" This quote is from the classic novel, The Great Gatsby, which was adapted into a movie in 1974 and again in 2013. ... This means the style is equipped to its time, so the dancing is the Charleston and the music remains to the classic 1920s. ... The characters' fictional lives can be applied to the readers' lives in many aspects. Hopefully from either the movie masterpieces or the classic novel, the readers learn from the characters' fatal mistakes to improve their own lives for the better....

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According to Classical Literature, a classic or piece of great literature can be defined as, "literature of any language in a period notable for the excellence and enduring quality of its writers' works.... Great literature resonates with the reader on many different levels. ... Great literature resonates with the reader and that is what makes each piece of literature great and memorable. Great literature brings the reader into the setting of the book to the point where the reader can imagine each character and every description in the book. ... The themes and messages the author t...

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Scott Fitzgerald's, romantic classic, The Great Gatsby. ... The beginning chapters of the novel allude to a Gatsby that differs greatly from the Gatsby that the reader eventually meets in chapter three. ... The reader's first impressions of Gatsby are quite different from the lovesick, naive young man who emerges during the later part of the novel. ...

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Aspects of Tragedy in The Great Gatsby Francis Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is a novel brimming with various tragic elements: love, ambition, hope and the loss of hope, and, of course, death. But is this American classic a true tragedy? Does Gatsby indeed possess a "tragic flaw- which leads...

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The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby F.S. Fitzgerald, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. pp 182 This novel is in general about middle and upper class american citizens and their lives a few years after the first world war had concluded. The author, a World War I veteran himself, shows insight i...

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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. ... It also raises many moral question and has the reader questioning right and wrong as well as whether it's okay to ignore the conscience which differs the two as long as you reach and fulfil your own goals and dreams, like some of the characters do anything as long to get what they want. ...

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Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby examines the 1920s vision of the American dream. ... Eckleburg with God, so the reader gradually becomes aware of them as representing some kind of detached intellect, brooding gloomily over life in the bleak waste land surrounding it, and presiding fatalistically over the little tragedy as if in sacrifice before it" shows they probably represent God, as a seer of all things(Miller). ...

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