The Great Gatsby In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book The Great Gatsby the narrator, Nick Caraway makes a statement that, in my opinion, reveals to the reader why the book is called The Great Gatsby. “They’re a rotten crowd” Nick shouted across the lawn to Gatsby “You're worth the whole damn lot put together.” I agree with Nicks statement because Gatsby has outstanding values that differ and set him apart from the other characters in the book. Also the one main feature that really sets him apart from the crowd and makes him worth more than the whole crowd is his ability to set himself goals and achieve them. He had a dream, An American Dream. Throughout the book Gatsby is portrayed as a mysterious character. The first impressions …show more content…
This is mainly due to Gatsby’s inaccessibility. He surrounds himself with people but never interacts, instead opting to watch other people enjoy themselves. The rumours about Gatsby are abundant and come from the very people who take advantage of his hospitality. Jordan and the two twins, tell Nick at one of Gatsby’s parties “Somebody told me that he killed a man.” There are also disputes about which country he fought for in the war. As one man tells Nick “I heard that from a man who knew all about him, grew up with him in Germany.” This is opposed by another woman at the party saying, “It couldn’t be that because he was in the American army during the war.” Gatsby’s wealth which is also a mystery to begin with, adds to his mysterious reputation. Despite these rumours circulating about Gatsby our first real impression of Gatsby is a positive one, “He smiled understandingly- much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.” This first impression of Gatsby is important as it shows that he knows how to work with people although he rarely associates with …show more content…
He is cruel; to Daisy all the time and he broke Myrtles nose because she disagreed with him. He is materialistic; believes money can solve all of his problems. He is also a hypocrite; he condemns his wife for having an affair with Gatsby but has no worries about continuing his affair with Myrtle. All three of these characters are further shown to belong to the rotten crowd because when Gatsby died not one of them came to his funeral (which shows how selfish they all are especially Daisy as she loved Gatsby at more than one time in her life). The rotten crowd also included all the people that came to Gatsby’s parties, except Nick. Although Nick disapproves of Gatsby “from beginning to end” Gatsby is not part of the “rotten crowd”. Although some could argue that Gatsby is not worth “the whole damn lot put together”, as Gatsby has his faults. These faults included his improper greediness; his tasteless pink suits; his "connection" with Meyer Wolfshiem, the person that had a hand in the fixing of the 1919 world series baseball final; his love of a woman as shallow as Daisy and his pathetic efforts to win her back by showing off what he has rather than who he is. Although it
has helped other nations yet has seen “the very sad depletion of our military”. He does not want to see other militaries grow while their own is being minimized and depleted. Another point was about where he addressed the spending of trillions while the infrastructure decays. This messages can connect to other voters, such as those from Bernie Sanders, on the issue of infrastructure. It is a real problem that many are being affected by it, and needs a solution. Trump later talked about how American factories are closing down, leaving the country, and millions of workers left behind. This resonates to those who have been affected by the closing of factories and have lost their jobs due to this. He then stated how “from this day forward, it’s going to be only America first - America first”. He wants America to be the number one priority, America comes first, the rest comes later. Trump then starts repeating the word we in many ways like “we will bring back our jobs”, “we will bring back our borders”, “we will bring back our wealth, and we will bring back our dreams”. This repetition is used to pronounce what he will do under his
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The second character Fitzgerald analyzes is Daisy Buchanan. Daisy is married to Tom Buchanan. Daisy is the definition of a dream girl, she is smart, gorgeous, and just an ideal woman to be around, and the relationship between her and Tom is quite odd (Baker). Daisy and Tom move to the fashionable East Egg from Chigaco (11). Daisy has everything a woman could wish for, a wealthy husband and an immaculate house. Daisy does not know that Tom is having an affair with Myrtle Wilson. Nick Carraway plays a major role in Daisy’s love life in The Great Gatsby. Nick is Daisy’s second cousin and he knew Tom from college (11). Daisy invites Nick over for dinner one evening and that is how she relearns about Jay Gatsby (11-17). Daisy met Gatsby at a dance in Louisville. They used to be madly in love with one another when he was in the army (). They had plans of always being together and being married in Louisville at Daisy’s home (118). Later in the story, Daisy was invited to go have tea at Nick’s house, but what she did not know is that it was all Gatsby’s idea to get them to rekindle their rel...
Due to Donald Trump’s lack of political experience, preoccupation with multiple careers, and blatantly self-serving intentions, he should not ever have been considered a reasonable candidate for the presidential election.
However, now that he has won the support of many American citizens, he has become a more calm person and interacts with the other candidates in a calmer manner. As Lakoff denotes, “Since voters’ opinions are neither logical nor self-made, they should be altered, not obeyed. Politicians should ‘not follow polls but use them to see how they can change public opinion to their moral worldview.’” Similarly, Trump as a “businessman” is not a politician, yet tries to change public opinion to his moral
Trump assures voters he will defend their second amendment right to bear arms, an issue many Republicans feel very passionately about. Other issues such as his tax reform plan are designed to appeal to middle class workers frustrated with their jobs or lack of jobs as trump assures voters if elected he will bring business, trade, and jobs back to America. One issue Trump addresses that is also a huge stance the Republican party overall has taken is that he will repeal the Affordable Care Act, and overall he will save our nation from the turmoil and trouble that President Obama and a Democratic executive branch has gotten this nation
Repeatedly Donald Trump is witnessed at the Grand Old Party Debates, press conferences and even during his Tweet expressions, displaying the very demeanor that is disturbing to many voters. As stated by columnist John Hawkins and on the Blog Website townhall.com, he characterizes the following comments as Donald Trump's best quotes. "I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct. I've been challenged by so many people, and I don't frankly have time for total political correctness. And to be honest with you, this country doesn't have time either." (Hawkins, 2015, para.
A circus is an ensemble of talented performers, artists, trainers, and vendors who turn empty fields into a phenomenal place where acrobats fly over crowds, trainers tame wild animals and magicians amaze audiences all while under the control of the leading man - the ringmaster. The ringmaster, the most visible performer and most important part of the show, maintains an exposition capable of captivating an audience. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby exemplifies such a character. The life Gatsby creates becomes a circus act that, in the end, prevents him from reclaiming Daisy Buchanan’s love.
In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald utilizes many universal and timeless themes to make the novel a classic. He emphasizes that most people lack insight and can not see the truth. To the majority of the society, the reality is an illusion that they create in their minds. The characters, events, setting, symbols and imagery contribute to establishing this theme.
Alcohol was banned in every state, the Woman’s Right Movement flooded cities and The Great Gatsby was published. What do all of these things have in common? All of these events made up one decade, the 1920’s. None of these ’radical’ events were present during World War 1; life was very different and changed in a short amount of time. The “20’s” were a time of free will and revolution. Great examples of these events are told in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald which will help to view the differences in the social changes before and after the war.
In the book The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald demonstrates how people who seem to have wonderful lives because they are wealthy, can be selfish and poor in character. Those people lead to the decline of the American Dream for Gatsby. The 1920's was the age of prosperity on Long Island and that is why most people assumed that if you were rich and wealthy you had a good life. They also assumed that they had positive personalities. Fitzgerald proved them wrong. " One of the novel's dominant themes involves the decay of traditional American values in a suddenly prosperous society" (Howes). In fact, most of the characters in the novel were major factors to the fall of the American Dream. He exposes the greedy, conceited, and low people who live in it.
The simple definition of the American dream is a state of happiness a person hopes to achieve by obtaining materialistic prosperity through hard work. This however has not always been the dream. In early America the dream of many was to venture west, find land, and start a family, but as time progressed the dream has transformed into a need for materialistic possessions such as a car or a large house. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald reveals the how corrupt the American Dream has become and how truly irrelevant money and worldly possessions are to becoming genuinely satisfied. He does this through his portrayal of Gatsby’s confused love for Daisy or the idea of Daisy, Daisy and Tom Buchanan’s marriage, and the death of Gatsby.
Examining Trump’s rhetoric and past actions, it becomes clear that Trump’s ability to be the leader of America, especially in today’s already heated world climate, becomes questionable. When even the members of his own party refuse to endorse him and claim that he is not qualified to run a country, the general public needs to sit back and question his integrity. In Trump’s past, he has proven to be an insensitive, racist, greedy business man. Why would he prove to be any different once elected to office?
He is going to reform the national debt problems with many different resources. Hopefully, he is going to raise taxes for the richer and leave the taxes in a moderate area for the working class. He is going to crack down big time on illegal immigration. He is going to make the processes to buy guns more thorough and make sure to focus on mental illness more, which he believes is the reason to the mass shooting and school killings, not the guns. I believe that his main voter group will be working white males, because of his views of reformation. He isn’t going to raise their taxes, they will be allowed to keep their guns, and he is promising to make illegal immigration ceases. All of these issues are targeted to working white men, which 77% of America is Caucasian and 49.2% of the population is male. If Donald trump sticks to what he has said when he is elected president, I believe he may actually make America great
In life, we ask ourselves the question what we are? In addition, we also ask ourselves how our perspectives allow us to see this world? These questions are an opening idea’s, which requires the person answering it, to be fully aware of his or her life, and then have the ability to judge it without any personal bias. This is why, in the book that was and is in a sense is still talked about in class, The Great Gatsby, which is a book that follows a plethora of charters all being narrated by, Nick Caraway, a character of the book The Great Gatsby. Nick Caraway is the character in the book which judges and describes his and other character’s actions and virtues. Now we speak of a character whose name is Jay Gatsby or other whys known as James Gatz, which is one of the characters that Mr. Caraway, seems to be infatuated with from the start of the book. This character Jay Gatsby develops a perspective, which in his view seems to justify his actions by the way that he saw the world that he was living in. In this essay, I will explain why the ambitions of a person, can lead them to do things that are beyond there normal character.