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. ... The Great Gatsby is a novel of tragedy, love and rich vs. poor. ... One of the many elements that he uses to show his idea of the concept in depth is setting. ... 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. ... The three literary devices/elements of fiction that were thoroughly...

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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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" This quote is from the classic novel, The Great Gatsby, which was adapted into a movie in 1974 and again in 2013. ... The directors of both The Great Gatsby movies provide very different experiences for the viewers. ... Both actors play a great Gatsby by showing a loving, open, outgoing, and a charming Gatsby (Conner 2). ... Another character to observe from The Great Gatsby is Myrtle Wilson. ... The variety of similarities and contrasts between The Great Gatsby films show the difference in the times between the two movies. ...

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Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby has endured as a classic glimpse into a period of time that is now referred to as the Roaring 20s - an American decade marked by extravagance, self-gratification and indifference. ... On its simplest level, The Great Gatsby is Nick Carraway's narration and recollection of events stemming from his meeting and subsequent interaction with Jay Gatsby during the summer of 1922 in Long Island, New York. ... The Great Gatsby is, in some respects, somewhat autobiographical in that Fitzgerald relied on his life experiences to form certain aspects of the n...

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