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    The Great Gatsby Essay

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    Money  symbolize  certain  statuses  in  the  world.  In  the  novel  “The  Great  Gatsby”  by  F.  Scott  Fitzgerald  portrays  these  views  of  money  among  the  characters  in  the  novel.  Personally‚  I  think  that  money  doesn’t   buy  you  happiness.  It  may  make  you  feel  happy  for  a  short  period  of  time  but  not  forever.  Happiness  is a feeling from within‚ money doesn’t  relate to it. In The Great Gatsby‚ it proves that  it  doesn’t  matter  how  wealthy  you  are  you  can’t 

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    The Great Gatsby: Realism

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    The Great Gatsby: Realism F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby has been labelled a masterpiece‚ and perhaps even one of the greatest novels of all time. In order to be revered as a classic‚ a novel must have one or more qualities that place it above the rest. One of The Great Gatsby’s best qualities is Fitzgerald’s incredible use of realism. This realism is evident in the development of plot‚ setting‚ and characters throughout the novel. The Great Gatsby is well known for its deeply entangled

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    The Great Gatsby Color

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    often times think of it meaning or signifying envy or sadness but that is not always the case. In the novel The Great Gatsby‚ written by F. Scott Fitzgerald there are many different colors used that signify much deeper things than just using the color to describe something. Fitzgerald’s emphasis on the green light throughout the novel plays a large role in relation to the love that Jay Gatsby has always had for Daisy. Throughout the novel the color green is brought up quite frequently. Fitzgerald uses

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    The Great Gatsby Analysis

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    The Great Gatsby: Plot Analysis Our narrator Nick Carraway is back from World War I and is renting a house in West Egg‚ a small but fancy town on Long Island. His cousin Daisy and her ex-football player husband Tom live across the bay in fancier East Egg. Jay Gatsby‚ Nick’s next door neighbor‚ is a wealthy newcomer who throws large parties weekly‚ during which his guests are happy to drink his (illegal) booze while snubbing him for being “nouveau riche” and possibly involved in some shady activities

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    Great Gatsby Symbolism

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    The symbols in the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald in chapters 6-9 suggest that not everything is always as it seems and people may believe they know the whole truth‚ but that is not always the case. In chapter 6 of the Great Gatsby‚ everyone created a false sense of happiness in their lives‚ but in reality no one‚ but the eyes of Doctor T.J Eckleburg were the only ones that saw the harsh truth. T.J Eckleburg’s eyes symbolizes that not everyone knows the whole truth but the eyes of Eckleburg

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    Faces In The Great Gatsby

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    Faces of Jay Gatsby In the film and novel The Great Gatsby‚ Jay Gatsby is a character with many faces‚ but essentially he has a few characteristics that do stand out. Gatsby shows the characteristics of a virtuous‚ enigmatic‚ and buoyant man. These characteristics shows Gatsby’s true self. Although he may seem corrupt and deceitful‚ Jay Gatsby distincts himself as a virtuous man. Gatsby created a belief in which he considered himself as an innocent‚ pure human being‚. Gatsby conserved

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    The Great Gatsby Exegesis

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    the night. Gatsby believed in the green light‚ the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then‚ but that’s no matter – tomorrow we will run faster‚ stretch out our arms farther….And one fine morning---- So we beat on‚ boats against the current‚ borne back ceaselessly into the past. (ending paragraphs‚ Chapter IV) Fitzgerald’s last words of the novel sum up the ending and clearly convey the idea of human nature yearning for the past. Commenting about Gatsby‚ color imagery

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    their happiness‚ they sometimes have to ignore everything that is obvious or real to the human eye. Sometimes having faith in things beyond the normal comprehension is greater than settling for what is known to be realistic. Jay Gatsby from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s‚ The Great Gatsby is shown to be one of a few who possess this special quality by creating an entirely different image of himself and clinging to the hope of being reunited with the one he loves most despite what others believed. Through Gatsby’s

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    Jong Un‚ and President of the United State of America‚ Donald Trump. However‚ what a lot of successful individuals lack in this corrupt world is honourability. In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ Nick is correct when he says to Gatsby “ worth the whole damn bunch of them put together” because Nick knows Gatsby is an honourable man. Gatsby’s honourability shows throughout the novel when he is pursuing Daisy‚ keeping faithful‚ and doing anything to earn Daisy. First off‚ in the novel

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    beginnings of America‚ such as the setting of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ which is an example of this set in the 20’s. The characters in this novel are too fixed on material things‚ losing sight of what is really important. The characters in The Great Gatsby take a materialistic attitude that causes them to fall into a downward spiral of empty hope and zealous obsession. Fitzgerald contrasts Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway to display how the materialistic attitude of the 1920’s leads

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