are causally talking and laughing. Men and women from all around are having the “time of their life.” However‚ the lifestyle of the city‚ money‚ and connections don’t always create fulfilled‚ happy lives. For Daisy Buchanan‚ Nick Carraway‚ and Jay Gatsby‚ they are never alone but always isolated. Daisy Buchanan uses her need for attention and people to adore her most likely to cover up her fear of isolation. From the beginning Daisy has virtually been alone. Her husband Tom was not even there for
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unfashionable area populated by the new rich‚ a group who have made their fortunes too recently to have established social connections and who are prone to garish displays of wealth. Nick’s next-door neighbor in West Egg is a mysterious man named Jay Gatsby‚ who lives in a gigantic Gothic mansion and throws extravagant parties every Saturday night. Nick is unlike the other inhabitants of West Egghe was educated at Yale and has social connections in East Egg‚ a fashionable area of Long Island home
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The possibility of attaining membership to the “rather distinguished secret society” in the 1920s filled many with the fantasy of obtaining wealth‚ status‚ and power (22). The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is set in the fictitious East Egg and West Egg of New York City in the 1920s. Nick Carraway‚ the narrator‚ explains his experiences with wealth and the wild and reckless lifestyle it brings. Through a series of scenes depicting reckless and impulsive behavior‚ Fitzgerald emphasizes the carelessness
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“Modernist literature is characterized chiefly by a rejection of 19th-century traditions and of their consensus between author and reader”- Chris Baldick. In all‚ modernism is a rejection of tradition and a hostile attitude toward the past. In The Great Gatsby it is a first person narrator. Vision and viewpoint became an essential aspect of the modernist novel as well the way the story was told became as important as the story itself." (Kathryn VanSpanckeren‚ 2003). Nick Carraway is not very reliable
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in The Great Gatsby‚ one would expect to find equally egotistical and selfish characters‚ and for the most part‚ there are. Tom Buchanan is practically the definition of narcissistic when he is introduced with his arrogant riding clothes and supercilious manner. His wife Daisy is not that different‚ desiring nothing more than beauty and possessions and understanding only self-centered desires. One would then expect Jay Gatsby‚ the wealthiest of them all‚ to be equally unlikable. “Gatsby…represented
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The famous novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ The Great Gatsby‚ is a renown piece of American literature. This novel revolves around a rich‚ hopeful man by the name of Jay Gatsby who desires nothing more than to get back together with his old lover‚ Daisy. Daisy though‚ is already married to a wealthy man named Tom‚ and even though Tom is cheating on her with Myrtle‚ Daisy still loves him. Gatsby‚ having been born in a different class than Daisy‚ fears he may never be able to live the life he imagined
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Horatio Alger created the first pattern of having a character go through tough situations. This character was named Rick. He was modest and dependable. Fitzgerald changes the original characteristics of Horatio Alger’s archetype by having Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby contain different traits in order to have the American Dream viewed differently. Horatio Alger uses his character Rick from Ragged Rick to provide an example of the American Dream. Rick was put in multiple situations that were extremely
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how he feels about Gatsby until now. Nick has finally come to the conclusion that Gatsby was one of the few honest people in his life‚ even though he lied about his past‚ Gatsby had been a genuine person. Nick is “alone” in his decision‚ because other than Gatsby’s father‚ Nick was the only friend that attended his funeral. Nick comes to the realization that Tom‚ Jordan‚ and Daisy are all self-centered and Gatsby was the only genuine person. Dan Cody was the person who got Gatsby involved in bootlegging
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Feminism in Gatsby: Tom plays a real dominant male. He bullies both men and women. Among others he bullies both George Wilson and Daisy & Myrtle. Daisy portrays the discomfort of the modern woman after the 2nd world war in the US‚ who had to do basically everything. Daisy has a child she can’t take care of‚ for example. Women were margins‚ while males where in the center of all actions. With that‚ Fitzsimons probably critiques the objectification of women. The narrator (Nick) does it as well‚ as
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Topic Sentence: On symbol developed in The Great Gatsby is a green light. Developing Sentences: The green light symbolizes hope. On the night Nick Caraway came back from Daisy’s house he saw Jay Gatsby watching a green light in yearning‚ which suggests a desire Jay has. The green light was at the end of the dock in East Egg and Jay lives in the West Egg‚ which shows the distances between the two Eggs. Introduction of Evidence: Nick sees the longing Jay Gatsby has for the green light‚ which is highlighted
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