Scott Fitzgerald and is narrated by a character named Nick Carraway. ... At the end of the novel, Nick says: "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. ... Nick describes the valley of the ashes to be a very distorted and grotesque place. ... Nick is talking about the two ˜eggs' of Long Island. ... In Chapter 1, Nick goes over to his cousin's house, Daisy, and her husband Tom, who lives in East Egg. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The book illustrates the American Dream when the narrator, Nick Carraway from the middle class, moves to New York City to be successful in the bond business. ... Daisy is Nick's cousin, and Gatsby's long lost lover from before Gatsby went into the war. ... Daisy Buchannan is married to Tom Buchannan, whose house in East Egg is "even more elaborate then I [Nick Carraway] expected, a Georgian Colonial Mansion" (6). ... Gatsby eventually manipulates Nick in some ways to get back together with Daisy. ... In The Great Gatsby, Nick was the American Fool. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

However it is apparent to any outsider that his dream, as Nick Carraway (the narrator) puts it, is "founded securely on a fairy's wing" describing how fairytale and fragile it is. ... However the happiness he expected never followed, his lifestyle was seen as gaudy and nobody except Nick cared much for him and were only interested in his money. ...

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The narrator of the book, Nick Carraway starts out fine but by the end of the book is in search of the dream due to being around so much wealth for so long. Nick is what they call old money in the book and he is surrounded by rich people where he lives, the richest of them all is Jay Gatsby, Nick's next door neighbor. From the beginning Nick is interested in Gatsby's wealth and Gatsby attributes to Nick falling into a search for the American Dream. ... The gorgeous thing about Gatsby in this quote is that according to Nick is that he was able to conquer the American Dream. ... To...

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• Grade Level: High School

What was once for Thomas Jefferson - a belief in self-reliance and hard work has become what Nick Carraway calls "...the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty." ... The characters might be divided into three groups: Nick, the observer and commentator, who sees what has gone wrong Gatsby, who lives the dream purely Tom, Daisy, and Jordan, the "foul dust" who are the prime examples of the corruption of the dream. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the book Fitzgerald gives us a glimpse into the life of the high class during the roaring twenties through the eyes of a moralistic young man named Nick Carraway. ... Nick describes the Buchanan's as careless people, as he says: " They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made- (Pg. 170) Fitzgerald credits the destruction of the American Dream to wealth, privilege, and the lack of humanity that those aspects create. ... Whil...

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• Grade Level: High School

In the book Fitzgerald gives us a glimpse into the life of the high class during the roaring twenties through the eyes of a moralistic young man named Nick Carraway. ... Nick describes the Buchanan's as careless people, as he says: " They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made- (Pg. 170) Fitzgerald credits the destruction of the American Dream to wealth, privilege, and the lack of humanity that those aspects create. ... Whil...

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• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

In the novel, The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway quotes, "Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder." ... "There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams---not through her own fault ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the book Fitzgerald gives us a glimpse into the life of the high class during the roaring twenties through the eyes of a moralistic young man named Nick Carraway. ... Nick describes the Buchanan's as careless people, as he says: " They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made- (Pg. 170) Fitzgerald credits the destruction of the American Dream to wealth, privilege, and the lack of humanity that those aspects create. ... Whil...

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• Grade Level: High School

It is narrated by Nick Carraway, his morality and neutrality causes the reader to be more sympathetic to his views. ... The Buchanans house on the other hand has all the history and luxurious style to merit Nick's opinion. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Nick Carraway's first vision of Gatsby was when he: Stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have swore he was trembling I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been at the end of a dock . ... Nick observes, "Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever.... ... Ultimately, the inevitable collapse occurs, as Gatsby loses Daisy and dies almost completely friendless, prompting Nick to refer to Gatsby&#...

• Word Count: 1611
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School