The central conflict in "The Great Gatsby," (announced by Nick in the fourth paragraph of the book), is the conflict between Gatsby's dream and the reality that "the foul dust which floats in the wake of his dreams." Gatsby, Nick tells us, "turned out all right in the end"; the dreamer remains as pure, as inviolable, at bottom, as his dream of a greatness, an attainment "commensurate to man's capacity for wonder." ... As we shall see, the color-symbols render, with a close and delicate discrimination, both the dream and the reality "and these both in their separateness and ...

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Fitzgerald, as a member of "the lost generation", publish his The Great Gatsby in 1925 and confirmed his status as a chronicler and poet laureate in the jazz age. ... As we know, books are the symbol of spiritual wealth, nevertheless, the fine books in Gatsby's library whose pages even hadn't been cut were just for decoration, which is very satirical. ... White is the symbol of purity and in Gatsby's eyes, Daisy "in white" is the pure goddess and his restless puisuit. ... The symbolism of the hero evidently plays a vital role throughout the story.From the legendary life of Gatsb...

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In The Great Gatsby, a theme widely explored by Fitzgerald is how class divisions that separate the wealthy from everyone else are presented. ... The wealthy elite are first presented in the first chapter of the Great Gatsby. ... This is shown in the Great Gatsby when Owl Eyes crashes the car at Gatsby's party in chapter three (p43), and how he knew "very little about driving.... Vile Bodies enhances the understanding of the Great Gatsby in this way through the satirical naming sense, suggesting that the names given in the Great Gatsby too have their own unique purposes. Indeed, i...

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However, The Great Gatsby, F. ... 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. ... Gatsby was in love with Daisy a long time ago, and Daisy's parents disapproved of Gatsby since he didn't have "pomp and circumstance"(75), like Tom Buchanan, and as a result Gatsby reinvents himself by becoming a financially successful man. ... Daisy is evidently personified as the American Dream throughout The Great Gatsby. ... In other words, the upper c...

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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. ... I think that Gatsby's pursuit of Daisy is part of his American dream as Daisy could be seen as a physical symbol or embodiment of the wealthy upper-class lifestyle which Gatsby so desperately yearns for, which would explain his want for her. ... Society The cast of 'The Great Gatsby' live in the jazz era of 1920's America which was a rather ca...

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Fitzgerald explores a similar theme of love in his novel, The Great Gatsby, showing the impacts of fantasy on the transient nature of reality. ... Fitzgerald further draws attention to Gatsby's fantasies through the use of symbols, such as, the "green light" at the end of Daisy's dock. The moment Gatsby tells Daisy of the "green light" his fantasy begins to crumble as this symbol loses meaning, "His count of enchanted objects...diminished by one". ... Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese and Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby both explore the idea of purity in contrasting ways...

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For those settlers who were not so religiously inclined, America was still a fairyland, a land of great possibilities. ... In a way The Great Gatsby" is also a comment on this condition. ... The Great Gatsby is a novel about what happened to the American dream in the 1920s, a period when the old values that gave substance to the dream had been corrupted by the vulgar pursuit of wealth. ... What Fitzgerald seems to be criticising in The Great Gatsby is not the American Dream itself but the corruption of the American Dream. ... In the chapter-by-chapter analysis, especially in the Notes, Th...

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In The Great Gatsby we have the protagonist Daisy Buchanan who is described as a lovely, beautiful, irresponsible, spoiled lady, who has shift to a self-fashioning female and is completely dependable on men. ... " Not married or engaged to anyone, Jordan represents the independent woman and often she is seen as an androgynous figure in The Great Gatsby. ... In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald has created the "idea" of Daisy and Jordan who can be described as the unmarried version of Daisy. ... Additionally, Hemingway uses bullfighting as a symbol to describe Lady Ashly's destru...

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