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." ... Gatsby, Nick tells us, is "like an ecstatic patron of recurrent light." ... The light-dark symbolism is employed with great care. ... They were both in white, and ...

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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. ... In The Great Gatsby, Nick states at the start of the story that he is "inclined to reserve all judgments," (Fitzgerald, 1) and appears to keep to his word. ... The description of the characters in Of Mice and Men is not entirely objective either, and is not short of hyperbole and exaggeration. ... Unlike in The Great Gatsby, where the impression of Gatsby's character is constantly ...

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Within the novel, The Great Gatsby, F. ... According to Dream, Design, and Interpretation in The Great Gatsby, James Gatz's attempt to become Jay Gatsby, his attempt to live out his invented history, entails an attempt to realize his "unutterable" dream. ... As Nick puts it, "There must have been moment even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams...no through her own fault but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. ... In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses Gatsby to symbolize a person in whom the Dream is still very much alive as part of a vanished past where Amer...

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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. ... However, what makes Fitzgerald great is by no means the "author's voice" in the work, but his marvelous wit to symbolically fuse the individual with the outer-world and the personal emotions with social environment. ... Daisy and Jordan "were both in white, and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had just been blown back in after a short flight around the house." ... The symbolism of the hero evidently pla...

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In The Great Gatsby, the longing for the real American Dream---a simple white picket fence, a perfect family, a true love, and security---is not uncommon, but the corruption is characterized by greed and overpowered by money and material wealth. ... "There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams---not through her own fault but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion," Nick acclaims in the novel. ... This quote also reveals that maybe even Daisy was not good enough for Gatsby's great dream since it was so oversize. ... Another important...

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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. ... Gatsby and Daisy could be said to have an unhealthy relationship since Gatsby only had a short relationship with her, a relationship she soon got over, though he never did. ... Society The cast of 'The Great Gatsby' live in the jazz era of 1920's America which was a rather carefree era which is evident with all the lavish and wasteful and over the t...

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In The Great Gatsby, the character of Jay Gatsby ignores this fundamental rule of human existence, choosing to live in a world of the past, created by his own memories, and avoid the changes of the present even as they cause his own demise. ... There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams - not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion." When Gatsby is finally able to make his dream a reality, it falls short of his expectations and all of his planning and the fantasy of his relationship begins to decay, "...and the i...

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Despite this, similar themes are explored in both Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese and Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby to convey their views that challenge society at the time, in particular love. ... Fitzgerald explores a similar theme of love in his novel, The Great Gatsby, showing the impacts of fantasy on the transient nature of reality. ... Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese and Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby both explore the idea of purity in contrasting ways. ... Despite these symbolic colours of purity being associated with these characters the reader discove...

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Consumerism, excessive material wealth, and cynicism is portrayed in The Great Gatsby through the obsession with material purchases, the enormous homes on long island, extravagant cars, and lavish parties. ... The lavish parties, jazz music, and nightclub culture shown in The Great Gatsby, by the magnificent parties hosted by Jay Gatsby, perpetuate the corruption of the American dream as the unrestricted desire for money and pleasure surpass more noble goals. ... This social class division is further perpetuated in The Great Gatsby between those who live on West Egg versus those on East Egg. ....

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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. ... There is only one part in The Great Gatsby where Daisy has a brief encounter with her daughter but she seems uninterested in her suggesting that she has not been an important figure in her daughter's life. ... " 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...

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