Jay Gatsby was born James Gatz, was from a poor background and from a young age longed to achieve better for himself. ... At the age of seventeen, "James Gatz- that was really, or at least legally his name" (98), began to call himself Jay Gatsby when he met Dan Cody. ... Not only did Gatsby see Daisy as gilded and flawless, which she was not, but refused to accept her for who she was and how she had changed. ...

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The Great Gatsby The 1920s was a time in American History where the white-collar men and the socially elite lived a life laced with luxury. Much like the Gilded Age, however, it was not as it seemed from the surface. Writer F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote many books delving into the 1920s and how the p...

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Anti-heroes have been around for centuries. Their origins can be traced back thousands of years, especially in ancient Roman and Greek mythology. Literary works such as the Iliad and Odyssey by Homer show evidence characteristic of an anti-hero. Anti-heroes are protagonists who, unlike the traditio...

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