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    The Not So Great Gatsby The novel The Great Gatsby has always been one of my favorites. Fitzgerald does a magnificent job incorporating the ideals and customs of the 1920s and how they pertained in the lives of the characters in the novel. In The Great Gatsby‚ Fitzgerald attempts to convey the portrayal of the decline of the American Dream in the decline of morals through the way the characters Daisy‚ Gatsby‚ and Tom go about living their everyday lives. A great way that Fitzgerald evidences

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    Gatsby – by Baz Luhmann Gatsby In the film ‘Gatsby’ directed by Baz Luhmann I have studied important themes that are being portrayed in this film. Such as Unconditional Love‚ Betrayal‚ Hope‚ Wealth and Living the American Dream. These key themes all lead up to deception‚ denial and the fatal death of Jay Gatsby. In this essay I will be writing about 3 main themes; Obsessive/Childish Love‚ Betrayal and Hope The first theme I will be writing about is the theme of Unconditional Love between the characters

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    Cook Mrs.Cottriel Eng.3 per.4 19 March‚ 2013 Gatsby’s Journey F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is a novel that best signifies America in the 1920s. In this novel‚ the narrator‚ Nick Carroway‚ helps his friend Jay Gatsby reunite with the love of his life‚ which he has been in love with for the past five years. The affair between Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby fails and unfortunately ends in Gatsby being shot and killed. These events were so surreal due to Gatsby’s vision and goals and eventually

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    Jay Gatsby‚ born James "Jimmy" Gatz‚ is the fictional title character of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s best known work‚ The Great Gatsby (1925). The character has become an archetype of self-made American men seeking to join high society‚ and in the U.S.‚ the name has become synonymous with those successful businessmen who have had shady pasts.Seventeen-year-old James Gatz hails from rural North Dakota where he was born to a poor German American farming family in 1890. He despises the limitations of poverty

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    the United States. In literary workings such as Their Eyes Were Watching God‚ The Great Gatsby‚ “The Necklace”‚ and “The Road Not Taken”‚ the authors prove that the American Dream is attainable due to the fact that many America’s are successful in acquiring independence‚ economic prosperity‚ and finding love. One way in which the American Dream is achieved is through the acquisition of independence. The character Jaine in Their Eyes Were Watching God utilized the achievement of independence as her

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    Nick Carraway contributes to the Great Gatsby as the unbiased narrator. The tragic love story of 1922 is accounted through Nick’s eyes‚ with Nick serving as an observer of the relationship between the characters‚ in particular Gatsby and Daisy’s‚ the main lovers of the story. Nick’s retrospective view of the story emphasizes his dynamic character as his thoughts and perceptions of the characters display his loyalty towards Gatsby‚ and justice and honesty towards the judgement of events‚ though it

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    Review questions-The Great Gatsby 1) Nick Carraway is from Minnesota‚ graduated from Yale and fought in World War 1. He moves to New York to learn about the bond business. He is a curious person as shown through his curiosity for Gatsby. He is also hypocritical because he claims to be non judgmental but he makes judgments about others throughout the entire book. His thoughts and judgments are made to himself making him a more reserved person. He lives in the West Egg (new money) district of Long

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    The Great Gatsby: Character Flaws Enhanced and Hidden by Society The 1920s have long been remembered as the "Roaring Twenties‚" an important historical and unique era of time. As a soaring stock market minted millionaires by the thousands‚ young Americans in the nation ’s biggest cities rejected traditional social mores by embracing a modern urban culture of freedom‚ drinking illegally in speakeasies‚ dancing provocatively‚ and “Letting the Good Times Roll‚” a popular and fitting phrase for

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    the social aspect of life. Certain characters in The Great Gatsby shared the same thinking of the way of life when I was younger. Jay Gatsby‚ formally known as James Gatz‚ is a prime example. From the moment the reader is introduced to

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    a wonderful‚ compelling novel by Joesph Conrad detailing the life of Jim as told by Marrow. The primary element used by Conrad in this novel is his uses of internal conflict within his characters. These conflictions shape his characters and makes the complex. Conrad’s writing style of the book is set not with heavy imagery on setting‚ but intense vocabulary used to coincide with the mood of the characters. The novel is centered around two major conflicts of two different characters. The first is

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