we do share some similar, and also different ideas as to what the American Dream really is all about. F. Scott Fitzgerald manages to define, praise, and condemn what is known as the American Dream by using great symbolism and other literary devices in his most successful novel, The Great Gatsby. A few similarities, or uniformities, F. Scott Fitzgerald and I have in common are that we both establish and portray vivid wording as to what one person can accomplish through unbroken and consistent hard
The Great Gatsby Many similarities and differences exist in the setting, characterization, and plot elements of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby and two of the film adaptations of the book. There are many similarities in The Great Great Gatsby’s setting. The movie and the book are both placed in New York City, and both homesteads are placed in West and East Egg. In the middle of West and East Egg is a place called the “Valley of the ashes.” Both the book and movie are very similar
Gatsby represent the American dream because he started from zero and became a wealthy, successful man. That is what the American dream is about. Gatsby’s dream is Daisy and he uses everything to become an upper class person through the money. But Gatsby earned his fortune illegally. He uses his wealth to get closer to Daisy. The 1920’s American dream has become corrupted and is not worth to follow, for example: hard work and success doesn’t have any value anymore. Instead of working hard, and reach
could change someone's life or kill them. F. Scott Fitzgerald had created both Winter Dreams and The Great Gatsby. The two stories are quite similar ,but also very unique in their own way. Gatsby and Dexter both come from either poor or middle class families. The two just want to fit into the higher class and both of them needed the last piece to becoming apart of the higher class. The location Gatsby and Dexter live impacted their lives and as well did the people that lived around them, also, the
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
Thesis: How the appearances of Gatsby, in the film the Great Gatsby, exposes the reality of the American Dream between the new money and the old money after the end of World War I. The obvious theme of the film is about the failed relationship between Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan. However the major theme of the film is the exposure of both classes, these being the newly rich and the established rich. They have both succeeded in acquiring everyone’s aspiration of the American Dream. Introduction
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
little sinister contrast between them.” (1.5) Nick caraway is describing West egg and how it is nice but there is somehow a small difference to which it can be traced to how both the classes act. 2. The social group that I would like to belong too would be the established upper class. There is this strong impression of how they are that is such a difference between the two wealthy classes. The established upper class seems to know where they are in the world
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
represented 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