The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby, written by F.Scott Fitzgerald, is a novel about American lives amongst society in the 1920's. ... Fitzgerald presents the main character, Jay Gatsby, as a romantic who embodies the American dream. ... The Great Gatsby exemplifies how materialistic living from day to day is idealistic in pursuit of happiness. ... Gatsby and Myrtle Wilson are two characters who reach for higher living. ... Jay Gatsby goes to great lengths to recapture the past by regaining daisy's love. ...

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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. ... Jay Gatsby, the central figure of the story, is a character who longs for the past. ... 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 decl...

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The Great Gatsby Essay In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. ... This statement reflects the main issues in The Great Gatsby such as aimlessness, carelessness, materialism and corruption. ... Every character mentioned in this novel is dishonest except for Wilson and Nick Carraway. ... All the characters in the novel excluding Wilson and Gatsby have almost no family values whatsoever. ... Through the eyes of Nick Carraway Gatsby is portrayed as a pitiful character who is sucked into the "rotten crowd" because of a dream which started five years previously. ...

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When posed with the question, "How does Fitzgerald convey the theme of the American Dream throughout The Great Gatsby?" ... Jay Gatsby, the protagonist of The Great Gatsby, seems to represent this American Dream. ... Fitzgerald mentions Gatsby wearing a pink suit at one time in The Great Gatsby. ... Myrtle Wilson is a great example of a character who tries to attain the American Dream. ... There are many issues that can be analyzed within The Great Gatsby. ...

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Exploring the theme of "appearance vs. reality" 18/4/03 in "The Great Gatsby" In "The Great Gatsby", the theme of "appearance vs. reality" is explored in great detail. ... He even compares her to money when he says, "Her voice is full of money" (The Great Gatsby 115). ... On the contrary, we also get another realistic insight into Gatsby's character when one of the girls in Gatsby's party says, "You look at him sometimes when he thinks nobody's looking at him. ... To summarize the main arguments in this essay...

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Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, the "roaring twenties" depicts the post-war generation of the newly rich and wannabes, whose extravagant lifestyles center around parties, wealth and affairs. ... With the use of symbolic colors; green, gold, yellow, and white, he exposes the true nature of his characters. ... Revealed through many characters, yellow exemplifies the idea of falsity and corruption in the Great Gatsby. ... The color signals to the reader of a flaw in the integrity of a character. ... Showing how the outside of many character may seem pure but once inside they ...

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The Great Gatsby The 1920s was a time in American History where the white-collar men and the socially elite lived a life laced with luxury. ... Scott Fitzgerald's novel the Great Gatsby, morality played a huge factor in how the reader views the people of the 1920s. ... The characters and the people of the 1920s were willing to do anything they needed, whether it was consciously or subconsciously, to achieve their dream, however it was especially notable in the character of Jay Gatsby. ... Even though the characters in the Great Gatsby, and man! ... Gatsby was unlike many of the other...

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Great? Or Not So Great? ... Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby we see the constant battle between morality and secularism, mainly through his use of symbolism. ... Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby, such a great success, however some critics don't agree. ... Malcolm Cowley author of, "Introduction to the Great Gatsby" says it best when he states, "He is so familiar with the characters and their background, so absorbed in their fate, that the book has an admirable unity of texture, we can open any page and find another of the touches that illuminate the story...

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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. ... Gatsby. ... It is interesting that Gatsby is the only character who is although very rich, is not depicted as a bad person. ... 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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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. ... The symbolic meanings of various scenes are also elaborately endowed.Scene description is to describe the environment of characters in an imaginative way to spur certain imagery reflection. ... These from the main character of Daisy. ... The symbolism of the hero evidently plays a vital role throughout the story.From the legendary life of Gatsby, we can actually find a great deal of Fitzgerald himself in it. ... The amp lified sy...

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The Great Gatsby Group Pressure on the Individual: An individual has many pressures put on him/her from society. ... When Gatsby had shown his face at the table. ... Nick starts to believe what Gatsby is saying after Gatsby presents a medal and pictures from his Oxford days. ... Perceptions: the characters that thought that being an oxford man is important were; Nick, Tom Buchanan, daisy Buchanan and , Jordan Baker. ... Characters" Characteristics: Gatsby: "Old Sport" I chose that saying because he always said that phrase. ...

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In The Great Gatsby, F. ... The Great Gatsby demonstrates sarcasm through the character Gatsby, the wealthy protagonist who he possessed a "Platonic conception of himself. ... In The Great Gatsby contains many different use of irony. ... The use of irony, in The Great Gatsby is used a countless number of times. ... The Great Gatsby uses satire its through characters. ...

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This is probably the best essay about the American Dream/Great Gatsby. ... The true meaning of the American Dream is lost by the characters in The Great Gatsby, and leads them to the downfall of their life trying to obtain it's illusionary goals. For Jay, in The Great Gatsby, the interpretation of the dream is that through wealth and power, one can acquire happiness. ... Characters, including his close friend Nick, do not see why Gatsby is chasing the past. ... As was shown in The Great Gatsby, the characters always wanted more of something, no matter what it was or what...

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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. ... The very phrases were worn so threadbare that they evoked no image except that of a turbaned 'character'- (Fitzgerald 70) When asked by the narrator about his Midwest origins, "Gatsby ignorantly, but elegantly, tells him San Francisco, geography losing to the pretensions of the romantic imagination." ... Gatsby does not believe in social boundaries. ... (Lehan 58) Gatsby dreams that Daisy will crush Tom with a declaration of u...

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Stott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby includes two women: a "charming" (14) young woman and cousin of the narrator, Nick Carraway; Daisy Fay Buchanan, and a "sensuously" (28) captive wife of an impoverished character, George Wilson; Myrtle Wilson. ... When she is first introduced in The Great Gatsby, she is described as a very captivative and seductive woman. ... Similarly, Myrtle's character in The Great Gatsby is more course and indelicate than Daisy. ... Light is one of the main symbols in The Great Gatsby; for Gatsby, it is a symbol for hope; conversely, in thi...

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Fitzgerald's characters in "Winter Dreams" and Great Gatsby had money, but not satisfaction throughout their life. ... A car is a machine with great power and can also satisfy one with air conditioning on a hot day. ... Providing all of the things above that can be satisfying Nick, Gatsby, and Dexter are three characters from Great Gatsby and "Winter Dreams", that would have an opinion on them. ... Nick knows that Gatsby was a great man, "... and Gatsby was overwhelmingly aware of the youth and mystery that wealth imprisons and preserves, of the freshness of many clothes and of Daisy, gle...

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The Great Gatsby, often considered F. Scott Fitzgerald's most impressive as well as most notable piece of literature, is laden with characters whose motives are hidden and whose flaws are exposed. ... In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald does a stunning job of combining many characters that are complete and total opposites but still interact with the same sort of mysterious nature and passion for life itself. Daisy Buchanan is one of these characters. ... Daisies are somewhat beautiful but weak all the same, which is an accurate way to describe the character Daisy as well. ...

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The novel, The Great Gatsby by F. ... The Great Gatsby is a description of the decay of the American Dream and the desire for money and materialism. ... This belief quickly became an obsession, as seen with the character Gatsby, and so all that people consumed themselves with was to make more money. Another symbol of great importance is Gatsby's house. ... The Great Gatsby is a great portrayal of the corruption of society and the fall of the American Dream. ...

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The Roaring-twenties, characterized the 1920's in American cities such a New York and Chicago, the setting for the novel, The Great Gatsby and the movie, Chicago. ... Scott Fitzgerald, the author of The Great Gatsby, was going through a rough time when he wrote this book, which reflects who the corruption can taint your soul and beliefs and how you deal with certain facts of life. ... In Gatsby's eyes, Daisy is practically an angel, he thinks she can do no wrong, which is ironic because when Gatsby is murdered she doesn't even call to check when the funeral is. ... In The Grea...

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The Great Gatsby --Literary Essay. ... Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, this figurative form of blindness is used to describe the majority of characters, but this trait is mostly obvious in the characters of Daisy, Myrtle and Gatsby. This blindness causes Daisy to indulge in self obsession, Myrtle ignores reality and lives in a fantasy world and when Gatsby fails to see life as it really is, without an obsession to be blinded by, the entire facade falls apart and each character is left shocked with the reality they ignored. ... The main character, Gatsby shows the most heartbreaki...

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In the book, The Great Gatsby, by F. ... Materialism is also seen in Gatsby and other Neauveaux riche characters, such as Meyer Wolfsheim. ... Gatsby hesitated, then added cooly: "He's the man who fixed the World Series back in 1919." "(78). ... For example, Tom Buchanan, easily the most materialistic and empty character in the entire book, reached his developmental "peak" while in college. ... Even Gatsby, the character we, the readers, are supposed to like the best, is materialistic. ...

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Scott Fitzgerald focused on the American dream and this is apparent in his novel masterpiece, The Great Gatsby. ... Scott Fitzgerald also depicts the rebellious young adults of the roaring 20's in his novel The Great Gatsby. ... In The Great Gatsby, Tom and Daisy Buchanan both are having love affairs. ... The reader seldom notices the characters at work. ... The two main female characters in The Sun Also Rises and The Great Gatsby constitute the evolution of the female's role in society. ...

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