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    Karabiberjian Professor Lace ENGL 113B February 14‚ 2014 Love I define love as connecting to a person in a way an individual has never felt before. The connection can be obtained by having common interests or even a mere look in each other’s eyes. I‚ personally‚ connect with women by having similarities on serious topics. These matters could be a personal opinion on relationships‚ values‚ morals‚ or even activities they might enjoy. I tend to have great feelings for a female when a woman and I understand

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    Fitzgerald’s Great GatsbyGatsby is affected by his failed past love‚ which led to his ultimate demise. Gatsby’s deep affection to one of the main characters in the novel‚ Gatsby‚ was a failed one. Gatsby was enchanted by Daisy’s persona and qualities‚ but most all he fell in love for what Daisy represented in society. Daisy was in the ultimate royalty as she was part of the ultimate high class.As a result‚ there wasn’t a man that did not intend to conquer and marry her. Although Daisy did love Gatsby

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    Love in the Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald presents many themes in his novel‚ The Great Gatsby. A theme Fitzgerald used was love and how it affects everybody around one another. This theme is expressed throughout the book by how the energy changes when one doesn’t like another person they are with. The motif of weather shows when a relationship is a little unclear it rains and when there is tension it becomes very hot. The first reference showing the connection between the weather and love was

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    Love is a very powerful emotion. It is able to consume a person’s mind and control their every thought‚ every action and every dream. Scott Fitzgerald demonstrates how love can hold a man’s heart and mind hostage through the portrayal of Jay Gatsby’s pursuit of the love of his life. In Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby‚ Gatsby’s heart and mind remain fixed on his past love of Daisy Buchanan as he creates a dream of once again returning to that moment in the past. Blinded by the illusion of Daisy

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    it was lust‚ not love that drove a lot of his relationships‚ which explains why he’s both wise and lonely. But a lot of people wonder just what the difference is between love and lust? While there are some similarities between love and lust‚ in the end they are very different and result in different relationship outcomes. Love is a very complex and desiring emotion. Unlike lustlove is very difficult to satisfy. Love is beyond how a person looks‚ feels‚ or smells like. The feeling of love takes

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    The pursuit of love can feel like an endless journey‚ never ceasing until you’ve found the one. The Great Gatsby is a story told from the perspective of Nick Carraway‚ an up-and-coming bond salesman living in a small cottage in West Egg next to the affluent Jay Gatsby. Across the bay in East Egg is Nick’s distant cousin Daisy Buchanan and her husband Tom. “anyone lived in a pretty how town” can be interpreted as a poem about two lovers‚ named anyone and no one. They lived together happily and when

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    all that they are to a state of extremes? Gatsby loves Daisy as this flawless being as opposed to a women that Gatsby really adores. He is fixed to her in her past without any of the limitations of the social world as though he loves her back when they initially met. Gatsby is not willing to admit or see that Daisy has proceeded onward with her life and he doesn’t even appear to acknowledge that she is married and has a kid and social obligations. Gatsby thinks that he can simply be with Daisy without

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    December 10‚ 2012 Money can’t buy you love. In the “Great Gatsby” money and love had a significance part throughout the book with just about every character in it. We learn of many relationships that have been based on lies with the power of money behind them the whole time. Money buys many things in this book. From lavish lifestyles to meaningless property‚ trophy wives to nightlife parties. It was a time when people were trying to live the American Dream‚ so wealth and success meant

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    In the novel “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald each character have an American dream they want to have but each of them face something tragic that will cause their dream to fail. The “American Dream” can be through work to earn money or to love someone and can separate the rich from the poor. The self-Improvement can be destructive but can also be constructive because there were things that made their American dream come true and in the end it turns out to be wrong. The self-improvement

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    Motif Gatsby Essay Fitzgerald introduces many themes in his novel‚ The Great Gatsby. One of those themes is the power of love which is influenced through the emotional state of the characters. The power of love develops throughout the novel by the change in weather through the characters feelings; these provide essential viewpoints that the characters have towards the change in love. How the characters react towards others and the love that is represented through it. The weather informs the reader

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