1) West Egg/East Egg In the great Gatsby there are two cities called East Egg and West Egg. If you live in the west egg it represents if you are new to wealth. However if you live in east egg it represent that you are from a wealthy family. The author depicts people from the east egg as people who always had money and very snobby, and greedy. However East Egg is portrayed as corrupt in the novel, and is moral-less, compared to the more humble West Egg.
My son Kaleb was born May 24 2008, and from that moment on I wanted to give him everything he deserves. I tried to go back to college right after my son was born, but I had no idea what I wanted to do for my future and taking care of Kaleb wasn't cheap. I was constantly working to pay for the expenses of Kaleb, while paying for the rest of the expenses I had. Finally four years later, I made the best decision I could for my family and that was going back to school. One of the many reasons why I came back was that I did not was to continue being in a factory the rest of my life.
“Involuntarily I glanced seaward—and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far way, that might have been the end of the dock” (21). Nick sees Gatsby reaching out toward the green light which is located at the end of Daisy’s dock. The green light represents Daisy, Gatsby’s hopes and dreams for the future. By the end of the story Gatsby is once again waiting, this time past the green light outside the Buchanan’s house to ensure Daisy’s safety. What he does not realize is that Tom and Daisy have reconciled and they plan to leave.
It is said that the color green symbolizes hope. In the story, Daisy and Gatsby met for a short time before Gatsby made the decision to go off to war. Gatsby returned home and he knew that Daisy had married Tom, but he hoped to find a way to get back with her, so he moved to the East and purchased a house across the lake from where Daisy currently lived, watching from across the bay. The color green is shows Gatsby's hope, his hope to win daisy back, represents his hope of chasing wealth. The green light on the pier was motivation for Gatsby to work towards those two hopes, to keep on trying to win Daisy again and to chase “the American dream”.
Parks of game and lust herbage between the inner and outer walls were something to marvel at. From the vivid description of the beautiful and sumptuous palace, Europeans had a new outlook on the Chinese and Mongols. They were not the strange, poor, and barbaric people as some had originally thought; from what they heard from Marco Polo, Kublai Khan was richer than any other man. All in all, Marco Polo changed the European perspective on Yuan China and the Mongols. Their nomadic lifestyle, families, and wealth made them appear as respectable people.
“The Destructors”, is set in London about nine years after the conclusion of the WWII. “The Rocking Horse Winner”, is set in England in the aftermath of WWI. In “The Destructors” the characters are held together by the overall plot to destroy the house of Old Misery’s. In contrast, “The Rocking Horse Winner” characters, Paul, his mother, his uncle, and Bassett, are in constant conflict over wealth and the good luck that the characters seem to think goes along with it as opposed to poverty and bad luck that the characters seem to think that goes along with it. In both “The Destructors” and “The Rocking-Horse Winner,” the
Jay Gatsby symbolizes materialism which is the corruption of the American dream. First, Gatsby trapped in the past is one of the hindrances to achieving his dream. Gatsby was born poor, but daisy was born rich this prevent him from have a solid relationship with daisy. Later he was send war. After five years he returned and started an illegal business to gain
Daisy, while she may love Gatsby, loves social standing more and so she remains on East Egg in a loveless relationship. How heartbreaking is the fact that such a man as Gatsby who has crawled and scratched his way from poverty to wealth is still not afforded the love of his life. Even though he fights desperately to fake status, it is the class abyss that denies Gatsby his dream. And as it turns out, it is his willingness to sacrifice for her that costs him his life. Herein is nestled one of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s many uses of geographic location to convey the moral decline of this American
It appears as though every move he makes is careful planned out as part of his plan to find her and win her over. His house, his parties, his clothes, and his reputation show first his loneliness, but then his desperation to get to Daisy. The Great Gatsby is a book about the challenges that the young people of the 1920's faced. It's filled with the secret scandals and heart ships that many wealthy Americans faced during the time period. Along with showing the changing ways of the culture, the story had much deeper, more pressing issues hidden inside through
“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . .