Essays on Scott Fitzgerald

In History, we learn The Great Depression followed the stock market crash of 1929 and the main topic was the impact of such a huge financial blow. In the short story, Babylon Revisited, F. Scott Fitzgerald does an amazing job showing us how the past…

In today’s society, many people try so hard to be perfect, but one must realize that mistakes are simply a natural part of life. F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of Babylon Revisited, tells a short narrative about Charlie Wales, a man who has made many mistakes…

The two shorts stories, Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O’Connor and Babylon Revisited by F. Scott Fitzgerald both integrate the element of fiction and history to portray the various themes and messages in the story. Fiction means things that are not factual or…

As described in the novels, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean, both have major characters facing internal conflict throughout the novel. Even though the main characters might be born different than…

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…