D.B Caulfield is Holden’s older brother, Holden looks up to D.B but is disappointed about D.B decision to go Hollywood, as Holden thinks it is an act similar to prostitution. Holden goes to school in Pennsylvania, not far from New York. The school is called Pencey Prep, plus it’s a private school for boys so you wouldn’t of thought he flunked school. Holden had many problems a school. This novel has very significant features, from ducks and fishes to red hunting hats.
Also Jack has only just graduated high school: “Part of the reason I made it is that my folks pushed me.” He didn’t like going to high school, maybe because he was bullied by the girls in his school. That is why the relationship seems so fake; he does not know how a real relationship should be. This is also the reason of the title: “Lies.” It is only in his head, because he is lying to us. The fact that he is a projectionist could also describe how he is looking at movies all day and is dreaming away to the romantic movies where everything ends good and they always live happily ever after. He describes his relationship with Katy almost like a romantic Hollywood movie.
The Great Gatsby: Final Essay Assignment In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, it gives an outsiders view point of how upper class society acts. The main character of the book, a young adult named Nick, is not used to the upper class way of living. Through his eyes you get a view point of high society’s financial, social, and even love life. Gatsby believes he is in love with Daisy and has been for many years, but when Gatsby explains to Nick all the reasons he is in love with her they don’t seem to be so true at heart. Gatsby is more in love with the thought of being with Daisy, than he is actually in love with her.
Bessie’s sense of duty to her father keeps her from accepting Berol’s proposal and running away with him. Jacob Novak obligation to his father keeps him away from Masha and breaks her heart. Masha’s family class compared to Novak’s was different. Novak’s father was rich. The book says that a cuff button of his suit was more expensive than the entire house where Marsha and her family lived.
Simon ends up taken coops girlfriend from him. Then after Simon finds out secrects abouts his new friends, He uncovers a dangersous and burtal side that no one likes. Glass got so cought up into his new friends that he cheated for Coop on his ACT and changed his grades in the computer so that he could take a different class, with his father knowing. Althought Simon was a nerd, he was independently wealthy .Simon starts turn his new friends agaisnt each other. Simons smarts was going to take him far in life, but who know that his new friends was going to bring it to an end very fast.
His father is a barrister and so was as his grandfather so he has very high expectations for him to follow in their footsteps. The pressure he is put under by his father has made him feel very out of place and like he didnr belong in his family as he has different goals and dreams than what his father would like. He states, “I’m a realist. My father is a politician, my grandfather was a politician and my great grandfather was a backer of the first liberal prime minister” (149). John came from a very wealthy family which made him feel out of place because he was not the average rich, snobby kid.
The text initially communicates his lack of belonging, as he hyperbolically describes how his Vietnamese kindred feel a wall of segregation from Suzie’s ‘whiter‐than‐white Wahroonga family’. Juxtaposition highlights their intimidating wealth status, as their less expensive ‘Hyundais, Camrys and Datsuns’ are contrasted to the ‘Porsche and several BMW’s’. His ascending doubt relating to their cultural disparity is exemplified as he anxiously, yet comically questions, ‘How will my father in law respond when my mum tells him in broken English that this large marinated pig is to swap him for his daughter?’. Hence, he feels the new environment will not provide him with contentment. Unlike the persona in “Feliks Skrzynecki”, Do’s cultural anxiety is short‐lived as the situation alters and he begins to understand the triviality of cultural differences.
They are considered rich, spoilt and lucky. Most of the Socs go to college and seem to have a perfect life but they too have problems. Bob got himself killed because he had no rules and his parents would let him get drunk and get into trouble. Cherry Valance, a Soc, and Ponyboy, a Greaser are also good examples of how stereotypes aren’t always true. Cherry teaches Ponyboy that Socs and Greasers aren’t that different like when she says “All Socs aren’t like that, Ponyboy”.
Gatsby’s plan of making a fortune is born when he is an assistant to a ship captain. He experienced the life of luxury and makes a pledge to himself that his life goal is to become elite and wealthy. Walter Younger’s inspiration to become rich was rooted from his current financial situation, “I’m thirty-five years old; I been married eleven years and I got a boy who sleeps in the living room … and all I got to give him is stories about how rich white people live” (I.ii.22). Walter’s frustration stimulates an interest in becoming wealthy to impress his family. He experiences vexation because he is unable to provide his family with basic living essentials, like a bed.
Michael has grown up in and out of foster care in a poor society, until a high-class family, the Tuohy’s adopts him as one of their own. He becomes enrolled into a white Christian school for his sporting talents, and is immediately discriminated for his colour, size and lack of education. Michael is very similar to Dolly as they are both discriminated by their colour and lack of education shown by the bank manager when he says to Gladys in a heartless tone “What I’m wondering is how she’d fit in”, this makes Gladys become blunt and irritated. This same discrimination is also shown at the ball when Dolly is humiliated by Nancy, and is immediately frozen in shame, saying to herself “My ball gown? Courtesy of the town bloody tip?” resulting in her crying and leaving the