With World War I going on as he entered, Fitzgerald, convinced that he would die in battle quickly wrote his first novel The Romantic Egoist. ... Still stationed at Camp Sheridan, Fitzgerald's publisher once again rejected the revised edition of The Romantic Egoist that Fitzgerald had so diligently worked on. ... Like Fitzgerald, Gatsby falls in love with a beautiful woman while stationed at a military camp in the south. The two men also spent vast amounts of money to please the women they loved. ... Ginevera King was Fitzgerald's first real love, but her family rejected him, ag...

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• Grade Level: High School

We also find out what the green light on the other side of the harbor is, showing that Gatsby is still in love with Daisy, even after all these years. ... This chapter he tells Daisy that he is still in love with her and that he has always loved her. ... In a way, Gatsby's dream of him and Daisy was way more romantic than her actually being with him. Some girls think it is really romantic for a guy to base his whole world around you and what you like. ... In a way though, it might not really make a difference, due to the fact that he has been built up to be a great guy and madly in...

• Word Count: 1488
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

During the war, Fitzgerald wrote the Romantic Egotist which was rejected twice. He also fell in love and became engaged to Zelda Sayre, who left him due to his lack of success. ... Daisy abandons Jay, even though she loves him, because he has no money. ... Tom claims to love Daisy yet he is an adulterer and he makes her life miserable. ... Take chances in life and in love and you will be rewarded. ...

• Word Count: 1839
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• Grade Level: High School

" Romantic as this may seem, there are consequences that come in its stead. ... Paradoxically, upon re-encountering Daisy, Gatsby begins to covet the time in the past when he and Daisy were in love. ... (Fitzgerald 9) Upon this dismal revelation, Dexter becomes nostalgic of his past and of the romantic idealism that once flourished in "the country of illusion, of youth, of the richness of life....

• Word Count: 1294
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Everything revolves around Daisy; he even "revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes." ... He knows Daisy loves money, wealth, and prestige, and he believes he can use his fortune to win back her affections. ... she cried pointing 'I love it '" (Fitzgerald 95-96) Gatsby brags to Daisy about his wardrobe: "I've got a man in England who buys me clothes. ... The very phrases were worn so threadbare that they evoked no image except that of a turbaned 'character'- (Fitzgerald 70) When asked by the narrator ab...

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• Grade Level: High School

To some, 'happy' could mean having absolutely nothing, but being surrounded by people they love. ... His hope was shaped by love; aspirations of achieving his desires of earning one girl's affection. ... He risked his safety, freedom, and reputation in a desperate attempt to find Daisy, and make her love him. ... In a hopelessly romantic act of desire, he would reach his arms towards the green light that shone on her house's dock. ... He remains in love with Daisy, as he has unrelentingly in the years past. ...

• Word Count: 1542
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• Grade Level: High School

She betrays the one man who bases his entire life around the love for her; Jay Gatsby. ... For this, and not the love, Daisy and Tom are married. ... Daisy is one of the wealthy, aristocrat, and romantic domineering 'Golden Girls'. ... She is blinded by Tom's costly apparel and appearance that she does not see the love George has for her. George borrows the suit so he can express the substantial love for her; nevertheless, Myrtle turns down his love and betrays it for her passion: Tom. ...

• Word Count: 1394
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• Grade Level: High School

Unfortunately, Biff had his own idea of happiness as seen when he promulgates this by informing Willy that, "I saw the things that I love in this world. ... After her romantic misfortune of discovering her husbands homosexuality, Blanche begins to search for shelter in strangers. ... Finally, The Great Gatsby epitomizes the negatives of an unwavering hope in love rather than a mantra or belief as shown in the previous stories. Jay Gatsby struggles the entire story with an incredible love for a girl named Daisy, with whom he had once been in love. ... Jay had essentially been living a fake...

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Gatsby and Tom were arguing and fighting for Daisy's love. ... Tom says, "once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time" (105). ... Daisy absolutely loved and admired the house, as soon as possible; Nick had a thought and questioned Gatsby if he inherited the money. ... The society Gatsby wants to be a part of is based on money and power, not faith and love. ... In one sense, this is a lovely romantic gesture, but in another sense, it perpetuates a childish illusion. ...

• Word Count: 1656
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Fitzgerald presents the main character, Jay Gatsby, as a romantic who embodies the American dream. ... Daisy Buchanan is a character who has no love for making money, just having money. ... If he captures reality he would not love her as he does because she is full of unreality also. ... The novel submerges a life long dream of an incredible wealthy man and his love for the most beautiful woman in Alabama. ... Jay Gatsby goes to great lengths to recapture the past by regaining daisy's love. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Even so, the green light leaves the readers with hope that all their dreams can be achieved if they pursue them, characterizing the book as both realist and romantic and thus, thoroughly modern. ... The light becomes, for Gatsby, the symbol of a reunion with Daisy, where he believes he will win her true love. ... The green light at the end of Daisy's dock represents Gatsby's ultimate aspiration, which is to win Daisy's love. ... His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one,"" we see that Gatsby is now realizing the reality that he can not win Daisy's love. In ...

• Word Count: 1898
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

However the traffic accident of Mrs Wilson caused by the car brought about the ruin of Gatsby and Wilson, which are what they finally paid for love. ... Daisy belongs to the kind of frequently appearing heroines in Fitzgerald's works who are "with lovely and appealing appearance, romantic but parasitic and apathetic." ...

• Word Count: 1437
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the story we get a glimpse into the life of Jay Gatsby, a man who aspired to achieve a position among the American rich to win the heart of his true love, Daisy Fay. ... Fitzgerald perfectly understood the inadequacy of Gatsby's romantic view of wealth. At a young age he met and fell in love with Ginevra King, a Chicago girl who enjoyed the wealth and social position to which Fitzgerald was always drawn. ...

• Word Count: 1504
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School