Housewives In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

Is the life of a celebrity always as pristine as many people would believe it to be? Throughout the essay, the reader will be able to identify how the success of some celebrities can lead them to live a miserable day to day life. The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of west and east egg on Long Island, in the summer of 1922. The housewives is a television reality show that follows the lives of multiple housewives in different areas over the U.S. The housewives and Jay from the Great Gatsby exemplify the aspect of loneliness and isolation within the american dream. The housewives is a U.S media franchise that consists of several reality television
In one of these articles there is a brief description of the incident stating, “Luann De Lesseps from the real housewives of New York was arrested in florida on sunday December 24, 2017 on several charges including battery of an officer, and disorderly intoxication” (Natalie Stone). This relates to the subject matter, loneliness and isolation, seeing as close to the arrest her husband at the time had an affair, resulting in a divorce between the two. Also as soon as she got arrested the news was out, thus including dozens of articles being made from this incident detailing every aspect of the arrest. “Sonja Morgan from the real housewives of New York was bankrupt for about 5 years. She says a failed venture between her production company and another company, Hannibal Pictures, inc. is what destroyed her financially. The company was supposed to make a movie with John Travolta, but never got off the ground. Resulting in Hannibal Pictures filing a suit against her and winning $7 million in judgement” (Bruna Nessif & Beth Sobol). The article relates to the theme of loneliness and isolation in view of the fact that every moment of this was documented on her show and there were also many articles made by this situation, she
He is also very mysterious and nobody really knows him very well, therefore nick begins to discover the true man and the life of the mysterious Jay Gatsby throughout the novel. “The truth was that Jay Gatsby of west egg, Long Island, sprang from his platonic conception of himself” (Fitzgerald 98). All that Jay Gatsby ever wanted was to live a luxurious life with the person he loved. He had built a brand new life for himself that was completely different than the life he used to live when he was younger. He built wealth and success hoping to the fact that would be enough to impress Daisy. He would have enormous parties in his house many times all for Daisy hoping that one day she would realize. “Your place looks like the world’s fair,” I said. “Does it? He turned his eyes toward it absently. “I have been glancing into some of the rooms. Let’s go to Clooney Island, old sport. In my car.” “It’s too late.” “well, suppose we take a plunge in the swimming pool? I haven’t made use of it all summer.” “ I’ve got to go to bed.” “All right” (Fitzgerald 3-8). This relates to loneliness and isolation seeing as he had a full house of people, and all he wants is one friend to go swimming with him and that one friend doesn’t want to. “He stayed there a week, walking the streets where their footsteps had clicked together through the