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  • Gatsby's Tragic Flaw Lies In His Inability
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    A Tragic hero can best be defined as a significant person who has a tragic flaw that eventually leads to his downfall, which he faces with dignity and courage. Jay Gatsby in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby is a great example of a tragic hero. He is a romantic dreamer who wishes to fulfill his ideal by amassing wealth in hopes of impressing and eventually winning the heart of the love of his life, Daisy. Gatsby's tragic flaw lies in his inability to see that the real and the ideal ca...
  • Gatsby's Idealized Conception Of Daisy
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    Jay Gatsby: Shattered Dreams F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is a tragic tale of love distorted by obsession. Finding himself in the city of New York, Jay Gatsby is a loyal and devoted man who is willing to cross oceans and build mansions for his one true love. His belief in realistic ideals and his perseverance greatly influence all the decisions he makes and ultimately direct the course of his life. Gatsby has made a total commitment to a dream, and he does not realize that his dream is...
  • Gatsby And Daisy Relationship
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    The Great Gatsby Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald with notes and preface by Matthew J. Broccoli Throughout the book many major characters were introduced some of which include: Jay Gatsby, Nick Carraway, Tom and Daisy Buchanan, Jordan Baker, along with George and Myrtle Wilson. Jay Gatsby is the main protagonist of the story. While being famous for his lavish parties he also portrays a sense of mystery and uncertainty regarding his wealth. Nick Carraway is neighbors with Jay Gatsby and has just mo...
  • Jay Gatsby
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    Laura Pats May 18, 1998 Death by Illusion Before writing The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald must have done thoughtful and extensive research. This is apparent because, to explore the novel's main theme, 'The American Dream', he chose to place it in the 1920's. This was, indeed, a perfect time slot because the 20's were notorious for the numerous ways in which they influenced the public. These years served as a defining point for many aspects of everyday life such as wealth, social status, and...
  • Gatsby's Extraordinary Dedication To His Dream
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    Jay Gatsby: The Dissolution of a Dream A dream is defined in the Webster's New World Dictionary as: a fanciful vision of the conscious mind; a fond hope or aspiration; anything so lovely, transitory, etc. as to seem dreamlike. In the beginning pages of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway, the narrator of the story gives us a glimpse into Gatsby's idealistic dream which is later disintegrated. "No- Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what f...
  • Gatsby's Strong Desire For Wealth And Daisy
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    While there are numerous themes throughout the text of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, the most prominent is that of the American Dream. The American Dream is the idea that any person, no matter what he or she is, or from where he or she has come, can become successful in life by his or her hard work; it is the idea that a self-sufficient person, an entrepreneur, can be a success. In this novel, however, it is the quest for this 'dream' (along with the pursuit of a romantic dream) that c...
  • Money And Possessions Daisy
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    The central theme is a comparison of the corrupting influence of wealth to the purity of a dream. Tom and Daisy Buchanan both lead purposeless lives that are filled with corruption through wealth, while Gatsby lives his life striving towards his dreams. They all either have no purpose in life to begin with or lose all purpose and values due the actions of another. All of the wealthy characters, including Gatsby, use people and things and then discard them as trash... Tom is probably leads the mo...
  • Affair Between Gatsby And Daisy
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    ... t are omnipresent throughout the novel. There is also the sense of inevitable disappointment inherent in the meeting between Gatsby and Daisy which Nick realizes upon the end of the day. Gatsby has been planning for this moment for years; no matter how well the meeting had gone, it could not fulfill the grand dreams that he has created for himself. This highlights an important aspect of Gatsby's character: he has an inability to conceive of anything in less than grandiose terms, whether part...
  • Gatsby's Love For Daisy
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    Gatsby's Pursuit of the American DreamT he American Dream means that by persistently working hard, one can achieve success; this is in contrast to other countries where the immigrants came from, in which one was either born into money and privilege or not, and if you weren't, there was no way of achieving this success. The American Dream eliminated the barriers between people that social class had held for centuries in Europe. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, shows the corruption of the...
  • Jay Gatsby
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    The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald I want to introduce you to, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The book is set in the "Roaring Twenties" as it takes place in the summer of 1922. It is the height of the jazz age as society is dissolves into the Great Depression. The protagonist is Jay Gatsby and narrated by Nick Carraway. The story is about jay's love for a woman, Daisy Buchanan. And it is about Jay' Gatsby's will to achieve greatness as he perceives it. He is a driven by money and...
  • Jay Gatsby Like Many Average Americans
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby, is a one of the best stories written during a chaotic period in our nation's history, The Jazz Age. The Twenties were a time of social experiments, self-indulgence, and dissatisfaction for majority of Americans. Fitzgerald depicts all these characteristics throughout the novel with his interesting themes, settings, and characters. The most elaborate and symbolic character Fitzgerald presents to his readers is Jay Gatsby. Fitzgerald uses Gatsby as a ...
  • Gatsby S Funeral
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    The 1920's in America were a decade of great social change. From fashion to politics, forces clashed to produce a very ^Roaring^ decade. Jazz sounds dominated the music industry. It was the age of prohibition, the age of prosperity, and the age of downfall. It was the age of everything, and this can be witnessed through the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby. The Roaring Twenties help create Gatsby's character. Gatsby's participation in the bootlegging business, the extravagant parti...
  • Daisy And Gatsby Return To West Egg
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    Buying Happiness and Love The American Dream is starting with nothing and through hard work and determination one can achieve millions of dollars and all the happiness one can handle. This may not be true, if that person tries to buy the past to regain the happiness he will never succeed and mostly likely end up very unhappy. A good example of this in fiction is F. Scott Fitzgerald's, The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald criticizes the American dream in his novel, The Great Gatsby, by showing Jay Gatsby...
  • Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
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    The Great Gatsby: A Full Spectrum of Character Throughout Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, there seems to be a broad spectrum of moral and social views demonstrated by various characters. At one end, is Tom, a man who attacks Gatsby's sense of propriety and legitimacy, while thinking nothing of running roughshod over the lives of those around him. A direct opposite of Tom's nature is Gatsby, who displays great generosity and caring, yet will stop at nothing to achieve his dream of running off with...
  • Gatsby's Mysterious Source Of Wealth
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    Failing to Buy into the American Dream Wealth, material possessions, and power are the core values of The American Dream. Pursuit of a better life led countless numbers of foreign citizens to American soil desiring their chance at the limitless opportunity. Achievement of the American Dream is not always the achievement of true happiness. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby achieves the American Dream, but his idealistic faiths in money and life's possibilities twist his dreams...
  • Character Of Daisy Buchanan
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    Title: The Character of Daisy Buchanan in Relation to the novel "The Great Gatsby" In the novel "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, there are many charismatic characters which create the story. One character in particular, Daisy Buchanan, is essential in relation to the overall plot of the story. With her multi-dimensional personality, and the way she becomes centered on most of the conflicts within the story creates an interesting plot which pulls the reader into the story. Early in the ...
  • Characteristics Of Daisy And Toms Marriage
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    During the twentieth-century, much changed with regards to society and culture. The post-depression times were filled with high lives of people riding the wave of economic success. This economic success brought about many changes in America. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald shows change in the characteristics of American upper class marriage lifestyle through Tom and Daisy not raising their own child, their extramarital affairs and the reasoning behind their marriage. Because of these th...
  • Daisy And Gatsby
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    Carelessness has many aspects, in particular negligence, purposelessness, and lack of consideration. Do the characters of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald demonstrate these aspects of carelessness What does Fitzgerald use carelessness to demonstrate Fitzgerald gives his own characters the quality of emptiness and hopelessness with the exception of Nick Carraway. The failures in these character's lives are all the result of carelessness. Gatsby, Daisy, Tom, Baker, and the Wilsons all did t...
  • Gatsby's True Care And Knowledge
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    In F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby, Nick's claim that Gatsby turned out to be all right is true because Gatsby cared about other people, knew how to love, and openly as well as freely shared his wealth. Nick was able to support his conclusion because Gatsby sincerely had compassion for other people. Fitzgerald provides numerous examples of Gatsby's true care, causing it to be quite prevalent throughout the novel. Gatsby's knowledge of how to love is a significant reason why Nick wa...
  • Money Gatsby
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    An Analysis Of The Jay Gatsby I nAn Analysis Of The Jay Gatsby In The Great Gatsby Jay Gatsby believes he can buy happiness; and this is exhibited through his house, his clothes, and through Daisy. He owns a large portion of finances due to some mysterious source of wealth, and he uses this mystery source to buy his house, his clothes, and Daisy, for awhile. Gatsby's house, as Fitzgerald describes it, is "a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking ...

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