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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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 97) Gatsby has built his fortune through some mysterious business practice. ... (Fitzgerald 111) Daisy's reactions justify Gatsby's beliefs. ... (Fitzgerald 116) Jay Gatsby thought his money would bring prestige, happiness, and most of all, Daisy. ...

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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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Nick Carraway the narrator of The Great Gatsby has qualities, which are the complete opposite of those of Tom Buchanan, his cousin-in-law. ... Scott Fitzgerald, uses the comparison between two cousins to show how their differing characteristics reflect the themes of morality and reality versus illusion. ... Willison, to Gatsby. ... In showing the differing characteristics of Nick and Tom, Fitzgerald portrays the themes of morality and reality versus illusion. In The Great Gatsby, there are three illicit relationships: Gatsby and Daisy, Nick and Jordan, and Tom and Myrtle. ...

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Does Fitzgerald portray Gatsby as the one who is "Great" or is Nick Carraway the true hero of the novel? ... Despite the flaws shown, I believe Fitzgerald still wants us to view Gatsby as a hero. ... Fitzgerald has established him as our hero and for that we are lead to give him our full support: " "The Great Gatsby" is a dramatic affirmation, .. of the American spirit in the midst of an American world that denies the soul. ... Fitzgerald has given him this set of characteristics to show that he's not perfect, that no one within "The Great Gatsby" is. ... The lack of focus upon the...

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Scott Fitzgerald, "The Great Gatsby" is a novel describing what Jay Gatsby goes through in a vain attempt to regain his long lost love, Daisy. ... The initial appearance of the green light occurs when Gatsby is standing in front of his mansion and stretching out his arms to "a single green light, minute and far away that might have been the end of a dock." (22) Fitzgerald symbolizes the green light as the key to reaching Daisy. While on the beach, Gatsby is stretching out his arms to the light as if he will acquire it somehow. ... Fitzgerald uses white to represent innocence and purity. ... In...

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Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby perfectly illuminates the American life of the Jazz Age. ... There is no room for Gatsby's sentimentality in the sophisticated cynical world" ("Fitzgerald" 38). ... Within the character of Jay Gatsby we can see the dueling parts of Fitzgerald's own personality. ... "In many ways, The Great Gatsby represents Fitzgerald's attempt to confront his conflicting feelings about the Jazz Age" ("Gatsby" n. pag.). Through Fitzgerald's great use of characterization, readers are able to imagine life of the self-made millionaires o...

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Scott Fitzgerald apparently agreed with this biblical concept in writing the novel The Great Gatsby. Throughout The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses a great deal of symbolism in order to illustrate how the honorable pursuit of true love and happiness can be obstructed by the immoral pursuit of money. ... Initially, in The Great Gatsby, the symbolism begins with two cities, East Egg and West Egg, which are separated by The Valley of Ashes. ... In The Great Gatsby, God seems to abandon America, leaving behind only Dr. ... In conclusion, with a masterful use of symbolism and imagery, in The Great Ga...

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Symbolism in Great Gatsby Symbolism in the Great Gatsby Cary L. ... Sanders 20 May 1997 Symbolism in The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby, by F. ... Fitzgerald perfectly understood the inadequacy of Gatsby's romantic view of wealth. ... Gatsby's greatness was to have retained a sense of wonder as deep as the sailor's on that first landfall. ... It is through combining faultless artistry with symbolism that Fitzgerald paints a vivid picture of the dream destined to fail because it's basis was illusion. not reality The Great Gatsby Cary L. ...

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The Great Gatsby, by F. ... Over the years, Gatsby imagines Daisy as the perfect girl that he once knew before the war. ... Although Gatsby refuses to relinquish his obsessive dream of Daisy as the ideal girl, events throughout the novel portray to everyone except an oblivious Gatsby that Daisy possesses a true nature of raw carelessness. ... Despite Gatsby's unwavering love for her, she continues play with his feelings. ... Osborn 3 Fitzgerald intentionally does not include a single respectable female character within The Great Gatsby. ...

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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. ... (Fitzgerald 93) Gatsby does act like a little boy by overreacting and exaggerating the situation. ... The Great Gatsby. ... Twentieth Century Interpretations of the Great Gatsby. ...

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"The Great Gatsby," written by F. ... Fitzgerald's careful use of diction makes every character come to life, especially Jay Gatsby. ... " (Fitzgerald 110). ... Gatsby had so much faith and such strong feelings for Daisy that "he felt married to her, that was all" (Fitzgerald 149). ... Gatsby was very hurt by these words; they seemed to bite physically into him" (Fitzgerald 132). ...

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In his novel The Great Gatsby (1925) F. ... By creating this setting Fitzgerald is trying to make the reader understand that a character like Gatsby needs a certain environment to exist. ... Fitzgerald completely trashes the power of the laws when Gatsby was stopped for speeding and acknowledged himself, the policeman said: "Know you next time, Mr. Gatsby. ... Fitzgerald shows the reader what makes Gatsby so different from the rest of the characters - Gatsby did not become rich out of self-love, but to get the woman he loves. ...

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This response paper will concentrate on the theme of wealth in the novel The Great Gatsby by author F. Scott Fitzgerald, one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century. ... His novel The Great Gatsby is one of the most popular works in American literature, even though it was a critical and commercial failure at first. ... One of the main topics of The Great Gatsby is the sociology of wealth and the differences between people who came to their fortune in different ways. ... Once he nearly toppled down a flight of stairs" (Fitzgerald). ...

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Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway The Great Gatsby is a novel written by F. ... I was brought up in America but educated in Oxford" (Fitzgerald 60). ... Tom Buchanan does not believe that Gatsby could have inherited his whole wealth and says to Nick, " He's a bootlegger, many of these new people are bootleggers" (Fitzgerald 65). ... ( Fitzgerald 116). ... In essence, The Great Gatsby was a novel that showed the friendship between Gatsby and Nick. ...

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In The Great Gatsby, F. ... Instead of stating the Gatsby had a nice smile, Fitzgerald goes into great detail to exaggerate how Gatsby's smile made people feel. ... The Great Gatsby uses satire its through characters. ... Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is certainly more than an impression of the Jazz Age, more than a novel of manners. ... Fitzgerald has a gift in the Jazz Age in The Great Gatsby presents a picture of the world he sees around him....

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In the summer and fall of 1924, Fitzgerald spent his time in France writing a novel that would eventually become known as The Great Gatsby. ... Fitzgerald spent more money than he was making to keep Zelda happy, and Gatsby spends a great deal of money on parties to impress Daisy ("The Great Gatsby- 1). ... Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby Character Analyses- 2). ... Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby Character Analyses- 2). ... Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby Character Analyses- 3). ...

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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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However, after finishing only a few pages of The Great Gatsby by F. ... The family later moved to Great Neck Long Island so that Fitzgerald could be nearer to Broadway. ... This was the basis for the family's move to France in 1924, where Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby. ... The Great Gatsby gives the reader a dark and pessimistic view of the lives of its characters. ... The Great Gatsby was a way for Fitzgerald to verbalize his disapproval of the people of the "roaring twenties." ...

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The Great Gatsby - The American DreamThe Great GatsbyThe Great Gatsby, a novel by F. ... This dream has varying significances for different people but in The Great Gatsby, for Jay, the dream is that through wealth and power, one can acquire happiness. ... Scott Fitzgerald proves this fact in The Great Gatsby, through his scintillating characters and unique style.Characters in books often mirror the author's feelings towards the world around them. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald suggested the moral decline of the period in American history through the interpersonal relationships among his ...

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In The Great Gatsby, Nick and Gatsby show a lot of contrast to each other by the way they live, their personality, and how they were raised. ... - (Fitzgerald 116). ... Gatsby's make believe past was quite a story "My family all died and I came into a great deal of money. ... In The Great Gatsby diversity separates Nick from Gatsby, by the way they live, their different personalities, to how they were raised. Because of diversity, Nick and Gatsby had a strong friendship, which in the end they proved to be " close friends- (Fitzgerald 176). ...

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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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Gatsby...Great? ... The greatness of Jay Gatsby was evident to others in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby. ... Gross believes that "Fitzgerald wrote a love song to and a threnody for a time. ... This method used by Fitzgerald is personified through the actions of Gatsby and his everyday life. ...

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In "The Great Gatsby," the American Dream is not only a myth but a disgusting hoax. ... In The Great Gatsby, old money people looked down on the newly rich. Jay Gatsby only wanted to have financial wealth so he could have his dream life with Daisy (Fitzgerald). ... Eckleburg" (Fitzgerald 23). ... In The Great Gatsby, that the American dream is not only a myth but a disgusting hoax. ...

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One great example of this is in American author Francis Scott Fitzgerald's literary works. Fitzgerald uses this form of writing in his novel, The Great Gatsby. The writings and characters of The Great Gatsby, arguable an American literature masterpiece, were greatly influenced and mirrored Fitzgerald's private and social life. ... Although Gatsby was compared a great deal to Fitzgerald he also had characteristics of other people Fitzgerald knew. ... Jordan Baker was a great golf champ. ...

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