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. ...
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...
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. ...