The Great Gatsby portrays 1920's life. ... They endlessly seek personal advancement and overall happiness by any means necessary, yet in the end, they fall short of true happiness. Throughout the novel, moral decadence, frequent exploitation, and the unobtainable American Dream represent significant themes in understanding various interpretations of The Great Gatsby's storyline. ... Daisy shows a great lack of moral character when she quickly involves herself in an affair with Gatsby. ... In conclusion, moral decadence, frequent exploitation, and the unobtainable American Dream ...

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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 uses the technique of conflicting, but somewhat similar characters in The Great Gatsby in order to demonstrate how pursuing one's desires can lead to both destruction and growth. ... As the title infers, Jay Gatsby is nothing short of great. ... Both Tom and Gatsby are motivated by a woman, whether it is Daisy and Myrtle for Tom or just Daisy for Gatsby. ... Although Gatsby and Tom are very much alike, Tom is a much more outwardly violent and aggressive man than Gatsby, making him much like a vision of Gatsby's evil alter ego. ... If placed in correct order, these o...

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• Grade Level: High School

Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby perfectly illuminates the American life of the Jazz Age. It stoof the test of time and has earned the distinction as one of the truly great American novels. ... The Great Gatsby delineates the diverse elements of high society during the Jazz Age through the following representative characters: Jay Gatsby as the nouveau riche, Tom Buchanan as the old money, and Jordan Baker as the reckless, detached modern woman. ... "In many ways, The Great Gatsby represents Fitzgerald's attempt to confront his conflicting feelings about the Ja...

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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

Tom Buchanan and Jay Gatsby show both similarities and differences throughout the novel, The Great Gatsby. ... "Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand" (39). ... Gatsby uses Nick Carraway to get to Daisy. As soon as Gatsby comes to know that Daisy and Nick are cousins, Nick receives an invitation in the mail from Jay Gatsby. ... Daisy adores the attention Gatsby gives her, but love is quickly overcome by wealth when she finds out more about Gatsby. ...

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• Has Bibliography
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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