* Tom Buchanan is the only antagonist in the novel The Great Gatsby. We are first introduced to Tom in chapter one of the novel when Nick Carraway (the narrator) visits him and his wife Daisy Buchanan (Nick’s cousin) at East Egg. The readers firstly would see a relationship between the appearance of Tom and his personality which is shown through the use of Fitzgerald’s diction. We find that Tom is arrogant, aggressive, dominant, and later on we will discover his cruelness. Also Tom is incredibly wealthy due to the fact that he was born in old money (who lives on east egg).
There at Brideshead Charles meets Sebastian’s sister Julia and he secretly falls in love with her. During the summer Sebastian, Charles and Julia all go to visit Sebastian and Julia’s father Lord Marchmain in Italy. Lord Marchmain is a former Catholic who turned atheist after divorcing his wife, Lady Marchmain. Lady Marchmain is a stern Catholic who rules over the house with a strong hand, enforcing her Catholic morality on all of her children. Eventually Sebastian finds out about Charles’ infatuation with Julia, he is outraged and turned in to a full-blown alcoholic.
In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Daisy Buchanan has great importance to Jay Gatsby one of the novel's main character. Jay Gatsby is a young thirty year old man who became wealthy through organized crime. Daisy and Gatsby met in Louisville. Gatsby was a military officer who was about to leave for the first World War. Gatsby fell in love with Daisy almost immediately after meeting her.
Nick's house is next door to Gatsby's enormous, Gothic mansion. One night, he attends a dinner party in East Egg; the party is given by Tom Buchanan and his wife, Daisy. Daisy is Nick's cousin, while Tom was Nick's classmate at Yale. Tom comes from a wealthy, established family, and was a great football player while at Yale. A friend of Daisy's is also there.
(Benedictow, 2005) The Black Death was more than a medieval explosion of horror: it kept coming back. For the next 300 years and longer, plague became a regular part of life and death in Europe. Literature as well as the Plague art as we will call it from this point on showed glimpses of morbidity and showed the fascination with the macabre. Most of the plague art was that stimulated by religious bequests and encouraged the commissioning of devotional pieces. The renaissance humanism movement brought about by a vernacular literature adopted by Giovanni Boccaccio which helped paint a picture of what life was like in Europe during the Black Death.
Nick notes that this abode “looks like the world fair,” and this sign of opulence is the first part of what Fitzgerald considers the American Dream to be (Fitzgerald 81). Gatsby spent his whole life searching for wealth, and having finally found it, he splurges much of it holding vast parties. Only later does Gatsby’s real purpose in chasing wealth become clear: “so that Daisy would be just across the bay.” The parties he hosted were in the vain hope that she should come traipsing into one (78). The pursuit of this time-defying love is indubitably what Fitzgerald identifies as the other half of the Dream. Questing for these two goals –money and love- would seem to be the paragon for the good life, but as Owl-Eyes aptly muttered, “if one brick was to be removed the whole library was likely to collapse” (46).
Gatsby’s dream is to be with Daisy, he uses his wealth, the wealth that he never has when he first met Daisy. Gatsby throws crazy, lavish parties on the weekends that most wealthy people in the area attend, and buys his mansion that comes with an amazing view of the bay and East side; all this was done for Daisy. Gatsby uses his wealth as a reason of why Daisy should leave Tom, by doing so he is showing he has a better materialistic life, instead of showing that he has a better personality and character. If Gatsby showed that he matured and developed as a person, she would probably leave Tom because he can’t replicate Gatsby’s personality. Everything Gatsby does is for Daisy, and in the end it all goes to waste.
Debra Davenport Kathryn Steel English 1A July 6, 2012 Literary Analysis The Great Gatsby "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is set In the Roaring Twenties also known as the Jazz Era. The years following World War1 a time of celebration, and excess wealth in the upper social circles. Some people were reeling from the aftermath of war, returning home and trying to regain what was lost rambling aimlessly and without purpose this is known as the Lost Generation. "The Great Gatsby" after examination of key symbols shows the moral decay of the rich with the Buchanan's, and Jay Gatsby with his rag to riches story of catching the American Dream and finding only unhappiness and death. After examining the symbolism of the Buchanan's life, "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy---they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made...." this refers to the shallow disregard of human life, as in the death of Jay Gatsby.
Jay Gatsby CHAPTER 3 1. I discovered that Nick Carraway finally saw Jay Gatsby at his party. Also, Gatsby looks so manly that he looked like other people who came to the party. Nick Carraway did not even recognize who is Jay Gatsby when he talked to a man; he found out that that man is Gatsby who is the host of the party. Also, Nick Carraway found out that Mrs. Baker knew Gatsby pretty well, and Nick tried to ask more information about Gatsby from Mrs. Baker.
Myrtle also becomes a victim in her own death. She was hit by Gatsby’s yellow car which was driven by Daisy. Luckily for Daisy, Gatsby took the blame for her terrorizing actions. Daisy chose to take her revenge on Myrtle for having an affair with her husband. Sadly Myrtle’s victimization led to her death bed, but unluckily for George his casualty has just