This describes the journey through the Valley of Ashes to reach New York City. "New York City is the glitz and immortality district of The Great Gatsby" (Mulford). ... While in New York City Tom Buchanan has a scandalous affair with Myrtle Wilson. ... During the party in New York City, Myrtle drinks too much and begins to taunt Tom about Daisy. ... New York City is a mixture of all three previously mentioned locations. ...

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It is soon revealed that Tom is having an affair with a woman in the city. ... Tom has been having an affair with his wife, Myrtle, and Tom tells her to join them later in the city. ... When Tom and Nick arrive in the city, they visit with Myrtle and her sister, Catherine McKee. ... In the city, the group goes to a suite at the Plaza Hotel. ... Thoroughly disgusted with life in New York, Nick decides to return to the mid-west. ...

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He is also a cheater because he takes the character Myrtle to New York City in an apartment so Daisy would not know anything about it. ... Great Gatsby was set in 1922 summer in New York on two areas, East Egg and West Egg. ... The novel The Great Gatsby starts when Nick Carraway moves to the New York to learn bond business. ... After visiting East Egg, Nick and Tom Buchanan, who is Daisy's husband goes to New York. ... He forces the group to drive into New York City, where he confronts Gatsby in a suite at the Plaza Hotel. ...

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In the case of The Great Gatsby these cultural surroundings are an early 1920's America, specifically New York and the adjacent Long Island. The period of the 1920s in New York City was widely regarded as an era of prosperity. ... As for Gatsby's identity coming from his momentary circumstances, Gatsby actually manipulates the prosperous and "moneyed " citizens of New York, one great example being Meyer Wolfsheim, into making him into a million heir. ... Despite being set around New York The Great Gatsby is a mediation of the 1920's America as a whole in the sense of the America...

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Fitzgerald moved with Zelda, his fiancé, to New York City leaving army life behind to seek his fortune. ... Both also have done time in the service during World War I and moved to New York City after being discharged ("The Great Gatsby- 1). ... Like Nick in The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald found this new lifestyle seductive and exciting--he had always idolized the very rich, and now found himself in a decade in which unrestrained materialism set the tone of society, particularly in the large cities of the East ("The Great Gatsby- 2). ...

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"The Great Gatsby" is being told through the eyes of Nick Carraway, Daisy's cousin, who moves into New York City making a living while selling bonds. Nick compares his neighbor, Jay Gatsby, to the city itself as being very diverse. "Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy of bay, just out into the most domesticated body of salt water in the Western Hemisphere, the great barnyard of Long Island Sound" (Fitzgerald 9). ...

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The way these people live is represented in the novel by Fitzgerald, who emphasizes the life of Nick Carrway, a single stockbroker living in New York, and shows us the world of the rich through his point of view. ... He think she goes to see her sister in New York. ... Trask adds that "The final irony of the novel is that Fitzgerald could discern no beauty in the city to compare with the beauty, however, meretricious, inherent in Gatsby's Platonic conception of himself" (Trask 3). ...

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New York in the 1920's buzzed with new stylish trends and amoral attitudes. Most during that time considered New York to be the center of cultural development. ... He did not know that it was already behind him; somewhere back in the vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night. ...

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Nick describes where he and the other affluent individuals live, in the towns of East and West Egg on Long Island, an area around New York City. ... The word "egg" suggests vitality and contrasts to Fitzgerald's description of "the valley of ashes," the area of New York where the poorer citizens live. ...

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Gatsby was well known in New York for his extravagant and alluring parties that he threw often, inviting guests from all over the city. ... This makes the parties at the Gatsby mansion even more infamous as all parts of New York had heard about this grand party. ...

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The novel takes place in New York, in the early 1920s. One might notice that the financial situation with the East and West Eggs bears an uncanny resemblance to the situation with the East and West Sides in the city. ... In the city families who have been wealthy for several generations occupy the sophisticated East Side; in order to buy an apartment there one must provide good recommendations. ...

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The idea of the American Dream is based on the fantasy that an individual can achieve success regardless of family history, race, and/or religion simply by working hard. The 1920's were a time of corruption and degradation of moral values in society. World War One was over and people were reveling i...

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The location of the eggs, out on long island, displays the significance of urbanization and the rise of suburbia of the 1920s; people who desired to have spaciousness homes and the nature of small town life while having the access to the glamorous city life could achieve this. The area in between West Egg and New York City, known as the valley of ashes, is a long stretch of desolate land created by the dumping of industrial ashes. ...

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Nick soon enough, leaves the Midwest and settles on an island just outside of New York City, West Egg. ... While Nick believes this is the righteous path that he chooses leaving the City behind, his metanoia wouldn't have been possible without the language and influence of his surroundings. ...

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Nick Carraway, a character originally hailing from the Midwest moves to a very prestigious neighborhood in New York. ... In the planned confrontation that happens in New York City, Tom in the presence of Daisy and Nick, accuses Gatsby of lying that he graduated from Oxford; he mocks him about his habit of calling people "old sport" and accuses him of running a bootlegging operation. ...

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The Roaring-twenties, characterized the 1920's in American cities such a New York and Chicago, the setting for the novel, The Great Gatsby and the movie, Chicago. This period in American History is also called the Jazz age, it was a revolution, women started to gain equality in the eyes of men, the...

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Symbolism in Great Gatsby Symbolism in the Great Gatsby Cary L. Pannell Eng. 206 Mrs. Sanders 20 May 1997 Symbolism in The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a novel about one man's disenchantment with the American dream. In the story we get a glimpse into the life of Jay ...

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