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 two fictional peninsulas on Long Island known in the novel as east and west egg. ... Gatsby associates it with Daisy, and he reaches toward it in the darkness as a guiding light to lead him to his goal. ... The novel, The Great Gats...

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Scott Fitzgerald novel, The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway is portrayed as a confidant to Jay Gatsby. ... Nick is our guide, pathfinder, in The Great Gatsby as he relates the story as he sees it and from what others have told him. ... The role of Nick Carraway is so important to the book that the character of Jay Gatsby could not exist. ... His ability to laugh at Gatsby and his false beliefs shows he's neither charmed not wholly disgusted by Gatsby. ... Nick is unlike the other characters of the book; he is not one of the "careless people." ...

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Scott Fitzgerald's book The Great Gatsby. ... Furthermore, leaving him only dreams and the "green light" to guide him. ... It was Gatsby's mansion. ... Money drives Gatsby. ... Both objects being important in his life, however once he has Daisy close to him, "His count of enchanting objects had diminished by one," (100) leaving him in awe and forgetting all that has built him up to be who he is, Gatsby a man with great wealth. ...

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Generally, anti-heroes have faced some hardship or tragedy, internal or external, which guides their actions. ... The Gilded Age produced the infamous Jay Gatsby of The Great Gatsby by F. ... Gatsby grew up in poverty, and through organized crime, he was able to emerge as a mysterious yet influential character. ... Nonetheless, Jay Gatsby is passionate and optimistic, which is something the reader can relate to. ... Leonard (1975) discusses how we are "a comic book generation; that is our heroes are comic book heroes, our ideas of justice and morality are comic book ideas, and their gods ...

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• Grade Level: High School