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    The Great Gatsby Chapter 5 Inclass Essay The 2013 version of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald had portrayed chapter five to his intentions better than the 1974 movie version. The 2013 movie represented the emotions and imagery of Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan’s meeting better than the 1974 version. Some crucial aspects that was presented around the scene was how weird and strange the atmosphere was between Jay and Daisy‚ the scenery and rain‚ and the clock that Jay broke. First‚ when Jay

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    The film Death of a Salesman and the play Fences both contain similar themes and plot. Even though both are very similar‚ there are glaring different in their stories. The film Death of a salesman is about a man name Willy Loman who is struggling in making a living with his current job as a salesman. He has a loving a wife name Linda and two adult sons‚ Biff and Happy. Willy share and unstable relationship both his son (primary Happy) as he believe they are not making the most out of themselves.

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    Arthur Miller succeeds in demonstrating incredibly well in Death of a Salesman that not only is tragic heroism

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    Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman there are several characters that face failure. Their failures are based on their actions and it is the response of the characters that create a tragic story. The characters fail at facing reality and accepting change which affect their way of thinking. One could understand that the final outcome of the two novels is due to the way the characters face his or her own failures. Failure The Great Gatsby Death of a Salesman The characters

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    play‚ "Death of a Salesman"‚ and in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel‚ "The Great Gatsby". In both works‚ the main character is in pursuit of a dream for success that ultimately causes his demise. The American Dream is the idea that through hard work‚ courage‚ and determination one can achieve prosperity. Based on the Protestant work ethic‚ these values were held by the European settlers and passed on to subsequent generations. . The development of the Industrial Revolution combined with the great natural

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    Compare And Contrast Essay Deandre Presswood When you mention The Great Gatsby or Moby Dick there are always Two characters that come to mind. One of them is Ishmael and the other is Nick Carraway. Both of these characters have a lot similarities and dissimilarities‚ and even though they’re both reliable narrators. there are certain things that set them apart. The first dissimilarities between these Two is how they both end up in their situation. Ishmael chooses his path. He wanted a change of

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    In the novel The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald‚ the narrator Nick Carraway‚ a young man from a wealthy family in the West‚ moves out to the East to live on his own‚ renting a small house in West Egg near Manhattan. Nick’s tiny house is surrounded by the mansions of newly rich millionaires‚ and the biggest‚ grandest mansion of them all belongs to Nick’s neighbor‚ the mysterious Jay Gatsby. Across the bay in the more fashionable West Egg‚ populated by millionaires from rich families‚ lives

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    In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby‚ the main character demonstrates the difference between the traditional rich and the newly rich. West and East Egg of New York‚ East Egg‚ which is Beverly Hills of Long Island Symbolizes the grandeur and gulf of the American Dream and West Egg is the more unfortunate side. East and West Egg embody social standing and class. West Egg are the people who don’t have any real standing or moments The Novel also journeys to the 1900’s in the war and arrival in

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    Comfort‚ Happiness‚ and Prosperity: The American Dream The ideology of the American Dream can be traced back to the flood of immigration in the early twentieth century. Families from European Countries sailed on boats from months to read the great promise America held. They left their home countries and everything they had to lead successful and prosperous lives in the US. Another form of the American Dream arose in the 1950s after the US successfully win World War II. Young men came back

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    but the way they get their money is different as West Egg earns their money (new money) and East Egg inherits their money from their older family members (old money). His house is located right next to a gigantic mansion owned by a man named Jay Gatsby. One day‚ Nick drives over to East Egg to have lunch at the Buchanans; Daisy Buchanan is his cousin and Nick formally knew her husband‚ Tom from Yale. Nick

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