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  • Idealization Of Daisy By Gatsby
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    The Great Gatsby: The Fa ade and Realities of Sight Sight is such an important sense to our everyday livings; not only to how we survive, but how we judge; the fronts we are meant to see, and the realities we are not. To see is to know the absolute truth, but to missed is to have the allusion of truth, which would eventually prove itself to be merely a cloudy fa ade. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel entitled The Great Gatsby, it is this seeing and mis seeing which is the crucial factor in making a...
  • Gatsby And Daisy
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    Nick Carraway Nick Carraway is the narrator of the entire novel, he is also the protagonist of his own plot. He is a practical and conservative man who turns thirty during the course of the story. Raised in a small town in the Midwest, in New York he is in the bond business. He rents a small bungalow out from the city on a fashionable island known as West Egg. His next door neighbor is Jay Gatsby, and his distant cousin, Daisy Buchanan, lives across the bay with her husband, Tom. Nick plays an i...
  • Daisy And Gatsby
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    Color, in symbolism, represents a variety of ideas that range from innocence to adultery. An author can change the tone of the story just by the color he chooses for a particular object. Color can also serve as foreshadowing devices that allow the reader to take a peek into the inevitable. F. Scott Fitzgerald's symbolism through color in The Great Gatsby depicts an underlying meaning and each color remains contingent with a character in the novel. Yellow, according to Evans, symbolizes. ".. jeal...
  • Gatsby's Dream
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    Gatsby's Dream Improvement, wealth, popularity, and love are only a few pieces of the American Dream. This dream has varying significance for different people, but in The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby's dream is unfolded. Through improving himself with the wealth he acquirers, then gaining the popularity of various people with the extravagant parties he has, Gatsby hopes to gain the love of Daisy. But the most important part to this list is the fact that the American Dream is ...
  • Gatsby And Daisy's Relationship
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    The Great Gatsby Plot Summary A man named Nick Carraway moves from the Mid-West to come live in Long Island. He rents a house in West Egg Village. Next door lives a rich man, Mr. Gatsby, whom Nick has never met. Just across the bay, in East Egg, Tom and Daisy Buchanan live. Daisy is Nick's cousin. Through Daisy Nick meets Jordan Baker, a golf-pro when he has a relationship with. Nick becomes intrigued by the lavish parties given by the very wealthy Mr. Gatsby. In time, the two meet and become cl...
  • Gatsby And Daisy
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    The Great Gatsby: Eastern Desires The roaring twenties. Cars were the things to have and a party was the place to be. Everybody wanted something. F. Scott Fitzgerald's book, The Great Gatsby, describes the events that happen to eight people during the summer of 1922. In the book, people went from west to east because something they desired was in the east; unfortunately in the end those 'somethings' were unattainable... I decided to go east and learn the bond business. Everybody I knew was in th...
  • First Example Of Flashback By Fitzgerald
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald's use of flashback in The Great Gatsby proves to be an effective tool in order to reveal information from the characters' past. These flashbacks are effective because they allow the reader to know and understand the character better before a situation in the novel arises. Three examples of flashbacks that Fitzgerald uses are when Jordan explains to Nick how and when she first met Gatsby on page 79, when Nick explains to the reader how Gatsby got his name and what his childhoo...
  • Gatsby's Obsession With Daisy
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    The Great Gatsby: Gatsby's Illusion of Himself F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is considered a novel that embodies America in the 1920's. In it, the narrator, Nick Carro way, helps his neighbor Jay Gatsby reunite with Daisy Buchanan, with whom he has been in love with since 5 years before, during World War I. The affair between the two fails, however, and ends in Gatsby being shot and killed. The reason that this was inevitable is that Gatsby created a fantasy so thoroughly that he became...
  • Actions Of People At Gatsby's Parties
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    There are many things that we observe through social occurrences which cause us to make judgements about a particular person or group of people. Correspondingly, these things we observe also reveal to us the values held by these people. This particular idea is represented well in the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Glamour and lavish surroundings influence the peoples goals and desires and contribute to their materialistic and socially prominent ideals. This is shown through the a...
  • Gatsby's True Love
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    Gatsby's Destruction Gatsby's destruction is caused by his inability to let go of a dream which cannot be realized: possessing Daisy Buchanan. He does not care so much for the person herself as the ideal she represents to him: true love and happiness. In the hopes of attracting Daisy, and in the hopes of becoming happy, Gatsby amasses a vast horde of wealth, and throws extravagant parties frequently: 'At least once a fortnight a corps of caterers came down with several hundred feet of canvas and...
  • Gatsby And Daisy
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    The Great Gatsby Essay In The Great Gatsby, there are three illicit relationships: Gatsby and Daisy, Nick and Jordan, and Tom and Myrtle. In some ways they are similar, and in some ways each is unique. In this essay, I will compare and examine each of the couples, and try to give some insight as to why none of the relationships worked out. The relationship between Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan was probably the most one sided. The entire time they were apart, all Gatsby did was try to reach his g...
  • Gatsby's Perfect Dream
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    The first thing you see when you pick up this book is the Title "The Great Gatsby " So already you expect Gatsby to great before you have even opened the book. As the first chapter unravels The Narrator and Gatsby's Neighbor Nick Carraway, tells us plainly that he loathes Gatsby, however by the end of the paragraph he describes Gatsby's character as "gorgeous". He also says " No Gatsby turned out alright in the end". From now we begin to wonder about how great Gatsby really is? On one hand he is...
  • Gatsby And Daisy
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    Symbolism in The Great Gatsby There are many types of symbolism in the novel The Great Gatsby. Probably the easiest to recognize were the colors and what they symbolized. The most obvious colors to point out would have to be green and white. Green supported feelings of many thoughts, ideas, and changes that Gatsby experienced throughout the story. It also represented peace and determination. White represented innocence and serenity. Another example of symbolism is when Gatsby broke the clock in ...
  • Daisys Selection Of Tom Over Gatsby
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    Why did Daisy choose Tom in the end In the novel "The Great Gatsby", Daisy Buchanan was faced with an enormous decision. She had to choose between Tom; her husband and Jay Gatsby; her lover. Gatsby seemed to be the ideal man of his time. Fabulously wealthy, handsome, charismatic and intriguing, he seemed to be able to offer everything a woman could want. All he wanted in return was Daisys complete unconditional love. Tom, on the other hand could offer Daisy money, security and freedom. Ultimatel...
  • Gatsby's Failure At The American Dream
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    The Great Gatsby Everyone wants to be successful in life, but most often people take the wrong ways to get there. In the 1920's the American Dream was something that to have. Having a family, money, a big house, and a car meant that someone had succeeded in life. A very important aspect was money, and success was determined greatly by it. This was not true in all cases however. Jay Gatsby was a poor boy who turned into a very wealthy man, but did he live the American Dream? Money is actually the...
  • Jay Gatsby
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    One of the biggest fears in today's world is the fear of not fitting into society. People of all age groups and backgrounds share this fear. Many individuals believe that to receive somebody's affection, they must assimilate into that person's society. Jay Gatsby, like any normal person, wants to fit into society. His feelings for Daisy make him strive to achieve that goal. In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby attempts to fit into Daisy's society by any means availabl...
  • American Dream Within The Great Gatsby
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    The 1920's was a time of excess and growth. Economically, it was a time for great financial gain. Largely because of improvements in technology, productivity increased while overall production costs decreased, and the economy grew. Not only was this time filled with prosperity, but corruption as well. People finally acquired leisure time, and it was filled with gluttony and lust. Many authors during this time believed that society was living in excess and without curbing its appetite somewhat, r...
  • Relationship Between Gatsby And Daisy
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    Stanford R. Fox 06/07/2005 Period. 1 The Great Gatsby Essay In all human life relationships are very important, and this is shown in many different aspects of human life. Relationships are so significant that Authors often use them as the revolving point of their stories. Such as in The Great Gatsby the author F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the different relationships as the revolving point in his story. Fitzgerald shows how the relationships between the couples in The Great Gatsby are similar in many...
  • Gatsby's Desire For Material Wealth
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    . The American Dream promises prosperity and fulfilled desires as rewards for hard work and self-reliance. The American Dream is often considered to go hand and hand with good-nature dnis. However in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby were are introduced to another perception of the American Dream. That some may believe that the American Dream goes hand in hand with goodness and excellence, however others take the dream to be purely materialistic. Fitzgerald shows through conflict and ...
  • Gatsby's Money
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    John Centre 1 English 202 Dr. Crowley The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby, a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is about the American dream, and the downfall of those who attempt to reach illusionary goals. The attempt to capture the American dream is pivotal to many novels. The dream itself is different for many people, in The Great Gatsby, for Jay, this dream can only be fulfilled by having the money and influence to acquire this happiness. Jay Gatsby the central character of the story, is one charac...

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