The Great Gatsby In the book The Great Gatsby, by F. ... Now, the name of the book is called "The Great Gatsby", but we have never seen him, except the shadow in chapter 1, nor have we have any idea of why he is "great". ... He says, "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. ... So in a way, it does not really change the fact that we still think Gatsby is a great guy. ... The story of Gatsby is placed throughout the book to build up a great mystery of a perso...

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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. ... 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 word. ... The description of the characters in Of Mice and Men is not entirely objective either, and is not short of hyperbole and exaggeration. ... Unlike in The Great Gatsby, where the impression of Gatsby's character is constantly ...

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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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Short Summary of The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby is a specific portrait of American society during the Roaring Twenties, yet tells the quintessential American story of a man rising from rags to riches only to find that whatever benefits his wealth affords, it cannot grant him the privileges of class and status. ... At this point Gatsby's origins are unclear, but Gatsby clarifies the story: he tells Nick that he is from a wealthy San Francisco and was educated at Oxford after serving in the Great War (for which he received a number of decorations). ......

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Gatsby's Hopes and Dreams for his Future The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald is recognized in American Literature as one of his greatest achievements. ... The Great Gatsby was written in a poor society with no moral virtues. ... In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby will do anything to fulfill his hopes and dreams. ... Nevertheless, Gatsby is "great" because of his optimism and how he changes his dreams into a reality. ... The Great Gatsby finishes on the idea that reality protrudes through the dreams of Jay Gatz. ...

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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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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...

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Within the novel, The Great Gatsby, F. ... According to Dream, Design, and Interpretation in The Great Gatsby, James Gatz's attempt to become Jay Gatsby, his attempt to live out his invented history, entails an attempt to realize his "unutterable" dream. ... As Nick puts it, "There must have been moment even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams...no through her own fault but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. ... In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses Gatsby to symbolize a person in whom the Dream is still very much alive as part of a vanished past where Amer...

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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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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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In The Great Gatsby, the longing for the real American Dream---a simple white picket fence, a perfect family, a true love, and security---is not uncommon, but the corruption is characterized by greed and overpowered by money and material wealth. ... "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," Nick acclaims in the novel. ... This quote also reveals that maybe even Daisy was not good enough for Gatsby's great dream since it was so oversize. ... Another important...

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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, written by F. ... Throughout his entire life, he holds true to himself and his own dreams; he goes to great lengths in an impressive attempt to reach them. ... We watched him ascend beautifully into sheer bliss upon reunion with his only great love, a woman named Daisy. ... He bought a great mansion across the bay from her own home. ... If his life hadn't been cut short by a misguided and confused bullet, Gatsby would have continued to pursue her love. ...

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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. ... After a short time, Tom and Daisy invited Gatsby, Nick and Jordan for the lunch. ... 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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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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In the novel The Great Gatsby, many of the characters build their whole lives on illusion. ... In this novel, Gatsby has two lives; one that is false and one that is true that never seems to be reavled.To begin, Gatsby tells lies about his upbringing to create the great illusion that he was never in the hole or had to struggle and always had money. ... "making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand"[Fitzgerald 37]. ... He poses that he is a great husband but behind the scenes when there are no cameras, he is an unfaithful wrench who can not control his ...

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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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A great deal of the adulterous and scandalous behavior described in The Great Gatsby is reflective of F. ... The Great Gatsby, a novel written by Fitzgerald, includes many autobiographical elements of the author's life. On the surface, The Great Gatsby is a story about disillusioned love between a man and a woman. ... Adams notes a similar wasted effort by Fitzgerald when he writes, "Fitzgerald began working . . . sold his first short story . . . ... However, by the time The Great Gatsby was published in 1925, Fitzgerald had already begun to feel his own dreams disintegrating, much...

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Consumerism, excessive material wealth, and cynicism is portrayed in The Great Gatsby through the obsession with material purchases, the enormous homes on long island, extravagant cars, and lavish parties. ... The lavish parties, jazz music, and nightclub culture shown in The Great Gatsby, by the magnificent parties hosted by Jay Gatsby, perpetuate the corruption of the American dream as the unrestricted desire for money and pleasure surpass more noble goals. ... This social class division is further perpetuated in The Great Gatsby between those who live on West Egg versus those on East Egg. ....

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What are some of the assumptions held by different characters in The Great Gatsby, and to what degree do these change in the course of the novel? There are various assumptions held by different characters in the novel The Great Gatsby. ... The Great Gatsby is written from Nick's perspective. ... This presents a close link to The Great Gatsby as the novel gives an insight into American society in the 1920's and the impact it had on people. ... These assumptions held by different characters in The Great Gatsby, changed to various extents through the course of the novel. ...

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Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby, James Thurber's short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, and F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story Winter Dreams establish that infatuation with dreams causes conflict, confusion, and loss of identity. In Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, protagonist Jay Gatsby assumes an alias and conceals his past in order to attain opulence, resulting in the equivocation of his identity. ... The short story transitions between Mitty's fantasies and Mitty's reality. ... As per expected, when Judy falls short of expectations Dexter's...

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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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The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald takes us on a thrilling journey (both physically and psychologically) of Nick Carraway. ... Following Gatsby's death, Nick found himself in charge of Gatsby's burial. ... " (Fitzgerald, The Crack Up) it becomes impossible not to draw connections between this quotation and The Great Gatsby. ... " (Fitzgerald, 174) Nick's short sentences are indicative of this change. The short Sentences' only indicate the tipping point of Nicks Metanoia. ...

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