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    however‚ multiple traits may occur more than just a single trait. Nick’s traits vary which are displayed. For example‚ Nick’s humble traits symbolize sincere respect‚ apprehensive assertiveness‚ and self-effacing demeanor showing maturity within The Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Sincere respect induces deep consideration and honest reverence in display Nick’s obedience. For example‚ deep consideration illustrates honesty making better friendship. Having deep thoughts‚ Nick possesses a strong concentration

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    In this article‚ Barry Gross talks about The Great Gatsby as one of the colossal disastrous works of American writing. He trusts that the durable advance of Gatsby lies‚ partially‚ in the American peruser’s ready response to the novel’s disastrous legend. The Great Gatsby was distributed in 1925 and has turned into a social archive. Gross incorporates into the paper that Nick perceives everything in telling the story from his discernment and how Gatsby is a disastrous legend in the novel. A collection

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    I feel us as a society at least need to change the way the lower and upper class are recognized as. I enjoyed the connection that was made to the story‚ “The Great Gatsby”‚ “the fact that Gatsby has made a great deal of money isn’t enough to win Daisy Buchanan back. Rich as he has become‚ he’s still ‘Mr. Nobody from Nowhere‚’ not Jay Gatsby but Jimmy Gatz.” (Michaels pg. 674). Our Society may have gotten much better at race diversity‚ but we still have a huge problem with the way we see and treat

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    In the book‚ “The Great Gatsby” the readers are able to see how F. Scott Fitzgerald uses multiple characters to create his story. These characters were important because they not only entertain the people‚ but they also contributed to the overall theme. One of the themes Fitzgerald was trying to convey was how the American Dream is not attainable or achievable. Each character’s actions in this book contributed towards the theme whether their part was big or small. The character’s actions and how

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    Why the Great Gatsby isn’t very great and isn’t very Gatsby The choices made by director Baz Lurmann while creating the adaptation of The Great Gatsby make certain aspects a lot more obvious than the book‚ which is good for the audience‚ but ultimately make the movie version of Gatsby very different from the book version. But I’m not saying that it is bad for movies to stray from the books that they are adapting; it just gives the movie a different feeling than the book. Luhrmann’s choice in characters

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    “Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.” -Erich Fromm. Greed is an underlying theme that repeatedly takes form throughout F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novels‚ it eats up and consumes his characters to the point of their deterioration. They all yearn for an outcome that they will never get‚ however they feel that the world owes whatever it is that they seek to them. Fitzgerald uses his characters to criticize the upper

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    This novel is centered in New York‚ where Wall Street was the ‘King’ of the USA. The Great Gatsby takes place during “The Roarin’ 20s‚” a period of sustained economic prosperity‚ was going strong. In fact‚ Richard Godden from the English department of the University of Kent stated: “To see in 1925 was to see through the stencil of the commodity

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    Great Gatsby Setting

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    In The Great Gatsby setting represents the characters personalities‚ all the main locations for example Valley of Ashes‚ West Egg‚ and East egg all describe the characters in some way. Gatsby lived in West Egg where all the very rich people and the new emergence of the new rich lived. Gatsby described West Egg because he was very rich‚ was young‚ had a ginormous home with glorious parties. Tom and Daisy Buchanan lived in East Egg “Across the courtesy bay by the white palaces of fashionable East Egg

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    Daniel Simmons Davis Adv English 11 12/10/2012 In Fitzgerlad’s “The Great Gatsby”‚ the reader knows Wolfsheim is related to organized crime in the 1920’s and is associated with Herman Rosenthal and his illegal gambling operations‚ which is supported by the facts presented in “The New York Times” as well as Wolfsheim’s quotes from the book. There is evidence in “The Great Gatsby” and “The New York Times” that Wolfsheim meets in the same café as Rosenthal to organize their illegal gambling operations

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    Writing Task 2 on Great Gatsby Question: How and why is a social group represented in a particular way? The Great Gatsby presents different social groups to embody and transmit the idea that each class has it’s own problems to prevail over and unhappiness transcends over all the social classes. The problems in each group‚ despite the social stratification‚ reveal the instability of the world they live in. The three classes are old money‚ new money‚ and no money in which all three believe their

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