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    Fitzgerald Essay “And one fine morning...” With this phrase‚ appearing on the last page of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece The Great Gatsby‚ narrator Nick Carraway effectively sums up the motivating force that drives the novel’s titular character‚ Jay Gatsby. It is the achievement of the American Dream that hangs – unreached – at the end of Carraway’s sentence. In this way‚ the story leaves us with a similar lasting taste of longing‚ the bittersweet realization that powerful as the Dream may be

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    Set in the summer of the Roaring Twenties‚ The Great Gatsby follows the hedonistic and destructive lifestyles of the upper social classes of post-war America. This novel‚ written by F Scott Fitzgerald in the same time period‚ criticizes the shallowness of the actions of this outlandish generation and their eventual disillusionment with their society. American Beauty‚ the 1999 film directed by Sam Mendes and written by Alan ball‚ uses the setting of contemporary middle-class suburban America to examine

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    The Great Gatsby Comparison Paper The similarities and the differences between the book The Great Gatsby and the movie G are many in both accounts. The book The Great Gatsby was written and set in the 1920’s with all caucasion characters‚ and the proper talk and everyday life of the 20’s. The movie G is much different in this aspect because the writter’s and the director of the film decided to modernize the story and make it more catered to the new african america lifestyle

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    The Great Gatsby And The Roaring Twenties The Roaring Twenties were full of marvels and mysteries; good and bad. The truth in society is unveiled in The Great Gatsby in terms of wealth and The American dream. The rich people in the story are extremely wealthy‚ and what they say about their backstory may not be what it is in reality. Rich people have easy lives in terms of money‚ but the middle class and lower class workers must to toil to make ends meet. There are times where it is ugly for the

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    F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book‚ The Great Gatsby‚ and his short story called The Jelly Bean both give readers an insight to what the 1920’s were about and how times have drastically changed. Fitzgerald utilizes the effects of symbolism‚ irony and foreshadowing through both works to help him get his points across to the readers. The works that Fitzgerald has written showcase the “American Dream” and how wealth and class influence everyone’s decisions and attitudes. By using foreshadowing‚ irony and symbolism

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    Is Gatsby great or not? Section 1: Gatsby is generous to the people at his parties. He throws banquets and spends a lot of money on food‚ preparations and entertainment. Gatsby is a generous host. “most people were brought” “Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in New York--every Monday these same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid of pulpless halves.” “At least once a fortnight a corps of caterers came down with several hundred feet

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    11/4/12 The Great Gatsby Essay Lavishness‚ extravagance and indulgence; these words represent the lifestyles of many families living in the 1920’s. They used their status and money to raise their position in society. In the novel The Great Gatsby‚ different socials statuses are explored through three main families/characters; the Buchanan family‚ Nick Carraway‚ and Jay Gatsby. The first house we will explore is the Buchanan household. There are three people in this household; Tom Buchanan‚

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    The waste Land T.S.Eliot complcted ‘The Waste Land’ in the autumn of 1921‚ and with the constructive suggestions of Ezra Pound about the structure of the poem ‚the present draft of the poem ‚ which was published in 1922‚ has become a classic. It is also‚ more importantly‚ the symbol of a whole age‚ signifying a new kind of poetry and a poetic revolution in modern English Literature and culture. The poem is a masterpiece of innovative poetic design and embodies an entirely new and original poetic

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    The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli (Cambridge University Press‚ 1991. lvi + 226 pages. Illustrated. $27.95) Even if Scott Fitzgerald is‚ as someone suggested years ago‚ essentially a one-book author‚ only a prig would dispute either the stylistic beauty or the cultural importance of The Great Gatsby. With so much of the novel’s plot achieved through motif and symbol‚ with so much of its atmospheric intensity concentrated in the central images of the waste land

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    Eliot’s “The Waste Land” Final Paper Eliot imparts to us the Grail quest’s influence on “The Waste Land” in the notes: “Not only the title‚ but the plan and a good deal of the incidental symbolism of the poem were suggested by Miss Jessie L. Weston’s book on the Grail legend: From Ritual to Romance (Macmillan). Indeed‚ so deeply am I indebted‚ Miss Weston’s book will elucidate the difficulties of the poem much better than my notes can do; and I recommend it (apart from the great interest

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