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    The novel‚ The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ is about a man named Nick. Nick travels eastward to New York to get into the bond business. While in New York‚ Nick quickly meets up with his cousin‚ Daisy‚ and her husband‚ Tom. He also meets the mysterious Gatsby‚ and several other individuals. Nick‚ while “holding judgment‚” soon figures several ordeals. These ordeals soon lead to death of a few people‚ one of them is Gatsby. Soon after Daisy and Tom flee. Nick has changed and ultimately leaves

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    Analysis of The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald’s character Jay Gatsby‚ in The Great Gatsby‚ is a naïve‚ lovesick young man that is sucked in by his dream of wealth. Gatsby is naïve in the fact that he believes himself to be in love with Daisy when in reality he is only infatuated with her because of her wealth and status and what both of these would mean to his overall status. Gatsby is hardworking and loyal to a fault‚ which reflects upon his innocence‚ but the worst of Gatsby’s characteristics

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    Book Study 1: The Great Gatsby Some page numbers may not align with the book as I read the book using my I-pad and a copy of the book‚ sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. “I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world‚ a beautiful little fool.” (Daisy‚ 22) Daisy tells this to Nick and Jordan as her hopes for her baby girl. This quote offers us a glimpse into the character of Daisy who herself is not a fool but just the product of her environment that does

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    The Great Gatsby: Reader Response Jewels Hinton Wishum English 11 P5 “This isn’t just an epigram--life is much more successfully looked at from a single window‚ after all.” (Fitzgerald 4). This Novel is like an exceptionally elongated poem. Poems are usually meant to be taken apart and analyzed because there are many ways to view it. The Great Gatsby is a fine example of this. There are many symbols and representations of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s view of the 1920’s as a whole. He demonstrates

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    In the book‚ The Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ the main character‚ Nick Carraway‚ changes significantly. He goes from being tired and worn out in the Midwest to being social and outgoing in the east. He goes from being intrigued about Jay Gatsby to seeing his true colors and feeling mixed emotions. Finally‚ he goes from being optimistic and hopeful about life in the east to being ashamed of the way he lives there. In the beginning of the story‚ Nick moves to West Egg‚ Long Island to start

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    1.“It’s really his wife that’s keeping them apart. She’s a catholic‚ they don’t believe in divorce” pg 33 This quote is stated by Catherine when she is telling Nick about Daisy’s marriage. This passage should be illuminated because it shows how people are willing to tell bizarre lies to seem believable. Nick later stated‚ “Daisy is not a catholic‚ and I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie”. Nick knew daisy personally so he caught the lie and was almost offended at it. Nick was captivated

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    CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT In a novel the narrator is the vehicle‚ the one telling the story to the reader. Laying out critical information‚ describing the setting‚ creating mood and atmosphere‚ and generating information upon which we create our opinions on characters and events in the novel. These are classically what we associate the narrator with regard to the novel and its progression. The characters that the author describes are the major focus of the novel. Characters change and develop over

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    Page (2 of 4) Quotes: 1 2 3 4 How we cite the quotes: Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph) Quote 4 "When I said you were a friend of Tom’s‚ he started to abandon the whole idea. He doesn’t know very much about Tom‚ though he says he’s read a Chicago paper for years just on the chance of catching a glimpse of Daisy’s name." (4.152) Love? Or stalker-ish obsession? Do you think he has some creepy stalker wall in a secret room of his house? We wouldn’t be surprised.

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    Throughout The Great Gatsby‚ Jay Gatsby plays the main character. He is slowly introduced and revealed by Nick Carraway‚ his neighbor. Gatsby does both right and wrong things‚ he has acquired his great amounts of wealth through shady business and all to attain a financial situation that is equivalent to that of his love‚ Daisy Buchanan. Those actions and motives makes him a morally ambiguous character and greatly contributes to some of the bigger themes in the story as well as furthering the main

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    The character I find the most interesting in The Great Gatsby is Nick Carraway‚ the narrator. He has an extraordinary ability to see through peoples’ insecurities and analyze them based on who they really are. He looks at the world from an unbiased and straightforward viewpoint‚ making him the perfect narrator. Nick also has a very peculiar relationship with Gatsby. Carraway’s emphasized ability to “reserve all judgments‚” his straightforward point of view and his relationship with Gatsby all make

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