The Great Gatsby Feature Article
The Great Gatsby: Fact or Fiction?
Everybody wants to be successful, and to make money. Every child grows up wanting to have their name in lights or to live in a huge mansion in the heart of New York. No person grows up wanting to do small things with their life, it’s within our human nature to want more than we can get. To make more money than we know what to do with, to have a house that is too big for us to live in. But for the vast majority of us, as we grow up reality sets in and from our parents we see it is not possible for every single one of us to experience the opulent wealth that we long for.
In saying that, there is the lucky few of us in this world that get to experience that and live ‘the dream’. But as we all know, with money comes greed, inequality and moral decay. The classical novel ‘The Great Gatsby’, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald depicts these matters in a sense that makes them relevant to today’s society.
With the world continuously growing larger and companies growing broader, people’s wealth also continues to incline. But with that incline of earnings, comes a decline of morals. As shown in The Great Gatsby, some people who have copious amounts of money and possessions also have no qualities that you desire in a person.
Tom Buchanan; there really isn’t much to him apart from being a rich, lying, cheating, abusive sleaze ball. The way in which he roams around in the finest suits, the fastest cars, has affairs and physically abuses women with no remorse is absolutely foul. All of these disgusting traits are the result of having too much money and never having to work for it. Now, even though this novel is fictional, it is very relevant to today as well. For example: Chris Brown. Chris Brown is world known singer, dancer and actor. As we all know, with a title like that comes fame and fortune, and unfortunately in this case also lack of morals. Chris Brown made news headlines early February 2009 after being arrested for assaulting then
Everybody wants to be successful, and to make money. Every child grows up wanting to have their name in lights or to live in a huge mansion in the heart of New York. No person grows up wanting to do small things with their life, it’s within our human nature to want more than we can get. To make more money than we know what to do with, to have a house that is too big for us to live in. But for the vast majority of us, as we grow up reality sets in and from our parents we see it is not possible for every single one of us to experience the opulent wealth that we long for.
In saying that, there is the lucky few of us in this world that get to experience that and live ‘the dream’. But as we all know, with money comes greed, inequality and moral decay. The classical novel ‘The Great Gatsby’, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald depicts these matters in a sense that makes them relevant to today’s society.
With the world continuously growing larger and companies growing broader, people’s wealth also continues to incline. But with that incline of earnings, comes a decline of morals. As shown in The Great Gatsby, some people who have copious amounts of money and possessions also have no qualities that you desire in a person.
Tom Buchanan; there really isn’t much to him apart from being a rich, lying, cheating, abusive sleaze ball. The way in which he roams around in the finest suits, the fastest cars, has affairs and physically abuses women with no remorse is absolutely foul. All of these disgusting traits are the result of having too much money and never having to work for it. Now, even though this novel is fictional, it is very relevant to today as well. For example: Chris Brown. Chris Brown is world known singer, dancer and actor. As we all know, with a title like that comes fame and fortune, and unfortunately in this case also lack of morals. Chris Brown made news headlines early February 2009 after being arrested for assaulting then