To what extent does “The Great Gatsby” reflect the attitudes and values of real-life American society in the 1920s? ‘The Great Gatsby’ written by F. Scott Fitzgerald is an extremely contextual novel. Many autobiographical elements are incorporated into the story as is Fitzgerald’s own criticism of the era. The fact that the author lived out the hedonistic existence written about in the novel, and experienced the effects of it, including the severe social gap between rich and poor, the rise in organised crime, racism and first wave feminism, gives a unique insight into the attitudes and values of real-life American society in the 1920s. As Arthur Mizener wrote in 1963, “Fitzgerald spoke for his own time and perhaps, in a broader sense, for all generations of Americans”.
Mainly all original westward exploration was due to desires for gold and riches and in the case of the English this was no exception. After the recent victory over the Spanish ambitious English monarchs used the combination of overcrowding and overwhelming patriotism to fuel an energetic boom of westward exploration. While the northern English colonies did not find the gold and treasures that they were looking for they did find ways to create opportunities for financial growth. Virginia, the location of the first English settlement, used tobacco exportation as an effective money making operation. The Carolinas came later and was created and advertised as a location for the poor under-class to have a second chance at wealth.
In his essay, Fridman clearly portrays the disaster our country will face if we do not change our anti-intellectual attitude. Fridman explains how we will fall behind other countries in international competition, and why our anti-intellectual attitude is wrong and needs changing. He develops these explanations through specific details in compare and contrast, and by the use of his sentence structure. First, Fridman begins by giving an example of how society views nerds and geeks, giving a modern day dictionary definition of geek as “a street performer who shocks the public by biting off heads of live chickens” (line 6). This explains how society has come to a misunderstanding of nerds and geeks, those who are devoted to pursuit in academic, being compared to freaks biting off chickens heads.
The Great Gatsby, by Scott Fitzgerald it is about a man named Nick who is the narrator during the whole story. He lives next to a very rich man who is named Jay Gatsby, they both live in west egg. Through out the novel we follow Gatsby and the mysterious man he is. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, color is used to describe the characters feelings and thoughts. Throughout the story the color yellow is used to describe wealth.
Act I: Summaries Scene I: Scene opens at night in a street in Venice, where Iago and Roderigo are having an argument. The rich gentleman Roderigo has been paying Iago to help him get Desdemona’s affection. They recently found out that Iago’s master, Othello has married Desdemona. Iago does not like his boss as he did not give him a promotion, and says he only pretends to serve him. The men proceed to wake up Desdemona’s father, senator Brabantio, by saying the family has been robbed by thieves.
Thereafter, Derek is the subject of a Time magazine[->10] cover and article mocking his and other models' lack of intelligence. After Derek's roommates — fellow male models — are killed in a freak gasoline-fight accident, Derek announces his retirement from the male modeling profession. He returns to the coal[->11] mines[->12] where his father Spencer and brothers work, but soon finds himself rejected by his family and desperately out of place as a male model in a hardscrabble coal-mining town. Prime Minister[->13] Hassan of Malaysia[->14] is working on reducing child labor[->15] in his country. The fashion[->16] industry is determined to retain Malaysia as a major source of cheap child labor, and is desperate to thwart the incumbent prime minister.
TECHNIQUES IN GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ’S ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE Believed by many to be one of the world’s greatest writers, Gabriel García Márquez is a Spanish Colombian-born author and journalist, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature and a pioneer of the Latin American “Boom.” Affectionately known as “Gabo” to millions of readers, he first won international fame with his masterpiece, One Hundred Years of Solitude, a defining classic of twentieth century literature. His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespread commercial success, most notably for popularizing a literary style labeled as magical realism, which uses magical elements and events in otherwise ordinary and realistic situations. Some of his works are set in a fictional village called Macondo, and most of them express the theme of solitude. Some of his major works are, One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975), Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981), Love in the Time of Cholera (1985), The General in His Labyrinth (1989), Of Love and Other Demons (1994), Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2004) . One Hundred Years of Solitude was published in his native Spanish in 1967, as Cien de Soledad, Garcia Marquez achieved true international fame; he went on to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.
Theme Keyword(s): JAZZ AGE SUMMARY: The Roaring Twenties was a time of opulent lifestyles following the return of soldiers from World War One. A time when the younger generation rejected the values of the older generation. The lifestyle of the East particularly New York City, a place of wealth, was alluring and often, wild and debaucherous (immorality). People with wealthy heritages (Old Money = East Egg) began to resent those with recently acquired wealth (New Money= West Egg), especially if that money was made in dubious ways. The Jazz Age bought with it an economic boom which saw the birth of materialism and consumerism.
Gatsby shows his need for wealth when he quits his job as a janitor because of his humiliation and goes into organized crime. Both these characters share another similarity when it comes to wanting Daisy to be only theirs. Gatsby is willing to go by criminal means to make him desirable and to gain Daisy’s affection. Gatsby loves Daisy so much that he doesn’t mind taking the blame for her when she kills Myrtle Wilson with his car. While Tom uses his great wealth and loud personality to draw Daisy’s attention.
Tom punches her and breaks her nose. Nick also attends one of Gatsby’s extravagant Saturday night parties where he engages in conversation with Jordan Baker and an unnamed man who is later revealed to be Gatsby. Gatsby then requisitions Jordan, and tells her an “amazing thing” that she cannot repeat to anyone. After attending a brief lunch with Gatsby and his shady business partner, Meyer Wolfsheim, Nick meets with Jordan and learns the “amazing” story: Gatsby met and fell in love with Daisy before The Great War, and bought his West Egg mansion simply to be near her and impress her. At Gatsby’s request, Nick arranges a meeting between Gatsby and Daisy.