The Great Gatsby Group Pressure on the Individual: An individual has many pressures put on him/her from society. ... Everyone else who's goals are to be wealthy or powerful, I think that is a short-term goal because you are only here on earth for a very short time. ... When Gatsby had shown his face at the table. ... Nick starts to believe what Gatsby is saying after Gatsby presents a medal and pictures from his Oxford days. Then Jordan explains to Nick how Gatsby and Daisy together. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald explores the pursuit and reality of the American Dream through his wishful protagonist, Jay Gatsby. ... In The Great Gatsby, the ideal of "The American Dream- causes Gatsby to exist in a false and myopic life for which his unattainable goals inevitably lead to his downfall. In The Great Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan represents the ideals of Jay Gatsby's American Dream and causes Gatsby to conform to an idealistic life in his pursuit of her. ... Gatsby chases Daisy and with her, he seeks to attain the great status and wealth that she repre...

• Word Count: 1565
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Fitzgerald, as a member of "the lost generation", publish his The Great Gatsby in 1925 and confirmed his status as a chronicler and poet laureate in the jazz age. ... However, what makes Fitzgerald great is by no means the "author's voice" in the work, but his marvelous wit to symbolically fuse the individual with the outer-world and the personal emotions with social environment. ... Daisy and Jordan "were both in white, and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had just been blown back in after a short flight around the house." ... The symbolism of the hero evidently pla...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Great? Or Not So Great? ... Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby we see the constant battle between morality and secularism, mainly through his use of symbolism. ... Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby, such a great success, however some critics don't agree. ... Scrimgeour, author of "Against the Great Gatsby", has a similar outlook on the novel; however his feelings aren't as strong as Kenny's. ...

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Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, the "roaring twenties" depicts the post-war generation of the newly rich and wannabes, whose extravagant lifestyles center around parties, wealth and affairs. ... Gatsby emphasizes his desire and wish to win Daisy over. ... Gatsby watches over the water many times, reaching to Daisy. ... Revealed through many characters, yellow exemplifies the idea of falsity and corruption in the Great Gatsby. ... White is first mentioned as Nick describes Daisy and Jordan at East Egg, appearing, "both in white and their dresses were rippling and flutt...

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The Great Gatsby The 1920s was a time in American History where the white-collar men and the socially elite lived a life laced with luxury. ... Scott Fitzgerald's novel the Great Gatsby, morality played a huge factor in how the reader views the people of the 1920s. ... Even though the characters in the Great Gatsby, and man! ... The 1920s usually don't show a women like this but rather it portrays a picture of the women in this time as being more liberated, cutting their hair short, driving, and smoking cigarettes. ... Gatsby seemed determined to show off his wealth. ...

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This is probably the best essay about the American Dream/Great Gatsby. ... For Jay, in The Great Gatsby, the interpretation of the dream is that through wealth and power, one can acquire happiness. ... Generally, when people get married it is because they love one another, but in The Great Gatsby, the upper class' weddings are mainly for social purposes. ... As was shown in The Great Gatsby, the characters always wanted more of something, no matter what it was or what they had to do to get it. ... The Great Gatsby illustrates how the pursuit for happiness through materialism cannot ...

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• Grade Level: High School

When she is first introduced in The Great Gatsby, she is described as a very captivative and seductive woman. ... Similarly, Myrtle's character in The Great Gatsby is more course and indelicate than Daisy. ... Light is one of the main symbols in The Great Gatsby; for Gatsby, it is a symbol for hope; conversely, in this quote, it is a symbol representing her fatal outcome and misfortune of hopelessness and misery. ... "Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand. ... Also, Myrtle turns out to be just a character the readers of The Great Gatsby picture...

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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. ... They have short hairstyles, bad habits like drinking and smoking, and dress provocatively....

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

CENTRAL IDEAS IN THE GREAT GATSBY. ... CENTRAL IDEAS IN THE GREAT GATSBY. ... (p. 100) "There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams-not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. ... "No-Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams." Gatsby is destroyed by Tom: " "Jay Gatsby" had broken up like glass against Tom's hard malice." ...

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• Grade Level: High School