His obsession is evident in that he gets satisfaction in not seeing Daisy, but merely looking at a place where he knows she is near. ... Gatsby first resolves to reunite with Daisy after organizing a get together at the home of his neighbor, Nick Carraway, where Daisy will be unaware of his presence. ... He does not analyze the situation and thinks that his confession of unrequited love will easily win over the married Daisy. ... He felt married to her, that was all- (157). ... The stunning truth for Gatsby was that Daisy was married and that no amount of money or flattery could win her b...

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That's what I get for marrying a brute of a man, a great, big, hulking physical specimen of a – '" (17). ... For this, and not the love, Daisy and Tom are married. ... Daisy gives an expression that she would have married Gatsby had it not been that he was initially poor. ... This is because, with a woman of lower social stations, Myrtle, Tom can resort to violence and drunkenness and get away with it. ... "The only crazy I was was when I married him. ...

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He is so intent on getting Daisy it seems he will doing anything to win her love; including doing illegal things to get money. ... Generally, when people get married it is because they love one another, but in The Great Gatsby, the upper class' weddings are mainly for social purposes. ... It is obvious that they are not truly in love but they are married because their social standings make them perfect for one another. ... We see when Myrtle asks Tom to buy her a dog, "I want to get one of those dogs...I want to get one for the apartment" (31). ... Now, since she married Tom, she live...

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We are expected to act like adults but yet we don't get the full advantages of being an adult... I don't think he likes to get involved in other peoples business, he would rather stick to his own business... The reason I say she is a bad girlfriend or wife is because while she is still married to Tom she is out fooling around with Gatsby. ... The way if affected Gatsby is he was jealous because he used to have something with Daisy and he comes back to her to find out that she is married to Tom. Even though she is married he wants her. ...

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We briefly get a description of Gatsby. ... We do not really get a good look at him, just an outline of his figure. ... Towards the end of the chapter, we get our first meeting with Gatsby. It occurs when Jordan and Nick go outside to get away from the party. ... Gatsby knows that Daisy is married, but yet he still tells her about his dream and how he stares at the green light at the end of her dock every night. ...

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The American Dream was essentially a dream of money, wealth, prosperity and the happiness that supposedly came with the booming economy and get-rich-quick schemes that formed the essential underworld of American upper-class society. ... She cannot stand being married to a poor man, and resents being tied down to the Garage where they live and work, as her she says: " he isn't fit to lick my shoe." (Pg. 37) She dreams being a part of the elite group of the idle rich, a desire she satisfies through an affair with Tom Buchanan, a married man who is extremely wealthy. ... Instead, his main...

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The American Dream was essentially a dream of money, wealth, prosperity and the happiness that supposedly came with the booming economy and get-rich-quick schemes that formed the essential underworld of American upper-class society. ... She cannot stand being married to a poor man, and resents being tied down to the Garage where they live and work, as her she says: " he isn't fit to lick my shoe." (Pg. 37) She dreams being a part of the elite group of the idle rich, a desire she satisfies through an affair with Tom Buchanan, a married man who is extremely wealthy. ... Instead, his main...

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The American Dream was essentially a dream of money, wealth, prosperity and the happiness that supposedly came with the booming economy and get-rich-quick schemes that formed the essential underworld of American upper-class society. ... She cannot stand being married to a poor man, and resents being tied down to the Garage where they live and work, as her she says: " he isn't fit to lick my shoe." (Pg. 37) She dreams being a part of the elite group of the idle rich, a desire she satisfies through an affair with Tom Buchanan, a married man who is extremely wealthy. ... Instead, his main...

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He is very passionate about Daisy and will do anything to win her back, even though she is married. ... Daisy promised to wait for him but soon after she married a wealthy guy, Tom Buchanan. ... He goes to the party where he get chance to meet the Jay Gatsby. ... Daisy regrets about leaving him after promising that she will marry him when he get back from the war. ... I believe that the sometimes feeling of love makes people sober but, I am not crazy about money and I am always happy with what I get from what I do and what I can get from what is given to me. ...

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He then married a flapper, Zelda Sayre. ... Tom, with a married woman named Myrtle and Daisy with Jay Gatsby. ... In the end of both nothing seems to be greatly affected; Brett and Jake remain in love, but not committed and Tom and Daisy remain married. ... Now you enjoy that slowly, and then you can get drunk- (Hemingway 59). ...

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Within a few years, Dexter acquires great wealth and gets involved as one of Judy Jones' many affairs. ... In the end, Dexter, alone, finds out that Judy, married with children, has moved on with her life. ... This news crushes Dexter's dream, and he does not know how to get back what he had had. ... Also, in everything Judy does, she uses her beauty to get what she wants from men. ... Devlin tells Dexter that Judy, married with children, has had her beauty fade. ...

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Scott realized he was good at writing and used it as a way to get students to like him. ... Scott became a hit, and following the publication Zelda finally married him. ... He married his first wife and then became a foreign correspondent for the newspaper and moved to Paris and fell into what was called "The Lost Generation" (Ernest Hemingway). ...

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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. ... She makes it abundantly clear when she speaks of her wedding: "The only crazy I was when I married him. ... He borrowed somebody's best suit to get married in and never even told me about it, and the man came after it one day when he was out" (39). ...

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They got married, but their marriage was a wreck because Fitzgerald strived so intensely to write a story that would make him famous that it drove his wife crazy, but it wasn't all Fitzgerald's fault. His wife cheated on him not long after they were married(de Koster 27). ... He tried to stop so that he could get his life back together with his daughter( ). ...

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The two married and had a honeymoon worthy of the Jazz Age, the legends of the honeymoon are outlandish and numerous as they began to tackle the city that defined 1920's "It was an age of miracles, it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire, (Echoes of the Jazz Age)" Eleanor Lanahan the granddaughter of the Fitzgerald writes, "Americans will always picture him and my grandmother Zelda as the footloose adventurers who rode down Fifth Avenue on the tops of taxicabs, danced on tables at the Waldorf and took their famous plunge in the fountain at...

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Wilson rejected the compliment" (Fitzgerald, 31) They both slept with the other men to get ahead, Roxie wanted to get him to tell his friends about her so that she could have an audition and gain the fame she thought she deserved. ... 'I want to get one for the apartment" (Fitzgerald, 27). ... I never was any crazier about him than I was about that man there'" (Fitzgerald, 35) Even though Billy Flynn isn't married and he didn't cheat on anyone, between him and Tom Buchanan there are many similarities, like how they're brutish, arrogant and wealth, they...

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She was rich and Gatsby was poor, therefore she did not wait for him, and instead, married Tom Buchanan. ... And Daisy, the woman that Gatsby has always wanted but never gets, lives on East Egg. ... But one thing never changes about the American Dream; everyone desires something in life, and everyone, somehow, strives to get it. ...

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This gives the reader some suspicion that the girl has grown tired of doing the same things over and over again and would like to do something different, like getting married and starting a family. ... Although they drink mainly to avoid thinking about the pregnancy, readers get a sense that deeper problems exist in their relationship. ...

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Gatsby feels that the only way to achieve idealism is through materialism, he said, "She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me."1 He believes that Daisy would be his if he had money. ... His father told Nick, Jimmy was bound to get ahead. ... Material objects can get many things for Jay Gatsby, (or the illusion of many things), such as friends. It could not however get the one thing he truly desired. ... I'll get you anything my friend, If it makes you feel all right. ...

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Similarly, Buchanan and Gatsby both use people to get what they want. ... Gatsby uses Nick Carraway to get to Daisy. ... Not knowing who Gatsby is at the time, Nick is shocked that he has been the only one to ever receive an invitation to one of Gatsby's parties, which he understands later that the favours he asks of Nick are only to get closer to Daisy. " 'He wants to know' " continued Jordan, " 'if you'll invite Daisy to your house some afternoon and then let him come over' " (63). ... He has money and power, so Daisy is pleased with the benefits she has by be...

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Also, the way he came about his millions is somewhat less admirable- "although Gatsby seems very kind, he is not afraid to be unscrupulous to get what he wants" ("Character" n. pag.). ... He is extremely pompous: he married the girl that everyone wanted and came from Chicago "with a hundred people in four private cars and hired a whole floor of the Seelbach Hotel." ...

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When posed with the question, "How does Fitzgerald convey the theme of the American Dream throughout The Great Gatsby?" one might find it difficult to respond to. The definition of the American Dream varies from one person to another. It is safe to say, however, that one of the stereotypical Ameri...

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" Not married or engaged to anyone, Jordan represents the independent woman and often she is seen as an androgynous figure in The Great Gatsby. ... The several images of women that we get from reading The Great Gatsby, In Our Time, and The Sun Also Rises, all together create the picture of the "New Woman....

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When Myrtle, his mistress, gets startled at the fact that she is just a worthless girl to Tom, she rants about Daisy creating a vast scene with a fierce conclusion and a broken nose. ... She has a nose for materialistic items; being a key judgement for why she married Tom. ...

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While he was off fighting, Daisy became bored and impatient and married a rich man named Tom Buchanan. ... Tom doesn't care who loses what or who gets hurt as long as it isn't him. ... Tom, on the other hand, has an abundance of wealth so she marries him without even getting to know him. ...

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