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    The inspiring and Heartfelt story The Great Gatsby was written by F.Scott Fitzgerald . The Great Gatsby novel falls under the genre of ‘Romance’ Nick Carraway‚ is a young man from Minnesota who moves to Long Island New York in the summer of 1922. He rents a house in the West Egg district of long island. Nick’s next door neighbour in West egg is a mysterious man named Jay Gatsby who lives in a gigantic mansion and throws extravagant parties every Saturday night. Nick’s cousin Daisy Buchanan lives

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    Everyone has their own morals which molds them into who they are. This also often determines the choices they make. From the book The Great Gatsby‚ Nick has a decision to make based upon his standards and values of living. His decision in this case is determining what his next step would be after knowing the broken relationship between Tom and Daisy. Both Tom and Daisy are identified to value money and love more than anything else. Money plays a big role in their lives‚ because it shapes their reputation

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    after the call? I went out to the park in order to investigate. Before leaving the lab‚ I printed out the DMV records for the car down at the park as well as a RMP (Report of Missing Person) filed towards the girl. Was there any relationship between the car and Ms. Shore? Yes. The DMV record showed that the vehicle tag was registered to a “Nicole Shore”‚ 19 Anthony Lane‚ Boulder. After arriving at the investigation scene‚ I confirmed that the DMV record matched the plate on the car. Was there

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    in The Great Gatsby Lizhe I.Introduction: 1. About the novel: The Great Gatsby‚ the exemplary novel of the Jazz Age‚ stands as the supreme achievement of his career. T. S. Eliot read it three times and saw it as the "first step" American fiction had taken since Henry James; H. L. Mencken praised "the charm and beauty of the writing‚" as well as Fitzgerald’s sharp social sense; and Thomas Wolfe hailed it as Fitzgerald’s "best work" thus far. The Great Gatsby was published

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    reason beneath the superficiality was the ever-present American Dream that so many tried to achieve. In Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby‚” the character after which the book was named‚ Jay Gatsby‚ helps reveal what the author felt about this turbulent society encaptured by the widely acclaimed novel. Furthermore‚ both Gatsby’s strengths and weaknesses express the contradictions between American dreams and reality and how disillusioned society was in the ‘20s. Several qualities found in Gatsby’s character

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    destroying their own dreams. When Gatsby was trying to remake his past with Daisy‚ He messed up his own American-Dream‚ which was being successful. In Scott F. Fitzgerald’s Novel The Great Gatsby‚ Jay Gatsby past created an obsessive illusion‚ a vision of himself and Daisy living in a perfect world‚ in which lead him to destroy his own life. It is Gatsby’s ideas and illusions created by his past that blind him to reality. The authors use betrayal in the Great Gatsby to describe the characters to get

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    The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan. Considered to be Fitzgerald’s magnum opus‚ The Great Gatsby explores themes of decadence‚ idealism‚ resistance to change‚ social upheaval‚ and excess‚ creating a

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    beginnings of America‚ such as the setting of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ which is an example of this set in the 20’s. The characters in this novel are too fixed on material things‚ losing sight of what is really important. The characters in The Great Gatsby take a materialistic attitude that causes them to fall into a downward spiral of empty hope and zealous obsession. Fitzgerald contrasts Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway to display how the materialistic attitude of the 1920’s leads

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    Betrayal in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” The Great Gatsby is a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925. It is recognized as the “Great American Novel” as it shows great wealth‚ partying‚ jazz music and many other aspects of the “American Dream”. In his novel‚ he displays a lot of symbols‚ and themes including wealth‚ greed‚ and the most vivid‚ betrayal. Betrayal can upset many people and ruin many people. Betrayal was demonstrated throughout the entire novel with a lot of connections

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    Summary of “The Great Gatsby” The Great Gatsby is a book about rich people that are fighting about women‚ money etc. After I read this book I realized that even if you are rich you don’t have to be happy. There are two main characters: Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby‚ both rich men. Here’s the story in a short version... Nick Carraway is a young man from a wealthy family‚ living in a Middle Western city. The Carraway’s are something of a clan actually

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