" Gatsby turned out alright in the end; it is what preyed upon Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short winded elations of men." ... When Gatsby discovers that his dream of having everything be the same between him and Daisy, that time has stood still and she has always loved him, is forever gone when he goes to eat lunch at the Buchanan's house. There, he meets Daisy and Tom's daughter and is caught off guard, "He kept looking at the child with surprise. ... The child is proof to Gatsby...

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• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

"He saw me looking with admiration at his car."" ... It was a rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hat-boxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of wind-shields that mirrored a dozen suns. ... This quote correlates the color green with money. ... Gatsby needs money to live the life that he does, and to get back together with Daisy. ... This is a very important interpretation of green, since it deals with the success that Gatsby had, which came with him being able to achieve his goals and do things that h...

• Word Count: 1898
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

When Daisy is first introduced, she is laid out on a couch with the wind blowing around her. ... Her helplessness explained her lack of confrontation with her husband and her lack of self-control and reliability in her situation with Gatsby, Although she was apparently very aware that Tom was having an affair, she continued to stay with him, and didn't even seem to treat him differently or discourage him from his affair. ... Nick says that "whatever intentions, whatever courage she had had were definitely gone" (135). ... Her carelessness is one of the only qualities she shares with her h...

• Word Count: 1869
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs... He lived in mystery and he spoke with the sophistication of a man educated at Oxford. " I knew I had discovered a man of fine breeding after I talked with him an hour. ... His most trusted associates spoke of him with respect. ... You cannot win the ideal with the corrupt, and you cannot buy integrity or taste with dollars- (Lewis 52). ... Gatsby's dream ended in ultimate failure, with his death. ...

• Word Count: 2638
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

She thinks that she can solve the problems of the world because she has gone to a few more places than other people have and that she knows more than other people do. ... One of Nick's Characteristics that is incompatible with Toms is that Nick is cautious when speaking. ... 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. ... Go and buy ten more dogs with it. ... With the realization that the way one wants to be treated he ...

• Word Count: 6164
• Approx Pages: 25
• Grade Level: High School