (…

Wealth, power, and status: these are all qualities of the elusive American Dream. Gatsby has the wealth and the power, but he lacks the status of old money that is the key to what he wants: Daisy. Man…

Throughout history, literature has explored the continued growth of our understanding of the human condition, or what it means to humans. One of the factors that distinguish literature from writing fo…

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the protagonist, Jay Gatsby, was killed by the elites Tom and Daisy. Daisy, self centered, intentionally led Gatsby to believe she would leave her husband. Alt…

There are times in everyone's life where they experience discrimination provided by pre-established social norms. For Jay Gatsby, he dealt with an economic prejudice by acquiring vast amounts of wealt…