The setting also is symbiolic of Fritzgerald's satire of 1920s New York lifestyle , most important of all , brings out the themes of American dream , money and romantic love. The Midwest is where Nick has been living all his life "My Family has been prominent , well to do people in this Middle Western city for three generations", It is a place of tradition , security , and where family values are more important than money."..a complacent from growing up in the Carraway house in a city where dwellings are still called through decades by a family's name" From descriptions of the ...

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These outward appearances are not only found in people, but in the geographical areas of the New York area. ... Another small, but deceiving appearance is that of the New York area. New York and East Egg are seen as beautiful, wealthy cities. But these cities form a layer to cover the valley of ashes, the area of poverty and desolation of the cities. ...

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The Great Gatsby The year is 1922, the setting Long Island, New York. ... Midway between West Egg and New York City lies a vast ash dump near, which are the garage and home of George and Myrtle Wilson. ... Nick joins Tom and Myrtle at their private New York apartment. ... In a hot hotel room in New York City Gatsby demands, in the presence of Tom, Daisy, Nick, and Jordan that Daisy leave her husband and admit that she has never loved him. ... Earlier, when the five set out for New York, Daisy insists on riding with Gatsby in the Buchanans" car while Tom and the others follow in Gatsby's...

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After Daisy hit Myrtle with the car on the way home from New York City, she "stepped on it," and she would not even stop the car (151). ... When entering their New York City apartment, Myrtle "gathered up her dog and her other purchases and went haughtily in" (33). ...

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Nick moves to the suburbs of New York in the summer of 1922 to pursue a career in the bond business. ... Myrtle (and her husband) live in the valley of ashes, a dumping ground between West Egg and New York City. ... Later that day, the group drives into New York where Gatsby and Tom argue about whom Daisy is in love with. ... The most crucial scene in the movie is when Tom takes advantage of Daisy's suggestion that they should all go to New York together. ... In the New York City heat, the group rents a room at the Plaza Hotel. ...

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He doesn't present many facts about himself other than: he grew up in a respectable family and went to Yale, he likes literature and considers himself one of those "limited" specialists known as a "well-rounded man," and he works in the bond business in New York City.... He writes letters signed "Love, Nick" to a girl back home, but one reason he's come to New York is to avoid "being rumored into marriage" with her (19). ... (Fitzgerald 133) Afterwards, Nick and Jordan get into the car with Tom and head for the city. ...

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The book illustrates the American Dream when the narrator, Nick Carraway from the middle class, moves to New York City to be successful in the bond business. ... For example, the Valley of Ashes in the Great Gatsby is an appalling place between New York City and the eggs filled with poor, hopeless people who haven't been so fortunate. ... They see the ugly, poverty stricken part of New York that no one really likes to talk about. ...

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And when reality finally shows the upper echelon of New York City what is really happening, people die, marriages are strained, and enthusiastic weekend carousing will turn fatal. ... Following this party, Gatsby brings Nick along for lunch in New York with a special guest, Meyer Wolfsheim. ... After a heat wave strikes the area, the Buchanans, Nick, and Gatsby all drive into the city for some fun. ...

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And when reality finally shows the upper echelon of New York City what is really happening, people die, marriages are strained, and the enthusiastic carousing of the weekends will turn into the exasperation of actuality. ... Following this party, Gatsby brings Nick along for lunch in New York with a special guest, Meyer Wolfsheim. ... After a heat wave strikes the area, the Buchanan's, Nick, and Gatsby all drive into the city for some fun. ...

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For example, West Egg and East Egg, West Hartford and East Hartford, or even New York and Baghdad all have striking differences. ... In the novel, it states that New York was "haunted" to him now. ... At the end of the film, we can see how Nick is weathered and disgusted with New York and its people. ... This is similar to Nick who sees the city as glamorous and dreamy, then sees it as grey and haunted after Tom and Daisy make it so. ...

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Initially, in The Great Gatsby, the symbolism begins with two cities, East Egg and West Egg, which are separated by The Valley of Ashes. Fitzgerald uses the cities and valley to represent three distinct classes of wealth. As the book opens, Nick Carraway, the narrator of the story, just moved to New York to work in the bond business. ... Vastly differing from the two other cities, The Valley of Ashes, is a working-class neighborhood lying between the old and new money cities. ...

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In preparation for such an atmosphere Gatsby's house was transformed into one of New York's finest nightclubs every Saturday night. ... Economically and socially equipped it appears that a man of Gatsby's statue would have no trouble finding love in a vast city such as New York. ...

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Furthermore, Nick's storytelling is extremely symbolic, "He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled under the night" (Fitzgerald 180). ... Gatsby uses his catchphrase incessantly because he tirelessly attempts to become a part of the elite New York community. ... Like Gatsby, Daisy's speech is specific to the wealthy of New York. ...

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Nick came from a " prominent family, well-to-do people in this middle-western city for three generations. ... Nick also had an education, "I graduated from New York Haven in 1915 I decided to go east to learn the bond business- (Fitzgerald 7). ...

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Throughout the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald there are several reoccurring symbols. These metaphorical devices provide for an understanding of the characters and the theme of how the "American Dream" is slowly fading in the 1920's. For most of these symbols there are several differen...

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In "The Great Gatsby," the American Dream is not only a myth but a disgusting hoax. F. Scott Fitzgerald presents the American dream as unimportant and a myth. In The Great Gatsby, old money people looked down on the newly rich. Jay Gatsby only wanted to have financial wealth so he could have his dre...

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One example of Nick's falseness is that he does not like Tom very much from the beginning, especially when he finds out about the affair he is having with Myrtle, but he still goes along with them to the apartment in New York. ... Myrtle has a small party, at Tom's apartment in the city. ...

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In the summer of 1922, Nick, a working man in the bond's business tells his story of his neighbor Jay Gatsby. Jay Gatsby is a wealthy business man who lives in West Egg, Long Island. Gatsby was well known for his lavish weekend parties in his West Egg mansion, with excess amounts of liquor, and endl...

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The American Dream is an idea that has existed throughout the United States" history. Before the United States of America was established, immigrants from all over Western Europe stormed to America. Some immigrants came to help expand their country's empire, some were explorers searching for new a...

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F. Scott Fitzgerald saw America in the 1920's as a huge contradiction. In a country where you were supposed to be able to have endless possibilities to live out the "American Dream", it was never reachable. To make matters worse, the attempts to test social mobility led to a greater cost of moral an...

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