East Egg V.S West Egg

East Egg V.S West Egg

East Egg and West Egg together represent the ongoing divisions in society. East Egg is where the "real" aristocrats live: those with older money and established credentials. West Egg is where the new money lives, and is not considered as classy.
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The Great Gatsby Filming Versions

Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. He is drawn into Gatsby's circle, becoming a witness to obsession and tragedy.
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Nick Carraway moves from the Midwest to New York a bond salesman and finds himself the neighbor of Jay Gatsby. He's a wealthy bootlegger and forger, who has a huge estate bordering his modest cottage. Gatsby is well-known for throwing fabulous, hedonistic summer parties in 1922 West Egg, Long Island. Gatsby befriends Nick and enlists him in to broker a meeting between him and his former love Daisy Buchanen, Nick's cousin. She is now married to the snobbish and selfish Tom Buchanen, who flaunts an extramarital affair he is having with the proletarian wife of a local garage owner. Nick consents to arrange a meeting with Gatsby and Daisy, a rendezvous that will have tragic consequences
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Jealously

Part of the dictionary definition of jealousy states that jealousy is "a state of fear, suspicion or envy caused by a real or imagined threat to one's possessive instincts." It also says that jealousy is "a zealous desire to preserve an existing situation or relationship." Both of these states of mind, no matter how we look at it, prevent us from living our lives as happy, loving people who are getting the most out of all our gifts.
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Jealously is what in the end led to Gatsbys death and caused him to fulfill his life with the wrong things.Gatsby was jealous of Tom so he made all this money so that he could attract the attention of Daisy, but it didnt work. Jealousle can casue pain in your life and it is something you should stay away from.

Mafia/Gangsters

In the public eye, the 1920s gangster and bootlegger "above the law" lifestyle brought money, fame, nice clothes, women, cars, and homes. The 1920s plays host to many other organized criminals with expensive suits and flashy names.With the passage of prohibition in 1919, the twenties marked a huge shift in the way gangsters went about their everyday business.No longer was it good business sense to beat someone over the head with a pipe to rob them of their pocket watch and loose change.Instead, the mob organized and integrated itself throughout the neighborhoods of Chicago, Detroit, and the boroughs of New York City.
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This was the Golden Age of the mob, which prior to Prohibition was limited to rackets, extortion, prostitution, and infiltration of labor unions. Prohibition provided a demand for an illegal service that was too lucrative to pass by. The money earned from the distribution and sale of liquor into the United States provided the bank roll for the mob to become an invisible force in our modern economics today.
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Unrequited love

Unrequited love is a term that is used when one person has strong feelings towards another that are not reciprocated. Unrequited love has been the subject of many books, films and television programs. The person to whom these feelings are directed at may not even be aware that they are the object of someone's affection. However, most people become aware of mismatched affections.(http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-unrequited-love.htm)

Unrequited love has a long cultural history. The 1st century BC Roman poet Catulllus wrote about his unrequited love for Lesbia in several of his Carmina. Abraham Cowley wrote of the emotion (in "Anacreontiques: Or, Some Copies of Verses Translated Paraphrastically out of Anacreon"):

"A mighty pain to love it is,

And 'tis a pain that pain to miss;

But of all pains, the greatest pain

It is to love, but love in vain."

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F. Sc ott Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on September 24, 1896, the namesake and second cousin three times removed of the author of the National Anthem. Fitzgerald’s given names indicate his parents’ pride in his father’s ancestry. His father, Edward, was from Maryland, with an allegiance to the Old South and its values. Fitzgerald’s mother, Mary (Mollie) McQuillan, was the daughter of an Irish immigrant who became wealthy as a wholesale grocer in St. Paul. Both were Catholics.

Edward Fitzgerald failed as a manufacturer of wicker furniture in St. Paul, and he became a salesman for Procter & Gamble in upstate New York. After he was dismissed in 1908, when his son was twelve, the family returned to St. Paul and lived comfortably on Mollie Fitzgerald’s inheritance. Fitzgerald attended the St. Paul Academy; his first writing to appear in print was a detective story in the school newspaper when he was thirteen.

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Old vs New Money

Old Money is when you have money that has been passed down to you from Generations before you. In the book Tom comes from Old money and thinks that money can buy happiness. New money is when you just got your money recently from working. Like making a big investment and coming out rich that is considered New money. In the book Gatsby has New money he also believes that money can buy happiness.

Coming from the book Gatsby believes that his money and fortune could buy daisy back from Tom. Myrtle has a affair with Tom, Wilson does not have a lot of money. That goes to show that money matters in the world and to some people it can help them escape through the harsh realities of real life no matter whether it was Old money or New money.

Prohibition 1920s

Prohibition was the outlawing of certain things back in the 1920s like Jazz music, drugs, and Alcohol. I think that prohibition was wrong and should not have been alowd. The government should not be allowed to outlaw what they choose. The things outlawed in those days are completley allowed now so why was it important to not allow them back then? the prohibition of alcohol caused the mob to rise in power and illegal liquor bootlegging was introduced.





There is still Prohibition nowadays one example is with Marijuana. Marijuana is illegal but ius still being sold by dealers and gangs just like in the 1920s. This is a example of illegal bootlegging. That goes to show that prohibition still doesnt work and never did. No matter what people are still going to sell and use illegal substaances so why not make them legal.