Scott Fitzgerald's, The Great Gatsby, and John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, are two novels that deal with the tragic culmination of the American Dream, personified through respective protagonists. ... Hence, this essay aims to examine the role of these different narrative perspectives in influencing the development and perception of certain key characters, namely Lennie Small in Of Mice and Men and Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby. ... In The Great Gatsby, Nick states at the start of the story that he is "inclined to reserve all judgments," (Fitzgerald, 1) and appears to keep to his w...

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He wrote many notable novels in his career, and one of them is Great Gatsby. ... Great Gatsby is a story of the hopeless love between a man and a woman in early 1920's. ... Great Gatsby was set in 1922 summer in New York on two areas, East Egg and West Egg. ... The Great Gatsby was a wonderful movie and a book. ... The Great Gatsby shows an example of how failure people can succeed. ...

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The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald takes us on a thrilling journey (both physically and psychologically) of Nick Carraway. ... Gatsby's death was life changing for Nick. ... Following Gatsby's death, Nick found himself in charge of Gatsby's burial. At first, Nick thought he would be planning an eventful day celebrating a man that lived his life with great honor and passion. ... " (Fitzgerald, The Crack Up) it becomes impossible not to draw connections between this quotation and The Great Gatsby. ...

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