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    was a little girl‚ her family spent every Sunday morning together on the lawn. They drank her mother’s lemonade and enjoyed each other’s company. But not this Sunday. This Sunday would be the worst day of Georgiana’s life… and the last.” Georgiana Daisy Summerlin was born in London‚ England in 1900 to Oliver and Ava Summerlin. She was beautiful‚ with eyes as blue as the Caribbean Sea and golden hair. Her father was a Lieutenant Colonel in the British Army during the Great War. Lieutenant Colonel Summerlin

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    People are influenced by opinions. It is either their own or societal perspectives that will affect their actions. Arthur Miller’s‚ The Crucible‚ displays a character that shows the difficulty of extreme scrutiny from societal and personal perspectives. The character‚ John Proctor‚ struggles with opinions from society. He also struggles with the difficulty of his own opinions. He struggles to find himself and what will make him happy throughout the play‚ but with the help of his own opinion‚ he

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    Kochen 6 September‚ 2012 The Despicable Daisy Buchanan “On Wednesdays we wear pink”. Classic Mean Girls Regina George. Regina is the most beautiful‚ popular girl in school. Everyone seems to listen to her. But‚ under all her makeup‚ you can see she is also the meanest and ugliest of them all. In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby‚ Daisy Buchanan is Regina George. Daisy is by far the most contemptible character in the entire novel. Despite her outer beauty‚ Daisy exemplifies true ugliness through her looks

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    Contrast: Daisy and Myrtle The Great Gatsby is a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. This novel features Jay Gatsby‚ George Wilson‚ Nick Carraway‚ Jordan Baker and Tom Buchanan along with many others to show the hopes‚ the struggles and the romance the characters went through each and every day. Due to the mixing of the two social classes: the rich and the poor‚ we learn about the causes and effects of what they face. In the book‚ two major characters that greatly influenced this story were Daisy Buchanan

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    Daisy Buchanan is Nick’s cousin and Toms wife. She lives with the rich old-money population of New York on East Egg. From Nick’s first visit‚ Daisy is associated with otherworldliness. For example‚ the first image we have of Daisy in Chapter One is as one of a pair of women‚ lying on a couch and surrounded by fluttering‚ moving material - from the curtains to their white dresses‚ nothing is safe from the breeze blowing through the room. This sense of constancy in a sea of movement - indicated by

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    Does Gatsby love Daisy or the aura of wealth that she owns? The Great Gatsby is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece about various themes such as class‚ love and wealth. One of the themes highlighted is romantic affair between two main characters: Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby is clearly obsessed with Daisy‚ however‚ it is doubtful that those strong feeling is a proof of love. This essay advocates that Gatsby does not love Daisy but the wealth she symbolizes. Firstly‚ wealth is the origin of

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    Daisy has been described as ‘selfish and shallow’. How far would you agree that this is how Fitzgerald portrays her? Daisy Buchanan‚ in Fitzgerald’s 1920s American novel: ‘The Great Gatsby’‚ is the love of Jay Gatsby and the person he has devoted the last five years of his life to. Initially‚ Fitzgerald portrays her as pure‚ attractive and innocent‚ but gradually reveals her selfish and shallow personality. Ultimately‚ the reader feels that she is not a worthy objective of Gatsby’s dedication.

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    In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby‚ the main character Jay Gatsby is the tragic hero in the novel. Gatsby is a rich man who falls in love with a woman from his past‚ but could not be with her; instead‚ he ended up alone and was killed. Gatsby was a poor young man who fell in love with a wealthy lady‚ Daisy Buchanan. Daisy was in love with Gatsby as well‚ but because of war‚ he had to leave her so they were not able to see each other again for years. She ended up marrying Tom Buchanan because

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    Daisy Buchanon stated “I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world‚ a beautiful little fool.” (Fitzgerald 21) In doing so‚ Daisy voices her hopes for her two-year-old daughter to Nick Carraway (cousin) and Jordan Baker (friend). As a reader‚ this quote provides much leeway for thought and analysis. One might find themselves trying their greatest to interpret this quote while reading the first chapter of The Great Gatsby. When reading the first chapter and especially

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    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 repeat the past? Why of course you can!"(Pg. 116). As for Daisy‚ she

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