How Does Velma Kelly Create Happiness In The Great Gatsby
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The American Dream
In the 1920s
In The Great Gatsby and Chicago, Fitzgerald and Marshall show that one can have money, power, and fame, but the American Dream is more about having someone to share your happiness with. Money does not lead to happiness because even the richest, most powerful person in the world, at the end of the day, is not satisfied without people to share their life with. Everyone needs that one special person that helps them and supports them. In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby has a lot of money, but isn’t really happy because he has created a vision of himself and Daisy is living in a perfect world, which lead him to destroy his own life because he is refusing to see the truth. One night after the party …show more content…
Velma Kelly is a famous Jazz singer, who is also in jail for murdering her husband, and her sister who was having an affair. In the song, “Cell Block Tango,” she describes what happened, from her perspective. Velma walked into their hotel room and she sees her sister having sex with her husband. After that, she supposedly doesn’t remember what happened, but they were both dead. Well Velma kelly does not just proved she was not happy with what happened but she also lost her concerts she was gonna perform in. In Chicago Characters in this movie contribute to step away from reality in order to hypnotize themselves in a dream like state of mind. The public is eating up her story and she loves the …show more content…
Gatsby's rise to fame was first started by his meeting with Dan Cody, a independent gold prospector. Cody was like a mentor to Gatsby very important person to Gatsby. Daisy married Tom Buchanan when Gatsby left overseas. Gatsby's rise to fame in trying to win Daisy back from Tom is also part of his destruction. He started doing illegal things. Trying to win back Daisy (a married woman) was dangerous as well, especially how heartless and rancorous Tom Buchanan was. In Chicago, Roxie Hart dreams of fame, most clearly being a star in the show, and plans on sleeping her way to the top with someone other than her husband, the extremely trusting and loyalty of Amos Hart. Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death line together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the rope. Mama Morton, who is the jail administrator is in business with Billy Flynn. Just for the money people can do whatever you
The American Dream
In the 1920s
In The Great Gatsby and Chicago, Fitzgerald and Marshall show that one can have money, power, and fame, but the American Dream is more about having someone to share your happiness with. Money does not lead to happiness because even the richest, most powerful person in the world, at the end of the day, is not satisfied without people to share their life with. Everyone needs that one special person that helps them and supports them. In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby has a lot of money, but isn’t really happy because he has created a vision of himself and Daisy is living in a perfect world, which lead him to destroy his own life because he is refusing to see the truth. One night after the party …show more content…
Velma Kelly is a famous Jazz singer, who is also in jail for murdering her husband, and her sister who was having an affair. In the song, “Cell Block Tango,” she describes what happened, from her perspective. Velma walked into their hotel room and she sees her sister having sex with her husband. After that, she supposedly doesn’t remember what happened, but they were both dead. Well Velma kelly does not just proved she was not happy with what happened but she also lost her concerts she was gonna perform in. In Chicago Characters in this movie contribute to step away from reality in order to hypnotize themselves in a dream like state of mind. The public is eating up her story and she loves the …show more content…
Gatsby's rise to fame was first started by his meeting with Dan Cody, a independent gold prospector. Cody was like a mentor to Gatsby very important person to Gatsby. Daisy married Tom Buchanan when Gatsby left overseas. Gatsby's rise to fame in trying to win Daisy back from Tom is also part of his destruction. He started doing illegal things. Trying to win back Daisy (a married woman) was dangerous as well, especially how heartless and rancorous Tom Buchanan was. In Chicago, Roxie Hart dreams of fame, most clearly being a star in the show, and plans on sleeping her way to the top with someone other than her husband, the extremely trusting and loyalty of Amos Hart. Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death line together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the rope. Mama Morton, who is the jail administrator is in business with Billy Flynn. Just for the money people can do whatever you