This first novel captured a mood of spiritual desolation in the aftermath of World War I and a growing, devil-may-care pursuit of pleasure among the American upper classes. The book was a commercial and critical success. His instant success enabled Fitzgerald and Zelda to be married a week later. Afterwards, Fitzgerald regularly contributed short stories to different periodicals like the high-tone Scribner's Magazine and the Saturday Evening Post. He wrote about cosmopolitan life in New York City during Prohibition.
Willy cheats on Linda out of loneliness and he wants to feel like an important salesman because he cannot face the fact that he’s not. Willy’s pride (Biff), left him, and this shatters Willy, the guilt is overwhelming, unbearable. “Will you stop
Consumption skyrocketed as Americans relished in the heyday of western capitalism. The environment that emerged from this climate helped to bring about an “orgy of speculation” sending Americans scrambling for easy profits in the bull market of the 1920s. However through excessive leveraging, borrowing on margin, and a restrictive economic policy, the boom soon turned to bust. The belief that high price levels could be maintained indefinitely was proved drastically wrong in what will forever be remembered as one of the worst economic disasters in the annals of American History. What was set in motion in late October 1929 can be traced back to the brewing market conditions and economic environment of the very decade it which the crash took place.
Question 12 is based on the excerpts below. "I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. 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 keep them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made." —F.
He runs off 11. Candy discovers Curley’s wife’s body and calls for George. They realise they won’t be able to buy their ranch now. Candy tells the others while George goes back to the bunkhouse, 12. Curley realises it was Lennie who killed his wife and organises a lynchmob to kill him.
As they were both in Gatsby’s car Daisy was driving and was going to crash so she changes lanes and hits Myrtle and didn’t stop the car. Myrtle died and Tom new who’s car it was and was angry at Gatsby because he didn’t stop. Wilson though that it must have been Myrtles lover that killed her and therefore tries to find out who’s car it was. Wilson eventually figures out that it was Gatsby’s car and goes to his house. He finds him and the pool in a floating bed and shoots and kills Gatsby and then he kills himself.
Quotes 1.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 . 2. Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. 3. Nick- "Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope" 4.
Amir’s guilt leads him to things that result in losing Baba’s approval and respect as seen at his birthday party when he “took the box from Assef and lowered his gaze” (Hosseini, 103). His character loses his happiness because of his guilt instead of gaining Baba’s approval which is what he
Gatsby is careless in devoting much of his life trying to recapture his past. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, careless characters make bad decisions and use their wealth and position to escape their consequences. Tom and Daisy act carelessly throughout the novel. They make careless decisions due to selfishness and drunkenness. Due to their wealth and the lifestyle they are living, they have no concept of reality.
He shows no remorse for his actions and is inconsiderate of how Daisy might feel. He is lost because he has no certainty in his life and he lacks the feeling of belonging to a place of group. This is why he does the things that he does, because the only way he can cope with the horrifying idea that he has no real place to call home. To bring joy to his life, he turns to infidelity and alcoholism. Tom is also as rude as too straight up call Myrtle’s little puppy a bitch.