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    The character Tom Buchanan has different role from all the other in the novel The Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tom is apprehensive about Daisy’s actions and his background with being handed everything makes him unaware of how to react or treat the situation. The ability to control people has always been given to Tom and eventually becomes all he cares about. His recklessness has always been a part of him until it leads him to have one of his puppets cut the strings. The deceitful manner

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    Jay Gatsby: the Romantic Hero” Jack Gatz‚ better known as Jay Gatsby‚ is an idealistic dreamer who lives in the past‚ wishing for a relationship with the lovely Daisy Buchanan. He romanticizes the present‚ and cannot let go of events that occurred years ago. Though the world Gatsby is in moves rapidly around him‚ he is forever stuck in the haze of yesterday. He is a Romantic idealist living in the wrong time‚ and is therefore set up to fail due to forces he does not comprehend. Gatsby is a true

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    Jay Gatsby – He is a young man who is immensely rich. He had said his fortune had come from an inheritance which he used to travel the world on his own until some of the money was used up to where he settles into a mansion in the village of West Egg on Long Island. He is probably most known for the grand parties he threw so often‚ yet never fully attended his own ones. By that of he would never be too active in what was going on at the time‚ be it mingling with the party guests‚ or dancing to

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    The story of The Great Gatsby is one filled with love and tragedy. While the movie has many similarities to the book‚ there are some very noticeable differences between the two. Although the film and book are similar‚ the movie ended up focusing too much on the glitz and glam of it all with out of place music and important scene changes‚ and seemed to lose some of the key parts and aspects of the book. It is pretty clear that the music wasn’t appropriate for the time period. It was the jazz age

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    Out of the five main characters in the Great Gatsby‚ I disliked Tom Buchanan the most ( however his wife Daisy was a close second). He just didn’t seem like he was a nice person‚ and he also seemed extremely self-absorbed. I don’t believe that he and I would choose the same values that we would consider important in guiding our lives. <br> <br>One of Tom’s important values is wealth. He was very rich and thought that it made him superior to other people. He enjoys showing off his possessions‚ "

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    Love is blind‚ is the perfect phrase to describe Jay Gatsby’s relationship with Daisy Buchanan in the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The novel‚ as a whole‚ is an intricate love story between them. Both characters live off of their romanticism and realism that has controlled every decision and motives they have made. Gatsby’s sole dream is to focus on trying to get what he had in the past with Daisy‚ as the narrator tries to pull Gatsby to reality and face the present‚ he retorts “Can’t

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    There is one main over-arching purposes of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. The purpose being that the “American dream” is unachievable. While Fitzgerald does not directly say the “American dream” cannot be real or cannot be accomplished‚ he uses different characters as well as the plot itself to represent his argument. The “American dream” also known as goals; are standards that people set for themselves to reach success or greatness. Fitzgerald is saying that the people who pursue the “American

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    just like we have all learned from our past‚ so do characters from books and novels. Even though most of us learn frok the past‚ there are also some who do not‚ and are stubborn enough to resist change. In the novel " The Great Gatsby‚" there is a character named Jay Gatsby‚ although his real name is James Gatz. He is the perfect representation of this prompt because he has gone through many past experiences that influence his life in the present‚ which ironically the book is not told by really two

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    Tom Buchanan is a super-rich‚ hyper-masculine‚ aggressive thirty years old married man‚ who inherited his money from his parents. Not the most likable of the characters of the book and we don’t get a chance to see him in a more sympathetic way. He belongs to a so-called "old money" group of people‚ class‚ which families are well known and respected. When tom was young‚ he moved to east in order to attend Yale university‚ where he also met his wife’s cousin Nick Caraway at the University’s social

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    Characterization of Jay Gatsby In the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ Jay Gatsby is portrayed as a successful‚ larger-than-life young man‚ representing the “American Dream.” He is a romantic idealist who wishes to fulfill his dreams by amassing wealth in hopes of impressing and eventually winning the heart of the love of his life‚ Daisy. Jay Gatsby is a tragic hero in this novel‚ whose flaw lies in his inability to accept reality. His own corruption suggests the dishonesty of the current

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