Jay Gatsby And Dick Diver
COMPARE AND CONTRAST THE PRESENTATION OF THE CHARACTERS OF . NOTE ESPECIALLY THEIR ATTITUDES TO LIFE, LOVE AND RELATIONSHIPS, THEIR DEMISE AND THE ROLES THEY PLAY WITHIN THEIR RESPECTIVE NOVELS.
F. Scott Fitzgerald is known as a writer who chronicled his times. This work has been critically acclaimed for portraying the sentiments of the American people during the 1920s and 1930s. ‘The Great Gatsby’ was written in 1924, whilst the Fitzgeralds were staying on the French Riviera, and ‘Tender is the Night’ was written nearly ten years later, is set on, among other places, the Riviera. There are very interesting aspects of these works, such as the way Fitzgerald treats his so-called heroes, ...
Want to read the rest of this paper?
Join Essayworld today to view this entire essay
and over 50,000 other term papers
|
persuade Daisy to love him and leave Tom. This is illustrated in Chapter five when Daisy is shown around Gatsby’s mansion at his request. He shows her every detail, through from the gardens to his shirts and ‘he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes’. Gatsby sees his money and possessions as wonderful things, but they are also more than that, they are a means to an end, the end being Daisy. He bough the house because of where it was in relation to Daisy (across the bay), and he held the most amazing parties in the hope that Daisy, or someone that knew Daisy would come. Gatsby, in effect, devoted his whole life to the search for Daisy, and his money is a tool to help him find his love.
Diver’s attitude to money is very much a contrast to this. Money to him does not represent freedom and choice, but a bind that ties him and constricts him. Diver is conscious through the whole novel that he himself is not the ...
Get instant access to over 50,000 essays.
Write better papers. Get better grades.
Already a member? Login
|
plans for the clinic. It is not that Dick is adverse to the concept of money and wealth, but he feels that he has become trapped by Nicole’s riches (he ‘had wedded a desire for money to an essentially unacquisitive nature … he had never felt more sure of himself … than at the time of his marriage to Nicole. Yet he has been swallowed up like a gigolo, and somehow permitted his arsenal to be locked up in the Warren safety deposit vaults.’)
Despite both these men having vast amounts of money at their disposal, thus the theoretical ability to do or achieve anything they want, neither of these men are happy. Interestingly, neither of these men view their money as material wealth, but ...
Succeed in your coursework without stepping into a library.
Get access to a growing library of notes, book reports,
and research papers in 2 minutes or less.
|
CITE THIS PAGE:
Jay Gatsby And Dick Diver. (2006, May 5). Retrieved November 22, 2024, from http://www.essayworld.com/essays/Jay-Gatsby-And-Dick-Diver/45441
"Jay Gatsby And Dick Diver." Essayworld.com. Essayworld.com, 5 May. 2006. Web. 22 Nov. 2024. <http://www.essayworld.com/essays/Jay-Gatsby-And-Dick-Diver/45441>
"Jay Gatsby And Dick Diver." Essayworld.com. May 5, 2006. Accessed November 22, 2024. http://www.essayworld.com/essays/Jay-Gatsby-And-Dick-Diver/45441.
"Jay Gatsby And Dick Diver." Essayworld.com. May 5, 2006. Accessed November 22, 2024. http://www.essayworld.com/essays/Jay-Gatsby-And-Dick-Diver/45441.
|
Save
Report