2) Think about the two worlds, the Midwest and the East, as Fitzgerald describes them, and what they represent for Nick and Gatsby. At the end of The Great Gatsby, Nick writes the East as “exciting” but uneasingly shallow behind the guise of wealth. Meanwhile, he also describes his hometown in the Midwest, nostalgically identifying with its homely small-town life and proximity to family. For Nick, there exists a moral distinction between the two regions, and finding himself utterly unable to adapt
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald takes place in the early 1920s. It was just after World War II and it was a time of disillusionment and materialism. Location plays an important and symbolic role. Many of the places represent certain characters and ideas. There are five main locations mentioned in The Great Gatsby: West Egg, East Egg, The Valley of Ashes, New York, and France. They represent things like wealth, status, loneliness, escape, and secrets. West Egg is one of the two main locations
Compare and Contrast: F. Scott Fitzgerald and Jay Gatsby Throughout his life, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, and he often made his characters exhibit several similarities to himself. In his novel, The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby shows many parallels to Fitzgerald. Both Gatsby and Fitzgerald experienced humble beginnings, but became wealthy, earning them the woman that they wanted. Also, they were both in the military. One difference between them is that one’s dream came true and he got the girl, and the
an ambiguous term. On one side, it represented the struggles of the poor trying to move up the social ladder, and on the other, it represented people who were wealthy and did not have a care in the world. In the novel The Great Gatsby, by F.S Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby and Daisy represented opposing values of
Between the book, The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the film remake of the book, also titled The Great Gatsby, directed by Baz Luhrmann, one is able to compare and contrast many aspects even in a short scene or passage. In the short scene in which Tom races Gatsby into New York City, while conversing with Jordan and Nick, similarities and differences can be found in the mood, dialogue, focus, and symbolism. In the juxtaposition of these two mediums, Tom’s reaction to his newly
Compare and contrast the presentation of the role of women in all three texts In “The Great Gatsby”, “A Streetcar Named Desire” and the collection of poems by Sylvia Plath, there is a unifying theme presenting the struggles of female characters against their societal roles and while some women are seen to accept their roles in society, others are insurgent and are punished for it. In “A Streetcar Named Desire”, Stella is presented to conform willingly to her acquiescent role in society, while contrastingly