Fitzgerald ’s Great Gatsby and Elliot ’s The Wasteland are two stories that similarly express the modernist post-war disillusionment. Both stories comment pessimistically on the direction that our world is moving in from the post-war modernist perspective. Both men looked past the roaring twenties‚ and realized that this time period was actually a moral wasteland. The final paragraphs of The Great Gatsby sum up their mutual lack of faith in American culture to improve. Fitzgerald uses a number
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November 2007 Myrtle and Fitzgerald’s Wasteland Myrtle Wilson is Fitzgerald’s vessel for illustrating the modern wasteland. His conception of the wasteland as an unavoidable‚ vulgar part of the 1920s society is parallel to his characterization of Myrtle as an unavoidable‚ vulgar character that refuses to be ignored. He uses her to point out what he sees as the faults of modern society. Myrtle is materialistic‚ superficial‚ and stuck living in the physical wasteland referred to as "the valley of ashes
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didn’t take the time to really get to know Richard Cory enough to observe his inner thoughts. The novel The Great Gatsby is very similar in this way. There are obvious parallels in theme and subject from the poem “Richard Cory” and the book The Great Gatsby‚ such as position‚ true happiness‚ carelessness and the American Dream. I think the word that can sum up many of the themes in The Great Gatsby is position. The word encompasses themes like class‚ wealth‚ social standing‚ and others. Gatsby’s whole
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Jane Eyre and The Great Gatsby The novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald can be compared by what is valued by each character in the novel. Prestige‚ wealth‚ and education are some of the few things deemed important in each novel. In Jane Eyre‚ there is the notion that social status is analogous to wealth. During the novel‚ Jane is a poor girl who never holds any distinguished positions. As she is planning her wedding‚ Jane is worried because she can’t
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Comparing Death of a Salesman to The Great Gatsby In the search for the American dream many things can be lost‚ this is reflected in the novel The Great Gatsby and the movie Death of a Salesman. Both of these works demonstrate the lengths that some people will go to in order to achieve the stereotypical life of a rich‚ successful and powerful American‚ which is often referred to as the American dream. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller illustrates how the character Willy will stop at nothing to
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Is Gatsby great or not? Section 1: Gatsby is generous to the people at his parties. He throws banquets and spends a lot of money on food‚ preparations and entertainment. Gatsby is a generous host. “most people were brought” “Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in New York--every Monday these same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid of pulpless halves.” “At least once a fortnight a corps of caterers came down with several hundred feet
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The Great Gatsby (Novel) Author Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald Purpose To show the author’s conflicting feelings about the Jazz Age Relationship with the Author and the Characters Fitzgerald and Carraway Thoughtful young man from Minnesota Educated at an Ivy League school Moves to NYC after the war Found the new extravagant lifestyle seductive and exciting Fitzgerald and Gatsby Idolizes wealth and luxury Falls in love with a beautiful young woman while at military
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work. The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920s On the surface‚ The Great Gatsby is a story of the thwarted love between a man and a woman. The main theme of the novel‚ however‚ encompasses a much larger‚ less romantic scope. Though all of its action takes place over a mere few months during the summer of 1922 and is set in a circumscribed geographical area in the vicinity of Long Island‚ New York‚ The Great Gatsby is a highly symbolic meditation on 1920s America as a whole‚ in particular
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The Great Gatsby Outline I. Introduction A. Symbolism B. Thesis Statement: In the classic novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ the author‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ creates a satirical work of literature that uses symbolism to point out geographical and environmental characteristics throughout the different settings of the story. II. Color A. Symbolic location of the green light. III. West Egg and East Egg A. Geological and social values portrayed IV. Valley
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the superior way of living. In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby there are many examples of what the American Dream was thought to have been back in the day. In the beginning‚ Gatsby tells Nick about where he came from‚ saying that he came from wealth. Although‚ Nick is not sure if he even believes him considering his evidence seems a little untrue. It isn’t until later when Gatsby tells Nick the truth about how he became the man he was to date. Gatsby didn’t grow up wealthy‚ but he would go to any
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