In the social circle he was well known for his extravagant Black and White Ball held in New York City. Capote was a smart, honest man that had a rather dark side about him setting him apart from others. The attributes that made him famous, in the end, lead to his demise. His career began as most struggling writers often did, just trying to catch a break. He got his first “foot
On Holden’s perspective, his adventure, from Pency to New York, then goes to his sister and finally goes to present in his mental institution, may be describing the circumstances of the world in which he, the author, was living. In the novel, Holden is a cynic who detests others by calling them phony. Maybe it is the reason that the world is corrupted by things he does and things other people do. For example, when he was on the train heading New York. He meets this pretty woman who is the mother of Ernie whom Holden thinks he is a bastard.
The Influence of the Jazz Age on the 1920s "If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to," - Dorothy Parker. Dorothy had the right idea when she made this statement about the wealthy people of the 1920s. These socialites thrived under the post war prosperity. Famous for jazz music, wealthy people, and glittering parties, the 1920s were a magical time for privileged Americans. Prohibition was still the law of the land but it was a known fact that liquor was being consumed in secret.
The wedding march obviously means that one marriage is beginning and ironically right above the wedding on appears to crumbling. However the jazz that is heard is associated with Gatsby. Jazz is also associated with fun which is a complete contrast to what is happening in the hotel suite above; as there is nothing fun about the discussion Tom and Gatsby are having. Fitzgerald uses music to create an ironic situation in chapter five when Gatsby, Daisy and Nick are listening to “Ain’t we got fun”. This is also ironic as the song is about poor people saying that money doesn’t matter because they’re having fun; however one of the themes running through the book is inequality and the reader can see in the Valley of ashes that being poor is not fun at all.
“The Destructors”, is set in London about nine years after the conclusion of the WWII. “The Rocking Horse Winner”, is set in England in the aftermath of WWI. In “The Destructors” the characters are held together by the overall plot to destroy the house of Old Misery’s. In contrast, “The Rocking Horse Winner” characters, Paul, his mother, his uncle, and Bassett, are in constant conflict over wealth and the good luck that the characters seem to think goes along with it as opposed to poverty and bad luck that the characters seem to think that goes along with it. In both “The Destructors” and “The Rocking-Horse Winner,” the
The New Deal v Primary Sources v Franklin D. Roosevelt was governor of New York, when the Wall Street Crash in October 1929, created the worst depression in American history. Roosevelt made strenuous attempts to help those without work. He set up the New York State Emergency Relief Commission and appointed the respected Harry Hopkins to run the agency. Another popular figure with a good record for helping the disadvantaged, Frances Perkins, was recruited to the team as state industrial commissioner. With the help of Hopkins and Perkins, Roosevelt introduced help for the unemployed and those too old to work.
Scott Fitzgerald named “The Jazz Age”, was a booming time of America with consumerism, the idea of flapper, the inventions of the radio and telephone, and a developing automobile industry; sadly, came along with these enormous booms was a decline in social morality. In The Great Gatsby, Daisy and her husband, Tom, were reckless and irresponsible people. For example, in the accident that caused Myrtle’s death, Daisy let Gatsby take the blame, while she was the one who struck Myrtle. Moreover when the news of Gatsby’s death spread out in town, Tom and Daisy hastily packed and left the town because they were afraid of having to be responsible for the mess that they had created. Nick, the narrator, said that Tom and Daisy “.
Jay Gatsby, the main character in the novel, symbolized the American dream of the ‘20’s. Jay Gatsby was raised by a lower class family in North Dakota, similar to Fitzgerald himself. Gatsby later moved to New York to become a bootlegger, selling alcohol illegally during the time of prohibition. This brought Jay a great deal of success and he became a self-made millionaire, eventually growing to be the wealthiest man on West Egg. Charles Baker said “Gatsby is our model for success because he appeals to our remarkable ability to adjust our personal code of ethics in order to get what we think we somehow deserve” (47).
The Great Gatsby: “I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night, and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye. I liked to walk up Fifth Avenue and pick out romantic women from the crowd and imagine that in a few minutes I was going to enter into their lives, and no one would ever know or disapprove. Sometimes, in my mind, I followed them to their apartments on the corners of hidden streets, and they turned and smiled back tat me before they faded through a door into warm darkness. At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in other-poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner-young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.”
* Examples: * Gatsby and Daisy’s reunion: Spring * Gatsby and Toms fight: Summer * Gatsby’s Death: Fall Geography * Places rep. different facets of American society in the 1920’s. * Examples: * East egg= old money * West egg= newly money * The valley of ashes= working class * New york city= the unrestrained, immoral pursuit of wealth and