The past life, to Gatsby, is the type that he can only conceive in romantic tales. ... Obviously, Gatsby has intended to stage on a comedy, in which he readily identifies himself to be the hero and Daisy, the heroine the romantic hero is after. ... As we can see, Gatsby is a man with a romantic disposition. ... In order to be his self-imaged romantic hero, Gatsby invents everything about him, including his birthplace and his education background, in an effort to render himself what a romantic hero is supposed to have and to convince others of his possession of the romantic qualities. ... O...

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Scott Fitzgerald has a larger, less romantic point he is trying to drive into the reader. ... 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 corruption of the American dream in the 1920's era is shown in The Great Gatsby through symbolism, materialism, and romantic dreams and hopes. ... The characters in the book think that the achievement of the American dream with all its power and glory also can fulfill their romantic dreams(Ornstein 33). ... Scott Fitzgerald wrote the novel The Great Gatsby, the corruption of the American dream is a major them throughout the book that Fitzgerald shows through symbolism, materialism, and the romantic dreams and hopes of the characters. ...

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Fitzgerald also uses the eyes to symbolize the romantic, or unrealistic, notion of the American Dream. ... The lyrics say Mellencamp is "another boring romantic." He had the romantic, dreamlike, illusion of being whatever he wants until he achieves his goal, and only then does he realize that he will always be a small town boy. Mellencamp was also fooled by the romantic notion of the American Dream, and that is why the album is named American Fool. ...

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He cannot because his whole life is devoted to the fulfillment of a romantic dream that he created a long time ago. ... He is caught up in a romantic vision of him and Daisy and by doing this is keeping himself from moving forward and progressing as an individual. ...

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With World War I going on as he entered, Fitzgerald, convinced that he would die in battle quickly wrote his first novel The Romantic Egoist. ... Still stationed at Camp Sheridan, Fitzgerald's publisher once again rejected the revised edition of The Romantic Egoist that Fitzgerald had so diligently worked on. ... Daisy is "Gatsby's Golden Girl' who falls into a familiar pattern for Fitzgerald of lovely, delicate, and romantic' but essentially parasitic and emotionally frigid- ("F. ...

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Explain the statement: "Her voice is full of money." What does this imply? In the book, "The Great Gatsby," Daisy Buchanan is Tom Buchanan's wife, and Nick Carraway's second cousin. Before Daisy and Tom are married, Daisy and Gatsby meet, and start seeing eachother. Gatsby has not grown up with...

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Within this bleakness Fitzgerald has chosen to write about Jay Gatsby, a man who symbolizes the American Dream, who has "an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I (Nick) have never found in any other person." ... He wants us to trust Nick and to believe in the "romantic readiness" he sees in Gatsby. ...

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In a way, Gatsby's dream of him and Daisy was way more romantic than her actually being with him. Some girls think it is really romantic for a guy to base his whole world around you and what you like. ...

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" Romantic as this may seem, there are consequences that come in its stead. ... (Fitzgerald 9) Upon this dismal revelation, Dexter becomes nostalgic of his past and of the romantic idealism that once flourished in "the country of illusion, of youth, of the richness of life....

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Gatsby's Illusion The word illusion comes to mind when describing the character of Jay Gatsby, in F. Scott Fitzgerald's, romantic classic, The Great Gatsby. The character of Jay Gatsby is shrouded in illusion. The beginning chapters of the novel allude to a Gatsby that differs greatly from the G...

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Jake Barnes and Nick Carraway are two similar characters conjured up during the roaring twenties. They represent the jazz era and everything that happened during that time period. Their actions mirror each other very closely at times. Nick and Jake show different aspects of life in the 1920s. ...

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Throughout the book the Great Gatsby we see the dream of one man, Jay Gatsby. Gatsby's dream is not merely what is known as the American Dream-the belief that anyone can rise to success no matter who they are or where they are from. Instead, it is a form of romantic idealism. It is the belief in fai...

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"If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, he had an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again." ...

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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. The nov...

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Daisy is Gatsby's goddess: "The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at sometime, and because it seemed so romantic to me I have remembered the incident ever since," everything about her enchants him. ...

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When asked to review yet another summer literature selection, I prepared myself for a long, dull read. However, after finishing only a few pages of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, I was pleasantly surprised and I could not put the novel down. Fitzgerald is an amazing writer who, in my opi...

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Simply because his vision went beyond Daisy, and so: "...there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promise of life- "...it was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person..." ...

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The gossip "was a testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that it was necessary to whisper about in this world"(Fitzgerald 48). ...

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The gossip "was a testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that it was necessary to whisper about in this world"(Fitzgerald 48). ...

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On the superficial level, The Great Gatsby tells the story of a young middle class man who happens to get mixed up in the chaotic affairs of his wealthy cousin and neighbor. F. Scott Fitzgerald's story of life in the 1920s is much more than it appears to be, though. Even such things as the colors us...

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Great Gatsby is a difficult book to interpret, particularly because of the style in which it is written. Not only must the reader differentiate between the separate views of Nick as the narrator and Nick as the character, but he or she must also take into consideration at what time period, relative ...

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In "The Great Gatsby", a novel written by Scott F. Fitzgerald during the roaring twenties in the United States, Jay Gatsby, the central figure of this novel is enormously rich. He had endless wealth, power and influence yet never used material objects selfishly. Gatsby was a romantic dreamer who wi...

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The very phrases were worn so threadbare that they evoked no image except that of a turbaned 'character'- (Fitzgerald 70) When asked by the narrator about his Midwest origins, "Gatsby ignorantly, but elegantly, tells him San Francisco, geography losing to the pretensions of the romantic imagination." ...

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The film "The Great Gatsby- begins its story with the introduction of Nick Caraway, a native of Minnesota. Nick moves to the suburbs of New York in the summer of 1922 to pursue a career in the bond business. He rents a house in the West Egg district of Long Island, just across the bay from his cou...

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