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  • Gatsby And Daisy
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    Unfulfilled Dreams Everyone has dreams of being successful in life. When the word American comes to mind one often thinks of the land of opportunity. This dream was apparent with the first settlers, and it is apparent in today's society. In F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925), he illustrates the challenges and tragedies associated with the American dream. By examining Jay Gatsby, Tom Buchanan, and Myrtle Wilson through the narrator Nick Carraway, I understand the complex nature of the A...
  • Story Of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby Flaws
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    By: Anonymous Plot Flaws in The Great Gatsby: The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, was a novel that epitomizes the time in our history known as the roaring twenties. It was a time of great extravagances and frolicsome attitudes. The novel also revealed the darker side of this time with its underlying themes of greed and betrayal on the part of many of the characters. The novel as a whole seems to be a very well thought out piece of literature with little or no flaws. However, if studied a b...
  • White To Tom
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    The Working Class in Fitzgerald's "Great Gatsby" The first half of the twentieth century saw dramatic changes in the social structure of the United States. In the nineteenth century, it was relatively unusual in many parts of the country to meet a Roman Catholic - similarly odd to meet someone whose native tongue was not English. Anyone who fit these descriptions was likely to be unabashedly working class. Suddenly, however, the country saw an enormous influx of people whose backgrounds were ver...
  • Characters In The Great Gatsby
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    Erik Ferjentsik 127 W Paper After a time of prosperity, the roaring 1920's became a decade of social decay and declining moral values. The forces this erosion of ethics can be explained by a variety of theories. However, F. Scott Fitzgerald paints a convincing portrait of waning social virtue in his novel, The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald portrays the nefarious effects of materialism created by the wealth-driven culture of the time. This was an era where societal values made wealth and material poss...
  • Nick's And Tom's Faithfulness
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    The Great Gatsby There are many different types of people in this world. Apart from physical features, it is the characteristics of a person that makes him / her original. Nick Carraway the narrator of The Great Gatsby, has qualities which are the complete opposite of those of Tom Buchanan, his cousin-in-law. In the novel, the author, F. Scott Fitzgerald, uses the comparison between two cousins to show how their differing characteristics reflects the themes of morality and reality versus illusio...
  • Relationship Between Daisy And Gatsby
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    1 The Great Gatsby, A Romantic Tragedy F. Scott Fitzgerald constructs his novel, The Great Gatsby, so that it fits the characteristics of romantic tragedy by showing the harsh reality in direct comparison with the romantic American dream. In the novel, the romantic illusion consists of the perfect American dream of a loving wife, large family, and unimaginable wealth. At the same time, Fitzgerald shows the tragic reality of the deceitful, immoral things people are willing to go through to achiev...
  • Gatsby An Daisy
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    Theodore Roethek once wrote "In a dark time, the eye begins to see... ". This means that in times of great trials and tribulations, when all seems lost; an inner sense of motivation kicks in. You get a new sense of direction and something is keeping you guided. F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby illustrates this quote perfectly. In this novel, the characters, the conflicts, and everything in between are all intertwined through characterization and symbolism. Jay Gatz made something of ...
  • Gatsby's Car Hit Myrtle
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    Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American writer of novels, and short stories that epitomized the mood and manners of the 1920's, the Jazz Age, as it was called. Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896, in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and attended Princeton University, where he mostly ignored formal study, instead receiving his education from writers and critics, such as Edmund Wilson, who remained his lifelong friend. In 1917 he quit Princeton to take an army commission, and in training camps he...
  • Nick Carraway And Jay Gatsby
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    Summary of 'The Great Gatsby'; The Great Gatsby is a book about rich people that are fighting about women, money etc. After I read this book I realized that even if you are rich you don't have to be happy. There are two main characters: Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby, both rich men. Here's the story in a short version... Nick Carraway is a young man from a wealthy family, living in a Middle Western city. The Carraway's are something of a clan actually. Nick's grandfather came herein 1851 and start...
  • Jay Gatsby And Tom And Daisy Buchanan
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    The American Dream is an idea and a myth that people struggle for but can never be achieved. It cannot be attained because it is an endless race for perfection and better than oneself. For some the dream might be to become impossibly wealthy, or become stronger and smarter than one can be. People pursue the American dream because they believe it has been accomplished before. We live in a society where perfection is ideal and flaws are covered up or hidden. Americans believe that everyone else is...
  • Tom And Daisy Buchanan
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    During Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, it is apparent to be an absurd time for the wealthy. The shallowness of money, riches, and a place in a higher social class were probably the most important components in most lives at that period of time. This is expressed clearly by Fitzgerald, especially through his characters, which include Myrtle Wilson, Tom and Daisy Buchanan, and of course, Jay Gatsby. This novel was obviously written to criticize and condemn the ethics of the rich. The first characte...
  • T Work For The Money
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    The Failure of the American Dream In the classic novel The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tom Buchanan, George Wilson and Jay Gatsby fail to achieve the American Dream. The American Dream is the combination of happiness, love and hard honest work. The above characters try throughout the novel to obtain these characteristics but fail in the end. Tom did not live the American Dream due to many factors. First of all Tom and Daisy weren t happy (152) with one another because they weren t fait...
  • Gatsbys Quest
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    In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald presents the 1920's society as delusional. The book is set up to resemble a romantic story. It has a hero, villain, damsel in distress and a chronicler. Gatsby has set out on a Romantic Quest in the story to achieve love and fortune. The book reveals the turmoil that someone with such a delusional dream must face to still be able to believe in his dream. Gatsbys quest is presented as Romantic but twisted by a decayed and corrupt society. Fitzgerald emphas...
  • Gatsby And Tom
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    Psychological evaluation Toady a new patient came in named Nick Carraway. Carraway is a struggling bond salesman that just moved next to that big place on the island, Gatsbys place. He seems to like his new home, but he often talks about how the homesickness he feels is relating back to his fathers conduct. "Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope. I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of fund...
  • Novel The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald
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    "The value of reading a text closely is that you can see what the writer is doing- how he or she has used structure or setting or characters or a particular point of view or some aspect of language to direct the reader's response". Show how the writer has used one or more of these to direct your response in The Great Gatsby. In the novel The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald shows a clear contempt of the American Dream, an ideal that the characters that he has created either chase or have achieve...
  • Alienation In The Great Gatsby
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    For many people in America, the years immediately following World War I and World War II were characterized by anger, discontent, and disillusion. Society had been devastated by a global conflict that resulted in unmatched death, destruction and resentment. Survivors who came of age during these eras; the Lost Generation after WWI The Beat Generation after WWII, were left incoherent and alienated from both the world before and the new world that came into sight after. Unable to relate to either ...
  • Daisy And Gatsby
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    In what ways does 'The Great Gatsby' present the reader with a critical vision of America as a socially divided and morally chaotic society? For the Pilgrim Fathers the passage to America was to a new Eden. They were striving to achieve a democratic society in which all men could succeed. The poem 'Bermudas' by Andrew Marvell depicts the ideals of the original dream, describing the migration across the ocean to a new world, free from the corruption of Europe. They 'row'd along' through the water...
  • Tom And Gatsby
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald's timeless novel, The Great Gatsby, is a fictional depiction of American life in the Jazz Age. Contrasting the characters' methods of dealing with certain situations makes the differences in their attitudes towards love and money apparent. The actions of two major characters, Jay Gatsby, a former military man, and Tom Buchanan, a wealthy New Haven Graduate, are compared throughout the novel in similar situations. Each characters actions are concise and indifferent to those of...

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