In a contrasting impression of Gatsby that Nick bears towards the end of the book, we are able to observe how his assumption of Gatsby once again dictates his description of him. ... Unlike in The Great Gatsby, where the impression of Gatsby's character is constantly changing, the impression of Lennie's character remains relatively constant. ... The events are presented in a sequential, systematic manner that is meant to shape and guide the reader's train of thought. ... However, in the case of The Great Gatsby, Nick is one of the characters in the book and probably the one most...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Great Gatsby is an excellent novel, which greatly depicts the roaring twenties, and what is was like during the Jazz age. The Great Gatsby was written by Scott Fitzgerald, an odd, interesting but greatly intelligent man, who wrote the popular book shortly after he married his wife Zelda. ... In the novel, The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald describes and contrasts the two fictional peninsulas on Long Island known in the novel as east and west egg. ... Gatsby associates it with Daisy, and he reaches toward it in the darkness as a guiding light to lead him to his goal. ... The novel, The Great Gats...

• Word Count: 762
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• Grade Level: High School

Scott Fitzgerald novel, The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway is portrayed as a confidant to Jay Gatsby. ... Nick is our guide, pathfinder, in The Great Gatsby as he relates the story as he sees it and from what others have told him. ... The role of Nick Carraway is so important to the book that the character of Jay Gatsby could not exist. ... His ability to laugh at Gatsby and his false beliefs shows he's neither charmed not wholly disgusted by Gatsby. ... Nick is unlike the other characters of the book; he is not one of the "careless people." ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In The Great Gatsby, a theme widely explored by Fitzgerald is how class divisions that separate the wealthy from everyone else are presented. ... The wealthy elite are first presented in the first chapter of the Great Gatsby. ... This is shown in the Great Gatsby when Owl Eyes crashes the car at Gatsby's party in chapter three (p43), and how he knew "very little about driving.... Vile Bodies enhances the understanding of the Great Gatsby in this way through the satirical naming sense, suggesting that the names given in the Great Gatsby too have their own unique purposes. Indeed, i...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Scott Fitzgerald's book The Great Gatsby. ... Furthermore, leaving him only dreams and the "green light" to guide him. ... It was Gatsby's mansion. ... Money drives Gatsby. ... Both objects being important in his life, however once he has Daisy close to him, "His count of enchanting objects had diminished by one," (100) leaving him in awe and forgetting all that has built him up to be who he is, Gatsby a man with great wealth. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

This novel makes you want to reach in and guide each person to what is morally correct, but the moral decadence are what make it so intriguing. ... Eckleberg's eyes give a completely different perspective to the book. ... Nick describes Owl Eyes: "He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse." ... In another scene, when Gatsby and Nick go to the Buchanans' for lunch towards the end of the book, Gatsby sees Daisy and Tom's child for the first time. ... Fitzgerald integrates symb...

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• Grade Level: High School

Generally, anti-heroes have faced some hardship or tragedy, internal or external, which guides their actions. ... The Gilded Age produced the infamous Jay Gatsby of The Great Gatsby by F. ... Gatsby grew up in poverty, and through organized crime, he was able to emerge as a mysterious yet influential character. ... Nonetheless, Jay Gatsby is passionate and optimistic, which is something the reader can relate to. ... Leonard (1975) discusses how we are "a comic book generation; that is our heroes are comic book heroes, our ideas of justice and morality are comic book ideas, and their gods ...

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The Great Gatsby was a time when Gatsby threw many famous parties, with decorations from wall to wall with many different colors. ... For example, The Phantom of the Opera opened in theaters, Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington made their first recording, and the Great War took place. ... Since Armstrong was being noticed, the greatest cornet player in his town, Joe "King " Oliver, became a mentor to Armstrong to guide him on the horn and from time to time used him as a substitute. ...

• Word Count: 3064
• Approx Pages: 12
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• Grade Level: High School