In this essay we will first describe the story and in the second part draw conclusions on religion and the story. The principal character and narrator, Nick Carraway moves after the First World War to New York. He works here as a broker and is determined to earn a lot...

“The Great Gatsby” and “The Crucible” are both considered to be classics of American literature. They both deal with a specific moment in American history, and they both show how groups of people behave in particular ways in particular circumstances. Indeed, it can be argued that both of the works...

Complications/Difficulties with the American Dream In Chapter One we can already see the class differences that are shown in the West Egg versus East Egg people. We know that the people from West Egg, like Gatsby, are new to money, whereas the people from East Egg are old to money....

The 1920s novel, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is one of the quintessential novels of The Jazz Age. The novel explores the relationships between a small group of individuals who lived amongst the wealth and the poverty of Long Island, New York, Queens, NY and Manhattan, NY. The...