The Great Gatsby: Feedback Analysis
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In any writing assignment feedback is extremely important, whether the feedback is painful or helpful. I have experienced a pleasurable feedback from my English teacher. She assigned us to read The Great Gatsby and after we were done, to write an essay about the three women in the book. I had no problem with writing the essay since it was a pretty interesting book and I had a lot of stuff to talk about. I did an outline on what I was going to write for the three women, I made up a breathtaking title, I researched all three women, took down good information, and started working on my essay. My teacher took 2 weeks to grade our essays, the longer she took, the more I kept thinking it was going to be a bad grade. As she was handing back our essays by alphabetical order (keep in mind my last name is Villarreal, therefore I’m last), I kept looking at my friends essays and their whole paper …show more content…
In this essay, the author
- Describes how they experienced a pleasurable feedback from their english teacher after reading the great gatsby and writing an essay about the three women in the book.
- Opines that feedback from teachers and students is their favorite part of the lesson. they dislike receiving effortless feedback, but detailed feedback is helpful and helps them improve.
Feedback helps me know what I’m doing wrong, what I need to fix, how my essay is going, and if they like it. In the past I have gotten useless feedback and it leaves me wondering if my essay was good or if they’re just saying it so that they won’t hurt my feelings. I dislike receiving feedback that seems so effortless, I like my feedbacks very detailed. Getting feedbacks that aren’t so detailed doesn’t help anyone, it only gets me worse and I’m not trying to get worse I’m trying to get better at writing. Feedbacks that are very detailed, whether it is disagreeing or agreeing is very helpful and lets me know what I need to improve on. After reading the workshop I have put the tips into consideration. I, myself, become lazy at times and won’t say very much, then there’s times where I do take my time to tell you my opinion. Now that I have a list of things to help me provide better feedback I will use them all so that my peers and I can improve in our
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- Explains that money can't buy happiness in the great gatsby, although it's not a theme of the book, but it is still important. the main characters fit the theme and other symbols.
- Analyzes how the character jay gatsby created a new identity to become wealthy and powerful when he met daisy in louisville.
- Analyzes how jay's greed for fame and fortune at a young age and his time with meyer wolfsheim ended up corrupting his true happiness.
- Analyzes how daisy buchanan fell in love with jay when she left for the war. she married tom to fulfill her need to be loved and marry gatsby.
- Analyzes how the green light at the end of daisy's east egg dock symbolizes jay gatsby’s dreams of being with daisy. nick represents the green light as everyone dreams and compares it to the sailors who first settled in this country.
- Concludes that people's desire for money and power can corrupt their true happiness in the great gatsby.
1289 wordsRead More - Critical Criticism Of The Great Gatsbyanalytical essayOn April 10, 1925 F. Scott Fitzgerald published The Great Gatsby, a novel that would later become one of the best known pieces of classic literature in history. However, at the time of its publication, Gatsby was fairly unpopular ad the reviews were never consistent. As shocking as it may seem, I believe it is because Fitzgerald’s intelligence and creativity levels were way ahead of his time, which is evident when one pays close attention to the themes of the novel. Forgiveness, love, and memory of the past are just a few themes you will come across in this story. Aside from these, there is one other theme that is much more dominant and could possibly have been the cause of The Great Gatsby’s slight lack of initial success. It is the basis
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- Opines that fitzgerald's intelligence and creativity levels were way ahead of his time, which is evident when one pays close attention to the themes of the novel.
- Analyzes how the american dream can be described as an idea, concept, and a way of life.
- Analyzes how fitzgerald portrays the 1920s as an era of decayed social and moral values, evidenced in its overarching cynicism, greed, and empty pursuit or pleasure.
- Analyzes how fitzgerald uses the symbols of wealth, superficiality, and irresponsibility to convey that the american dream is unattainable.
- Analyzes how gatsby's ultimate dream is daisy, who can be seen as a symbol for wealth. the narrator of the novel, nick carraway, proves that wealth is not the key to happiness.
1586 wordsRead More - Textual Analysis Of The Great Gatsbyanalytical essayF. Scott Fitzgerald was one of the most compelling twentieth century writers, (Curnutt, 2004). The year 1925 marks the year of the publication of Fitzgerald’s most credited novel, The Great Gatsby (Bruccoli, 1985). With its critiques of materialism, love and the American Dream (Berman, 1996), this dramatic idyllic novel, (Harvey, 1957), although poorly received at first, is now highly regarded as Fitzgerald’s finest work (Rohrkemper, 1985) and is his publisher, Scribner 's most popular title, (Donahue, 2013). The novel achieved it’s status as one of the most influential novels in American history around the nineteen fifties and sixties, over ten years after Fitzgerald 's passing, (Ibid, 1985)
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- Explains that fitzgerald's the great gatsby, published in 1925, is regarded as one of the most influential novels in american history.
- Analyzes and discusses the representation of women in f. scott fitzgerald’s the great gatsby.
- Analyzes the actions of the female characters in relation to berger’s interpretation of women and his patriarchal viewpoints.
- Explains that fitzgerald was born in st. paul, minnesota to mollie mcquillan, the daughter of an irish immigrant, and charming businessman, edward fitzgerald.
- Explains how the fitzgeralds lived in minnesota for the greater part of scott's youth. they moved to new york after edward was let go from his employment in 1908, inciting a move back to st. paul.
- Explains that the great gatsby was written during ‘the jazz age’ and was set in the ‘roaring twenties’.
- Analyzes how the novel, narrated by nick garraway, follows nick and gatsby's friendship and his pursuit of a married woman named daisy, who would eventually lead to his demise.
947 wordsRead More - What Is The Critical Appreciation Of The Great Gatsbyopinionated essayI was assigned to read your article in my high school English class not too long after reading The Great Gatsby and I found your perspective rather interesting. The best advice you ever got was to read with pleasure, yet you claim to have derived minimal pleasure from reading The Great Gatsby. Considering you have read this novel five times, yet found the same flaws instead of a deeper meaning, I can’t help but think you have a pleasure in this novel. Rather than finding pleasure in the storyline, you seem to have found it in the flaws of the plot. Other critics find this novel to be a splendid work of American fiction, yet you find difficulty in agreeing as “[you] find Gatsby aesthetically overrated, psychologically vacant, and morally complacent.”
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- Opines that fitzgerald portrays the sentiments of the characters with morals and beauty.
- Analyzes how the popularity of the great gatsby has grown significantly since 1925 with the video games, movies, and hotel packages. the novel, in a sense, is greatly overrated; however, it is not due to its aesthetics.
- Analyzes how nick carraway was one of the most beautiful characters in the novel. he was a smart, caring, moralistic man who never forgot his morals, tried to do the right thing, and didn't care for wealth.
- Opines that the great gatsby leaves readers cold, empty, and unsatisfied. the characters form an emotional attachment with the reader.
- Opines that fitzgerald fails at creating an emotional and intimate relationship between daisy and gatsby. he constructs out of one part nostalgia, four parts narrative expedience, and zero parts anything else.
- Analyzes the morals of the great gatsby, which are found in the first few lines of the novel.
- Opines that fitzgerald did not write an exemplary novel. he left out important factors that may have made your reading experience, along with many others, a lot better.
1653 wordsRead More - The Great Gatsby Analysisanalytical essayIn The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nick’s unreliability as a narrator is blatantly evident, as his view of Gatsby’s actions seems to arbitrarily shift between disapproval and approval. Nick is an unreliable and hypocritical narrator who disputes his own background information and subjectively depicts Gatsby as a benevolent and charismatic host while ignoring his flaws and immorality from illegal activities. He refuses to seriously contemplate Gatsby’s negative attributes because of their strong mutual friendship and he is blinded by an unrealized faith in Gatsby. Furthermore, his multitude of discrepancies damage his ethos appeal and contribute to his lack of dependability.
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how nick is an unreliable and hypocritical narrator who disputes his own background information and subjectively depicts gatsby as a benevolent and charismatic host while ignoring his flaws.
- Analyzes how nick's unreliability as a narrator is shown through his extreme misunderstanding of his father’s advice.
- Analyzes how nick continuously elucidates on his poorness in many scenes. gatsby, knowing that nick was poor, offered him an easy job, which nick refused due to his honor.
- Analyzes how nick's unfavorable and positive opinions of gatsby contrast with his volatility and unpredictability.
- Analyzes how nick's refusal to recognize gatsby’s lies makes him no better, in terms of reliability, than the liar himself.
- Analyzes how nick is an unreliable narrator who overlooks gatsby's lies because of his biased judgment of him.
763 wordsRead More - The Great Gatsby Analysisanalytical essayKai Kresek Pd. 2 An Analysis of the Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald’s modernist novel, The Great Gatsby, epitomises the spirit of an America that is both shadowed by the memories of World War One and shining with the superficial radiance of the Gilded Age. Through the use of the motif of birds throughout his book, Fitzgerald warns urgently of the dangers of mindless self-indulgence and limitless longing, destructive emotions that ran rampant through the lives of the people of his time. Much of the time, the motif of birds supports the theme that one cannot judge something by its appearance, a thought that supports much of what Fitzgerald develops.
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- Analyzes how fitzgerald's modernist novel, the great gatsby, epitomises the spirit of an america that is shadowed by the memories of world war one and shining with the superficial radiance of the gilded age.
- Analyzes how mark twain's "revised catechism" describes the current state of the nation in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
- Analyzes how the symbolism of eggs extends to the character's homes and the characters themselves.
- Analyzes how the phoenix plays an important role in the development of ideas expressed by the novel.
- Analyzes how fitzgerald's unique naming of jay gatsby solidifies both the motif and the theme present in the novel.
- Analyzes how the motif of birds supports the theme that one cannot judge something based on appearances alone, a very important theme in the larger picture of the novel.
- Describes fitzgerald, f. scott, and matthew j. bruccoli's the great gatsby.
- Describes twain's "revised catechism" in collected tales, sketches and essays: 1891-1910.
- Explains santayana, george. reason in common sense: volume one of the life of reason.
1397 wordsRead More - Litertary movie Analysis:The Great Gatsbyanalytical essayWriters and movie directors for years have the goal to try to tell or persuade the audience with their ideas on an issue or a cause that they believe in. They do this with the help of Aristotle’s idea of ethos, pathos, logos, telos, and kalos.These five rhetorical pillars are essential in writing and help readers figure out if the writer wrote persuasive or unpersuasive texts in their writings. In this essay, I will explain what the five rhetorical pillars are in the movie Great Gatsby and show examples of each of the five rhetorical pillars.
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- Explains the five rhetorical pillars in the movie great gatsby and shows examples of each of them.
- Analyzes how pathos in the movie the great gatsby help connect emotional appeal to the audience.
- Analyzes how the movie shows many examples of ethos in the film that explains the credibility of the director.
- Analyzes how tom uses logical reasoning with gatsby to show who he truly is and how daisy should choose him.
- Analyzes how the great gatsby has great examples of telos or purpose in conducting its message to the viewer.
- Analyzes how karios helps with the message of the film, like how the story is set during the 1920’s and it is around the great depression era.
525 wordsRead More - Analysis Of The Great Gatsby: The Artist In Spite Of Himselfanalytical essayFrancis Scott Fitzgerald: The Artist in Spite of Himself During the beginning of the 1900’s, several changes occurred in the different ambits of the people’s lives. These changes were seen in the society, politics, culture, and economy of the world. During this period of changes, the people started to create new things; the camera was invented, and the creation of the Model T, a car that transformed the way people used automobiles. Besides the new inventions, social movements began, with the creation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), or the movement for women’s rights, the society started to change its standards and traditions.
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- Explains that in the 1900s, several changes occurred in society, politics, culture, and economy, such as the creation of the model t and the national association for the advancement of colored people.
- Describes how scott fitzgerald came from a lineage of writers, being related to francis scott key, who wrote the star-spangled banner.
- Analyzes how fitzgerald's work explicitly reflected his point of view about the american dream, how it was corrupt and a failure, and its falsity.
- Analyzes how fitzgerald gained renown among these authors by his unique style of portraying the reality, taking simple aspects of life into a chaotic novel of tremendous emotional power.
- Opines that fitzgerald's first novel, "this side of paradise", was a catapult to his career, growing in popularity among other authors of his time. "the great gatsby" was fitzgerald’s masterpiece.
- Opines that fitzgerald's writings were influenced by society because of the themes he used and his style portrayed, reflecting real life situations and even events from his own life into his books.
1249 wordsRead More - Critical Analysis Of The Great Gatsbyanalytical essayThe Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby is a classic American novel depicted the twisted luxurious American dream of the 1920’s and all the lust that goes along with it. In the book we see three romantic relationships that take place: Tom Buchanan and Myrtle Wilson, Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan, and the marriage of Tom and Daisy Buchanan. Although there is a female presence in the novel The Great Gatsby, their roles in the book put them in unhealthy love affairs with men who think for them and are abusive or controlling in different ways throughout the entirety of the book. Also, I will be analyzing this novel through a feminist criticism and a psychoanalytical response theory.
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- Analyzes the great gatsby through feminist criticism and psychoanalytical response theory.
- Analyzes how daisy and tom buchanan, a married upper class family living in east egg of long island new york, are happy from the outside, but on the inside of their marriage, they find out it isn't what it seems.
- Analyzes how tom buchanan has a selective superego viewpoint on his own life, believing that what he does is not wrong, and that it's okay. he views the affair of gatsby and daisy as something absolutely distasteful.
- Analyzes how jay gatsby tries to rekindle their love by showing daisy all of mis material possessions and by trying to prove that he is the more wealthy man.
- Analyzes how gatsby tries to maintain his loneliness by staying away from people and real situations in which he feels emptiness.
- Analyzes how tom and myrtle's love affair is the least healthy out of all the relationships in the book. they met on a train, and she was attracted to tom because of rich demeanor and wealth.
- Narrates how tom buchanan and mrs. wilson discussed daisy's name, in impassioned voices, toward midnight.
- Narrates how mrs. wilson shouted "daisy! daisy!" and "i 'll say it whenever i want to!"
- Analyzes how tom buchanan broke myrtle's nose with his open hand. the mention of her name by his mistress set him over the edge, perhaps due to guilt and the realization of how wrong his actions are.
- Analyzes how the female characters in this book play very typical roles of the 1920's, an era where women were still fighting to be equals to men.
- Analyzes how the great gatsby has a fair amount of female characters, but their roles are deeply lined with abusive relationships, and submissiveness where their male partner does the thinking for them.
1808 wordsRead More - Great Gatsby Book Reviewanalytical essayFitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how fitzgerald's novel, the great gatsby, has won over critics around the world due to its complex literary content.
- Analyzes how tom exposes gatsby's corrupt business dealings in a new york city hotel room. jay and daisy leave to drive back to long island when she accidentally hits and kills his mistress.
- Analyzes how gatsby's funeral has few in attendance aside from carraway and his father. nick, tired of this gross scene of wealth and pettiness, moves home to the midwest.
- Analyzes how fitzgerald draws the reader into the novel, and it soon becomes clear that its light description of the life in the twenties is merely a cover for examining the pettiness of human psyche.
- Analyzes how fitzgerald's novel captures the spirit of the 1920s era. the american dream was about discovery, but it was destroyed by hedonism and selfishness.
- Analyzes fitzgerald's portrayal of a materialistic, hedonistic and overall immature society that is unwilling to shoulder any responsibility.
- Analyzes how fitzgerald's themes of the shallowness of hedonism, depicted by tom and daisy, and the loftiness of dreams and aspirations reflect its content.
- Analyzes how fitzgerald displays his wonderful writing skills through the entirety of the novel. the conclusion feels contrived, but the writing is so good that it carries you along.
- Opines that the great gatsby is a heavyweight book in terms of literary merit, but can't face the toil of many worthy books.
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