Firstly, Myrtle loves Tom for his money just like Daisy. Myrtle thinks that money is a mean of release and hopes to forget about her affair with Tom. Myrtle’s husband, George, is a poor man who runs a gas station in the poorest part of New York. Nick is disgusted with the Wilson’s house when Tom brings him to meet Myrtle. The condition of the house is very shabby and dirty.
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.
Jay Gatsby was a man who became trapped by his own dream and received in life what he deserved. Upon meeting Daisy, a beautiful women born rich they had an affair. Gatsby know he couldn’t live up to her expectations of the life style she was accustomed to for he lacked wealth. Gatsby became a man who inspired himself to achieve to be among the American rich society and win the love of Daisy. He was not
Jay Gatsby was a poor boy that turned into a very wealthy man, but did he live the American Dream? Money is actually the only thing that Gatsby had a lot of. Jay Gatsby tries to live the life of The American Dream, but fails in his battle. Gatsby certainly lacks many of the qualities and fails many of the tests normally linked with greatness, but he redeems this by his exalted conception of himself. Today society sets their goals by planning the future
Myrtle is married to poor man, George Wilson, and lives in the valley of ashes. She doesn't have much since they struggle with business, and yearns for more. She's not satisfied or content with what she has which brought her to a rich guy like Tom. With the kind of money that he has, he's able to provide her with the kind of "love" that she's been wanting and waiting for, but Daisy seems to get in the way between them. Even though Tom is cheating on Daisy, he still has much love for her, which holds him back from giving all of his love to
He is very wealthy but eventually he does not achieve happiness. Gatsby invites many people to his parties, including many of them that he does not know. However, none of these people actually care for him, they use him for his wealth and they benefits they get from him, but not for his personality and friendship. When Gatsby died no one showed up for his funeral, only his father, his servants and nick showed up. All the people that participated in and enjoyed Gatsby's parties did not even show up for his funeral.
In John Knowles’s novel-A Separate Peace, Gene kills his best friend in a jealous moment before he realizes what he has done. The great Gatsby revolves around the love story of Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby, but they do not get married because as Daisy says “Rich girls do not marry the poor boys” ,and so she marries Tom Buchanan. However, after Daisy meets Gatsby and sees the luxurious lifestyle of Gatsby, that includes his collection of English shirts, she begins to cry. She cries because she regrets her wrong decision; she chose the wrong man who she never loved. Then Gatsby convinces Daisy to say to Tom that she never loved him.
Characters Gatsby * Has unsuccessful parents. * has selfish fantasies about daisy * is obsessed with the past and progress to the future. * Daisy reps. what he wants to be but can never obtain * He becomes the victim of the American Dream. * He’s in bootlegging, gambling and financial fraud. Daisy * Reps. old money, elite class * her voice sounds like money * the colour yellow and gold * white?
These words were spoken by a broke man alone in a New York hotel room that had only been living on milk and Nabisco crackers. His name was Nikola Tesla and he had invented alternating current, the radio, dreamed of supplying wireless power to the whole world and received honorary P.h.d’s from various universities across the world. Nikola Tesla was a wealthy man but his dreams weren’t about making a profit and that caused him to lose all of his money. Tesla held over valuble700 patents but he hardly ever forced people to pay him for his ideas. Nikola Tesla is not a well-known inventor because he, wasn’t focused on getting recognition, Thomas Edison pushed Nikola’s inventions out of the lime light., his inventions weren’t profitable or practical for the time and he also suffered from mental disorders.
He worked so hard at convincing himself that he could recreate the past that he actually believed it could happen in his own mind. He hated his life as a kid because of the fact that he wasn’t rich. To Gatsby, the reason Daisy never married him was because he wasn’t wealthy, like Tom was. This triggered Gatsby to have a life goal. This life goal was everything he worked for, his entire life revolved around doing anything he can to become rich, and once he was rich then he would once again capture Daisy’s love for him again and they would get married back in Louisville at Daisy’s old house.