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    Akankwasa Aryabaho Mrs. Kutschman English 3s 3/17/2016 The Great Gatsby: To understand The Great Gatsby‚ By F. Scott Fitzgerald a reader will find it helpful to know some details about Fitzgerald’s life and experiences. F Scott Fitzgerald fawned on the rich; that he was a mongrel of letters; that being tarred by his self-destructive relating this to Gatsby who is also rich and mainly wanting love.(an american sublime) Throughout the novel Daisy appears to be very flighty and nervous ‚ but she is very

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    At this point‚ many might disagree that Daisy was victimized or dehumanized at all and that she destroyed Gatsby and only married Tom for his money‚ but readers need to realize that Daisy’s pain is concealed inside because of the image she is forced to have for Nick‚ Gatsby‚ and Tom which makes Daisy a victim in the way the men describe her‚ idealize her‚ or exploit her and betray her‚ all while not allowing her a chance to express her true self is in fact a form of dehumanization‚ in the most violent

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    because we get to know that Daisy is a shallow and a materialistic person. Daisy is born in a wealthy family and during World War I‚ she fell in love with Gatsby and promised to wait for him for marriage. Although Daisy and Gatsby loved each other‚ when they were young‚ but she still married Tom and not Gatsby. The reason for it was that Tom was rich and Gatsby was poor. She knew that Tom could give her better and wealthier lifestyle than Gatsby. It proves that Daisy is a shallow person. In my

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    girl named Daisy who he cheats on with Myrtle. In this story he is the antagonist to Gatsby by keeping him from getting Daisy. He is known to be unfaithful‚ prideful‚ and a hypocrite. He does this by going behinds his wife’s back to be with another girl. He is prideful because he will do anything from tarnishing what people are thinking of him. He is a hypocrite because he gets angry with Daisy for doing stuff with Gatsby‚ but does worse behind her back. "And what’s more‚ I love Daisy too. Once

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    Love mask The Great Gatsby is considered as a masterpiece of American classics. This is the story of fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby throws up incredible parties to make people enjoyed. He does everything for the love of Daisy but in return He gets disappointedly left. Maybe‚ Daisy’s “love” towards Gatsby was not actual‚ but very fake. All of her fake love expressions was actually for Jay’s wealth. She did never love him and never cared of him.

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    Daisy Gatsby

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    Daisy is depicted as superficial and rather selfish through the way she behaves as both a mother and an individual. Daisy is fully aware that she is charming and flirtatious as she is always giggly no matter who she is with‚ including Gatsby whom she knows is in love with her. As Daisy observed Gatsby in this passage‚ she laughed “her sweet‚ exciting laugh” which makes her sound as if her voice is very endearing towards men as her voice is full of happiness‚ and what Gatsby identifies with luxury

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    Daisy Buchanan is Nick’s cousin and Toms wife. She lives with the rich old-money population of New York on East Egg. From Nick’s first visit‚ Daisy is associated with otherworldliness. For example‚ the first image we have of Daisy in Chapter One is as one of a pair of women‚ lying on a couch and surrounded by fluttering‚ moving material - from the curtains to their white dresses‚ nothing is safe from the breeze blowing through the room. This sense of constancy in a sea of movement - indicated by

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    Gatsby & Daisy

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    Many people would think Fitzgeralds book‚ “The Great Gatsby” is a love story‚ but when one looks closer into it‚ it becomes more questionable. When looking at certain facts thought out the book the theme of romance does not come into picture. We find out that Gatsby bought his house so that Daisy would only be across the bay‚ though his last memory of her was when her saw her for the last time five years ago. Even the weather thinks they are in love as the room is filled with sunshine when they see

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    ENC 1102 October 10 2014 We Wear the Mask In Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poem We Wear the Mask you quickly find out it is one big metaphor. Dunbar’s meaning behind this poem is about people covering up their feelings like someone using a mask to cover their face; as if it’s a big front to hide what is really going on. Dunbar being an African American poet in the late 19th and early 20th century was a harder time on colored people. His poems relate back to the hardships he saw and knew. The poem is

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    The aim of this essay is to talk about the topic of Tom and Daisy as selfish characters in F.S.Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. First of all‚ Tom and Daisy are the two main important characters in the novel‚ among many others‚ so they constitute an important piece of the story. They belong to an upper-class society. They live in East Egg‚ the most fashionable village in Long Island. Tom comes from a wealthy Midwestern family. He is a powerful and a menacing man who intimidate not only to his wife

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