Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, one ideology critiqued is the American Dream. ... The conventions used to construct this idea of the American Dream include setting, conflict and symbolism. ... The American Dream is portrayed as corrupt through the use of setting. ... The descriptive language used to describe the setting is also contrasting. ... The settings are symbolic of the great divide between rich and poor. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Great Gatsby By F. ... I think the setting very much affects the personalities of the main characters. ... The Character's in "The Great Gatsby" are very interesting. ... Nick may not approve of Gatsby, yet he still thinks of him as great, and looks up to him. ... I really liked "The Great Gatsby"; I got caught up in it and ended up reading it in three days. ...

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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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On the superficial level, The Great Gatsby tells the story of a young middle class man who happens to get mixed up in the chaotic affairs of his wealthy cousin and neighbor. ... These pieces of the puzzle come even from the characters themselves when viewed merely as symbols and the setting when analyzed more closely. The character of Jay Gatsby himself is a symbol of the "American dream." ... Gatsby's change from James Gatz to Jay Gatsby is his first step towards his vision of reaching his goals. ... Another symbol of great importance is the ladder dream that Gatsby has about himself a...

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The American Dream and How it is portrayed in The Great Gatsby By: Emma Macklin The Great Gatsby is a novel published in 1925, written by F. ... The Great Gatsby is a novel of tragedy, love and rich vs. poor. ... One of the many elements that he uses to show his idea of the concept in depth is setting. ... Scott Fitzgerald portrays the American Dream in the novel The Great Gatsby as this way of life that majority of people in this era were striving towards, and were doing anything and everything to achieve it. ... The three literary devices/elements of fiction that were thoroughly...

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The Great Gatsby The year is 1922, the setting Long Island, New York. At West Egg live Jay Gatsby and his neighbor Nick Carraway; Gatsby in a elegant mansion, Nick in a small cramped cottage. ... Upon this gloomy setting stares the eyes of Dr. ... The Great Gatsby is a true American classic. ... The Great Gatsby represents the dwindling of " the American Dream" and offers an alternative to it. ...

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Scott Fitzgerald apparently agreed with this biblical concept in writing the novel The Great Gatsby. Throughout The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses a great deal of symbolism in order to illustrate how the honorable pursuit of true love and happiness can be obstructed by the immoral pursuit of money. ... Initially, in The Great Gatsby, the symbolism begins with two cities, East Egg and West Egg, which are separated by The Valley of Ashes. ... In The Great Gatsby, God seems to abandon America, leaving behind only Dr. ... In conclusion, with a masterful use of symbolism and imagery, in The Great Ga...

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Many things from his novel, The Great Gatsby paralleled things from his life. ... Fitzgerald used familiar places and scenery from his life to help him with setting in The Great Gatsby. ... Fitzgerald and Zelda lived in Great Neck, Long Island. East and West Egg, the setting for The Great Gatsby, in reality is where Great Neck is. ... This probably helped him describe the setting in the novel and make it a little more accurate. ...

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" This quote is from the classic novel, The Great Gatsby, which was adapted into a movie in 1974 and again in 2013. ... The directors of both The Great Gatsby movies provide very different experiences for the viewers. ... Both actors play a great Gatsby by showing a loving, open, outgoing, and a charming Gatsby (Conner 2). ... Another character to observe from The Great Gatsby is Myrtle Wilson. ... The variety of similarities and contrasts between The Great Gatsby films show the difference in the times between the two movies. ...

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The Role of Symbolism in The Great Gatsby What would a novel be like without the vital use of symbolism? ... In The Great Gatsby, Scott Fitzgerald uses many symbols and motifs to help explain the setting of his story. ... Jay Gatsby is first introduced in a very awkward way. ... They motifs in the Great Gatsby are constantly portraying and developing the themes in the novel. ... The symbols and motifs in The Great Gatsby are definitely significant to the novel. ...

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The use of setting in this play is also critical. ... The Great Gatsby by F. ... This was Jay Gatsby's life, the good life, except he was lacking in one thing that would make his life complete, the heart of Daisy Buchanan. ...

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• Grade Level: High School