This concepts is clearly depicted and entrenched in the novel The Great Gatsby by F. ... The Great Gatsby explains and portrays these faults through imminent events in the book and the eventual downfall of Gatsby. ... You can attain it in a short amount of time, but you can also lose in a short amount of time. In all, the concept of the American dream was embedded in the underlying themes of The Great Gatsby. Gatsby in himself, achieves the American dream of living high and gaining fortune in a short amount of time; jumping from one position to another in a short distance of time. ...

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The book "The Great Gatsby" by Scott Fitzgerald depicts the icon of wealth, happiness, social acceptance, women, politics as well as economics. ... Women in the jazz age were a mirror image of the characters of the Great Gatsby. ... This line is describing the hairstyle of the time which was kept short and masculine than having long hair past the shoulder. ... Not only does the Great Gatsby capture the view of women during the Jazz Age but also the commercial growth and society. ... Although The Great Gatsby is fiction, it provides readers with the veracity of how the other side live...

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The film "The Great Gatsby- begins its story with the introduction of Nick Caraway, a native of Minnesota. ... A short time later, Tom begins to grow suspicious of his Daisy and Gatsby's relationship. ... On the surface "The Great Gatsby- is a story of ill-fated love between a man and a woman. ... The recklessness that led to parties and wild jazz music "represented in "The Great Gatsby- by the parties that Gatsby throws every Saturday night "resulted ultimately in the corruption of the American dream. ... As a whole "The Great Gatsby- is a very strong film, but I did find on...

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Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" (1925). ... Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" is set in the 1920's, in Eastern America in a period well known as the "Jazz Age", during prohibition in America. ... He started out from a very poor mid-western background and worked hard to become nothing short of a millionaire. ... However in his short life Gatsby was never truly happy. ... This makes Gatsby very rich and allows him to live the extravagant lifestyle he dreamt of. ...

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In the novel The Great Gatsby, by F. ... Corruption of people and society is a major theme in The Great Gatsby, which relates to almost everything in the novel. ... There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy came short of his dreams- not through her own fault but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. ... In a way, Gatsby was a corrupt man. ... Corruption of people and society is a major theme in The Great Gatsby, which relates to almost everything in the novel. ...

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The novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. ... "Look at this," said Gatsby quickly. ... Gatsby loved the Daisy of the past. ... The short lived affair with Daisy was ended by the tragic car accident. ... There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams - not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion." (92) Gatsby's expectations of the young eighteen year old girl fell short of what he had dreamed. ...

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Fitzgerald does exactly this in The Great Gatsby, by using a very sincere character, Nick, to be the narrator. ... In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald focuses on privileged young people between the age of 20 and 30 years. ... The Great Gatsby questioned the American Dream and how real it was. Although the literal tragedy in The Great Gatsby was Gatsby's death, the real tragedy is that Gatsby's death represents the failure of the American Dream. ... Fitzgerald uses The Great Gatsby to question the society of the 1920's. ...

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Set in 1920's America - pre stock market crash - in the rich suburbs of New York known as East and West Egg, "The Great Gatsby" by F. ... In the Great Gatsby, no character is flawless, and it is through these imperfections that Fitzgerald highlights the importance of dreams. ... Gatsby however, does not fall into this stereotype. ... It was Gatsby's mansion." ... To look at it negatively it shows the superficiality of Daisy's world that Gatsby must build such a house and throw such "lavish parties" to impress her and hope she "walks in to" one of them, but also as a by-prod...

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An ironic mode is portrayed through the novel The Great Gatsby because main character Jay Gatsby is in fact no great man. After inheriting some money Gatsby creates his style and personality through multiple lies and parties that perpetuate into the night. Trying to fit in Gatsby convinces many telling them "I[Gatsby] was brought up in America but educated at Oxford... "; however he was only able to get there because of a misunderstanding after the war, even then he was only there for a short period of time. ... When I think of Gatsby and his so called establishment in life he brings me t...

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This is the same case for the movie The Great Gatsby. ... Even from the first meet, the director is already portraying his own secretive "Great Gatsby."" ... It is a fundamental element that the director creates himself to give the audience a picture of Gatsby's profound love till death, another image of Gatsby that the director uses for his "Great Gatsby."" ... He appears in a short scene at Gatsby's party; other than that, he is nowhere to be seen in the library or at the funeral. ... Therefore, although The Great Gatsby movie originated from a novel, the movie has its own "Gr...

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The central conflict in "The Great Gatsby," (announced by Nick in the fourth paragraph of the book), is the conflict between Gatsby's dream and the reality that "the foul dust which floats in the wake of his dreams." Gatsby, Nick tells us, "turned out all right in the end"; the dreamer remains as pure, as inviolable, at bottom, as his dream of a greatness, an attainment "commensurate to man's capacity for wonder." ... Gatsby, Nick tells us, is "like an ecstatic patron of recurrent light." ... The light-dark symbolism is employed with great care. ... They were both in white, and ...

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Nick Carraway the narrator of The Great Gatsby has qualities, which are the complete opposite of those of Tom Buchanan, his cousin-in-law. ... Gatz said something that Nick disagreed with, Nick still hesitantly, agreed with him, as to not hurt an old man's feelings; as apparent by the following quote: "If he lived, he would have been a great man. ... Willison, to Gatsby. ... What if I did tell him (Gatsby)? ... In The Great Gatsby, there are three illicit relationships: Gatsby and Daisy, Nick and Jordan, and Tom and Myrtle. ...

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In "The Great Gatsby", a novel written by Scott F. ... Gatsby believed in The Great American Dream in which individuals achieve their dreams with effort and determination. ... Gatsby pursued his vision with great intensity; the end of the novel recognized him as an admirable character. ... Gatsby was referred to as being great for reasons beyond his financial wealth. ... The loss of the fight does not, however serve to make Gatsby the great hero; it bears no relevance to his greatness. ...

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The Great Gatsby is a classical masterpiece produced by Fitzgerald invoking pleasure to the audience. ... One major theme of The Great Gatsby is about making money rapidly in the Land of Opportunity, which was where it assured the fate for success in acquiring great wealth. ... The stock market made the Americans rich in a short amount of time until the Great Depression came along. ... The love from Daisy to Gatsby was long lost when she married Tom Buchanan, her other unsympathetic half. ... The Great Gatsby can be such a classical pleasurable to read due to the reason that it conveyed ...

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The Great Gatsby In the book The Great Gatsby, by F. ... Now, the name of the book is called "The Great Gatsby", but we have never seen him, except the shadow in chapter 1, nor have we have any idea of why he is "great". ... He says, "There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams-not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. ... So in a way, it does not really change the fact that we still think Gatsby is a great guy. ... The story of Gatsby is placed throughout the book to build up a great mystery of a perso...

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Scott Fitzgerald's, The Great Gatsby, and John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, are two novels that deal with the tragic culmination of the American Dream, personified through respective protagonists. ... In The Great Gatsby, Nick states at the start of the story that he is "inclined to reserve all judgments," (Fitzgerald, 1) and appears to keep to his word. ... The description of the characters in Of Mice and Men is not entirely objective either, and is not short of hyperbole and exaggeration. ... Unlike in The Great Gatsby, where the impression of Gatsby's character is constantly ...

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Fitzgerald's The Great Winter Dream F. ... This is extremely apparent throughout the short story "Winter Dreams" and The Great Gatsby. ... Dexter and Gatsby both used their newfound wealth for their own personal enjoyment. ... The parallelism between Judy and Daisy is less evident than that of Dexter and Gatsby. ... Judy leads to Dexter's unhappiness and Daisy leads to Gatsby's death....

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The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby was wrote by F. ... Paul Academy, the Newman School, and had attended Princeton for a short while. ... The plot of The Great Gatsby was about Jay Gatsby's attempt to win back Daisy Buchanan now that he had attained money. ... In conclusion, The Great Gatsby is Fitzgerald's masterpiece work of literature that will always be a classic. ... The Great Gatsby was a classic of the twentieth century, and will probably be a classic for many more years to come. ...

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The Great Gatsby From Freedom and Equality to Materialism and Merit: The Demoralization of the American Dream The American Dream during the time of our forefathers was for one to be free, equal, and entirely self-made. ... Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby, the author lives the corruption of this dream through Tom and Daisy (the inheritors of success), Gatsby (the achiever of success), and Myrtle (the seeker of success). ... In short, this excerpt proves how Jay is drawn into the American Dream and held there to see the importance of his own self-image. Gatsby notices th...

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The Great Gatsby portrays 1920's life. ... They endlessly seek personal advancement and overall happiness by any means necessary, yet in the end, they fall short of true happiness. Throughout the novel, moral decadence, frequent exploitation, and the unobtainable American Dream represent significant themes in understanding various interpretations of The Great Gatsby's storyline. ... Daisy shows a great lack of moral character when she quickly involves herself in an affair with Gatsby. ... In conclusion, moral decadence, frequent exploitation, and the unobtainable American Dream ...

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Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is read in many college level English courses. ... Throughout The Great Gatsby there are many examples of Fitzgerald's use of symbolism and imagery. ... Many of the symbols in The Great Gatsby are associated with colors, which effectively compounds their importance. ... What symbolic meaning does the "green light" have in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby? ... The American Dream can be seen as a substitute for Gatsby's dream of being with Daisy or his pursuit of money, and Fitzgerald proves that life is to short to focus on one particula...

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The Great Gatsby is a novel written by F. ... There have been several movies about this novel, and The Great Gatsby released in 1974 is certainly one of the successful movies. ... In the book, The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald does an excellent job in the character development of the main characters. ... The reader learns a lot about Gatsby's background when Fitzgerald writes how Gatsby changed his name from James Gatz, representing poor and lazy farm boy from North Dakota, to James Gatsby, a hardworking man with a dream to become rich so he can marry Daisy. ... This is novel is very compli...

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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. ... At this point Gatsby's origins are unclear, but Gatsby clarifies the story: he tells Nick that he is from a wealthy San Francisco and was educated at Oxford after serving in the Great War (for which he received a number of decorations). ......

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