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    Great Gatsby Movie

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    I chose The Great Gatsby to watch for my movie review because the movie gives you a look at how life was in the 1920s. The Great Gatsby was released in 2013 and is rated PG13 for violence and sexual content. The movie was 143 minutes long. Baz Luhrmann directed The Great Gatsby and takes place in 1922. Leonardo DiCaprio played Jay Gatsby who bought a mansion across the lake from the love of his life (Daisy) who is now married. Casey Mulligan plays daisy who is in a hard place deciding whether

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    The Not-So-Great Gatsby

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    The Not-So-Great Gatsby The “Great Gatsby” is a man who knows what he wants. He is relentless in his pursuit for Daisy‚ the love of his life‚ and is determined to become the man he dreamt of being as a little boy. Many believe that his sense of hope and his determination make him great. But can a man who abandoned his parents and lied about his past‚ a man who mettles with crime and chases after a married woman really be “great”? I believe “The Great Gatsby” is not-so-great after all. James Gatz

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    The Great Gatsby Response

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    otherwise might. Avoid plot summary. The Great Gatsby takes place in 1922 following Nick Carraway‚ a bond salesman. Nick lives in a house in West Egg‚ an area for the‚ “newly rich‚” citizens. Next door is his a man he knows little about named Gatsby. Across the bay from where Nick and Gatsby live is a location called East Egg where the‚ “old rich‚” live. Nick’s cousin Daisy Buchanan and her husband live at East

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    The Great Gatsby. The first betrayal that takes place is Tom’s betrayal of Daisy. Tom betrays his wife Daisy when he has an affair with a woman named Myrtle. The second betrayal is Gatsby betraying himself. Jay Gatsby could have easily been a very successful man and could have done a lot of great things with his life. He instead wasted all his potential chasing after Daisy and trying to get her to notice him. The last betrayal that takes place is Daisy’s betrayal of Gatsby. Daisy led Gatsby to believe

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    Anthony David 10/5/17 Throughout the novel‚ The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald‚ we get to know the characters so well that we can anticipate their next move because they always do the same thing and the characters are very predictable. For starters‚ Daisy only cares about herself and her image. In the early 1900’s‚ Daisy and Jay were in a relationship. After Jay went to war‚ she didn’t stick around for him to come back. She went out the next day and found a wealthy guy to take her in. Although

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    The Great Gatsby Summary

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    numbers people were doing "stunts" all over the garden‚ while happy‚ vacuous bursts of laughter rose toward the summer sky." -Pg. 47 vacuous (adj) - marked by lack of ideas or intelligence; devoid of serious occupation "I had expected that Mr. Gatsby would be a florid and corpulent person in his middle years." -Pg. 49 corpulent (adj) - having a large bulky body "But young men didn’t - at

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    uses symbolism throughout The Great Gatsby to show many ideas of the 1920’s life and who Jay Gatsby and the other characters really are. The symbols that are most present are colors‚ the eyes of T.J. Eckleburg‚ and Gatsby’s books. Fitzgerald uses the symbols; colors‚ The billboard‚ and Gatsby’s book to show America its idea of money and people. Colors such as green‚ yellow‚ gold‚ and white play a big role in showing the reader the real sides of characters such as Gatsby‚ Daisy‚ and Nick. It also shows

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    The Great Gatsby Essay

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    The Great Gatsby and Today ’s Society In American society‚ the way people act is quite an interesting‚ yet confusing subject to look at. If you were to look closely at the behavior and the thinking of the average American man in the modern day‚ you would see that he is not too different from a man that lived one hundred years ago in America. Obviously many things have changed in society that make a man different nowadays compared to one hundred years ago‚ but the point is that‚ in general‚

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    Two Symbols from The Great Gatsby and Explain Their Relevance/Significance In The Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ the use of symbols throughout the book is very evident‚ and plays a large role in the book to help convey different underlying meanings. Two of the most apparent symbols in The Great Gatsby are colors‚ including the green light‚ and Dr. T.J. Eckleburg’s eyes on the billboard in the Valley of the Ashes. Colors symbolize a great deal in The Great Gatsby‚ and different colors

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    The Great Gatsby as a Satire Satire is an implement used by authors to point out a flaw of society or group of people in general. There are different levels of satire that the author can use. For example‚ the author may employ a type a formal satire known as Juvenalian satire. Here‚ the writer points out a subject with anger and contempt for it in a bitter fashion. There is also the contrasting form of Juvenalian satire called Horatian satire. Here‚ the writer points out a subject with

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