Gatsby Essay F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author of Great Gatsby, shows his life through the novel. Fitzgerald portrays the guests as reckless and careless which reflects the lives of the Fitzgerald's. The guests at Gatsby's and the Fitzgerald's parties were careless, reckless, and they were all inconsiderate drunks, it is ironic how similar Jay Gatsby and Scott Fitzgerald are. In a way Gatsbys guest had no class. They came to Gatsbys house uninvited, and didnt respect Gatsby or his belongings.
Scott Fitzgerald and Jay Gatsby is the common opinion of them by people who were around them and the rumors and lies that involved them. Both Gatsby and Fitzgerald had poor beginnings, and sought to become more than what their fathers were, by rising to achieve fame and riches. With that fame and riches came mixed public opinions. F. Scott Fitzgerald wished to earn a solid literary reputation, but the public opinion of him was that he was a drunk and an careless writer. No one really knew Gatsby, so people created unsure rumors about him, but really, he was just a man attempting to reconcile with the love of his
The great Gatsby: self improvement Nick Caraway has many dilemmas in this story. He moves from New York from the west and moves to west egg, where he meets and becomes good friends with his neighbor Jay Gatsby. Nick is also afraid of staying organized when he moves to west egg, and is over working himself and putting a lot of stress on himself from his work and his life with friends. He also moves to a place of the “new rich” where the rich as snobby and spoiled as ever and no nothing but the high life, and where people use other people to get what they want. He doesn’t like getting to attached to anyone emotionally.
In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is a man who started out with no money, only a plan for accomplishing his dream. He is blinded by his luxurious possessions that he does not see that money cannot buy love or happiness. His American dream has been destroyed by all of the wealth that surrounds him. For example, he throws huge parties for people, yet he has no real friends. When Nick comes to the East he realizes it's full of heartless and shallow people.
10/6/12 Fences Causal Analysis Revision Every decision has a motivation behind it. In the play “Fences”, by August Wilson, this is conveyed through Troy Maxson’s life of tragic events. Motivations that had driven him were his unsatisfactory feelings with himself, jealousy of his son, self pride, and most of all, his drive to escape all of it. These motivations create a cataclysm of Troy refusing to let Cory play college football, cheating on his wife, and putting his family in grave financial danger. Troy’s emotional warfare with himself unfairly holds Cory back from his obtainable dream.
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.
Steve-O Redemption Sometimes in life, people do the unthinkable and believe that there is no possible way to recover from their tragic event. Stephen Glover has proved everyone wrong about this theory. Past the arrests for drugs, assault, and alcohol abuse, Stephen is a man trying to make a living. Stephen is world famous for his alter ego “Steve-O”. Steve-O is a famous idiot who makes his living from doing acts of stupidity to entertain the eyes of America.
He spent his money foolishly and couldn’t keep a dime to his name. Madison and Dolley where very disappointed. Even though they had tried they’re hardest with they’re son they always felt a little broken hearted about how to situation had turned out. They somehow believed that it might have been they’re faults but Madison and Dolley did everything they could have
Chris McCandless’s actions can be categorized as selfish due to his extreme stubbornness and unpreparedness. In attempt to find his own happiness, Chris didn´t realized the impact his journey would cause on others. McCandless’s adventure shifted from being seen by the public as a self-encountering adventure, to a spoiled rich boy’s over exaggerated measure when dealing with the natural roughness of life. Regardless of the popular opinion
Nick notes them as “careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness” (179). Nevertheless, Daisy constantly intends on fleeing the situation. Daisy eases her mind by lavishly utilizing money preventing herself to move on in the American Dream, or in other words, holding on to her selfish, rich