The ideal of the “American Dream” has influenced the works and writings of many American authors throughout our countries history. The attitudes and responses towards this dream differ greatly as time progresses, but the messages portrayed by these authors are all built on their American experience. One notable author whose work has been influenced by ...
In The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway moves to New York from the mid-west and meets one Jay Gatsby, an enterprising nouveau riche (though he claims to be from old money). Gatsby imitates an Oxford accent and loves calling everybody “Old Sport”, his parties are known all through the West Egg – and he has as ...
Zelda Sayre became the wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1920 after a two-year courtship between the southern belle daughter of a prominent judge and the handsome, talented writer who coined the term “The Jazz Age.” With the publication of his first novel “This Side of Paradise,” the Fitzgeralds became the toast of New York ...
The third adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Dramatic American Classic ” The Great Gatsby” was by every count an exact mirror of the original 1925 novel and brought to life by Francis Ford Coppola’s brilliant screen play. Robert Redford stars as the affluent, enigmatic, Jay Gatsby who uses his immense fortune to try and attract ...
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