F. Scott Fitzgerald describes Nick Carraway's first visit to Gatsby's party as an extravagant, gaudy social meeting that creates feelings of liveliness and excitement in the reader by using visual imagery and hyperbole. ... Another hyperbole Fitzgerald uses to describe the crowd at the party is that they exchanged "introductions forgotten on the spot." ... Through Fitzgerald's proper use of visual imagery and hyperbole, the reader is indeed given a very precise impression of wealth and extravagance, excitement and liveliness at Jay Gatsby's party. ...

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• Approx Pages: 2

F Scott Fitzgerald relates to his story because he enjoys drinking and entertainment. ... F Scott Fitzgerald uses his own life in the great Gatsby and he directly relates to the characters In the story. Through an examination of themes and plot summary F Scott Fitzgerald reveals how his life directly relates to the story. In the Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald portrays the American dream as well as appearance vs. reality. ... These elements are also highly reflective of F Scott Fitzgerald's life. " He behaved in a manner similar to his characters with liquor and entertainment " (Telgen 6...

• Word Count: 1021
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart" (Fitzgerald 96). F. Scott Fitzgerald states this quotation through Nick Carraway's narration in The Great Gatsby. ... I'm afraid I'm not a very good host" (Fitzgerald 48). ... 'San Francisco'" (Fitzgerald 65). ...

• Word Count: 849
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Scott Fitzgerald, the author, coined the rambunctious times of the 1920's. ... As a revolutionary author, F. ... As such, F. Scott Fitzgerald created a truly unique story with brilliant wordplay, engaging drama, and a tragic end to a man and his dreams. ... Scott Fitzgerald. ...

• Word Count: 1215
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• Grade Level: High School

As a revolutionary author, F. Scott Fitzgerald creates the character of Nick, with his drab, mid-western and World War I experiences, and puts him in the center of a neighborhood which holds the most extravagant lie that has ever quite possibly been imagined. ... As such, F. Scott Fitzgerald created a truly unique story with brilliant wordplay, engaging drama, and a tragic end to a man and his dreams. ... Scott Fitzgerald. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The American Dream and How it is portrayed in The Great Gatsby By: Emma Macklin The Great Gatsby is a novel published in 1925, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and is narrated by a character named Nick Carraway. ... The first literary device used to portray Fitzgerald's view of the concept of the American Dream was symbolism. ... In conclusion, F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays the American Dream in the novel The Great Gatsby as this way of life that majority of people in this era were striving towards, and were doing anything and everything to achieve it. ...

• Word Count: 1146
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• Grade Level: High School

Throughout his novel, "The Great Gatsby," F. Scott Fitzgerald uses Nick Carraway's descriptions of Jay Gatsby to reveal Gatsby as a one man who has become corrupted in his pursuit of the "American Dream.... " (Fitzgerald 25) Nick carefully avoids any emotional entanglements. ... (Fitzgerald 133) Afterwards, Nick and Jordan get into the car with Tom and head for the city. ... (Fitzgerald 143) Nick, haunted by a feeling of dread, tries to warn Gatsby to leave town but Gatsby refuses. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald seemingly establishes an honest and reliable narrator in Nick Carraway to contrast the corrupt society into which he has fallen. As Carraway better acquaints himself with the lives of Gatsby, Tom, Daisy and Jordan, he realizes his misinterpretation of the...

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The novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and The Great Gatsby movie, are perfect examples of the effect of location and its people on someone physically and mentally. ... As Nick wrote, "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, and let other people clean up the mess they had made" (Fitzgerald 179). ...

• Word Count: 1111
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• Grade Level: High School

It is the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald, an eloquent novel filled with messages meant to spark romance. ... What can be easily seen through the first pages of the book is that Nick Carraway was born in 1896, just about the same age as Fitzgerald. ...

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