Gatsby's Hopes and Dreams for his Future The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald is recognized in American Literature as one of his greatest achievements. Many of Fitzgerald's works research the Jazz-Age for the single American dream of happiness and wealth (Poupard, Person 146). ... In this book Fitzgerald uses Gatsby to compare the real American dreamer with what has become of the American society in the 1920's. ... It is a family tradition" (Fitzgerald 69). ... "Gatsby, unlike the other Fitzgerald heroes, sacrifices his life on the alter of his dream, unaware that it is compos...

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The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald takes us on a thrilling journey (both physically and psychologically) of Nick Carraway. ... " (Fitzgerald, 3) Here we clearly are able too see Nick's early emotions towards his hometown. ... " (Fitzgerald, 4) Clearly showing the optimism and excitement Nick hoped for. ... " (Fitzgerald, The Crack Up) it becomes impossible not to draw connections between this quotation and The Great Gatsby. ... " (Fitzgerald, 174) Nick's short sentences are indicative of this change. ...

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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. ... Fitzgerald expresses how Gatsby believes even Daisy's voice is " full of money'-(127). ... -(Fitzgerald 116). ... Fitzgerald did not make it to obvious who was driving the car. ...

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F.Scott Fitzgerald was proficient with the use of illusion and deception in the creation of the characters. ... " ' I'll tell you God's truthI am the son of some wealth people in the middle-west [He explained to Nick]'''(Fitzgerald 72). ... " 'Well they say he's a nephew or a cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm's [Mr.McKee put forth]'''(Fitzgerald 35). ... "making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand"[Fitzgerald 37]. ... " Except for the half -hour she's been alone with Gatsby she wa...

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Response Unlike the absolute absence of women in Horatio Alger's book Ragged Dick of the 19th century, there is a seemingly ultimate freedom in F.Scott Fitzgerald's famous novel The Great Gatsby. ... Claud Roosevelt as a child, women were instrumental in composing the immigrant American nation (Fitzgerald 46). ... Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda Fitzgerald said: " I think a woman gets more happiness out of being gay...than out of a career that calls for hard work, intellectual pessimism and loneliness...I want my daughter to be a flapper, because flappers are brave, gay and beautiful" (...

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Identity is expressed from many different channels within F.Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. ... Fitzgerald's presents to his reader the 1920's as the decade of decayed social and moral values. ...

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