Two such novels that contain love and the secrets it contains are the Great Gatsby and Ethan Frome. The Great Gatsby is a novel told from the perspective of one of its characters, Nick Caraway, looking back on the events that unfolded because of his close relationship with his neighbor, James Gatsby. Mr. Gatsby was a man of extreme wealth that came to him because of a large inheritance from his father, or so he claims. He holds extravagant parties every weekend that often are filled with everyone in town. His true intentions of holding this shindigs so often is to attract his former flame Daisy, Nick's cousin, to see if he can relight their flame that was never fully blown out.
When he was seven, his dad died and a few years later the family moved to the poverty-stricken west side of Detroit (Unknown, 2012). He was keenly aware that his father’s death was directly related to the working conditions on the job in the town’s coal mines and never forgot the pain and hardships it caused. Hoffa began taking on odd jobs and continued this practice when he moved with his mother and three siblings to Detroit in 1924 (A Worker's Hero, 2012). Jimmy dropped out of school at 14 to work, spending his teen years unloading box cars and trucks. By age 19, he was working at Kroger Grocery’s produce warehouse where, despite being on call from 12-14 hours, he and the other
Gatsby throws lavish parties every weekend in hopes of winning back his true love, Daisy Buchanan, while Tom lives in an extravagant house and makes sure that everyone knows he is above them. Tom Buchanan and Jay Gatsby are both in love with Tom’s wife, Daisy. Although it may take a while for Tom, while Gatsby knew from the moment he met Daisy, by the end of the novel both men realize Daisy is the most important person in his life. Gatsby and Tom both have major secrets in their life. Tom is cheating on Daisy with Myrtle Wilson, his friend’s wife.
They all tried to make it seem like Jay was a terrible man, when really, all he ever wanted was to be accepted by everyone. The one thing I will remember most about Jay was the amount of generosity he had. I’m not just talking about the endless nights of parties he had for people to be entertained and have a good time, however. Jay was one of the wealthiest men I ever knew, but he didn’t flaunt it like the other wealthy people I have known throughout my life. Jay didn’t spend his money on himself, and spoil himself with extravagant things.
Beneatha is his sister and Travis is his son. During the play Walter and his sister Beneatha do not see eye to eye with their thoughts on the way the rest of the insurance money should be spent, they are getting insurance money because there father died. During the play Mama makes a decision to put a down payment on a house in an all-white neighborhood which is unheard of during this time. But there is money left after she does this and the family discusses what should be done with it. Walter wants it so he could become owner of a Liquor store, whereas Beneatha wants to go to go school to become a doctor.
He then hitchhikes to Alaska, where he walks alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley in April 1992 and later, after four months, he is found dead. By the time McCandless is a senior at Emory, he lives austerely, has driven away most of his friends with his intensity and moral certitude, and barely keeps in touch with his parents because he does not like the way in which his parents want to dominate him. He lets his parents think that he is interested in law school, but instead, after graduating with honors, he decides to donate his $24,000 savings anonymously to a charity organization. Afterwards, he gets in his car and drives away without telling anybody where he is going, abandoning the use of his real name along the way and never contacting his parents or close sister, Carine, again.
He graduated from college had a summer job and in comes a letter saying he was now drafted into the war. Not knowing what to do he basically tries to hide his draft letter and when his dad asks him what’s his plans for the summer he says “Nothing, wait”. He starts to think about running for Canada and then one day at work while doing his usual job of removing blood clots from the neck of dead pigs something inside him broke. He walks away from the plant, goes home and packs, writes a letter to his parents, and starts to drive north. At this point in the story O’Brien to the point of view of the people who read it seems like a coward for running away.
Sam Weinreb Sam Weinreb is a survivor of Auschwitz, who was born April 5, 1928, just celebrating his eighty-fifth birthday on April 5, 2013. A couple weeks before his 13th bar mitzvah, his parents, brother and sister, who was only six years old, were taken away and he never saw them again. He had to go to another country, which he was quite angry about. To accomplish this, he had to cross the border to Hungry illegally. He developed a plan to meet two men from the country he was crossing to.
McVeigh was given an honorable discharge from the Army Reserve in May 1992. After leaving the army in 1992 he worked briefly as a security guard. The long hours in a dead-end job, the feeling that he didn't have a home, and his failure to establish a relationship with a woman brought McVeigh to the breaking point. He typically felt nervous around women. He decided that Buffalo New York was too liberal, so he decided to drive through America visiting his old army buddies.
After his sisters get married, they go to live outside of Nova Scotia. Little time later, his father is sick and thus, the narrator (15 years old at that time) and his uncle have to work hard to prepare the boat for the “next season”. Therefore, he decides to drop off school but his father, who wished to be educated and to go to university rather than being a fisherman, doesn’t let him to do so even if the mother doesn’t agree with him. During summer, because his uncle has to leave “Jenny Lynn”, the boat, the narrator decides to work with his father for good, who becomes increasingly sick. On November twenty first, the father is killed because of the waves of the grey Atlantic which were too high at that period of time.