Consider The Significance Of Endings In The Great Gatsby
B) Consider the significance of endings in three narrative texts you have studied
When writing a novel, the ending is most important. It is what ties everything together and helps the reader to understand what has happened throughout the story completely. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Cousin Kate by Christina Rossetti have endings which are made significant through their resolutions. Coleridge and Fitzgerald have created stories which conclude with partial resolution, whereas Rossetti has created a story of total resolution, although other readers may disagree.
F. Scott Fitzgerald concludes the Great Gatsby with the death of Gatsby himself. The ambitions and aims of Gatsby had been to live the American dream which to him was to get rich, to relive the past he had with Daisy Buchannan and to fall back in love with her but he does not achieve this because he is shot at the end by George Wilson. Nick’s narration ends with him moving back to the Midwest after the shocking events that had happened in New York. “Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further”. Here Nick experiences his bildungsroman. Therefore, the Great Gatsby has partial resolution …show more content…
Was America really the place where all dreams could/can come true? Behind the superficial façade of thriving, fascinating and rich America lays the reality of the broken rich who are superficial, idle and materialistic. In the 1920’s, America was a place where any person could achieve anything they wanted because they had the ‘American dream’, but because Gatsby does not win back the total love and affection of Daisy and ends up being shot by Wilson, his ‘American dream is shattered and it has failed him. Therefore, Fitzgerald has created an ending which holds moral suggestions on how to live, which in turn is
When writing a novel, the ending is most important. It is what ties everything together and helps the reader to understand what has happened throughout the story completely. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Cousin Kate by Christina Rossetti have endings which are made significant through their resolutions. Coleridge and Fitzgerald have created stories which conclude with partial resolution, whereas Rossetti has created a story of total resolution, although other readers may disagree.
F. Scott Fitzgerald concludes the Great Gatsby with the death of Gatsby himself. The ambitions and aims of Gatsby had been to live the American dream which to him was to get rich, to relive the past he had with Daisy Buchannan and to fall back in love with her but he does not achieve this because he is shot at the end by George Wilson. Nick’s narration ends with him moving back to the Midwest after the shocking events that had happened in New York. “Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further”. Here Nick experiences his bildungsroman. Therefore, the Great Gatsby has partial resolution …show more content…
Was America really the place where all dreams could/can come true? Behind the superficial façade of thriving, fascinating and rich America lays the reality of the broken rich who are superficial, idle and materialistic. In the 1920’s, America was a place where any person could achieve anything they wanted because they had the ‘American dream’, but because Gatsby does not win back the total love and affection of Daisy and ends up being shot by Wilson, his ‘American dream is shattered and it has failed him. Therefore, Fitzgerald has created an ending which holds moral suggestions on how to live, which in turn is