Tag: old money
They say money can’t buy happiness, but in the characters in The Great Gatsby seem to think otherwise. They seek materialism and superficiality and are blinded by the…
Does Tragedy exist without love? I think that there is an intersection of tragedy and love and that Fitzgerald uses it as a potent story device. These intense…
Fashion of the Jazz Age. The costumes in both Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby and its film adaptations, including the 2013 version, capture the essence of the era’s…
Returning to my theme of architecture I wanted to focus on Nick’s cottage because it feels like an aspect of the story that isn’t necessarily focused on. As…
In The Great Gatsby, the green light at the end of Daisy Buchanan’s dock is a recurring symbol and it has significant thematic and metaphorical importance throughout the…
Taking a side step from architecture I also wanted to take a look at other meticulous details put into the novel. “On week-ends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus,…
The house in the book is described as “A cheerful red and white Georgian colonial mansion overlooking the bay” (Fitzgerald 13). His house is beautiful. It overflows with…