Data Bases • Custom Term Papers • Free Term Papers • Free Research Papers • Free Essays • Free Book Reports • Plagiarism? Links • Top 100 Term Paper Sites • Top 25 Essay Sites • Top 50 Essay Sites • Search 97,000 Papers @ DirectEssays.com • Search 101,000 Papers @ ExampleEssays.com • Search 90,000 Papers @ MegaEssays.com Free Essays • Term Paper Sites • Chuck III's Free Essays • Free College Essays • TermPaperSites.com • My Term Papers • Get Free Essays • Essay World • Planet Papers	Search Lots of Essays Back to Subjects - English Comparing The Rich Boy The Bidal Party and The Comparing The Rich Boy The Bidal Party and The The 1920’s market a booming America economy, making evident transition between social classes. People become very optimistic, and sometimes began living their lives as if they had already obtained the American dream. Dreamers usually create illusions to avoid the cruel realities of life. F. Scott Fitzgerald exemplifies three overly enthusiastic believers in “The Rich Boy” with Anson Hunter, “The Bridal Party” with Michael Curly, and The Great Gatsby with Jay Gatsby. Fitzgerald easily builds these characters into ‘the man of imagination’ and the ‘the man of action.’ They live an illusion by dwelling on the past, feeling that money can buy what they want, yet reality shatters their fantasy world; thus Fitzgerald depicts how each character evolves in romanticism and realism. All three characters experience a sense of living illusions in which Fitzgerald includes romanticism in them. In “Rich boy,” Paula Legendre is Anson Hunter’s unattainable love due to his behaviour. As he grows older and finally wants to commit, he discovers that she is to marry another man. When Anson hears the news, he relive the past wanting Paula more only because now he understand tah he cannot have her. From that moment he continues to have hopes and drams of being with her, “still hoped that they would some day marry” No matter who he dated, Paula remained in his Michael Curly in “The Birdal Party” has a strong love for Caroline Dandy, where she too, is to marry another man. In addition, she grows even stronger in Michael’s heart. Michael tries hard to conquer Caroline’s heart, explaining that he loves here and believes he feels more right to marry her. He shows his hope when he says “Well I won’t give up till the last moment…one takes what one can get, up to the limit of one’s strength, and if I can’t have her, at least she’ll go into the marriage with some of me in her hart.” In The Great Gatsby, Gatsby has a vision by believing he can relive the past with Daisy. Gatsby’s dream leads him to commit only to Daisy for the rest of his life, assuming that Daisy will wait for him, too. Although Daisy is married to Tom Buchanan, he continues to live an illusion, thinking he still has a chance. Gatsby also disregards Tom and Daisy’s having a child together and keep this denial in his head until he actually sees the little girl. His face shows this surprised, “Afterward he kept looking at the child with great surprise. I [Nick Carraway] don’t think he had ever really believed in its existence before.” Althuugh seeing the child should bring Gatsby to face the reality, he chooses to remain in an Fitzgerald also depicts each character as believing that their favorable financial status can help them in achieving what they want, their loves. Anson Hunter, a self-confident, well-off, prominent young man believes that he can attain anyone and anything in life. He feels certain that his position in life could keep Paula hanging on throughout the years because she is attracted to his lifestyle, “…Paula and her mother accompanied him [Anson] North, she was impressed with the standing of his family in New York and with the scale on which they lived in.” Even so Paula could tolerate only so much of waiting for Anson which gave her no choice but to move on even if Anson was sure she would not, “Anson was too acute to wonder. When he saw a man’s name in her letter he felt more sure of her and little disdainful-he was always superior to Bibliography: F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Rich Boy,” Jazz Age Tales (Naples: Loffredo, 1996) 126. F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Bridal Party,” Jazz Age Tales (Naples: Loffredo, 1996) 168. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992) 123. F. Scott Fitzgerald “The Rich Boy,” Jazz Age Tales (Naples: Loffredo, 1996) 121. F. Scott Fitzgerald “The Rich Boy,” Jazz Age Tales (Naples: Loffredo, 1996) 126. Word Count: 540
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