There were a few differences that are worth noting however. ... The Great Gatsby issues many symbols which are reflected in the film as well as the novel. ... After reading and watching The Great Gatsby the main idea that comes to everyone's mind is the fact that Gatsby and Daisy's relationship fell about, because of money, power, and greed. ... The themes of the film in The Great Gatsby relate to the themes of the novel a great amount. ... Overall The Great Gatsby contains great amount of irony, symbolism, and foreshadowing. ...

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In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby, Myrtle Wilson, and Tom Buchanan are all symbols of people in the lost generation in America during the early 1920's. ... (History Lecture Notes) Gatsby's intentions to build this fortune were entirely pure and passive. ... (History Lecture Notes) Ironically, Gatsby was a soul who wasn't lost like the others, he wasn't a fool lost for money, but lost for love. ... " (The Great Gatsby 107) Tom wasn't acceptive of the fact that Gatsby was new money. ... In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby, Myrtle Wilson, and Tom Buchanan, were the major ...

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The novel "The Great Gatsby- was written in the 1920's by the novelist Scott Fitzgerald. ... It is interesting to note here that the author uses the word pyramids instead of piles just to show the grandness and the hugeness of "Gatsby's- extravagance. ... One meaning is that the author is trying to symbolize that "Gatsby- did not have a garden but since his house was on the coast the sea was his garden. ... The author uses it several times just to make the reader aware of "Gatsby's- ostentatious and grand party. ... The author puts his point across, the disapproval of "Gats...

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-------------------------------------------------------------- The Great Gatsby --- F. ... Myrtyle and her husband live at her husbands place of work...a mechanic's garage.....Tom Buchanan previously made great efforts to get Nick to "see his girl." ... Nick expresses in his notes that all that has been written was not all that engrossed him in his life during that point and time. ... Thereafter he joined the Army in the Great War and became an honoured soldier. ... Nick tells Gatsby that he wish es to know Gatsby's alterior motive to having lunch and tea with him and Jordan Bake...

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Short Summary of The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby is a specific portrait of American society during the Roaring Twenties, yet tells the quintessential American story of a man rising from rags to riches only to find that whatever benefits his wealth affords, it cannot grant him the privileges of class and status. ... Other than Wilson's garage, the only other feature of note is a large advertisement for an optometrist, two large eyes that look over the barren area. ... At this point Gatsby's origins are unclear, but Gatsby clarifies the story: he t...

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Gatsby's Hopes and Dreams for his Future The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald is recognized in American Literature as one of his greatest achievements. ... The Great Gatsby was written in a poor society with no moral virtues. ... In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby will do anything to fulfill his hopes and dreams. ... "It is on this note of accommodation, of very modest dreams in light of the sobering realities of history, that The Great Gatsby ends" (Steinbrink 181). The Great Gatsby finishes on the idea that reality protrudes through the dreams of Jay Gatz. ...

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He notes every little detail about Daisy, even the little green light on at the end of her dock. ... Gatsby was a great man. ... Gatsby was not born a great man, he became one. ... Even in death Gatsby was seen as a great man. " If he'd of lived he'd of been a great man-(176). It was not only his personality and accomplishments that made Gatsby so great, his dream also contributed to his greatness. ...

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In the novel The Great Gatsby, by F. ... Gatsby is always concerned about his status. ... Gatsby wants to build a reputation. ... Gatsby simply compares her voice to money. ... Gatsby wanted to build a reputation and did not necessarily care about the persona he put out, as long as people took note and admired him. ...

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In Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby, symbolism sets up the reader to fully understand the plot and character's actions in the story. ... Compared to the great distance that had separated him from Daisy it had seemed very near to her, almost touching her " (93). When Gatsby and Daisy are finally together, Gatsby's ambition vanishes. ... Nick notes: I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. ... By following the reappearance of the green light throughout the novel, one might conclude that this particular light d...

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In the classic novel, The Great Gatsby, F. ... While talking to Gatsby for the first time in many years, Daisy's voice is heard "on a clear artificial note I certainly am awfully glad to see you again'- (Fitzgerald 91). ... In several instances, Fitzgerald denotes a tone of respect toward Gatsby and his strong will and good character. When Daisy Buchanan first is in Gatsby's house, she remarks "I love it, but I don't see how you live there all alone' - and then Gatsby simply replies "I keep it full of interesting people, night and day. ... The society of tod...

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In The Great Gatsby, F. ... David Trask notes, "What was that business? ... In The Great Gatsby contains many different use of irony. ... The use of irony, in The Great Gatsby is used a countless number of times. ... The Great Gatsby uses satire its through characters. ...

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A great deal of the adulterous and scandalous behavior described in The Great Gatsby is reflective of F. ... The Great Gatsby, a novel written by Fitzgerald, includes many autobiographical elements of the author's life. On the surface, The Great Gatsby is a story about disillusioned love between a man and a woman. ... Davis further notes, "The new money makes Gatsby into an equal of Daisy's and allows him to finally pursue her" (Davis). ... However, by the time The Great Gatsby was published in 1925, Fitzgerald had already begun to feel his own dreams disintegrating, much ...

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Fitzgerald's Personal Background Paralleled with the Characters in The Great Gatsby As F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby in the early 1920's, he used a variety of sources to develop the setting, themes and characters. ... Fitzgerald incorporates his personal background, peers and close friends, to form the personalities of the various characters in The Great Gatsby. ... "The substance for The Great Gatsby is largely material Fitzgerald had used before; at the heart of it once again are the love affairs of Scott Fitzgerald with Ginevra King and Zelda Sayre- (Kenneth Eble...

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Othello and The Great Gatsby display the downfall of two men who loved excessively but "loved not wisely-. ... The conflict between illusion and reality is portrayed evidently throughout The Great Gatsby. ... It is important to note how Gatsby sees himself, how the audience views the tragic figure, and also how Nick perceives Gatsby at this present moment. ... The tragedy of The Great Gatsby is that Gatsby's creative vision has vanished. In spite of his faults and vulgarity, Gatsby is "great- because he is dignified and ennobled by his dream. ...

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Identity is expressed from many different channels within F.Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. ... In the case of The Great Gatsby these cultural surroundings are an early 1920's America, specifically New York and the adjacent Long Island. ... Identity within The Great Gatsby's 1920's American setting is strongly defined as mentioned above by monetary circumstance. ... Colour is highly eminent in The Great Gatsby. ... An additional note for interest is that there was a very famous flapper named Josephine Baker who would have been in New York during the events of The Grea...

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"The Great Gatsby" is a novel written at the period before gay rights. ... Gatsby's love for Daisy may in a way have seemed misplaced, unrealistic and foolish. ... " I was standing beside his bed and he was sitting up between the sheets clad in his underwear with a great portfolio in his hands.... On this note, he plays an ambiguity on sexual matters as to define his character and behavior. ... He expresses his desired for Gatsby more than Tom because Gatsby is loyal to Nick by literally throwing a glamour for romance over Nick's homosexual behaviors. ...

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For Fahey, this dream involves "a rise from rags to riches, of amassing a great fortune that will assure a life of luxuriant ease, power, and beauty in an ideal world untroubled by care and devoted to everlasting pleasure with nothing to intervene between wish and fulfillment (70)." In my essay I bring into discussion issues arising from the pursuit of this dream by examining the lives of the protagonists of two important American literatures: Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser and The Great Gatsby by F. ... Also worth noting in Sister Carrie is the fact that the women in Carrie's world ha...

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This quote by Thorstein Veblen provides an accurate depiction of life in America in The Great Gatsby. ... Gatsby used his great parties to demonstrate his wealth in attempts to reach his ultimate goal; having Daisy. ... Daisy is so euphoric with the success and security that Gatsby can offer. ... Tom and Daisy let Gatsby take the fall for all their mistakes. ... We see this as we note other characters attempt to cross the social lines over to the status of East Egg, their moral integrity drops. ...

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Tom Buchanan and Jay Gatsby show both similarities and differences throughout the novel, The Great Gatsby. ... On the same note, Gatsby spends his money with ease too, but for a different purpose. ... Gatsby uses Nick Carraway to get to Daisy. As soon as Gatsby comes to know that Daisy and Nick are cousins, Nick receives an invitation in the mail from Jay Gatsby. ... Daisy adores the attention Gatsby gives her, but love is quickly overcome by wealth when she finds out more about Gatsby. ...

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The Great Gatsby, often considered F. ... In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald does a stunning job of combining many characters that are complete and total opposites but still interact with the same sort of mysterious nature and passion for life itself. ... He becomes somewhat poetic, describing her voice as "the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again" (9). ... When Tom and Gatsby confront each other and Daisy is involved in the conversation, Gatsby realizes this about Daisy's charm. ... When Tom and Gats...

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Gatsby needs money to live the life that he does. ... He notes the "gleaming white house", the "airy, white rooms," and Daisy lounging in a white dress. ... This Owl Eyes, who was so observant at Gatsby's party, was the only patron of Gatsby's parties that showed up to the funeral. ... It is most important to Gatsby's character. ... The clock was symbolizing time and Gatsby's head resting on it was all the pressure that Gatsby was putting on time. ...

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For those settlers who were not so religiously inclined, America was still a fairyland, a land of great possibilities. ... In a way The Great Gatsby" is also a comment on this condition. ... The Great Gatsby is a novel about what happened to the American dream in the 1920s, a period when the old values that gave substance to the dream had been corrupted by the vulgar pursuit of wealth. ... What Fitzgerald seems to be criticising in The Great Gatsby is not the American Dream itself but the corruption of the American Dream. ... In the chapter-by-chapter analysis, especially in the Notes, Th...

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