Text 1 Gatsby
Text 2 benjamin button
Text 3 winter dreams
Text 4 The ice palace
Intro
In this passage I will be talking about how; The Great Gatsby is linked to The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, I will then furthermore talk about how The Winter Dreams is connected to The curious case of Benjamin Button. My last paragraph will be on the Fitzgerald short story The Ice Palace and how it is linked to The Winter Dreams, I will be describing how the golden girl is used in these passages and how it is portrayed.
Text 1
The great gatsby is about the protagonist of the novel Jay Gatsby he was wanting to live the American dream the novel focuses on the concept of the green light as it shows hope for gatsby and daisys love, Gatsby is the mysterious and wealthy neighbor of the narrator, Nick Carraway, we know that Gatsby is mysterious because people when going to his house for parties he held would always make up rumors, for example he went to Oxford, he was a spy in the great war and he has killed a man. some of these were true like he did go to Oxford and he was in the war but we don’t know about the others. Although we know little about Gatsby we know from Nick’s introduction that Gatsby’s story will be the focus of the novel. As the novel progresses and Nick becomes increasingly drawn into Gatsby’s complicated world we start to learn what Gatsby wants. Daisy, Nick’s cousin the girl he once loved is still the woman of his dreams. Anything and anyone that stands between Gatsby and Daisy become an antagonist. Although Daisy’s husband Tom is the most obvious antagonist a variety of more abstract concepts, such as class difference, societal expectations, and Gatsby’s past lies between them.
Text 2 + 1
During the Great Gatsby, Jay the main character had an always passionate love for Daisy Buchanan. There was also a level mystery about Jay, no one really knew the true story about him, whether if he was a German spy or if he had killed a man or even if he went to oxford. Daisy was an image of Fitzgeralds dream girl and this meant that what she is in real life is different from what she is in the novel, this is linked to benjamin button as Benjamin the boy who was born a man had fallen in love with a young daisy, as the movie grows on the couple become separated as benjamin goes to help out the war, whilst on his boating adventure6s he meets the woman who tried to swim across the river Thames, Elizabeth. she was special to benjamin but the was always a place in his heart for daisy. as he returned home he once again met with daisy. this love than became very strong and they had a baby girl. the struggle intensifies as benjamin realizes daisy cant take care of 2 babies and decides to move out and live at the old persons home. he then meets up with daisy at his daughter’s dance practice and meets Daisys husband realizing he isn’t a part of her life anymore he walks back to the old people’s home to spend his last years. as he grows younger he begins to have dementia as he is an old man in a child’s body. this meant when daisy comes to talk to him and catch up he doesn’t realize who she is and for the final few years of his life daisy looked after him and eventually died. the link to this is the love connection of always being there.
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in the short story, winter dreams, the character Dexter green had dreamt about him and Judy playing golf. He spends every winter waiting for the sun to melt the snow on the Sherry Island Golf Course so that he can caddy for the summer. Dexter has a natural attraction to the world of the wealthy. We can tell that he is better at mingling with the upper class than the other caddies because when he quits his caddying job, Mr. Mortimer Jones (the man he caddied for) said that Dexter is “The best caddy I ever saw”. it had been nine years since Dexter Green had quit his job at the golf course he caddied at and since he left he has gone to college on the East Coast and has come back to Minnesota and invested in the laundry business. Dexter an up-and-coming rich guy. He now plays golf with the people he used to caddy for before he left. Just as it seems Judy Jones comes back into his life the girl he has always loved. He meets Judy on a swimming platform in the middle of Black Bear Lake. Dexter realizes that he has always wanted Judy, but Judy doesn’t want Dexter back in the same way. This is the same in Benjamin Button in a way as when he went away to go to war he loved daisy and even after being away for a while he still comes back and loves her. Dexters’ love for Judy is the same as a concept for a golden girl, the golden girl is an idea of the ‘perfect girl’ this is obviously not real as there is no true meaning of the golden girl.
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The ice palace has two main concepts, relationships, and home. Because of her and Harry’s engagement, she moves to Harry’s hometown in the north, She brushes off her concerns, making her realize she needs something more in her life, a need to see “things happen on a big scale”. During the winter weather her growing regret with the decision to move north, until her moment in the town’s local “Ice Palace”. In the end, Sally Carrol returns home. this made her realize how much she loves her friends and family back at home. The concept of the golden girl is described by how the golden girl is not possible as everyone has flaws even if they a perfect looking. this is also used in the winter dreams as Judy has been portrayed as the ‘golden girl’. this was when Dexter Green left to go pursue his dream and then upon his arrival, he met again with Judy and realized he was still greatly in love with her but Fitzgerald portrays this message to make you feel like that perfect girl is possible as when in reality this figure isn’t a reality. This perfect ‘golden girl’ idea was portrayed as Fitzgerald’s wife.
Conclusion
In conclusion, the passages wrote by Fitzgerald all have some sort of ‘golden girl’ concept in them. This was portrayed by Zelda Fitgerald his wife. this was because she was considered the ‘perfect girl’ and she had the perfect body with all the money and fame but during her lifetime she had mental problems and got put in an insain asilum. where she died. this was where the idea that the golden girl was not a reality because of the mental issues that could happen inside these ‘perect women’.