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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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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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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"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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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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Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby has endured as a classic glimpse into a period of time that is now referred to as the Roaring 20s - an American decade marked by extravagance, self-gratification and indifference. ... On its simplest level, The Great Gatsby is Nick Carraway's narration and recollection of events stemming from his meeting and subsequent interaction with Jay Gatsby during the summer of 1922 in Long Island, New York. ... The Great Gatsby is, in some respects, somewhat autobiographical in that Fitzgerald relied on his life experiences to form certain aspects of the n...

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