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The Great Gatsby, The Yellow Wallpaper, and The Open Boat share characteristics that are seen through common threads. These threads are social standing, helplessness, isolation, and the pursuit of something fake. Emotions such as love, loneliness, and boredom cause the characters to find salvation in something that doesn’t exist. In these stories their pursuit of a fake “salvation” causes them to lose control of their fate.
Bernice’s dull life and outlook on it is changed when Marjorie informs her, “‘What a blow it must be when a man with imagination marries the beautiful bundle clothes that he 's been building ideals round, and finds that she 's just a weak, whining, cowardly mass of affectations!’” (Fitzgerald, “Bernice Bobs Her Hair” 5). Marjorie wants Bernice to become an interesting person who does not live for the chance to please a man. When Bernice asks her cousin, “‘Don 't I dance all right?’ Marjorie responds, ‘No you don 't-- you lean on a man; yes you do-- ever so slightly” (Fitzgerald, “Bernice Bobs Her Hair” 6).
‘Oh, you want too much!’ she cried to Gatsby. ‘I love you now-- isn’t that enough? I can’t help what’s past.’ She began to sob helplessly.
Actions provoked by fear and desperation nurture perturbed emotions, particularly in adolescence. The impenetrable will of hopelessness is dissected and empathized in Eugenia Collier’s short fiction story, Marigolds. The study sync excerpt revolves around a young impoverished teen, Lizabeth, who seeks hope in a bundle of rage, sorrow, and uncertainty. She, a person of color during The Great Depression, sought entertainment/joy by meddling with an elderly woman in her neighborhood, Miss Lottie. However, the supposed “meddling” would lead Lizabeth into a (dire or empathetic) reality which The Great Depression proposed for all.
For a while, after the death of Gatsby, life was satisfyingly normal. I was merry again; however, fate had a different plan for me. The stock market plunged into oblivion, my wife perished from scarlet fever, and I was left all alone. I was a shadow aimlessly floating around Manhattan's crowded city blocks. Nothing, except for the delicious taste of alcohol,
Not being good enough is a fear felt my many, young or old, single or in a relationship, working or unemployed, all feel it at one point in their lives. This is especially true to those who are in a unrequited devotion, who know that the person they desire so much do not feel the same attraction. Once the one whom they love leaves them isolated, however, the devoted become obsessive, wishing for their partner to come back, fall into depression, and at the worst possible scenario, become self destructive. All of these feelings and traits are found in both “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and (Love Song, With Two Goldfish) by Grace Chua. These feelings of loneliness, isolation, and separation are emphasized and developed in both text with use of diction, metaphor, and imagery.
The first principle technique is the use of sympathy and apathy as the main drivers in mood. In “Girl Unprotected”, Robinson uses a
Shortly before Gatsby’s death, Nick Carraway realized that the crowd he hangs out with are discontent and self-obsessed. Dissatisfaction is a recurring theme in The Great Gatsby, as we are introduced to characters that live carelessly and
In the drive for economic power there is sacrifice, as money cannot buy enduring happiness. The Great Gatsby is a parable for this timeless life lesson, exploring the limitations of economic power. The sombre tone in ‘It was strange to reach the marble steps and find no stir of bright dresses in and out the door, and hear no sound but bird voices in the trees’ builds a juxtaposition between the former description, ‘…conducted themselves according to the rules of behavior associated with an amusement park’ which allows the façade of fun and enjoyment to be pulled back, uncovering the true lack of personal connection amid the party-goers and Gatsby. This notion is continued with the recurring motif of loneliness in, ‘A sudden emptiness seemed
In ‘By the River’ by Steven Herrick the novel focuses on Harry’s coming of age and furthermore the events that progress him from childhood into adulthood. This coming of age novel portrays the circumstances that impact Harry, and serve as stepping stones on his journey to adulthood and maturity. The most significant milestones that advanced him from youth to adulthood are the multiple losses that have had a severe impact, the many responsibilities that have been inflicted upon him and the flourishing friendships that helped Harry experience life’s greatest lessons. Subsequently this novel also displays that responsibility has also been a stepping stone for Harry, he has to step up to many strenuous tasks and positions throughout the novel.
“Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, but bears it out, even to the edge of doom.” These words were said by famous playwright William Shakespeare in Sonnet 116. Selfless protagonists in literature will make sacrifices regardless of their consequences for what they strive to achieve or for who they’re captivated by. In the infamous American novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald explores how making sacrifices for what you know is wrong won’t always lead to success through his characterization of Jay Gatsby, the symbolism of Myrtle and Tom adopting a dog, and his use of dramatic irony in the deaths of his two major characters Myrtle and Gatsby. Jay Gatsby marches forward to give up his reputation, time, and eventually, his life
The feeling of desertion can leave a person feeling gloomy and can cause extreme consequences. Separation and isolation can bring a person to a serious mental and physical presence that can lead to some scary images. The writers Grace Chua and F. Scott Fitzgerald incorporate the idea of desolation in their pieces to introduce the reader to the idea of loneliness and despair. Through The Great Gatsby and “(Love Song, With Two Goldfish)”, the writers use the main characters to show their love for each other but create the idea that when love isn’t present, it can mean a world of pain.
This unsettling evokes some of the key features of the Gothic, such as the use of phantasmagoria, transgression, and excesses, all of which disturbed the reader by surrounding them with dark reflections of a reality portrayed through fiction. Pacts with the devil to obtain one’s desires, monks and aristocrats who revel in luxury — even if this means they must stain their hands with blood —, vampires and mad scientists: all corrupt one’s morals, all corrupt the false appearance of serenity. Likewise, the female vampires who torment Jonathan Harker disturb the harmony of the domestic sphere and unsettle the delicate balance between the private and the public domain. These vampiric women are marked by heightened sensuality and tacked to other fatal women that permeate art and European literature at the end of the nineteenth century. In this novel, fear and desire are often confused, a clue modern anxieties surrounding desire toward sensuous but degrading bodies.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” critiques Victorian womanhood in several ways throughout the text. Victorian women were expected to be pure, dainty, and perfectly angelic. They were also expected to be perfect mothers, wives, and hostesses at all times. If a woman were to express too much emotion, she would be called hysterical. Hysteria was considered a medical condition which rendered a woman incapable of reason or generally thinking like an adult.
Love is the most powerful and mysterious force in the universe and a vital part of love is one’s sexuality, because it decides who you love. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a tragic novel set in the roaring twenties. The central theme in the story is love, and what it means in this time period of extravagance and lavish lifestyles. Questions arise about power and wealth, and what this signifies in a romantic relationship. The reality is that this is a loveless tale, because there is no love between the characters.
