In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby, Myrtle Wilson, and Tom Buchanan are all symbols of people in the lost generation in America during the early 1920's. ... (History Lecture Notes) Gatsby's intentions to build this fortune were entirely pure and passive. ... (History Lecture Notes) Ironically, Gatsby was a soul who wasn't lost like the others, he wasn't a fool lost for money, but lost for love. ... " (The Great Gatsby 107) Tom wasn't acceptive of the fact that Gatsby was new money. ... In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby, Myrtle Wilson, and Tom Buchanan, were the major ...

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Short Summary of The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby is a specific portrait of American society during the Roaring Twenties, yet tells the quintessential American story of a man rising from rags to riches only to find that whatever benefits his wealth affords, it cannot grant him the privileges of class and status. ... Other than Wilson's garage, the only other feature of note is a large advertisement for an optometrist, two large eyes that look over the barren area. ... At this point Gatsby's origins are unclear, but Gatsby clarifies the story: he t...

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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. ... The Great Gatsby was written in a poor society with no moral virtues. ... In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby will do anything to fulfill his hopes and dreams. ... "It is on this note of accommodation, of very modest dreams in light of the sobering realities of history, that The Great Gatsby ends" (Steinbrink 181). The Great Gatsby finishes on the idea that reality protrudes through the dreams of Jay Gatz. ...

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In The Great Gatsby, F. ... David Trask notes, "What was that business? ... In The Great Gatsby contains many different use of irony. ... The use of irony, in The Great Gatsby is used a countless number of times. ... The Great Gatsby uses satire its through characters. ...

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A great deal of the adulterous and scandalous behavior described in The Great Gatsby is reflective of F. ... The Great Gatsby, a novel written by Fitzgerald, includes many autobiographical elements of the author's life. On the surface, The Great Gatsby is a story about disillusioned love between a man and a woman. ... Davis further notes, "The new money makes Gatsby into an equal of Daisy's and allows him to finally pursue her" (Davis). ... However, by the time The Great Gatsby was published in 1925, Fitzgerald had already begun to feel his own dreams disintegrating, much ...

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Fitzgerald's Personal Background Paralleled with the Characters in The Great Gatsby As F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby in the early 1920's, he used a variety of sources to develop the setting, themes and characters. ... Fitzgerald incorporates his personal background, peers and close friends, to form the personalities of the various characters in The Great Gatsby. ... "The substance for The Great Gatsby is largely material Fitzgerald had used before; at the heart of it once again are the love affairs of Scott Fitzgerald with Ginevra King and Zelda Sayre- (Kenneth Eble...

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Identity is expressed from many different channels within F.Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. ... In the case of The Great Gatsby these cultural surroundings are an early 1920's America, specifically New York and the adjacent Long Island. ... Identity within The Great Gatsby's 1920's American setting is strongly defined as mentioned above by monetary circumstance. ... Colour is highly eminent in The Great Gatsby. ... An additional note for interest is that there was a very famous flapper named Josephine Baker who would have been in New York during the events of The Grea...

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Tom Buchanan and Jay Gatsby show both similarities and differences throughout the novel, The Great Gatsby. ... On the same note, Gatsby spends his money with ease too, but for a different purpose. ... Gatsby uses Nick Carraway to get to Daisy. As soon as Gatsby comes to know that Daisy and Nick are cousins, Nick receives an invitation in the mail from Jay Gatsby. ... Daisy adores the attention Gatsby gives her, but love is quickly overcome by wealth when she finds out more about Gatsby. ...

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The Great Gatsby, often considered F. ... In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald does a stunning job of combining many characters that are complete and total opposites but still interact with the same sort of mysterious nature and passion for life itself. ... He becomes somewhat poetic, describing her voice as "the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again" (9). ... When Tom and Gatsby confront each other and Daisy is involved in the conversation, Gatsby realizes this about Daisy's charm. ... When Tom and Gats...

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Gatsby needs money to live the life that he does. ... He notes the "gleaming white house", the "airy, white rooms," and Daisy lounging in a white dress. ... This Owl Eyes, who was so observant at Gatsby's party, was the only patron of Gatsby's parties that showed up to the funeral. ... It is most important to Gatsby's character. ... The clock was symbolizing time and Gatsby's head resting on it was all the pressure that Gatsby was putting on time. ...

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