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    Keely Layne AP Literature Mrs. King 26 January 2015 Facing Reality The Great Gatsby suggests that love and trust are mutually exclusive. 1. Pages 6-21 the scene when Nick comes to Tom and Daisy’s house for dinner. 2. The protagonist’s object of desire (objet a)‚ Daisy‚ is the maternal figure in a (self-)destructive adult repetition of the oedipal drama‚ complicated by her metaphorical associations with the American landscape and her husband Tom’s patriarchal and nativist views. The light at the

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    In the Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald’s cynicism about the american dream in the 1920s is represented by the characters Gatsby‚ Daisy‚ and Nick. America was changing because in the 1920s an era of unexpected prosperity and material excess. Decayed social and moral values. Rising stock market equals lots of newly wealthy people spending money at unprecedented levels. These changes affected fitzgerald’s belief because he believed people had grown cynical‚ greedy‚ and obsessed with the empty pursuit

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    The American dream stays as a picture for desire‚ achievement‚ and euphoria. In any case‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby‚ reviews the American dream from a substitute perspective‚ one that uncovers understanding into the people who twist these models to their own specific self-important dreams. Fitzgerald renders Jay Gatsby as a man who takes the Dream too far‚ and winds up perceptibly unfit to perceive his counterfeit presence of riches from reality. This ’intriguing’ American novel depicts

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    to all of their questions. Jay Gatsby and Blanche Dubois in The Great Gatsby and A Streetcar Named Desire‚ respectfully‚ give away everything they have in order to attain what they believe to be the ultimate form of happiness: the American Dream The American dream is a notion that states that anyone can achieve what they desire if they simply work hard enough for it. However‚ when speaking of the American Dream the question arises “Can anyone achieve the American Dream no matter their circumstances

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    0The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India The Great Gatsby: A Rich Man in India Reasoning for title – story is similar to Great Gatsby. He’s trying to interview the richest man in India‚ but his reputation is very contradicting – fraud or the truth? Tells his story about childhood and how his dad was considered a fraud‚ then he built up the school after his father stepped down. Originally he wanted to do things with cigars‚ then it went South and now he has a real cigar business

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    Fitzgerald not only condemns the American Dream but sets the death and downfall of the American Dream as the primary theme of the novel. Throughout the novel Fitzgerald deliberately makes all characters with money appear to be unhappy‚ dysfunctional‚ snobbish‚ and immoral‚ thus contradicting the stereotyped idea of the American Dream. The American Dream that includes a happy family‚ living together‚ having lots of money and living happily ever after. The unhappiness of the wealthy class is portrayed

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    The great American Dream The American dream‚ a dream that every citizen in America has right to when they are born. The American dream a principle handed out to everyone. . In the Great Gatsby the American dream is one of the main and many subject themes of the book. In which Gatsby himself is dealing molding and creating his own American dream. The American dream is a reoccurring theme throught the Great Gatsby‚ the context of the book

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    Natures Advantages Hunter ByramSeptember 24‚ 2014 Fort Abstract The outdoors is my escape from the social world. The outdoors has always been a peaceful way to for me to relax and be myself. Mother Nature helps out when I need some time to think and be on my own. The quiet and calmness is what gets to me the most while I’m out there exploring the woods‚ whether it be hunting‚ fishing or just taking a walk. The outdoors has always been a peaceful and stress relieving way for me to relax and

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    Everyone has an American dream‚ but not everyone is satisfied when it comes true. In The Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ Gatsby aspires to be a wealthy man. He wants to show the world that he is on top of society. If there is one way to prove that‚ he thinks it is money. Lots and lots of money. Gatsby‚ however‚ has an ulterior motive in earning all this money--he only wants the money to win over a woman‚ Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby has been chasing this dream for a while now‚ but will it come true

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    in The Great Gatsby Lizhe I.Introduction: 1. About the novel: The Great Gatsby‚ the exemplary novel of the Jazz Age‚ stands as the supreme achievement of his career. T. S. Eliot read it three times and saw it as the "first step" American fiction had taken since Henry James; H. L. Mencken praised "the charm and beauty of the writing‚" as well as Fitzgerald’s sharp social sense; and Thomas Wolfe hailed it as Fitzgerald’s "best work" thus far. The Great Gatsby was published

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