However, before delving into the past, Fitzgerald starts his novel in the present where he evaluates the four main characters in the novel. ... All values and judgements are those of Nick's which helps to maintain simplicity and give the novel its cohesiveness. Fitzgerald continues to keep his novel simple by being highly selective in the material which he chooses to include into the plot. ... By quickly progressing from one important event to the next, Fitzgerald is able to highlight many issues in his novel and uses the convention of structure. ... Additionally, juxtaposition is incorpo...

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INDRODUCTION Whether there is an American novel literature or not, is no longer in doubt. ... No sovereign , no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, nor manners.., no great literature, no novels, no museums, no pictures, no political society, no sporting class- no Epsom or Ascot!... ... America then was a classless society or rather a society of one class- the middle- so America's literature is different' the difference lies in the fact that they consider the novel as a...

• Word Count: 455
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Scott Fitzgerald's novel "The Great Gatsby' appears to be just another novel about post world war one America, but viewing it as such would only be scratching the surface of a much deeper, darker and depressing story. The novel, which was published April 10th of 1925, is now considered a piece of classic American literature and is seen as valued by many. ... Love in this novel often seems to be tainted and deceitful as well as being very controversial. ... The American Dream/ Wealth/ Dreams and Goals Many characters have the American dream in this novel such as Nick Carraway, the nar...

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Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is a novel that elegantly and truthfully details the period of American history known as the Roaring Twenties. ... In the first chapter of the novel Nick is presented as an observant, unbiased and non-judgemental person, but at the same time as someone who has a distinct connection to all of the characters involved. ... Near the beginning of the novel Nick appeals himself to the reader by explaining that his strong sense of morality was instilled very early on in life by his father. ... And this unwillingness to judge others is evident throughout the no...

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Now the most obvious representation, by means of color, of the novel's basic conflict is the pattern of contrasting lights and darks. ... It is not accidental, for example, that Daisy and Jordan, when they are introduced to the reader in the first scene of the novel, are dressed in white. ... White, in this early appearance in the novel, is strongly associated with airiness, buoyancy, levitation. ...

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Scott Fitzgerald's critically acclaimed novel, presents the American dream as an illusion which can never be achieved, and according to recent events in America, Fitzgerald is evidently correct. ... This delusion of the American Dream is the paramount theme in The Great Gatsby, and it is the main message Fitzgerald attempts to convey in his saddening, but insightful novel. ... The issue of meritocracy is also prevalent in this novel. When Daisy confesses to Gatsby that she can't say that she "never loved Tom"(133), it unveils how meritocracy isn't existent at all ...

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In Fitzgerald's novel, not only can the reader identify a character by their values and wishes, but he also portrays each individual with their own mannerism, especially their own speech. Fitzgerald's use of individual speech patterns that define the characters in his novel aids in furthering the renowned characterization in The Great Gatsby. Nick Carraway, the narrator of the novel, is characterized by his honesty and straightforward speech. At the very beginning of the novel, Nick comments on his honesty, "Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, an...

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Indeed, in the Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald shows us how great wealth seems to surround most of the "old money" in the novel, and how the personalities of the elite eventually become warped by their own inheritances. ... It is later explained that this is due to Tom having affairs, yet throughout the novel Daisy never mentions them, and as Roger Lewis puts it in his essay Money, Love and Aspiration, "Daisy and Tom's marriage has gone dead; they must cover their dissatisfactions with the distractions of the idle rich.... Indeed, towards the end of the novel, when Gatsby dies, ve...

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Hemingway and Fitzgerald were keen observers of the changes in women's behavior and they worked enthusiastically to reflect the female's point of view in their novels. ... The novel leaves a disappointing impression because of the behavior of the vague characters who have lost touch with any sort of morality, but through their behavior and thoughts we can define the culture of the 1920s. ... Her nature along with that of the other female characters in the novel such as Myrtle Wilson and Jordan Baker is characterized by a lack of purpose and identity which explains their ambiguous beh...

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Hemingway's context and purpose of his novel is a flowing mind scheme, in which his thoughts and actions were put into words. ... Brimming with iconic people from modernistic society, both in the novel and movie, modernist heroes and characters mentioned in Paris from the two texts were: Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Zelda Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Jules Pascin, Hilaire Belloc, Wyndham Lewis, Salvador Dali, Paul Gauguin, Cole Porter, Georges Braques, Pablo Picasso, Waldo Peirce, Dos Passos, Erich Maria Remarque, F. ... This led to experiments and the refinement of form, along with the use of...

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Scott Fitzgerald's highly accomplished novel, The American Dream, he portrays the longing for the American Dream as a significant part of ones life, very familiar to society as a corrupted essence of reality and ideals that the characters, especially Jay Gatsby, truly represent. ... In the novel, The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway quotes, "Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelle...

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We see corruption in the novel again when we meet Meyer Wolfsheim, whose character is linked to an actual gangster of the time Arnold Rothstein. ... Even though Gatsby is corrupt he still shares or holds higher moral values then other characters in the novel. ... There is no limit to the greed and self-centeredness of the novel's characters. ...

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Within the novel, The Great Gatsby, F. ... Gatsby is thus the novel's representative of the American Dream, and the story of his youth borrows on one of the dream's oldest myths: that of the self-made man. ... The Great Gatsby is a novel about what happened to the American Dream in the 1920s, a period when the old values that had given substance to the dream were corrupted by the vulgar pursuit of wealth and materialism. ...

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Scott Fitzgerald's novel, Gatsby muses, "No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.... Whilst Narcissus never realises he is cursed, this truth dawns on Gatsby and Lear as the events of the novel unfold and they find reality begin to claw at the fantasy they had enveloped themselves in. ...

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Literature itself has no defined meaning. In the beginning introduction of Literary Theory: An Introduction, Eagleton states numerous definitions of literature to prove the point that there has yet to be one specific definition. Eagleton's definition of literature involves a text that is written in...

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Scott Fitzgerald's, The Great Gatsby, and John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, are two novels that deal with the tragic culmination of the American Dream, personified through respective protagonists. ...

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