Essays on The Great Gatsby

Throughout history, wealth came in crops, gold, or cash, and it was constantly used as a symbol of power and success. Additionally, it is widely known that more money means a better life. Thus, it is quite unsurprising when most people aim their goal to...

The Great Gatsby is a story written about a heavily rich man names Mr. J Gatsby. Mr. Gatsby did not start off rich he was born to poor farmers, he despised his parents and thought of himself as a child of god and thought he...

Haruki Murakami wrote, “Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn’t control you—you should control them” (Past Quotes). In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby obsessively pursues a great dream that is linked to his past. However, there are some parts of...

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel ‘The Great Gatsby’ a grim version of the roaring twenties is portrayed, as well as the decay of the American Dream. As for ‘The Awakening’ by Kate Chopin; which is set in the late 1800’s, at a time when the...

There is a well known expression: ‘Too much ego will kill your talent, but it will not only kill your talent, it will kill your career, your relationships and your happiness. Too much ego can actually ruin your life’ (Rana Naim, paragraph one). Mankind tries...

For some individuals that lived in the 19th century, the years subsequent to World War I and II were recounted by indignation and unhappiness. The society had been suppressed by a worldwide clash that brought about devastation and hatred. After the wars, many social ways...

Narratological space and setting as defined by Fludernik, (2009), is set of prepositions used to describe a particular background in a work of literature with the intention of generalizing the socio-geographical environment in which the story takes place. There are four settings in the Great...