... reason readers sympathize an anti-hero is because they know what their motives are. Conan the Barbarian of Marvel comics is an excellent example of how anti-heroes usually have a driving force behind their actions. He is portrayed as a character who only performs good deeds for his personal satisfaction. Because anti-heroes lack a true identity, they will often play both the good ... ...
... eggs. Pulled like a play thing between those around him, James Gatz was toyed with by his good and evil. The good, Daisy, was his goal of all his life, his driving force, his reason to live. The three evils of his soul where bent on destroying him and his false reality, they all had their own selfish desires and conflicting vendettas. As ... ...
... she was tired of waiting for me."1 He believes that Daisy would be his if he had money. The story deals with the pursuit of happiness, with money as the driving force. Gatsby feels that material wealth alone can bring the dream to life which ends up not being the case. Gatsby thinks that money is the answer to all of his ... ...
... on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." (Fitzgerald 189). Here, Nick reveals Gatsby's lifelong quest to transcend his past as ultimately futile. In comparing this backward-driving force to the current of a river, Fitzgerald presents it as both inexorable and, in a sense, an inevitable aspect of humanity. The America envisioned by its founders was a land made for men ... ...
