In the novel, The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald describes and contrasts the two fictional peninsulas on Long Island known in the novel as east and west egg. ... There are many examples of how the two establishments are contrasted and that Jay Gatsby and his long lost love, Daisy, can never be together for they are from different establishments. ... Fitzgerald attempts to show this contrast between the establishments in an attempt to describe this separation that actually occurred during the twenties. ... Nick compares the green light to how America, rising out of the ocean, must have looked to earl...
These novels are able to be comparatively contrasted by pointing out specific differences and similarities between the two. ... Despite their contrasting presentations The Scarlet Letter and The Great Gatsby are both important literary works. Several differences can be found when comparing The Great Gatsby and The Scarlet Letter, such as the difference in time. ... The point of view can also be compared between the two books. ...
If this evaluation was placed at the end of the novel, responders may have developed their own personal opinions on the value of these characters contrasting to the portrait which Fitzgerald was trying paint of them. ... By putting these contrasting situations side by side, the composer manages to successfully compare the elegance and grace thought to be embodied in the East Egg to the garish and gaudy behaviour epitomises by those of West Egg. ...
Instead, his main dream is to for his wife and him to move to the West, as he suspects his wife having an affair and wants to take her away from it all: "I've been here too long, I want to get away I just got wised up to something funny the last two days I"m going to get her away" (Pg. 118) While everyone else is moving in, George is the only character in the whole book who dreams about moving out, which makes him a contrast between lifestyle and morality. ... In contrast to these two characters are Tom and Daisy Buchanan. ... The failure of the American Dream is unavoidable, not onl...
Instead, his main dream is to for his wife and him to move to the West, as he suspects his wife having an affair and wants to take her away from it all: "I've been here too long, I want to get away I just got wised up to something funny the last two days I"m going to get her away" (Pg. 118) While everyone else is moving in, George is the only character in the whole book who dreams about moving out, which makes him a contrast between lifestyle and morality. ... In contrast to these two characters are Tom and Daisy Buchanan. ... The failure of the American Dream is unavoidable, not onl...
Instead, his main dream is to for his wife and him to move to the West, as he suspects his wife having an affair and wants to take her away from it all: "I've been here too long, I want to get away I just got wised up to something funny the last two days I"m going to get her away" (Pg. 118) While everyone else is moving in, George is the only character in the whole book who dreams about moving out, which makes him a contrast between lifestyle and morality. ... In contrast to these two characters are Tom and Daisy Buchanan. ... The failure of the American Dream is unavoidable, not onl...
Tom Buchanan and Jay Gatsby show both similarities and differences throughout the novel, The Great Gatsby. This essay discusses the characteristics that prove Gatsby's and Tom's unlikeness, as well as their alikeness. Two wealthy men who love the same woman must share some common characteristics, ho...
However, as if in direct contrast, his house is illuminated not with any sort of natural light during Nick's first significant encounter with it; instead, his estate is lighted with "enough coloured lights to make a Christmas tree of Gatsby's enormous garden.... In a way, Fitzgerald may be compared to the great Impressionist painters, who considered light and its inconstant nature one of the key elements in an image. ... In particular, this is what Fitzgerald does with Gatsby, and Daisy: in contrast to the other characters, their descriptions lie not in their physical appearanc...
Camera angles are used to give a certain perspective or a point of view about a character or a scene.For example when they show the eyes of T.J Eckleburg in the film they show it at a angle where the billboard is watching over everything that is going on.The colors which were used in the film where good for the time period that the film was made,but if you compare it to films that have come out recently the colors wouldnt be so great because of the fact that technology had evolutionized.The sound effects that were used in the film were very realistic such as the gun shots that were used when J...
"Nick is forced unwillingly to observe the violent contrast between their opportunities- what is implied by the gracious surface of their existence- and the seamy underside which is it's reality" (Way 93). ... Compared to the great distance that had separated him from Daisy it has seemed very near to her, almost touching her. ... He compares Gatsby's experience to that of the Dutch Sailors who first came to Long Island and had an unspoiled continent before them. ... Gatsby's experience compared to Dutch sailors. ...
Hoggart explains how different geographical areas have a contrasting economy, social statues, and standard of living. ... In contrast to the East Egg, West Egg is broken on the outside it is visible for all to see but on the inside is more pure and somewhat good hearted. ... This reveals the anger that Tom was feeling deep inside, this burning hot sensation that compares to the heat of summer. ...
F. Scott Fitzgerald saw America in the 1920's as a huge contradiction. In a country where you were supposed to be able to have endless possibilities to live out the "American Dream", it was never reachable. To make matters worse, the attempts to test social mobility led to a greater cost of moral an...
The Great Gatsby was set in the 1920s "The Jazz Age", in the very rich areas of West and East Egg- these two adjacent egg shaped land formations, contrast each other. ... East Egg is seen to be fashionable and almost elegant in nature and style compared to the West Egg, which appeared rather more crude and false. ...
He even compares her to money when he says, "Her voice is full of money" (The Great Gatsby 115). ... Furthermore, the valley of the ashes creates an image of a barren wasteland of ashes that stands in stark contrast to the lavish parties of Jay Gatsby. ...
Tom, a "hulking brute of a man- (16), looks more intimidating compared to the gentler-looking Gatsby who was described as "having one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it..."" (52) The tough versus gentle idea is also played out with the fact that Tom is associated the color red and Gatsby with the color pink. ... In contrast, Tom who is an old aristocrat possesses grace, taste, subtlety, and elegance, epitomized by his tasteful home. ...
The wealthy lifestyles of the Buchanans and Miss Jordan have morally corrupted their lives. Money has created boredom for them. Their ways of perceiving life and their altitudes towards other is vain. But each of them shows off their vanity in different ways. Tom Buchanan, for example, believes that white civilization is going to pieces and will be utterly submerged by the other races. ...