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". ... 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 person who is a step above every body else. ... It is a very good way of intriguing readers to keep reading to find out why Gatsby is so great, and how he got to be so famous. ...

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The Great Gatsby Pathetic is a term used to describe someone who is pitifully unsuccessful. ... In the novel The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is a pathetic character because he wasted his whole life chasing an unrealistic dream. ... Jay Gatsby is dead. ... The Great Gatsby. ... Twentieth Century Interpretations of the Great Gatsby. ...

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The Great Gatsby portrays 1920's life. ... 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. ... When Gatsby dies, only Nick, one of Gatsby's guests, a few of his servants, and Gatsby's father attend the funeral (Fitzgerald 182-183). ... In conclusion, moral decadence, frequent exploitation, and the unobtainable Am...

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The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby, written by F.Scott Fitzgerald, is a novel about American lives amongst society in the 1920's. ... The Great Gatsby exemplifies how materialistic living from day to day is idealistic in pursuit of happiness. ... Gatsby will do anything to have Daisy. ... Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby, strives to achieve an accurate hypothesis of life during the nineteen twenties. ... Jay Gatsby goes to great lengths to recapture the past by regaining daisy's love. ...

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When posed with the question, "How does Fitzgerald convey the theme of the American Dream throughout The Great Gatsby?" ... Jay Gatsby, the protagonist of The Great Gatsby, seems to represent this American Dream. ... Fitzgerald mentions Gatsby wearing a pink suit at one time in The Great Gatsby. ... This stereotype is evident in The Great Gatsby as well as in other messages throughout our culture. ... There are many issues that can be analyzed within The Great Gatsby. ...

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In The Great Gatsby "geographical locations separate social classes" (Hoggart 204). ... "New York City is the glitz and immortality district of The Great Gatsby" (Mulford). ... Scott Fitzgerald blends color, weather, and seasons into The Great Gatsby. ... "The Great Gatsby". ... "Fitzgerald, Perkins, Great Gatsby....

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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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The Great Gatsby Essay In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. ... This statement reflects the main issues in The Great Gatsby such as aimlessness, carelessness, materialism and corruption. ... Gatsby [demands].". ... Tom Buchanan lies about owning Gatsby's car: "I bought it last week". ... Gatsby has set up a definite, point by point plan: "Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just around the bay.". ...

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In The Great Gatsby, Scott Fitzgerald uses the color green in regards to many different aspects of the novel. ... The color green is also used in The Great Gatsby to represent money and wealth. ... Gatsby himself I decided to call to him. ... The green light is near Gatsby. ... Compared to the great distance that had separated him from Daisy it had seemed very near to her, almost touching her. ...

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Exploring the theme of "appearance vs. reality" 18/4/03 in "The Great Gatsby" In "The Great Gatsby", the theme of "appearance vs. reality" is explored in great detail. Jay Gatsby's dream and hope is to win Daisy back, as Gatsby seems to think that she is the perfect girl for him. ... He even compares her to money when he says, "Her voice is full of money" (The Great Gatsby 115). ... I"ll bet he killed a man" (Gatsby 45). ... Finally, the American dream, which appeared to be that America, represented a land of promise a...

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"The Great Gatsby", a novel by F. ... "The Great Gatsby" is being told through the eyes of Nick Carraway, Daisy's cousin, who moves into New York City making a living while selling bonds. ... "Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy of bay, just out into the most domesticated body of salt water in the Western Hemisphere, the great barnyard of Long Island Sound" (Fitzgerald 9). ... He is also able to make Gatsby a more sympathetic character because of Nick's decision to become Gatsby's friend. ... So the green l...

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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. ... Nevertheless, Gatsby is "great" because of his optimism and how he changes his dreams into a reality. ... The Great Gatsby finishes on the idea that reality protrudes through the dreams of Jay Gatz. ...

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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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Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby Tom Buchanan and Jay Gatsby have many things in common. ... Gatsby, however, is not as ruthless as Tom is. ... Tom is selfish while Gatsby is selfless. ... In The Great Gatsby Tom Buchanan and Jay Gatsby are portrayed as totally different people, but they do share many of the same characteristics. ... It's unfair, just like Gatsby's situation. ...

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Scott Fitzgerald uses the technique of conflicting, but somewhat similar characters in The Great Gatsby in order to demonstrate how pursuing one's desires can lead to both destruction and growth. ... As the title infers, Jay Gatsby is nothing short of great. ... Both Tom and Gatsby are motivated by a woman, whether it is Daisy and Myrtle for Tom or just Daisy for Gatsby. ... Although Gatsby and Tom are very much alike, Tom is a much more outwardly violent and aggressive man than Gatsby, making him much like a vision of Gatsby's evil alter ego. ... If placed in correct order, these o...

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The Great Gatsby Group Pressure on the Individual: An individual has many pressures put on him/her from society. ... When Gatsby had shown his face at the table. ... Nick starts to believe what Gatsby is saying after Gatsby presents a medal and pictures from his Oxford days. Then Jordan explains to Nick how Gatsby and Daisy together. ... Then Daisy heard Gatsby's name for the first time in four years. ...

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Fitzgerald, as a member of "the lost generation", publish his The Great Gatsby in 1925 and confirmed his status as a chronicler and poet laureate in the jazz age. ... However, what makes Fitzgerald great is by no means the "author's voice" in the work, but his marvelous wit to symbolically fuse the individual with the outer-world and the personal emotions with social environment. ... The symbolism of the hero evidently plays a vital role throughout the story.From the legendary life of Gatsby, we can actually find a great deal of Fitzgerald himself in it. ... So to some degree, the relatio...

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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. ... Nick warned Gatsby about Daisy's new life, although Gatsby didn't insist on it being true. ... "Who is this Gatsby anyhow? ... " (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 contributing elements to belonging to the generation that changed society, forever....

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In The Great Gatsby, the longing for the real American Dream---a simple white picket fence, a perfect family, a true love, and security---is not uncommon, but the corruption is characterized by greed and overpowered by money and material wealth. ... In the novel, The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway quotes, "Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he ne...

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Within the novel, The Great Gatsby, F. ... According to Dream, Design, and Interpretation in The Great Gatsby, James Gatz's attempt to become Jay Gatsby, his attempt to live out his invented history, entails an attempt to realize his "unutterable" dream. ... In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses Gatsby to symbolize a person in whom the Dream is still very much alive as part of a vanished past where America was seen as a land of great opportunity. ... Gatsby, for all his wealth and greatness, could not become a part of their world; his noble attempt to engineer his own destiny was sabotaged...

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Every character in the Great Gatsby written by F. ... In his mind, Gatsby was "the son of God.... Besides the reconstruction of Gatsby's identity, Gatsby's death can also be viewed through a marxist lens in which money leaves him as an isolated individual. ... Similar to Gatsby, Daisy has other motives for keeping her relationships, besides just love; she desires that Tom and Gatsby feel bounded to her. ... By using marxist and feminist lenses to view the Great Gatsby, the social hierarchy of the 1920's is shown to lure characters into its depths by using paper money, an ad...

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He wrote many notable novels in his career, and one of them is Great Gatsby. ... Great Gatsby is a story of the hopeless love between a man and a woman in early 1920's. ... Great Gatsby was set in 1922 summer in New York on two areas, East Egg and West Egg. ... The Great Gatsby was a wonderful movie and a book. ... The Great Gatsby shows an example of how failure people can succeed. ...

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The Great Gatsby and the American Dream F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is considered by many to be THE novel about the American Dream. ... (Fitzgerald 111) Daisy's reactions justify Gatsby's beliefs. ... Gatsby does not believe in social boundaries. ... (Lehan 58) Gatsby dreams that Daisy will crush Tom with a declaration of undying love for Gatsby. ...

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Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, the "roaring twenties" depicts the post-war generation of the newly rich and wannabes, whose extravagant lifestyles center around parties, wealth and affairs. ... Gatsby emphasizes his desire and wish to win Daisy over. ... Gatsby watches over the water many times, reaching to Daisy. ... The light embodies Gatsby's hope of one day obtaining Daisy. ... Revealed through many characters, yellow exemplifies the idea of falsity and corruption in the Great Gatsby. ...

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The Great Gatsby is a perfect illustration of the destructive power of dreams. ... Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby. ... In The Great Gatsby, Scott Fitzgerald illustrates the American Dream and the "foul dust" or the carelessness of a society that floats in the wake of this dream. ... Myrtle Wilson's desire for upper class status rivals that of all other characters in The Great Gatsby. ... I agree that The Great Gatsby is a perfect example of the destructive power of dreams. ...

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