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    Gatsby was a man who had wounded love‚ but only loved one woman. The novel ‘The Great Gatsby’ draws a tragic life of him. Gatsby failed on his first love with Daisy‚ whom later married a rich man named Tom. Gatsby resents himself without money. Naturally‚ he obsesses earning money and authority. Afterward‚ he hosts a colossal party every night. He achieves the aspiration waiting to meet Daisy again. However‚ Daisy betrays Gatsby putting the guilt of car accident on Gatsby made by her. One surprising

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    greatness. Jay Gatsby from “The Great Gatsby” is a great man in that his desires and passion are unparallel to other rich men similar to him‚ but his greatness is also questionable because of the crimes that he has aligned himself with. According to the book‚ Gatsby gained most of his wealth from participating in illegal activities. These activities soared Gatsby amongst some of the most powerful men in New York. The book is written in the viewpoint of Nick Carraway‚ who admires Gatsby. As a result

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    Who is this Gatsby? People are left with an elusive impression about Gatsby’s personality and life. Should I make any judgements based on the party? Should I imagine what I don’t know? No‚ I will not follow the phonus balonus and stick to my belief of reserving all unnecessary judgements. Gatsby remains a mysterious person. It seems that everybody has got something to say about this guy and his unusual social skills. Oh‚ well. I know my onions! “Jordan‚ you seem to have changed overnight‚” I am following

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    Wealth‚ Love‚ and the American Dream It has been said that F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is about the pursuit of the American dream. It has also been said that the novel is about love‚ ambition‚ and obsession. Perhaps both are true. Combined‚ these themes may be understood in their most basic forms among the relationships within the novel. After all‚ each character’s reason for belonging to a relationship speaks very strongly of what really makes him tick; each character’s manifestation

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    amount of money. That is the classical American Dream‚ at least for some. One could say‚ an outsider perhaps‚ that Americans strive for the insurmountable goal of perfection‚ live‚ die and do unimaginable things for it‚ then call the product their own personal American Dream. Is having the American Dream possible? What is the American Dream? There is one answer for these two questions: The American Dream is tangible perfection. In reality‚ even in nature‚ perfection does not exist. Life is a series

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    American dream. According to the Author‚ the dream of Americans is dead .It is through his narration that the audience comes to terms with how modern values have AuthorLastName3 transformed the American dream’s pure deals into a scheme for gaining materialistic power‚ moreover‚ lack of any sense of morals by the society clearly comes up. Fitzgerald has presented the original aspects of the American dream together with its modern face in his bid to showing how the once impervious dream has vanished

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    says “Dishonesty in a woman is never a thing you can blame deeply” In light of this comment‚ discuss how Fitzgerald presents the female characters in The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald uses the characters of Daisy Buchanan‚ Jordan Baker and Myrtle Wilson in his novel‚ ‘The Great Gatsby‚’ to portray his view on the changing morals and nature of women in 1920’s America. At a time surrounding the height of decadence and hedonism after the First World War‚ it is inevitable that the females in the novel

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    The Great Gatsby Analysis

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    Diction: In the Great Gatsby‚ Fitzgerald utilizes a heavily elegant and sometimes superfluous diction which reflects the high class society that the reader is introduced to within the novel. The speaker Nick Carraway talks directly to the reader. The diction is extensively formal throughout the novel using high blown language the borders on being bombastic. An example of this formal language is seen when Nick states‚"The truth was that Jay Gatsby‚ of West Egg‚ Long Island‚ sprang from his Platonic

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    Introduction “The Great Gatsby” is a novel by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published in 1925‚ it is set on Long Island’s North Shore and in New York City from spring to autumn of 1922. The novel takes place following the First World War. American society enjoyed prosperity during the “roaring” as the economy soared. At the same

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    The Great Gatsby and Money Fitzgerald’s "The Great Gatsby" (1925) also shows what Dreiser calls the "impotence" of money. But it shows money’s other side as well. It is perhaps the most effervescent‚ champagne-fizzy vision of wealth ever realized in literature. It is the delicacy and fatality with which both visions are balanced that makes "The Great Gatsby" unique‚ and makes it literature’s most haunting study of money. Literature after "Gatsby‚" in what Harold Bloom calls the "Chaotic Age‚"

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