In The Great Gatsby, Nick and Gatsby show a lot of contrast to each other by the way they live, their personality, and how they were raised. ... - (Fitzgerald 116). ... Gatsby's make believe past was quite a story "My family all died and I came into a great deal of money. ... In The Great Gatsby diversity separates Nick from Gatsby, by the way they live, their different personalities, to how they were raised. Because of diversity, Nick and Gatsby had a strong friendship, which in the end they proved to be " close friends- (Fitzgerald 176). ...

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The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby was wrote by F. ... Fitzgerald was born in St. ... The plot of The Great Gatsby was about Jay Gatsby's attempt to win back Daisy Buchanan now that he had attained money. ... In conclusion, The Great Gatsby is Fitzgerald's masterpiece work of literature that will always be a classic. ... The Great Gatsby was a classic of the twentieth century, and will probably be a classic for many more years to come. ...

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The Great Gatsby is a classical masterpiece produced by Fitzgerald invoking pleasure to the audience. ... One major theme of The Great Gatsby is about making money rapidly in the Land of Opportunity, which was where it assured the fate for success in acquiring great wealth. ... The love from Daisy to Gatsby was long lost when she married Tom Buchanan, her other unsympathetic half. ... The Great Gatsby can be such a classical pleasurable to read due to the reason that it conveyed the American dream utterly well. ... This classic portrayed the American dream to a great extent, Fitzgerald was ...

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The central conflict in "The Great Gatsby," (announced by Nick in the fourth paragraph of the book), is the conflict between Gatsby's dream and the reality that "the foul dust which floats in the wake of his dreams." Gatsby, Nick tells us, "turned out all right in the end"; the dreamer remains as pure, as inviolable, at bottom, as his dream of a greatness, an attainment "commensurate to man's capacity for wonder." ... The light-dark symbolism is employed with great care. ... White traditionally symbolizes purity, and there is no doubt that Fitzgerald wants to underscore the iron...

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The Great Gatsby, a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, chronicles the demise of a wealthy New York scammer – Jay Gatsby. ... Fitzgerald uses these seemingly small characters to convey how an individual's can affect another individual. In The Great Gatsby, Nick is portrayed to be Gatsby's best, and only, friend. ... In the novel, Fitzgerald uses Gatsby to develop Nick Carraway as a character. ...

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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald examines a section of the lives of a group of people. ... In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway differ in matters of morality, personal relationships, and wealth. ... It was Gatsby's mansion" (17). ...

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NARRATIVE STRUCTURE - The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby's narrative structure involves retrospective recounts of events. ... This use of flashbacks creates a sense of mystery around the protagonist, Gatsby. ... Fitzgerald does not waste any space by telling readers all the events that happened in that time frame but rather structure it in small episodes, pieced together. ... Myrtle's party compared to Gatsby's party in which readers are shown the difference in social strata between Myrtle and Gatsby. Although Nick narrates, building up the character of Gatsby throughout...

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This is the philosophy of which Gatsby was living. ... Scott Fitzgerald uses this idea to create confusion. ... Once he realized that, Gatsby died from his memory. ... Nick was living vicariously through Gatsby. ... Fitzgerald is trying to demonstrate in this book the idea that people are weak, and the only way one can survive, would be through a dream. ...

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Throughout the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald there are several reoccurring symbols. ... Fitzgerald's use of symbols makes the reader explore different possibilities that make the novel more intriguing. ... In Chapter VIII, Nick imagines what Gatsby's final thoughts would be. ... The three most important symbols in The Great Gatsby, that help the reader better understand the characters and theme, are the green light, the valley of ashes, and the eyes of Doctor T. ...

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Symbolism In The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald uses many symbols in order to emphasize its themes. ... Unfortunately, Daisy lives on East Egg across the bay form Gatsby. ... Daisy has fun with Gatsby but! ... The symbols in The Great Gatsby help to highlight its themes. ...

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In the novel "The Great Gatsby", by F. Scott Fitzgerald, a parallel with the Arthurian Legend, particularly that of the Crusade for the Holy Grail, is shown through the conduct of Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway. Gatsby's desire to attain Daisy Buchanan's love is his crusade. ... Daisy stands for everything Gatsby is not. ... F.Scott Fitzgerald's book shows us a lesson similar to that of the Arthurian legend. ...

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In the novel "The Great Gatsby", by F. Scott Fitzgerald, a parallel with the Arthurian Legend, particularly that of the Crusade for the Holy Grail, is shown through the conduct of Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway. Gatsby's desire to attain Daisy Buchanan's love is his crusade. ... Daisy stands for everything Gatsby is not. ... F.Scott Fitzgerald's book shows us a lesson similar to that of the Arthurian legend. ...

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In the book, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, certain characters developed so that they contradict another character personality traits. ... In this case, the development of Nick and Gatsby are a contradiction of each other: on one hand there is Nick who develops greatly through the story and on the other hand there is Gatsby, a man caught up in the corruptions of his own life. ... Unlike Nick, Gatsby does not develop in the course of the story. ... Nick also develops as he studies the better aspects of Gatsby's life as well. ...

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Great Gatsby is a difficult book to interpret, particularly because of the style in which it is written. ... However, even though we know that Nick as the narrator, reflecting back on that summer, did not see the three to be honorable people, he still spent a great deal of time with them. ... However, he remains Gatsby's ally and defends him to the end, just because he admires Gatsby's "extraordinary gift for hope (Page 6)" and "romantic readiness (Page 6)." ... He revered Gatsby's optimism and perseverance. ... Scott Fitzgerald's style of writing enabled his character to j...

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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald uses many symbols in order to emphasize its themes. ... Unfortunately, Daisy lives on East Egg across the bay form Gatsby. ... So the green light stands for all of Gatsby's longings and wants. ... The symbols in The Great Gatsby help to highlight its themes. ...

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Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is a novel that elegantly and truthfully details the period of American history known as the Roaring Twenties. Taking place on the West and East Eggs of Long Island, The Great Gatsby tells the tale of Jay Gatsby (an incredibly wealthy but yet a complete mystery of a man) and of his undying love for Daisy Buchanan. ... The Great Gatsby is a novel of lavish parties filled with drunken orgies of sheer debauchery, love affairs, and murder, but yet it still manages to show the innocence and naivety of the very people that sinfully tarnish the world in which ...

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In the novel The Great Gatsby , there were many characters that show the reality of life, such as Gatsby, Daisy, or Nick. ... " ( Fitzgerald 1) Nick had the wrong understanding about values of life. ... In the novel, Nick used Gatsby as his model. ... Nick always narrate about how great Gatsby was. ... Gatsby was Nick" s idol. ...

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Nick Carraway proves to have more class than any other character in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. ... Nick is one of the few people who recognize Gatspy's greatness. ... These are the last words Nick ever speaks to Gatsby. He looks beyond how Gatsby gains his wealth and looks more into the person Jay Gatsby really is. ...

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Scott Fitzgerald realized this when writing The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald shows those differences and similarities through Nick, the book's narrator. ... Earlier Nick talks about how Tom uses his large, flat hand to shake hands with Gatsby's. ... The way Fitzgerald had Nick describe the men and women at a certain society stand-point is the stereotypical. ... To many men, women are beautiful creatures sometimes to the point beyond this world, Nsync knew it when singing one of their many number one love songs - "God Must Have Spent a Little More Time on You- and so did Fitzgerald when w...

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In the movie Gatsby's murder is the climax. ... Fitzgerald and Coppola use symbols throughout the book and film. ... Gatsby's parties are over the top and lavish. ... Gatsby never attends one of his parties. ... Nick tells Gatsby "They're a rotten crowd. ...

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