The Great Gatsby

Wilson is more affected by Myrtle’s death than he lets on. Therefore, I wrote this eulogy as Wilson for Myrtle to show the depth and complexity of their relationship. I tried to show Willow’s feelings for Myrtle, rather than a ‘spiritless’ man as depicted through the things he did for Myrtle. Including the things Myrtle did for Wilson shows his appreciation and love for her. Due to the lack of information In the novel, some of the content was crafted based on scenes In the novel and from my thoughts of their relationship.

By Including the deep relationship between the couple, It allows the readers to better understand why Wilson killed Gatsby and himself. The vocabulary used is simple, as Wilson was uneducated. The use of constant repetition and similar sentence structure shows that Wilson was a simple man and that he did not know how to express himself clearly. It also emphasizes on the extent of his love and guilt. Short sentences are used to depict Willow’s passive and shy nature. There is a use of dramatic irony by showing how happy Wilson was when Myrtle spent the weekend with her friends, and when she wore nice dresses she ‘bought tit her savings’.

Wilson is oblivious about the affair, unlike the audience. This shows how the American Dream Is flawed. Although Wilson worked hard and shower Myrtle with love, Myrtle still chose Tom. It also shows how materialistic people were back then. Myrtle chose Wilson merely on his appearance and now wants to be with Tom for his wealth. This eulogy is written in the first person perspective to show intimacy between the two. Instead of using a second person perspective to describe Myrtle, It shows Willow’s deep attachment to his dead wife. 300 words) Good morning, I am George Wilson, Myrtle’s husband. I would like to start off by thanking every single one of you for your presence today. Myrtle would be happy If she were still here. Myrtle, you are the love of my life. You entered my life on a fateful Friday 15 years ago, wearing a pink-laced dress, topped with a cream hat. You danced with such beauty, elegance and grace. However it wasn’t your beauty that set you apart from the others. It was your bubbly and outgoing personality, your vitality that caught my eye.

I knew that you were the one, I knew that I wanted to be yours, I knew that we courage to take the first step to talk to you. I wanted to look my best for you, I wanted you to notice me, I wanted you to like me. I worked very hard day and night at the garage. I was hoping to get a decent piece of clothing. The day of the gathering drew closer and closer. I still had yet to get enough money for a suit. I asked God continuously for help, and He answered my prayer. I was able to borrow a suit from a customer after begging him for it. The quality of the silk tie I bought came with a hefty price, but it was all worth it.

I never once regretted all the hard work put in to get that suit, because it brought me a step closer to you, y dear. I remember the Joy on your face, that unspeakable Joy, when I proposed. I remember how your face turned crimson. I remember the 20 graceful steps you took down the aisle, towards me. You wore a hand crafted pristine white gown, fitted with laces and frills. It was exactly the one you told me about, the one you dreamed of since young. I remember how my heart skipped a beat when you stood beside me. I remember how your hands were gently holding on to mine. At that moment, I Just wanted to be yours.

Seeing that pure Joy in your eyes when we were pronounced husband and fife was worth so much more than all the extra hours spent working, all the meals forgone, all the sweat and blood shed to make our wedding perfect. Nothing mattered more to me than you, Myrtle. I love you. Working at the gas station isn’t an easy Job, but all was worth it. You always told me I work too much as compared to what I earned. But I know the little that I earn can one day bring you happiness. I know you want to get out of this place. I want to be the one leaving with you. Myrtle, you always looked forward to the weekends spent with your friends.

Seeing oh smiling from ear to ear when you return brings me so much Joy. It means the world to see you happy. Although your friends have rich husbands and live in big houses, you never uttered a word of complaint. You never looked down on me. You never compared me to the others. You never leave my side. Thank you for loving me. Thank you for staying by my side. Thank you for being happy, so I would be happy too. I love you. Myrtle, you bring color to my dull life. You always wear colorful dresses. You always doll yourself up. You always try to look your best for me. I know you are aware hat I don’t earn much.

I know you never once asked me for money. I know you have always used your savings to get yourself what you want. You always think of me. You always share the burden with me. You always put my needs above yours. Thank you, my dear, for being so selfless. I wish I could be more like you. The last words you said were asking me to beat you. You are the apple of my eye, you are a precious gem to a peasant like me. Why would I want to hurt you? I love you, my coward. Yes, I am a coward. But that’s because I Just wanted to be yours, to listen to what you say, to obey your every command. Myrtle, I love you.

I always question myself why did you choose me, I am poor, I am not that good looking, I am useless. Despite all my shortcomings, you loved me Just the way I am, and you gave me all that I needed and wanted. I want to earn more. I want you to see the world. I want to spend more time with you. I want to shower you with love. I failed to do so. Now, it is too late. I’m sorry for not showing my love Just like how you showed yours. I’m sorry for not giving you the life you always wanted. I’m sorry for not showering you with clothes. I’m sorry for all the suffering you had to go through.

I’m sorry for being overprotective at times. I’m sorry for being a coward. I’m sorry dear, I’m sorry, and I’ll love you, for all eternity. Myrtle is not perfect, but I love her Just the way she is. She accepted me for who I am and forgave me for all my faults, and I will do the same. To all those Judging onlookers, Myrtle does not deserve to be criticized, for she is perfect to me, and that is all she needs to be. Myrtle dear, your imperfections are what I love most about you, and it is your imperfections that I will miss most. Goodbye and take care, my dear. I will always love you.

You cannot alter the past. Only when individuals move on can they achieve happiness. Discuss this in relation to your understanding of The Story of Tom Brenna. The Story of Tom Brenna by J. C Burke is an honest novel, which follows a young man’s struggle to accept his past in order to move on. The car crash changed all the characters’ lives but taught them to become stronger and resilient people. This sometimes meant that they had to learn to forgive others and accept their past to move towards happiness.

They were forced to confront their pasts in order to eve on to their futures. Tom’s life is changed drastically when the car crashes. He has dug too deep into what he refers to as the ‘black hole’ and he loses the will to live: “Trying to shut down the bad thoughts that always surfaced and suffocated any hope I had of getting my life back. ” (pig. 1 5). He tries to get better by starting running as a way of releasing his stress and worry. Someone who was essential for Tom to move on was Daniel his brother: “Do you hate me, Tommy? …. ‘Daniel. ‘ I swallowed. ‘You’re my brother. (pig. 141) Although Daniel has done such a horrible thing Tom is not willing to give up on his brother. Another character that helps Tom conquer his past is his uncle Brendan. Brendan really gets Tom to open up and see the world from another point of view; this causes Tom to start talking: “You were hard ‘Mr. Have-a-chat’ when you arrived. Now I can’t shut you up. ” (pig 98) He moved on from his past and found happiness in himself and his life again.

He finds himself through his girlfriend Christy because when he’s with her all he is, is himself: “When I was with Christy I was me again. Simple Tom Brenna – no ties, no debt, no guilt, no bad thoughts. Just me, the way I had always known myself. ” (pig. 261 Although the road to peppiness was hard for Tom, his desire to help those around him saved him and his family: “But now I knew what I missed the most. I missed me, Tom Brenna, and that’s why now I could smile, cause I could see he was coming back. ” (pig. 61 ) After the crash, it seems like Tees herself fades and becomes little more than a shell. She becomes depressed and barely leaves her room. Her actions affect the whole family but mainly Tom and Kylie. Tom feels neglected and Kylie shuts down without the support of her mother. Once Tees realizes how much her children need her she tries to improve for them: “I’m sorry, Tommy… ‘m trying, I really am. I promise it’ll get better. “(pig. 216). This is an important part of her recovery and influences her children to improve to.

Another important part of the Test’s recovery is seeing Daniel and learning to accept the crash and his part in It: “Don’t… Don’t say that about him. ” (pig. 85). This proves that while she may dislike the fact that It was Daniels’s fault she still loves him and will always stand up for him. After Tees had recovered Tom forgets about what she was Like before and the family begins to move forward again: “It’s kind of hard to remember what she was like then” (pig. 265). We see now that it is not is able to move on after she learns to forgive her son Daniel and herself, this is when she can achieve happiness.

Daniel is responsible for the deaths of two people and paralyzing his cousin, this would be grueling, for anyone to come to terms with and Daniel struggles with it: “l f****d up everything. Everything. ” (pig. 140). He is fuming and cannot deal with the guilt; He does not believe he deserves to live. During his time in prison, he takes part in a peer support program which helps him begin to accept his past in order to move on: “And that was what Daniel needed the most – a kicked out of the past. “(pig. 143).

Daniel is assigned a mentor who acts as a counselor and he begins to accept that he messed up and needs to move forward from it: “l did, Tom, and that’s what I’m trying to get a handle on. “(pig. 214). Though Daniel struggles to accept the past and move on he tries his best to. Once he accomplishes this he is able to move on to a happy future much like another character achieves her happiness. Kylie cannot accept the fact that her family was associated with horrific events so she shut the whole world out, acting like nothing is wrong and she has moved on hen she clearly had not: “She’d become tough.

It was like I hardly knew her anymore” (pig. 29). Proving that Kylie had been ignoring everybody, although she tried her hardest to ignore the accident and move on from it she couldn’t accept it within herself: “She’s angry. This is her way of getting it out. I guess its better that way. ” (pig. 176) explaining that she was trying to accept it, but she kept shutting people out it became impossible for her to truly accept it. Until finally it became too much for her and broke down: “l don’t want to be Kylie Brenna. Kylie anyone, but not Kylie Brenna. ” (pig. 29) Tom really helps Kylie get back on track “It’s slow, but I can see ahead now if you know what I mean” (pig. 228) these show how strong their relationship is and that sometimes you have to rely on others to help you so that you can forgive yourself. In the Story of Tom Brenna, it tells a confronting tale about a family who has been greatly affected by a tragic car crash. It tells how each character recovered and learns to move on, through forgiveness, forgetting or acceptance. The characters must move on in order to gain happiness in their lives once more.

Daisy’s point of view

In this chapter of The Great Gatsby, starts out with Tom and Nick on the train, their way to New York City. On their way Tom makes them get off of the train so that Nick can meet his “girl”. Tom takes them to a house in the “valley of ashes” which Is the poorest part of the city. They arrive at George Wilson’s house. George Is married to Tom’s lover Myrtle. Myrtle then leaves the house to Join Tom and Nick on their trip to the city. After Myrtle buys a dog In the city, the group heads to Myrtle’s sister’s house. At her place, they have a small party with a couple called the Emcees. At this party, Nick gets drunk for the second time In his life. Later that night Myrtle starts talking about daisy and when she won’t stop Tom punches her In the face and breaks her nose. Immediately after the party stops and Nick finds himself on the 4 am train back to Long Island. Daisy Is The Great Gatsby most “mysterious”, and perhaps also the most disappointing, character. She Is Just a selfish, low, and hurtful, woman. After marrying Tom, a rich man, she moves to East Egg, Long Island.

Daisy is a woman who likes to “play” with men, she loves to overstress and improvise. Most men are fascinated by her and daisy enjoys it, being the center and get attention. At the same time Daisy wants to be liked and popular among all the men around her. Daisy’s point of view: Today, we had my cousin Nick come over for dinner. It had been quite some time since I last saw him. My friend Jordan and I were sprawling on the couch on a hot summer afternoon, and at the same time, he came. Nick’s school years were over and had just graduated from the University of Yale, and were looking or work. He had changed a lot, he was more of a young mature man. We couldn’t bother to stand up and welcome him, so instead, we talked, while still sprawling. I knew he came to live in the West Egg, I bet he will visit us quite often. Nick had this naive look on his face, which I couldn’t be bothered to ask why, but made him look so lame like that. Yesterday, I had so much fun. Nick got embarrassed when I asked him that he was engaged and getting married soon. The way he denied it and got flushed, it was worth to be seen and remembered when I want a laugh on a miserable day. I’ll always remember that. Anyway, today Tom and Nick went together to see a “friend”. I bet it’s that “Myrtle woman” again. I don’t know what he finds In her. I’m so furious when he has an affair with other women when he has a wife Like me. How could he do such a thing like that? I don’t see why he Is taking Nick either. What’s It to Nick anyway?

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Nick to her as well? Tom Is so vulgar to me. He doesn’t treat me as I deserve at all. I wish he was always loyal to me, I just wish that we could adventure love.

In the short story, “Daisy Miller”, by Edith Wharton, a common obsession is found with the status and respectability of the characters presented in the story. Edith develops this obsession as a theme that is supported by European and American ideals, character’s viewpoints, and character’s actions in the story “Daisy Miller”. The theme of status and respectability is largely developed by the ideals of the society found within Daisy Miller. The story originates in Switzerland and then later goes on to take place in Rome.

In each of these cities, the story implies that status is highly regarded and that the society looks down upon certain unrespectable behaviors. The European societies of Daisy Miller watch and titter over the apparent reckless behavior of this young girl, as this behavior is not acceptable to the upper class. Daisy Miller, as viewed by the European society, a reckless, flirtatious, and imprudent girl, who does not heed societal standards. Her most dishonorable actions are that she tends to spend time with various men in the community.

The upper classes find that Daisy’s promenading with various men in public is of upmost disgrace. Throughout the story their views on this sort of behavior are often voiced. In a conversation between Winterbourne, a man who becomes slightly involved with Daisy, and Mrs. Walker, an overseer of Daisy, the criticism of Daisy Miller’s actions is voiced. “ That girl must not do this sort of thing. She must not walk here with you two men. Fifty people have noticed her. ” Winterbourne raised his eyebrows. I think it’s a pity to make too much fuss about it. ” “I think it’s a pity to let the girl ruin herself! ” The story Daisy Miller tends to revolve around this idea that Daisy is “ruining herself” due to her irresponsible actions. The society of Europe is very absorbed with Daisy’s respectability; an example of how to the respectability of an individual greatly affects their status in society. Because Daisy and her family are of low class, Daisy’s irresponsible actions easily bring them to an even lower status.

The main character Mr. Winterbourne supports the theme of respect and status by acting as a narrator for the follies of Daisy Miller as well as a connection between her and the upper-class ideals of status and respectability. When he is not with Daisy, Mr. Winterbourne is often listening to what is being said about her. “They ceased to invite her, they intimated that they desired to express to observant Europeans the great truth that, though Miss Daisy Miller was a young American lady, her behavior was not representative. Mr. Winterbourne is highly aware of Daisy’s dishonorable reputation that she gains in the European, especially Roman society, and continuously notes how she falls on the societal scale. Mr. Winterbourne’s obsession with how Daisy Miller is perceived in their society is an important part of what carries the theme of respect and status throughout the short story. Mr. Winterbourne not only perceives Daisy Miller’s affect on society but also debates with himself the reasons behind her dishonorable actions. He asked himself whether Daisy’s defiance came from the consciousness of innocence, or from her being, essentially, a young person of reckless class. ” In instances such as this, Mr. Winterbourne continuously seeks to rationalize why Daisy dishonors herself through such reckless actions. The theme of status and respectability is also supported by the actions of Daisy Miller herself. Daisy Miller begins by chasing after status in the European society. She often talks of the “society” in her European community as a class which she strives to be apart.

Daisy Miller realizes that she is found to be disrespectable however, tries to believe that this is not the truth. When Winterbourne implies how Daisy Miller perceived in Rome, she acts as though she does not believe him. “ “Of course I care to know! ” Daisy exclaimed seriously. “But I don’t believe it. They are only pretending to be shocked. ” She illustrates the importance of respect and status in both European and American societies. She is very concerned with the respect and status that she has in her society, however is naive of how she fails to gain either of those things.

Daisy’s innocence is what saves her from the realization that she is in fact, bringing herself down to a lower space in the social ladder. “Miss Daisy Miller looked extremely innocent. Some people had told him that, after all, the American girls were exceedingly innocent.. ” Daisy Miller is also important to the theme of respect and status in that she provides an outlet for the societal views of what is respectful and what is not. Obviously, “going around” with men is not a respectable course of action for Daisy Miller, and for this she is ostracized from her society.

In the short story, “Daisy Miller” a societal criticism of respect and status is provided as a major theme. Daisy Miller’s actions are the central to the stories plot, and the criticism that she receives by the “society” is a constant aspect of the stories plot. Various characters express this criticism, however, the most important of these characters are Mr. Winterbourne, and Daisy herself. Mr. Winterbourne and Daisy each express opposite views towards the societies criticism; however, their separate views, as well as those demonstrated by the society of Europe dramatically support the theme of respect and status in the short story.

In the novel The Great Gatsby, each heartache has very distinctive characteristics; all has life goals and dreams, and played an irreplaceable role in the novel. At first glance, the protagonists and antagonists are clear to see. One would place Jay Gatsby as the good guy, the one who has American dream, and who is a hopeless romantic who believes in everlasting love. For Daisy and Tom, they are definitely the antagonists, the bad ones, the one who tore Gatsby dreams and hopes apart.

Nick on the other hand, has a great transformation throughout the novel; being the narrator of the novel, he seemed to have a fairly good view n himself while he’s narrating the story’. Nevertheless, as the novel progress, there are parts and bits that could reveal how he may not be who he claimed to be. This paper would focus on the two characters, Nick Caraway and Daisy Buchanan. Their character will be viewed in an objective way, and attempt to see deeper into their life and why they did what they did.

In the end, eventually find out whether they are actually the bad or good guy that people tend to view them, or perhaps there’s something more to them. L. Nick Caraway: The narrator of this novel is Nick Caraway, a man who grew up in family of prominent, well-to-do people” in Chicago; he is a Yale graduate, loves literature and even considers himself as a “well-rounded man”. After he fought in the World War I, he joined the prosperous and fast-growing business world in New York.

Somehow, he is the cousin of the tremendously wealthy Daisy Buchanan, and a college acquaintance of Tom Buchanan, they lived a luxurious life that was completely opposite of his. Being the narrator, it is easy to believe everything that he said, but there are signs that could show that he is not as simple or positive as he pronounce to be, as Peter L. Hays aid in his paper, Initially Nick’s father tells him that “all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages you’ve had”, presumably material advantages.

But Nick interprets the statement to mean “a sense of fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth”, something very different, and a belief that qualifies Nick very much as a snob. In the novel, Nick is a tolerant and open minded listener, and highly educated so is also an intellectual, people felt the urge to confide to him and trust him. However, while Gatsby made up his past and have illegal business in his present life,

Nick’s family also did something similar; they earn their money by selling hardware but cover it up by saying that they have ducal blood. When he describes his own house, he said his house is a “small eyesore,” and gives him “consoling proximity of millionaires. ” Though sounding somehow self- mocking, he might actually feel like being near to the rich does make up for his own living standards, as if lying about his background and living next to the rich could take up closer to being one of the people in the high society.

Nick’s true thoughts over the rich and himself were never clearly identified, UT it seems possible that he does want to fit into the complicated high society, despite the fact that he views himself as morally more advance than all the rest The readers learn more about his personality by the way he speaks and how he described the others as the novel progress.

Nick calls himself “one of the few honest people that I have ever known” In the beginning of the novel, he claimed that he would reserve all judgments while interacting with others, as quoted from the novel: “Whenever you feel like criticizing any One,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this oral haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had. ” He didn’t say any more, but we’ve always been unusually communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that. In consequence, I’m inclined to reserve all judgments […

J. In the above passage, Nick said that he would reserve judgment on all things, but throughout the novel, he seems to be making personal remarks on the other characters. For example, he said his gracious next door neighbor Jay Gatsby is “unaffected com”, and the Buchannan couple were “careless people”; even said that his lover Jordan Baker is “incurably dishonest. Nick is not only the righteous and objective narrator who he claimed to be, he is also someone whose sight is muddled by the lavish life Of the rich and famous.

His internal conflict over the lifestyle of his new life in New York goes on throughout the book, and is especially represented by his romantic relationship with Jordan Baker. He is in love with her energy and sophistication, but he is repeatedly disgust by her carelessness and dishonesty. Towards the end of the novel, Jordan said, “You said a bad driver was only safe until she met another bad driver? Well, I met another bad driver, didn’t l? I mean it was careless of me to make such a wrong guess. I thought you were rather an honest, straightforward person. Thought it was your secret pride. Perhaps in the end, the ones who seem the most trustworthy is the one that should not be trusted at all. I. Daisy Buchanan Daisy Buchanan is an interesting character to kick at. In common day terms, some people might view her as the head cheerleader who married the quarterback of the football team, a shallow beauty who cares about nothing but the superficial, money and good looks. Not exactly a scheming gold- digger, since she is already from the elite social class and has incredible lath of her own, but like what she said she wished her daughter would be, “a beautiful little fool”.

Daisy was born in a rich and high class family in Louisville, where she had a short fling with the handsome young man Jay Gatsby who had a fake identity. When Nick described his cousin Daisy, he said she has a voice that makes her untouchable and “full of money,” and made her sounds like someone who lives “high in a white palace, the king’s daughter, the golden girl” She was the kind of girl who would make every girl feel jealous, who lived the life of comfort and had everything that any girl could ever wanted.

To Gatsby, she is a symbol of wealth and social status, everything that he wanted and trying to achieve, and Gatsby fell in love with her, dedicated his whole life just for her basing on a faint hope that they could somehow be together once more. Unfortunately, the young lovers never got the chance to have their wishes come true, Daisy married another man when Gatsby was away at war. She did seem regretful though, before she got married, she drunkenly said: “Here, dearer’. “She groped around in a waste-basket she had with her on the bed and pulled out the string of peers. Take ‘me down-stairs and give ‘me back to whoever they belong to. Tell ‘me all Daisy change; her mind. Say: ‘Daisy’s change’ her mind! ‘”‘ She still ended up marrying the rich Tom Buchanan, some may say she married for the money or did not had the patience to wait for Gatsby any longer, but perhaps all she ever wanted was to be loved and live an easy life, as Jordan described: “If he left the room for a minute she’d look around uneasily, and say: “Where’s Tom gone? ” and wear the most abstracted expression until she saw him coming in the door.

She used to sit on the sand with his head in her lap by the hour, rubbing her fingers over his eyes and looking at him with unfathomable delight. Her love for Tom was not entirely based on his wealth or power, but she simply loved him. When she eventually fell in love with Tom after she reluctantly had got married, it was not that she only cared for the fabulous life and forgot all about Jay Gatsby, she merely wanted what every other 20 something girls wanted, to love and to be loved. Most readers have negative opinions of her.

She killed a person by driving clumsily and decided to run away, leaving Jay Gatsby and in the end, dead. She is overly rich which caused her to seem careless and did not have any constructive thoughts over other subjects beside love and money. But one must not neglect the fact that she was raised and lived in an environment that only taught her to act the way she did, she did not know any better. As a rich girl growing up, she was probably well protected and well loved, what was she to know what it meant to be responsible for ones actions?

And yet, when her baby girl was born, she told Nick: “all right,’ I said, ‘I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool – that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool”‘ It seemed that she was glad that her daughter was a girl, but in between her tears, a sadness also appeared, perhaps she ad wished that her child would be a boy, so it would not have to live as vulnerable as her. But since her child was a girl, she then wished that it was a beautiful fool like she is, to live a simple life and be blinded from all the unhappiness that she had to live with despite her wealth.

Although not exactly not as complex and great as the “Great Gatsby’, and very flawed, Nick and Daisy are still characters who are worth the reader’s attention. They consist of complicated characteristics, both likable and repugnant, which made them seems like people who readers can relate to in their own lives. Novels are reflections of the realities, and having doubts and are things that everyone faces in their life.

“The Great Gatsby” was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and was published in 1925. The story focuses around a man named Jay Gatsby who aspires to achieve a position among the rich to win the heart of his true love, Daisy Buchanan. However, this corrupt desire for one to achieve wealth and true love ends in tragedy.

Throughout Jay Gatsby’s experiences through New York in the West Egg and his mansion, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses symbols and motifs around Gatsby to emphasize two themes: the American Dream can lead to a corrupt desire for wealth; no matter how much effort you put into a dream, it can lead to sacrifices and emptiness.

Fitzgerald develops the theme that the American Dream can lead to a corrupt desire for wealth through the use of motif about cars. In the novel, Gatsby’s car is described as, ” His station wagon scampered like a brisk little bug” ( Fitzgerald 15). By letting anyone use his car to get back and forth from the city, Gatsby does this to show off his status of a wealthy man.

However, his materialistics goods did not allow for society to take him seriously making it impossible for Gatsby to fulfill his American Dream. Gatsby owns many cars, but the main one that was focused on was his yellow Rolls Royce. Nick Carraway describes the car as, ” It was a rich cream color, bright and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hat-boxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes, and terraced with labyrinth of windshields that mirrored a dozen suns” (Fitzgerald 68). Gatsby believes that buying materialistic items will intrigue the people of West Egg into loving him, as well as Daisy . The car motif reflects a way for the rich to show off.

The car motif continues to develop through the second half of the story as well. For example, after the fight between Tom and Gatsby nick says, “So we drove toward death through the cooling twilight” (Fitzgerald 136). This will foreshadow what is to come, which is the death of Myrtle. Gatsby’s car in this instance plays a part as death and the corruption of the American Dream.

Also, Daisy then accidently hits Myrtle with Gatsby’s yellow Rolls Royce, “It was a yellow car” (Fitzgerald 139). When Myrtle is struck and killed by Gatsby’s car, this brings out the irony when Myrtle thought the person driving the car was Tom. Tom is who would of lead/brought her to the American Dream, however it’s the American Dream that ultimately kills her. Fitzgeralds development of the American Dream through the power of cars effectively generates the theme: the American Dream can lead to a corrupt desire for wealth.

Fitzgeralds develops a motif about a green light to create the theme: no matter how much effort you put into a dream, it can lead to sacrifices and emptiness. For example, Nick went to see what Gatsby was looking at and all he could see was, “…nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of the dock” (Fitzgerald 25). The green light first appears when Nick sees Gatsby stretching his arms out towards the water or the green light.

The light is at the end of Daisy’s dock, which represents Gatsby’s longing for Daisy and his hope to win her over. However, the green light represents all of what Gatsby longs for: money, success, acceptance, and of course Daisy, his dream. To continue, when Gatsby speaks Daisy about the green light after the reunion, Nick observes, “Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever…His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one” (Fitzgerald).

The green light shows that Gatsby and Daisy existed in the same world and that the two would one day meet again. The green light forces Gatsby to struggle and fail to reconcile his dream with reality. The green light motif reflects what Gatsby goes through in accepting his loss of hope with reality.

The green light continues to develop through the second half of the story as well. For example, “Minutes later, Wilson concludes that the driver was Myrtle’s lover, who deliberately ran her down, saying, “He murdered her. …She ran out to meet him and he wouldn’t stop” (Fitzgerald 158).

Daisy was the one that killed Myrtle, and when Gatsby discovers this news that he takes the blame for her death. Gatsby’s dream (to be with Daisy) is so strong that he’s willing to take the blame and sacrifice himself for Daisy. Then, Gatsby is killed by George Wilson, ending Gatsby’s dream of ever being with Daisy. In addition, at the end of the book Nick referred to the green light, “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us” (Fitzgerald 180).

Gatsby is having a hard time moving on from the past. He wants the past to return so he tries to recreate it. His dream was already behind him, but he could not get over his dream or ever achieve it. Fitzgeralds development of Gatsby’s dream to be with Daisy through the green light effectively generates the theme: no matter how much effort you put into a dream, it can lead to sacrifices and emptiness.

Fitzgerald develops the two themes of the book very effectively. The first theme, which is that the American Dream can lead to a corrupt desire for wealth, is developed very well through the use of the motif cars. Cars portrayed the wealth status of a man and power.

Additionally, the theme no matter how much effort you put into a dream, it can lead to sacrifices and emptiness is also represented through the symbol/motif of the green light. The green light portrays Gatsby’s hope and dream to one day be with Daisy, but the light is forever out of reach. Overall, the American Dream is an allusion that causes men to reinvent themselves to fit in or be “liked” by society.

Then our beloved Empress rose in political power and married Emperor Justinian. Some people called our Empress lazy and a burden, but she wasn’t close to that. She was the empress hat defended and protected our nation, and influenced Emperor Justinian into keep Our nation during the Nick Revolt! She was the empress who wouldn’t leave her purple and her people no matter what! She is the empress who would be the role model for future empresses!

Now that our Empress has deceased she will still be respected and will be learned about for generations to come. Also, we can’t forget our Empress’s accomplishments during her years in power. Firstly, she has given women more rights than any other civilization. She gave women the power to own land and she allowed owed women to take income from land to pay for children needs. She also has influenced our Emperor to stay during the Nick Revolt, and take care of our Empire.

Lastly, our Empress had laws expanded to protect the Neophytes, and prostitutes so they could start their lives anew. Monopolistic was a form of Christianity that believed that women should have more rights. Our Empress was the most important out of other empresses due to her influence and her outstanding accomplishments. In all, our Empress has accomplished more than any other empress achieved and without Empress Theodore the Byzantine Empire would have fallen long ago.