Essays on The Great Gatsby

‘A mighty pain to love it is, And ’tis a pain that pain to miss; But of all pains, the greatest pain It is to love, but love in vain.’ – Abraham Cowley Cowley portrays all-compassing love as ‘the great pain’ when it is not required, whilst ‘The Great Gatsby’ (Fitzgerald, 1925) and Enduring Love...

In the book The Great Gatsby, the characters deal with loneliness at some point throughout their lives. Jay Gatsby is one of the main characters in the book began his life lonely, lived the majority of his life lonely, along with dying a lonely man. The narrator states: ‘You see, I usually find myself among...

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is set in a wealthy suburb of New York City during the 1920s, an era of great economic success. The economic boom of the 1920s was seen as a clear example of the American dream, the idea that anyone could become wealthy and live a better life in...

The film moulin rouge and the book the Great Gatsby share many things in common such as themes literature techniques and character personalities. The main and most obvious theme the two share is love. Both texts explore different forms of love, these include forbidden love, financial security love, the true love and circumstantial love. It...

Dreams can be powerful positive driving forces for change in our lives, but can become toxic and distort our view of reality. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic, the Great Gatsby (1925), whisks us off to the Jazz Age in New York as the story of Jay Gatsby is told through the eyes of Nick Carraway. The...

As a shopaholic, I find myself impulse buying items of clothing, its uncontrollable as it is love at first sight! I just wanted the shirt so bad, so bad that after three days I am bored of it and to satisfy my emotional happiness I buy another item of clothing. It just becomes a repetitive...

Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ and Albee’s ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ are both texts that present gender in similar ways but with varying effects. This is often through the use of characterisation, for example the contrast between traditional and unconventional gender roles. They also look at the theme of power and how that may lead...

In this essay, I will discuss and analyse the significance of the past in 1920s novel The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I will also discuss the past of A Streetcar Named Desire A play written in 1947 by Playwright Tennessee Williams. Moreover, I will discuss how the past foreshadows and more accurately...