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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...
  • Great Gatsby
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    Gatsby meets a woman and falls in love with her. However, Gatsby does not have the fame and fortune a classy lady like Daisy desires. Gatsby decides to devote his whole life to achieving the material goods with which to satisfy Daisy. He lives in the past on a moment of absolute happiness hoping he can relive that state of emotion sometime in the future. F. Scott Fitzgerald published the book in 1925 using the actual time in history, the Roaring Twenties to help create Gatsby's character. Gatsby...
  • Gatsby's Life
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    Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you! Thomas Parke D'Invilliers Jay Gatsby went through most of his life striving for a new beginning, a chance to start over and succeed. He forced that aspect of life, into his own, by changing his identity. He was James Gate a man who's unknown soul was left to linger in the past. Now he is Jay Gatsby. Gatsby does not realize that life can...
  • Green Light And The Dreams Of Gatsby
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    Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby and Elliot's The Wasteland are two stories that similarly express the modernist post-war disillusionment. Both stories comment pessimistically on the direction that our world is moving in from the post-war modernist perspective. Both men looked past the roaring twenties, and realized that this time period was actually a moral wasteland. The final paragraphs of The Great Gatsby sum up their mutual lack of faith in American culture to improve. Fitzgerald uses a number of ...
  • Gatsby's Character During His Meeting With Daisy
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    The Reason for the Past In the words of Jan Gild ewell, "You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest, that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present". Jay Gatsby in the book The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, didn't only cling to the past and forget about the future but also tried to recreate it. There are symbols from Gatsby's past that display his yearning for a different life all through this piece of literature. Gatsby's mind can only conceive one way to change his curr...
  • Time In Gatsby
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    Time is one of the most pervasive themes in The Great Gatsby, weaving between characters and situations, slowing and speeding the action until the entire novel seems almost dreamlike. Fitzgerald not only manipulates time in the novel, he refers to time repeatedly to reinforce the idea that time is a driving force not only for the 1920's, a period of great change, but for America itself. We will see Fitzgerald also turns a critical eye to the American concept of time, in effect warning us all to ...
  • Gatsby's American Society
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    Great Gatsby- Fitzgerald's view of an American Society " What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story,' was said of Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby. The Great Gatsby is about the American Society at its worst and the downfall of those who attempt to reach its illusionary goals. The idea is that through wealth and power, one can acquire happiness. To get his happiness Jay Gatsby must reach into the past and relive an old dream. In order to achieve his dream, he must have wealth and ...
  • Important Themes Of The Great Gatsby
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    A good novel has a number of themes. The following are important themes of The Great Gatsby. The corruption of the American dream, sight and insight, the meaning of the past, and the education of a young man. The American Dream was based on the assumption that each person, no matter what his origins, could succeed in life on the sole basis of his or her own skill and effort. The dream was embodied in the ideal of the self-made man, just as it was embodied in Fitzgerald's own family by his grandf...
  • Harry Houdini And Jay Gatsby
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    Harry Houdini and Jay Gatsby were both famous figures of the Roaring Twenties in America. Both men very much reflected, although in different ways, the wild, risk-taking standards of their times. Houdini was renowned for his incredible escapes and magic tricks. Gatsby, the main character in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, was a playboy and prominent member of Long Island society. Although different in many ways, both of them worked to find happiness in their personal lives. Both men were...

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