The inside scoop on the Gatsby story

STEINBECK’s take on the Journey Westward

DECADES OF FASHION

Top 10 movies and music you must check out!

Top Ten Movies of 1925-1950

1. Battle Ship Potemkin Director: Sergei Eisenstein

2. The General Directors: Buster Keaton,

Clyde Bruckman

3. The Circus Director: Charles

Chaplin

4. Applause

Director: Rouben Mamoulian

5. Camille

Director: George Cukor

6. The Bicycle Thief

Director: Vittorio De Sica

7. Adam’s Rib

Director: George Cukor

8. All the King’s

Men Director: Robert Rossen

9. All About Eve

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

10. The Asphalt Jungle

Director: John Hurston

Top Ten Songs of 1925-1950

8. 9. Untitled Artist: Ernest Stoneman

10. Low Down Blues Artist: Whistler & His Jug Band

1. Whitehouse

Blues

Artist: Charlie Poole

2. High Sheriff

Artist: Aiken County String Band

3. The Last Scene of the

Titanic

Artist: Frank Hutchinson

4. Suitcase Blues

Artist: Hersal

Thomas

5 . Death ’s B lack Tra in i s Coming

Artist: Reverend J.M. Gates

6. Cow-Cow

Blues

Artist: Dora Carr

7. Washington County Fox

Chase

Artist: Vance Tennessee

Breakdowners

8. I’m Going to Take the Train

to Charlotte

Artist: Fiddlin’ John Carson

9. Untitled

Artist: Ernest Stoneman

10. Low Down

Blues

Artist: Whistler & His

Jug Band

Jay Gatsby, a West Egg resident infamously known for his alluring parties, was found with a fatal gunshot wound on a beautiful autumn day last week. While details remain murky, sources have recently revealed the presence of another body on the scene.

The second body belongs to George Wilson, the owner of an auto shop at the edge of the Valley of Ashes. The connection between these two men was originally a source of mystery but just yesterday a close friend of Gatsby, well known East Egg resident Tom Buchanan, revealed that Gatsby had been having a longtime affair with

Mr. Wilson’s wife, Myrtle.

Grief stricken Buchanan also disclosed other minute facts about the crime scene before moving away with his wife to escape the

sorrow of the loss of such a dear friend. He claims that Wilson discovered the affair between his wife and Gatsby the previous day when Myrtle was run over by a vehicle outside their home. While no legal action has yet confirmed the theory, police seem to believe that Wilson discovered

Gatsby’s affair with his wife and sought revenge. The coincidental death of Myrtle on the previous day creates remains an unsolved mystery.

Did George Wilson run over his own wife out of anger? Or was Myrtle’s death a

coincidental accident?

Given the deaths of

George Wilson, Myrtle

Wilson, and Gatsby, we may never

know the truth to this complicated mystery.

No matter what occurred in this fatal love triangle, all of Long Island will be mourning the loss of Jay Gatsby. He will forever be honored as a prominent and wealthy West Egg socialite who hosted the town’s best parties.

FEATURE The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald ! 1925

30-Year-Old Socialite Found Dead in His Pool

Gatsby, recently in front of his West Egg home before his unexpected death last week. He will be missed by all.

Earnest Hemingway

The Sun Also Rises

Lady

Brett

Ashley

! in love

Jake

Barnes

Narrator

Taking a look at… ROBERT COHN

Cohn, the first character Hemingway introduces in the novel, has an interesting past that the reader immediately learns about. Although he is not Hemingway’s hero, he has a crucial role in the story. After attending and becoming a boxing champion at Princeton University, Cohn marries. Soon, his wife leaves him and he turns to writing as a career. He moves to Paris with his new girlfriend, Frances, but their relationship does not last long. He heads back to the United States where a book of his gets published, and obtains much arrogance. When he moves back to Paris, he hates it. He wants to go to South America with Jake, but goes to Spain and agrees to meet Jake, Bill, Mike and Brett in Bayonne to travel together to Pamplona for bullfights when he struggles with his writing. The entire time, he feels uncomfortable because he is unsure whether others know about his affair with Brett. He also feels like an outsider being the only Jewish one in the group. His anxiety persists and his fear of rejection causes him to be unable to accept rejection when it comes. This also enhances his irrational attachment to Brett. Lastly, as the only nonveteran in the group, Cohn has a system of values that does not fit in; having no firsthand experience in World War I, his adherence to traditional ways leaves him struggling in many situations he experiences.

Published 1926

Was with

Frances

clyne

Loves

Mike

campbell

Engaged

to

marry

Affair

Pedro

Romero

Who was the Hemingway Hero? In this novel, most likely Jake Barnes

because: Men admire and respect him; women

want him Has a general passion and aficion

to his character Loves bullfighting, nature and

fishing Productive and successful

Courageous, confident, almost fearless

Janie Crawford is no ordinary woman. Her roots trace back to a poor, black girl who was raped by a white school teacher. Raised by her grandmother, Janie had always dreamed of leading her own life--one in which her grandmother did not intrude on. She began to assert her independence one day when she was sixteen.

Janie’s first kiss was with Johnny Taylor. It marked the first instance in which Janie took control over her own life. She states that after that kiss, her Nanny insisted that she marry immediately. Thus, along comes Logan Killicks. “He look[ed] like som ole skull head in de graveyard,” Janie cringes. Despite Janie distaste for Killicks, the two remained

married for a short (and unpleasant) time period.

Then, Janie met Joe Starks. Blinded by her intense desire to find love, Janie quickly leaves Killicks in order to run

off with Starks. Starks forced Janie to remain silent, hide her long, beautiful hair and work in his store.

Then, one day while

working in the store, Janie’s life change d forever. She met Tea Cake, the complete foil of Starks. Very young, lower class and unreliable, Tea Cake is the opposite of everything Janie would expect to find in a husband. Yet, the two seemed to have an instant chemistry. Tea Cake allows Janie to explore checkers, hunting and many other activities which Starks refused to enjoy with Janie. For the first time, Janie feels alive and in love with Tea Cake. Then, in a moment of self defense, Janie is forced to shoot the only man she ever truly loved. Janie realized that Tea Cake could not be helped and therefore she nobly decided to end his life. To this day, Janie continues to keep Tea Cake’s memory alive.

Their Eyes Were Watching God • Zora Neale Hurston

1937

Exploring Janie Crawford’s Quest for Love

The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck • 1939

More than just a book; Steinbeck takes readers on an odyssey depicting the rough times of the nation. The Joads explore areas of the country that not many others have seen at the time and along the way they learn about themselves and each other through the ups and downs of the road trip. Below is a roadmap of their journey westward.

START: Sallisaw, Oklahoma: "The ancient overloaded Hudson creaked and grunted to the highway at Sallisaw and turned west..." (124) Gore, Warner, Checotah, Oklahoma Paden, Oklahoma: Here the Joads stop for gas; a large, sleek car hits a dog. Meeker, Harrah, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Bethany, Oklahoma: In Bethany, the Joads meet the Wilsons; Grampa is buried. El Reno, Clinton, Elk City, Sayre, Texola, Oklahoma Shamrock, Alanreed, Groom, Amarillo, Vega, Texas Glenrio, New Mexico Santa Rosa, New Mexico: The Joads’ car breaks down. Albuquerque, Gullup, New Mexico Holbrook, Joseph City, Winslow, Flagstaff, Oatman, Arizona Topock, California: Joads finally enter the state of California Needles, California: Noah leaves the family; the Joads and Wilsons go their separate ways. Daggett, Barstow, Mojave, California Tehachapi, California: Ma informs the family that Grandma died during their cross into California Bakersfield, California Hooverville, California: Work is difficult to find for the family; Connie leaves Rose of Sharon and Jim Casy gets arrested. Weedpatch and Weedpatch Camp, California Pixley, California: Casy is killed and Tom kills Casy’s assailant. END: Box Car Camp

The play many critics have considered to be “the play of the century” debuted February 10, 1949 in the Morosco Theatre. Death of A Salesmen, written by Arthur Miller, follows a struggling salesman, Willy Loman, attempting to maintain his career, life, and dignity in the harsh city of New York. The straightforward drama shocked audiences with its bare realism and underlying criticism of American society. The downfall of Willy Loman led to the ongoing debate questioning whether Willy can be accurately labeled a “tragic hero”. Greek philosopher, Aristotle, classifies a “tragic hero” as a character who has experienced greatness but fatal flaw, which, along with fate, leads to his or her own downfall. Willy personifies this definition in a more modern spin on the traditional “tragic hero”. Miller purposefully portrays the common man as a tragic hero to criticize the distorted values of America’s success-driven society. While Willy may have come short of his ambitious hopes for wealth, he did experience happiness at one time. His continued flashbacks display his glory days. He was consumed with pride for his son, Biff, who seemed to have the world at his fingertips. Happy, his younger son looked up to Willy and constantly sought his praise. Not only did Willy cherish his relationship with his sons but he also enjoyed the constant support of his loving wife, Linda. Willy’s flashbacks of a stable lifestyle show the audience that he experienced happiness in his life only to later destroy it. One action, which shatters Willy’s “glory days”, is his cheating on Linda. When Biff discovers Willy’s infidelity, his vision of his father is forever shattered. Biff resents his

father; deteriorating their once close bond. Willy’s unfaithfulness also taints his relationship with Linda. Though Linda doesn’t know of the affair (or pretends not to), their relationship is spoiled by Willy’s guilt for his actions. Willy’s own actions led to his downfall. Willy’s other fatal flaw that leads to his suicide is his extreme pride. When he lacks sufficient funds for necessities, he secretly borrows money from his longtime friend, Charley. When his situation worsens after being fired, Willy even refuses Charley’s job offer. Even when faced with the bleak inability to pay the mortgage, Willy still cannot overcome the pride embedded in him. This fatal flaw also leads to his eventual suicide. Had he simply admitted defeat and taken the job offer, he would have worked his way out of his financial crisis. But because of the pride his career as a salesman embedded in him, he refused to accept help, displaying the consequences of the American ideal of individualism. Willy’s excessive self-sufficiency ultimately led to his own downfall. Arthur Miller created in Willy Loman the modern depiction of the “tragic hero”. Willy stands for the millions of men trying to cling to a sense of self-sufficiency in a cutthroat environment that makes such success impossible. Willy’s mistakes stand for the imperfections of all men that lead to their own downfall. In American society, men’s pride overrides their sense of logic and leads to fatal consequences. Willy Loman is every man who attempts and fails to achieve perfection. He is every man who makes mistakes that can never be pardoned. Willy Loman is the modern “tragic hero” and so are all men consumed by distorted values of America.

FEATURE Death of a Salesman Arthur miller ! 1949

Willy Loman: The Modern “Tragic Hero”

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