Throughout the years there has become a mythos of ""the great American novel", a novel about American ideals so well written it could be interesting to anyone. ... And "The Great Gatsby" by Fitzgerald is a strong contender. ... At once when one start reading "the Great Gatsby" by Fitzgerald you are introduced to the decadence and carelessness of the wealthy people living on Long Island, a great setting for a novel detailing the corrupting power of money. ... Daisy was happy when she was young; she truly loved Gatsby. ... While Daisy and Tom uses the wealth to define themselves, and it thus bec...

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• Grade Level: High School

Scott Fitzgerald's novel "The Great Gatsby' appears to be just another novel about post world war one America, but viewing it as such would only be scratching the surface of a much deeper, darker and depressing story. ... There is also the example of the love that Daisy and Jay Gatsby share, or rather Gatsby's unrequited love for Daisy. ... Society The cast of 'The Great Gatsby' live in the jazz era of 1920's America which was a rather carefree era which is evident with all the lavish and wasteful and over the top parties that Gatsby throws life in that time per...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Huck Finn, of The Adventures of Huck Finn, and Jay Gatsby, of The Great Gatsby, share this talent. ... Fitzgerald presents a character with the same ability in The Great Gatsby: Jay Gatsby, the titular character himself. Gatsby's past is a mystery for the majority of the novel. The narrator, Nick Carraway pursues Gatsby's history, only to be lied to.  ... By the end of the novel, only a few characters actually learn of Gatsby's true origins. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Scott Fitzgerald focused on the American dream and this is apparent in his novel masterpiece, The Great Gatsby. ... Scott Fitzgerald also depicts the rebellious young adults of the roaring 20's in his novel The Great Gatsby. ... In The Great Gatsby, Tom and Daisy Buchanan both are having love affairs. ... In The Great Gatsby the group decides to drink and socialize at a fancy hotel with air conditioning because it is so humid outside. ... The two main female characters in The Sun Also Rises and The Great Gatsby constitute the evolution of the female's role in society. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Great literature resonates with the reader on many different levels. ... For example, "The Great Gatsby," is considered great because it explores universal themes of love and rejection. ... Great literature resonates with the reader and that is what makes each piece of literature great and memorable. ... Great literature is timeless. ... Great literature is timeless and timely. ...

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It is the time of great wealth, and celebration and a new image of the American ideal. ... Brett Ashley from "The Sun Also Rises" and Daisy Buchanan from "The Great Gatsby" embody the product of a time of grandeur and of irresponsibility; a time of new images and new ideals. ... Gatsby's great love and devotion for Daisy can be paralleled with Jake's own love and devotion to Brett. ... Gatsby centred his whole world around Daisy. ... Daisy initially found some comfort with Gatsby. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In The Great Gatsby we have the protagonist Daisy Buchanan who is described as a lovely, beautiful, irresponsible, spoiled lady, who has shift to a self-fashioning female and is completely dependable on men. ... There is only one part in The Great Gatsby where Daisy has a brief encounter with her daughter but she seems uninterested in her suggesting that she has not been an important figure in her daughter's life. ... " Not married or engaged to anyone, Jordan represents the independent woman and often she is seen as an androgynous figure in The Great Gatsby. ... In The Great Gatsby...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald, The Adventures of Walter Mitty by James Thurber, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain show numerous examples of this throughout their storylines. Between Gatsby possessing an outcast reputation, Mitty possessing an abstract mind, and Huck Finn challenging a strong opposition to racism and slavery, the lack of conformity in these pieces and in this world today are evident. ... In addition to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald exhibits a form of lack of conformity to society as well. ... ...

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Scott celebrated youth in his novels and that's what made them so great. He captured the idea of the great American Dream and the idea of true love and his audience went crazy for his stories. ... After Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby, he became acquainted with Ernest Hemingway while in Paris. ... As two authors who influenced American literature in a great way, both were very successful in their own ways. ...

• Word Count: 1371
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School