However, Nick is only person pursuing a better and larger life who doesn't get caught up in the shallow, materialistic notions of most people doing the same thing. ... After getting settled, Nick visits the Buchanans and meets Daisy Buchanan "whom I scarcely knew at all" (p. 11) and Daisy's friend, Jordan Baker. ... One week after Fitzgerald achieved notoriety by publishing This Side of Paradise in 1920, however, Zelda and Fitzgerald were married. ... Myrtle Wilson vehemently denies being "crazy in love" with George, but rather, that "[t]he only crazy I was was when I married him"...

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• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

These questions can be used to get the reader thinking while using a psychoanalytic lens. ... It is obvious that Daisy didn't love Tom when she married him because she tried to call off the wedding the evening before when she'd received a letter from Gatsby. Her behavior after reading the letter suggests that she married Tom to keep herself from loving Gatsby; who she felt she had gotten too attached for her own comfort. ...

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• Approx Pages: 11
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The Great Gatsby and the American Dream For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs. - 1 Timothy 6:10 - As people, we do not realize what kinds of sorrows we bring upon ourselves. A...

• Word Count: 2638
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

In the second book, Gloria and Anthony get married, live in the grey house, drink too much, lose their inheritance, their love, and hope for the future. ... Dot is a Southern illiterate girl who is stupid, earthy, uneducated, too easy to get in bed and horribly in love with her man. ... War comes and goes, but the participants never get caught up in the meaning of it. ... When she married Anthony, she hated staying home in the evenings. ... The childishness of Gloria is repeatedly accented, not only by the gumdrops she "simply must" have and always eats, but by any of the numer...

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• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

The wealthy lifestyles of the Buchanans and Miss Jordan have morally corrupted their lives. Money has created boredom for them. Their ways of perceiving life and their altitudes towards other is vain. But each of them shows off their vanity in different ways. Tom Buchanan, for example, believes ...

• Word Count: 6164
• Approx Pages: 25
• Grade Level: High School

The American Dream is seriously flawed The presentation of the ideal of the American Dream is a mixture of contrast and confusion. There are two sides to the Dream; one is the idealised version, which indicates that the Dream is about belief in immeasurable possibility, that there are no limits t...

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• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

"Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion," Javan. One of the biggest questions lying at the root of human curiosity is whether love is real or merely an illusion. In our day-to-day lives, it can be very difficult to draw the line between the two, because our mind...

• Word Count: 2763
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School