Gatsby also tries to show Daisy how rich he is by wearing expensive clothes. And showing off his house. To Gatsby, his money can get him everything, and that includes Daisy. “Almost five years! There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams--not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion.
He is so blinded by his luxurious possessions that he does not see that money cannot buy love or happiness. The author argues that the common, and false, perception of the American Dream is that wealth, happiness, and a trouble-free life go hand-in-hand. However, through diction, foreshadowing, and irony, Fitzgerald demonstrates how a dream can become corrupted by one’s focus on acquiring wealth, power, and love. From the very beginning of the novel, Fitzgerald creates the illusion in Gatsby’s mind that wealth automatically generates happiness. When Fitzgerald envisions, “however glorious might be his future… he was at present a penniless young man without a past…” (149).
The title could refer Gatsby as “great” as his persona. He is one of the wealthiest people on Long Island and lives in an extravagant mansion. He throws lavish parties on the weekends with the first class treatment of the guests, who he barely knows any of them. Everyone knows his name and is interested in his life. He is like a local celebrity.
Lily also lives with her father and she says in the book that it never felt right to call him dad so she just settled on T. Ray. T. Ray is abusive and convinces Lily that her mother’s death is all her fault by telling her that she picked up the gun and it went off in her hands and killed her mother and that her mother didn’t care about her at all and left her. The date is 1964 and President Johnson has just signed the Civil Rights Act. Rosaleen decides that she wants to register to vote and Lily walks with her into town. As they reach the outskirts of town Rosaleen and Lily come across three white men who harass Rosaleen.
Never achieving her dreams paragraph quotes: Steinbeck inevitably brings out the reader’s sympathy towards Curley’s Wife when she dies in the book. In the scene where Lennie kills Curley’s Wife, we are made to understand that she is just as helpless to Lennie’s brute force as the mouse or the dog were earlier in the book. Furthermore the word “writhed”, that is used to describe Curley’s Wife as she attempts to escape
Duddy’s relationship with his friends also takes a toll because of this obsession of his. Most interesting is that this obsession for money ultimately leads to the demise of his business, which is the main source of his income. Duddy’s obsession to acquire this land ruins his relationship with the two people he loves most, his father, Max and his grandfather, Simcha. Duddy first damages his relationship with his father by stealing his taxi cab. “They found Max at Eddy’s, and he was furious, ‘who do u think you are?,’ he said ‘that you can run off with my car for three days?
The second section describes Emily’s life after her father’s death. She actually tried to deny her father’s death by keeping her father's dead body unburied. However the terrible smell make the town people crazy: “Just as they were about to resort to law and force, she broke down, and they buried her father quickly.” The third section begins with Emily’s sicking. The narrator notes that a foreman named Homer who comes from North with a crew of men to build sidewalks in Jefferson. After Emily and Homer are seen driving out on Sunday afternoons, Emily visits a druggist.
As he continues with his story, he confesses that that night he was the one to strangle the wife, “I strangled her till she died” he says. Still, we can’t be sure he did so because Casper claims he lost his memory, and isn’t sure whether what he remembers are dreams or memories. By the end of his statement, he says that he met his wife’s ghost and was terrified because she recognized him, even though he changed his name and was a different man now (yes, but she recognized him before he "changed" his identity). I believe that the reason he was terrified of the recognition is because he tried to hide or somehow erase his history
East Egg is where two of the main characters Tom and Daisy live in, Tom is considered a man of old money. Therefore, East Egg represents old money and wealth. On the other hand, West Egg- where the main character Gatsby lives- symbolizes new money, which is different from old money because old money is people who have generated from a wealthy family and have been wealthy all their lives. Therefore, new money categorizes individuals who have had to work their way up to become rich and usually do not descend from a wealthy family. West Egg and East Egg is where the story takes place but also what symbolizes the description of the characters.
In the final scene, Paul’s rocking horse is taken outside and burned which is watched by his greedy mother . The full significance of the rocking horse shadow comes clearer in the final sequence, where jester is in the background watching the burning rocking horse in the foreground. The burning is shown as a symbolic event of Hester’s attempt to purify herself of guilt . In the end of the story Hester’s brother “ indicates her as a devil of a son to the bed”(162). Hester feels guilty for all the accident happened and she refuses the huge amount of money which Paul won by riding the rocking horse.