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 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...

• Word Count: 1310
• Approx Pages: 5
• 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...

• Word Count: 1312
• Approx Pages: 5
• 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
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School