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This paper examines the novels "The Day of the Locust" by Nathanael West and "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It describes the affects of materialism on the main characters. The paper illustrates how this superficial pursuit becomes obsessive and ultimately blurs ethical boundaries.
"We can see what direction the main protagonist in Day of the Locust, Tod Hackett, will go, just by looking at the word "hack" in his name. While in school he has decided to pursue the field of commercial illustration instead of pursuing the more rigorous field of painting art for arts' sake. His friends warn him that he is selling out. Tod has taken the possibility of a great education at Yale and has decided to help create superficial images of things that cannot be real for movies in Hollywood." See Primetimeessay.com to get more updates. |