Essays on Scott Fitzgerald

Texts are cultural snapshots representing their era – they reflect and develop the values, ideas and attitudes of their context. Two texts, Elizabeth Barrett-Browning’s (EBB) suite of Petrarchan form sonnet’s “Sonnets from the Portuguese” and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s modernist novel “The Great Gatsby” explore the…

Following the major economic boom in the roaring twenties, America was plunged into a dark time known as the Great Depression. All economic success that was brought by the victory of war diminished into desperate, starving workers. With the drastic change, the popular culture of…

When comparing the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and the film The Great Gatsby by Baz Luhrmann, the two are similar yet very different. Both great in their own ways. Book worms could argue that the novel is better because the movie…

Not everything is what it seems, and often we are fooled by the outside appearance of people, things or places. Authors often use contrast in their works such as white/black or good/bad to convey a meaning. Fitzgerald used the contrast between reality and illusion in…

The well-known American Dream results from the desire to work hard in order to gain prosperity, freedom, or even a better life than one lives. In The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald, set in the roaring twenties, a man named Jay Gatsby proves…

The poem “The Hollow Men” was written by T.S Eliot in the year 1925, which is considered to be primarily focused on post World War I in Europe. Eliot is said to have despised that the poem was featuring World War I (“A Short Analysis…

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is an amazing book about love, luxury, and murder. Taking place in the 1920’s, this book lets us all look back to the roaring twenties, a time where anyone would do anything to live a luxurious life. Jay…

The Great Gatsby is a true classic written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published in the year 1925. It serves as a piece of history for American fiction, this novel is filled with triumph and tragedy, noted for the extraordinary way its author captures a…

Looks are deceiving nothing you see today as clear as water. In the book labeled “The Great Gatsby, it is very apparent that people hide the truth from the outside world. Keep an eye out for everything because the more you think the truth is…

From the Era of the Roaring 20s and Great depression F. Scott Fitzgerald was an aspiring author that wrote about the image of the American Dreams going from rags to riches. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on September 4, 1896….