In Tender Is The Night, Fitzgerald traces the lives of its three main characters: Dick and Nicole Diver, and Tommy Barban. Throughout the novel their tempers change, their lives turn to a different way and each one affects the other. At the beginning of the novel, book 1 presents us a perfect Diver family. Dick and Nicole Diver seem to be happy as if they were meant to each other: the perfect couple. We meet a pleasant and charming Dick Diver who knows how to handle every situation and take control over it in a very agreeable way. The lived near French Riviera at Villa Diana and liked to have social gatherings and parties with their friends and tourists on the beach, restaurants and also at their house. People admired Dick and felt attracted to him because of his good temper, exquisiteness and good manners. He tries to make people feel happy, or at least pleased. For example, although he knew that McKiscos were some kind of annoying people, Dick invited them to a party in his house. He wanted to make them feel part of his group of friends. To make new friends was like a pleasant pastime for Dick. In book 1 there is not much characterization about Nicole and Tommy Barban. Fitzgerald introduces her as the wife to Dick, but it is trough the eyes of Rosemary that we meet a beautiful woman in Nicole. Rosemary admired her because of her great beauty, fineness, and her ease to spend her money buying splendid gifts for her friends every time she went out for shopping. On the other hand, we learned about Tommy that he was a stockbroker, also a professional mercenary, and a good French friend to the Divers. It is not until the incident Violet McKisco saw in the Diver's bathroom that we don't know there is something wrong with Ni... ... middle of paper ... ...injuries he had done. He helped Mary North and Lady Caroline (the Englishwoman he had offended on Golding's boat) to get out of the jail in which they were put for having impersonated American sailors and seduced young girls. After all this, he left Villa Diana, its beach, his children and Nicole. Nicole and Tommy married, while Dick returned to America, married a woman and practiced general medicine from town to town in New York. At this end, probably Nicole is not happy at all. She can't forget Dick. A proof of this is that she wanted to go and say good bye to Dick when he was leaving, but she couldn't go since Tommy restrained her from doing it. Dick is not happy as well. The three last paragraphs from the novel convey us a sad mood that make us think that Dick moves from town to town trying to forget Nicole and start a new life with a little of happiness.
The Great Gatsby is centered around three main characters. F. Scott Fitzgerald examines the characters of Gatsby, Nick, and Daisy in The Great Gatsby. Each of these characters is different in many ways. Daisy is in an unhappy marriage, but is content until she meets Gatsby again. Gatsby and Nick each love Daisy in different ways and want to see her happy. However, despite their best efforts, the three characters all part ways, and there is no happy ending for them.
Typically, a novel contains four basic parts: a beginning, middle, climax, and the end. The beginning sets the tone for the book and introduces the reader to the characters and the setting. The majority of the novel comes from middle where the plot takes place. The plot is what usually captures the reader’s attention and allows the reader to become mentally involved. Next, is the climax of the story. This is the point in the book where everything comes together and the reader’s attention is at the fullest. Finally, there is the end. In the end of a book, the reader is typically left asking no questions, and satisfied with the outcome of the previous events. However, in the novel The Things They Carried the setup of the book is quite different. This book is written in a genre of literature called “metafiction.” “Metafiction” is a term given to fictional story in which the author makes the reader question what is fiction and what is reality. This is very important in the setup of the Tim’s writing because it forces the reader to draw his or her own conclusion about the story. However, this is not one story at all; instead, O’Brien writes the book as if each chapter were its own short story. Although all the chapters have relation to one another, when reading the book, the reader is compelled to keep reading. It is almost as if the reader is listening to a “soldier storyteller” over a long period of time.
By structuring his novel where time is out of joint, Dick is able to illustrate that one’s perception of reality is entirely based on what one believes to be fact. This point is illustrated through Ragle Gumm, who, “from his years of active military life” in the beginning of the story, “prided himself on his physical agility” (Dick 100). It is not until time is mended again toward the end of the book that he realizes that it had been, in fact, his father that had served in the war. This demonstrates how one’s firm belief can turn into a reality, as it did for Ragle Gumm for the two and a half years he lived in the fabricated city of Old Town.
As much as generous and honest Nick Carraway is, he still needs a few important improvements in himself. Nick went to Yale, fought in world war one and moved to East of New York to work in finance. After moving to New York, Nick faces tough dilemmas throughout the story such as revealing secrets, and witnessing betrayal. His innocence and malevolence toward others was beyond his control. He did not have the ability or knowledge to know what he should have done in the spots he was set in. He seemed lost and having no control of what went on- almost trapped- but indeed, he had more control than he could have ever known. Because of the situations he has experienced and the people he has met, such as Gatsby, Tom, Jordan and Daisy, his point of view on the world changed dramatically which is very depressing. Trusting the others and caring for them greatly has put him in a disheartening gloomy position.
In The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald analyzes three main characters, Jay Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan, and Nick Carraway. The Great Gatsby is a story about finding out who people really are and how far they will go to protect their secrets from spilling to everyone. The Great Gatsby is like a story of our time, we have the rich and the poor towns, we have people who cheat on their spouses, and lastly, we have racism towards different cultures and races (Schreier). Many ironic events take place throughout the book. For example, Gatsby and Nick become friends, Tom and Myrtle being secret lovers, also, Daisy and Gatsby carrying on an affair, and lastly Daisy running over Myrtle in Gatsby’s car (Coleman). Fitzgerald purposely wrote the book to tell about lovers that were not supposed to be together and how they overcame that and fell in love with one another (Shain). He also wrote the book to relate to American society (Tolmatchoff).
One can first see this use of language by looking at the point of view that the characters are seen in. Nick, the narrator, comes to Long Island, completely drawn by riches. Without even realizing it, Nick equates money to beauty and happiness. Fitzgerald’s use of language through Nick, always describes daisy as entrancing, beautiful, charming, tempting, sumptuous, and many other sexual, beautiful words; ...
Fitzgerald uses Nick Carraway as the narrator throughout the book. Nick is the connection between the book and the people reading. He connects the side events with Gatsby's story, and connects Gatsby's story to the reader (Doreski). Nick interrupts the story and adds his own perception to the story that he is a part of. Usually this would make the story less smooth but he connects the different stories in to one complete story (Roulstson and Roulston). Nick uses an unofficial tone to share Fitzgerald's formal book to the readers. He recalls the story of Gatsby as a character and a narrator (Roulstson and Roulston).
In this novel Fitzgerald shows Tom and George’s negative philosophy’s towards women. He shows in The Great Gatsby how men can be heinous, but he also shows the positive treatment of women by men in the form of Nick and Gatsby’s characters. Fitzgerald is trying to portray that there are a lot of men that mistreat women in the world, but there are those select distinguished few such as Nick and
Andy goes to psychologist, Dr. Carrothers, to discuss his depression about Rob's death. He does not think he needs to be there because he is fine in school and he is fine at home. Andy talks about why the accident is his fault. He realizes he needs help with his depression and wants to come back for another visit to discuss what is going...
allow Fitzgerald to give more background to each character and to allow the reader to
Therefore, one is able to tell a fib by the liar’s expression, speech, or movement, but not the consequences of the secrets they keep. Fitzgerald develops the premise of lies, deceit, and secrets through Tom Buchanan, Nick Carraway, and Jay Gatsby (James Gats) and reshapes the downfall of the Roaring Twenties in an artful manner by enticing us on the journey of the vivacity of The Great Gatsby and his young foolish love narrative.
Jay Gatsby is the protagonist in the story. The protagonist is the leading character. Gatsby has a huge fortune and lives next to Nick Carraway in a huge gothic mansion. Every Saturday night he throws lavish parties in hopes that the girl he loves, Daisy Buchanan, will notice that he is there. Gatsby made his fortune through criminal activity. So he is obviously deeply flawed. But he has a big heart and everything he did was so that he could win the woman that he loved back. Nick Carraway is the Narrator of the story. He had just moved to West Egg, Long Island from Minnesota to learn about the bond business. He is honest and tolerates a lot of things, but most importantly, he is Daisy 's cousin. Daisy Buchanan is the woman that Gatsby loves and at one point, she loved him too. She even told him that she would wait for him but when she met Tom she couldn 't turn down the opportunity. She is a beautiful socialite, sardonic, and a little
Nick Carraway, Jay Gatsby and Tom Buchanan these are the three main male characters. These men hang out a lot in the novel, even though they are not from the same social class. Tom Buchanan comes from a socially solid old family and he is very wealthy. Nick Carraway'...
In Italy, after he begins his affair with Rosemary, Dick is disillusioned with her. He finds that Rosemary belongs to other people. In his disillusionment, his thoughts turn to Nicole, and how she is still "his girl - too often he was sick at heart about her, yet she was his girl" (213). Rosemary is no longer his possession solely and this cracks his surface. He returns to his love for Nicole like a guard, because he is weak without it. He refers to it as "an obscuring dye" (217). He is Nicole, and Nicole is he, and at this point the line between them has been blurred to bring them together. Dick does not realize that as much as he believes Nicole depends on him, he is dependent on her. He depends on her neediness to define him. Dick knows, however, that Nicole is important to him and that the thought "that she should die, sink into mental darkness, love another man, made him physically sick"(217). Not only is this excellent foreshadowing on Fitzgerald's part, but it gives us a measure just how dependent Dick is. Physical illness is uncontrollable. If even the thought makes causes him to have psychosomatic symptoms, it is imaginable what the actuality would bring. Dick needs Nicole badly, more so than ever at this point.
...pposed to kiss Mary Elizabeth but he didn't so she broke up with Charlie) leaving him back at the start, with no friends. This was a bad time because Charlie begins to start going “bad” again which means he starts to have flashbacks, and he gets really depressed. He saves Patrick from a fight at school which is kind of like a forgiveness from his friends to let him hang out and talk to them again. Charlie helps Sam get into a college and soon all of his friends leave to go to college. He gets bad again and ends up going to the hospital. When Sam and Patrick come over to Charlie's house, this is like closure to Charlie and they drive through the tunnel for the closing page. I think that the author did a very good job in choosing when the events in the book would happen. It seemed like a teenagers life and he changed it up some so that the reader wouldn't get so bored.