The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald was the quintessential example of literature that displayed the corruption in the 1920s. The main quality I liked about The Great Gatsby is was the way Fitzgerald was able to take a story that seemed like a normal love story and turned it into much more. ... Fitzgerald uses the character Nick to observe the two sides of the problem presented. ... The Great Gatsby was the first thing that came to mind when I read the assignment because it accurately portrays the spirit of the times. ... This timeless classic was perfect because of the picture painted by...

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The Great Gatsby is an excellent novel, which greatly depicts the roaring twenties, and what is was like during the Jazz age. The Great Gatsby was written by Scott Fitzgerald, an odd, interesting but greatly intelligent man, who wrote the popular book shortly after he married his wife Zelda. ... In the novel, The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald describes and contrasts the difference between east and west egg, shows the separation of the upper class and provides some insight with the use of symbolism of color. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald describes and contrasts the two fictional p...

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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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The Great Gatsby The novel The Great Gatsby was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and is a famous peice of English literature. ... I think that the movie "The Great Gatsby" is sucessful in capturing the work of the author on screen. I think the movie we watched in class does a nice job at capturing the mood of The Great Gatsby. ... One thing that bothered me were the changes made to the movie "The Great Gatsby" from the book. ...

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In The Great Gatsby, by F. ... Fitzgerald illustrates through imagery that there is always someone constantly judging you on your actions. ... Fitzgerald also illustrates that even with money you can not hope to achieve your goals and dreams. ... Gatsby house could represent the American Dream that he wished to obtain, but failed to do so. ... Fitzgerald demonstrates in The Great Gatsby that money is valued over things like marriage, children, family, and love. ...

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The Great Gatsby, a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, deals with the difficulty of attaining the American dream. ... Fitzgerald employs love to reveal the downfall of individuals who attempt to obtain the imaginary goals of the American dream. ... Fitzgerald writes, "Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay." (79) Gatsby uses his wealth to move himself closer to the American dream. ... Nick Carraway, the unusual narrator, is utilized by Fitzgerald to help Gatsby find his American dream. ...

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The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby was wrote by F. ... Fitzgerald was born in St. ... 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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Ultimately both Fitzgerald and Miller see the American Dream as a failure. ... 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. ... 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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The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a novel that illustrates American Culture in the 1920's. ... Fitzgerald paints a vivid portrait of a land ruined by greed and wastefulness. ... Fitzgerald depicts life among the ashes as no life at all. ... In the Great Gatsby the monochromatic world, known as the "Valley of Ashes," is really a symbol of both a wasted land and exhausted people of an industrial society. ...

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The Great Gatsby is a book about class, wealth, and social standing. ... Scott Fitzgerald uses in "The Great Gatsby". ... Scott Fitzgerald uses are the eyes of T.J. ... Throughout the book, "The Great Gatsby", F. ... The author used symbolism to convey the way that things should be, as far as morals, and to give light to the immoral acts that occur in the book "The Great Gatsby"....

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Is the Great Gatsby relevant to today's society? ... Fitzgerald gives us a great social commentary on these lavish individuals. ... Another character in the Great Gatsby that makes it relevant to modern day is Jordan Baker. ... This finally brings us to the failure of the "American Dream" in the Great Gatsby. ... Whether or not Fitzgerald meant for the Great Gatsby to be a lasting impression of America, it truly has been....

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Eckleburg in The Great Gatsby Henry David Thoreau once said, "Men have become the tools of their tools." This statement very closely follows the underlying meaning of the Great Gatsby. ... That idea, is indirectly portrayed throughout the Great Gatsby through the symbolic character of Dr. ... Fitzgerald often uses the word careless in describing the characters and events in the Great Gatsby. ... Throughout the Great Gatsby every tragedy, use of color, and major occurrence relates to Dr. ...

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Jay Gatsby, a character created by F. Scott Fitzgerald in the novel The Great Gatsby, is a character whose "personality determines his fate" or future and to talk of his personality will "bankrupt the universe" because he is a debatable character. ... Gatsby says, "lived like a young rajah in all the capitals of Europe...collected jewels, hunting big game, painting a little...and trying to forget something very sad that had happened"(Fitzgerald 70). ... In The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a character whose "personality determines his fate" or future and to talk of his personalit...

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The Great Gatsby by F. ... Fitzgerald criticizes the American Dream using multiple symbols in his book, The Great Gatsby. ... Fitzgerald ends the novel by saying, "Gatsby believed in the green light. ... The eyes and the green light and the characters houses are all symbols that Fitzgerald uses to critique the American Dream in The Great Gatsby. ... In The Great Gatsby, Nick was the American Fool. ...

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Scott Fitzgerald illuminates "The Great Gatsby" with light, highlighting the glitz; similarly, the absence of light accentuates the grit of the novel. ... There is an interplay between light and every individual in The Great Gatsby. ... Fitzgerald thus uses light to add temporal dimension and an edge of uneasiness to The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald juxtaposes both light and dark in his descriptions to paint his picture of Gatsby's world, as Nick sees it. In a way, Fitzgerald may be compared to the great Impressionist painters, who considered light and its inconstant nature one of the key el...

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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 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 the American dream utterly well. ... This classic portrayed the American dream to a great extent, Fitzgerald was ...

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In the history of the United States of America the 1920s will always be marked as a time of great wealth, prosperity and corruption. This is easily shown to us in the novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald. ... Throughout the story Fitzgerald uses many symbols such as the Green light seen at the end of Daisy's dock, the wild and illustrious parties thrown by Gatsby, and the eyes of Doctor T. ... Scott Fitzgerald uses the symbols of: Daisy's Green light, Gatsby's wild parties, and the "Eyes of Doctor T. ...

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Scott Fitzgerald got his inspiration from Al Capone when writing The Great Gatsby. Either way, The Great Gatsby has proved to be a great American novel "with its dynamic cast of characters, rich symbolism, portrayal of the speakeasy life, and a catastrophic love triangle. ... He is biased towards Gatsby and acts like his puppet at times; allowing Gatsby to use him to get closer to Daisy. ... Fitzgerald makes up for this flaw with Gatsby and Daisy's dynamic relationship. ... Fitzgerald exemplifies Daisy as the typical "gold digger;- associating only with Gatsby again because he...

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Scott Fitzgerald used the imagery of colours in his book The Great Gatsby. ... To Gatsby, Daisy represents innocence and purity; however, Fitzgerald uses different shades of white to hide her corruption. ... The most important symbol, however, is Gatsby's car. ... Fitzgerald used green most frequently to symbolize Gatsby's love for Daisy Buchanan. ... In The Great Gatsby, colors are employed throughout the pages to convey impressionistic, but important, images to the reader. ...

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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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There are several themes in the movie The Great Gatsby. ... Scott Fitzgerald has a larger, less romantic point he is trying to drive into the reader. ... Next, we see how, at Jay Gatsby's party, Tom is walking around commenting about the other people at the party, and how they are not as good as him, because they are "New Money," and not "Old Money" like himself. ... In conclusion, there are a couple themes from the movie, The Great Gatsby. ... Scott Fitzgerald was trying to covey a picture of, not a romantic era, but one of declining morals and the shallowness of the American people. ...

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The American Dream and How it is portrayed in The Great Gatsby By: Emma Macklin The Great Gatsby is a novel published in 1925, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and is narrated by a character named Nick Carraway. ... The Great Gatsby is a novel of tragedy, love and rich vs. poor. ... Scott Fitzgerald portrays the American Dream in the novel The Great Gatsby as this way of life that majority of people in this era were striving towards, and were doing anything and everything to achieve it. ... Fitzgerald meticulously shows in The Great Gatsby that the American Dream is a state of being...

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The Great Gatsby, a novel by F. ... In The Great Gatsby, for Jay, the dream is that through wealth and power, he can gain happiness. ... Soon Gatsby meets Nick Carraway, a cousin of Daisy, who agrees to set up a meeting, "He wants to know...if you'll invite Daisy to your house some afternoon and then let him come over, "(Fitzgerald 83). ... "Yes...but of course I'll say I was," (Fitzgerald 151). ... (Fitzgerald 152). ...

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The Great Gatsby The Corruption Of The American Dream "The Great Gatsby" is a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. ... I am going to show how effective Fitzgerald is at portraying the materialism in the American society throughout his novel "The great Gatsby". ... The main characters in Fitzgerald's novel are symbols of some aspects of the American Dream. ... The Great Gatsby was set in the 1920s "The Jazz Age", in the very rich areas of West and East Egg- these two adjacent egg shaped land formations, contrast each other. ...

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We see all three of these aspects perfectly portrayed in The Great Gatsby, a novel by Francis Scott Fitzgerald. ... " (Fitzgerald 140). ... he whimpered 'he didn't even stop his car'" (Fitzgerald 149). ... The fellow had it coming to him" (Fitzgerald 187). ... " (Fitzgerald 137). ...

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