When two people marry it should be because they love each other not because of money and the pressures from you family. F. Scott Fitzgerald describes the lives of Daisy and Tom Buchanan and also Daisy’s former lover, Jay Gatsby. In this novel ‘The Great Gatsby’ the conflict occurs when Daisy is about to marry Tom but finds out that Gatsby wants to resurrect their previous relationship. Family pressure, money and love are ideas presented in the passage through characterisation and symbolism and the reader is encouraged to disagree with Daisy’s actions. In many families there are conflicts or disagreements.
Saints at the River Essay – Prompt 1 Saints at the River, a Ron Rash novel, involves the Kowalsky family, an American family on vacation in South Carolina, and the locals of this region fighting for ethics and justice surrounding a tragic accident and the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 1978. While wading in the Tamassee River near Wolf Cliff Falls, Ruth Kowalsky gets swept away by the rushing current and becomes trapped in a deep hydraulic which she cannot free from and eventually drowns. Her body is attempted to be removed by her parents and then the Tamassee Search and Rescue Squad led by twins Randy and Ronny Moseley. Eventually a heated deliberation over whether installing a temporary dam, made by Peter Brennon, an Indiana man, violates the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 1978. When Maggie Glenn, an upstate South Carolina photographer, takes an almost propagandist picture of Mr. Kowalsky looking sad staring at the river of where his passed daughter rests this story picks up fire and politicians from the surrounding area get involved to help get this man’s daughter out of the river, which maddens the locals who would not like to see the only free flowing river in the state be tampered with.
The music, in the background “bright lights, big city” is ironic as Melanie insults her old friends at the small-town pub by asking, “how do you people live like this?”. This is like Gwen’s angry rhetorical questions like “Why do they live like that?”. Melanie’s turning point is when she choses to give up the fairy tale to remarry Jake. She realises the relationships are more important. Like in Away, Melanie escapes to the beach in the storm where she meets her true love, Jake.
They decided to get married after their “love fest” in the garden, and this is where their adventure began. The first archetype I have chosen for Romeo was a rebel. Romeo fits this archetype because he is inclined to resist authority and the authority that he is going against is his families’ laws. Romeo is courting Juliet discreetly behind their families back. Romeo is not supposed to have any dealings with her, yet he still fights for love.
In order to obtain this wealth and luxury they must stay together and help each other because without one both character’s goals would be unobtainable. George and Lenny’s relationship is important to the story because their friendship that they develop through the book explains the internal conflict that Lenny goes through to realize that he must kill George. This complicated relationship between friends, shows that anyone can become paired to another person no matter if that’s your intent or not. An even odder relationship is the one between Chillingworth and Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter. As soon as they meet and get married they are instantly stuck together for life even if they are not married.
When the girls start to sing the song “I’m the Sheik of Araby. Your love belongs to me. At night when your’re asleep Into your tent I’ll creep” this shows how Gatsby has the power to take back the love that Daisy has given to once and knows that it can happen once again like when they last met. When Gatsby is talking to Nick on page 152, Gatsby mentions how Tom never loved Daisy as much as he did to her. Gatsby enforces that he and Daisy should be together even thought that Daisy has moved on and let go of the past and got married and with a child.
'I followed my husband. I didn't get involved." She is aware that she is using it as an excuse for not supporting her sisters, something for which she still feels guilty. As her three sisters come down the path, Dede uses a simile that hearkens back to the conceit of life as a thread, an image that has been running through the novel: "It was as if the three fates were approaching, their scissors poised to snip the knot that was keeping Dede's life from falling apart." This sense of dread
To Janie a marriage is about a mutual and reciprocal fulfillment that should be filled with love. It seems that throughout the whole narrative, Janie is constantly looking for this type of ideal marriage and love and being at one with nature. In her marriage to Logan Killicks she hopes to find this ideal marriage, “She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.”(24). Logan Killicks crushes Janie’s child dream and any hope she had for that perfect marriage and love, so with this new realization, Janie knows that she must become a woman and do away with her childish dreams.
In the story “The Girl with Bangs,” the narrator falls in love with this self indulged, yet self neglectful girl named Charlotte with hypnotizing bangs. “In this case, it was those bangs, plush and dramatic curtains opening onto a face one would queue up to see.” (Smith 2) He becomes obsessed with her despite the fact that she has a boyfriend (Maurice) and stalks her out, jumping on the opportunity to seize her when she learns the boyfriend to leave the country “...he agonized and weighed Charlotte in one hand and the money in the other and found he could not leave without the promise that she would wait for him. This promise she gave him but he was still gone and gone is gone and thats where I came in.” (Smith 8) then befriending her friends to get closer to her. In the end, Maurice returns to marry her, her affair with the narrator is ended and a secret affair with a secret lover is revealed all before she is to be wed. The love style for this story I believe is Eros love style.
Then tries to win over John, but he is faithful now and then turns her plan against her in attempt to save his wife. Lastly, in The Great Gatsby envy is represented more as the story goes on, when the love of Daisy Buchanan begins to fade from her husband Tom and toward childhood sweetheart Jay Gatsby. As it continues Tom begins to envy the power of Jay Gatsby, the mystery behind his name and his past, and the love and attention he is receiving from his wife. So once Myrtle Wilson (Tom's Mistress) is killed by Daisy in a car accident Tom uses this as an opportune time to