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    beginning to work‚ pursue educations and careers; they were drinking openly‚ accompanying men while being unmarried‚ cutting their hair short and purposefully downplaying their femininity. In 1925 F. Scott Fitzgerald published his novel The Great Gatsby

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    Myrtle? Gatsby himself? Give reasons why or why not each character is implicated in the murder.” Great Gatsby Essay There are five people that are responsible for Jay Gatsby’s death. One of them is directly to blame‚ since he pulled the trigger. The other three were involved in the murder. The one who pulled the trigger was George Wilson. He was in pain because of the murder of his wife. He loved her‚ and he was completely insane with grief. Wilson thought that Gatsby was Myrtles

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    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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    Gatsby Vs Buchanan

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    The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a novel exploring the roaring twenties and the American Dream. The story is told from the perspective of Nick Carraway during the summer of 1922. The novel explores the wealthy and mysterious Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful and fickle Daisy Buchanan and how it affects the characters around them‚ including the also wealthy Tom Buchanan‚ Daisy’s husband. Marrying him allowed Daisy to be as rich as Gatsby‚ but it also revealed that she and Tom had

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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 Egg—he was educated at Yale and has social connections in East Egg‚ a fashionable area of Long Island home

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    Betrayal in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” The Great Gatsby is a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925. It is recognized as the “Great American Novel” as it shows great wealth‚ partying‚ jazz music and many other aspects of the “American Dream”. In his novel‚ he displays a lot of symbols‚ and themes including wealth‚ greed‚ and the most vivid‚ betrayal. Betrayal can upset many people and ruin many people. Betrayal was demonstrated throughout the entire novel with a lot of connections

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    Great Gatsby Analysis

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    The Great Gatsby Critical Analysis In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ symbolism is used quite often‚ but sometimes left to the readers on how to interpret it. Using colors in the novel was one big way that Fitzgerald used symbolism and quite possibly used it because of how the readers could interpret it. Looking at the colors in a symbolic way explains a few things that the reader my not catch on to by just reading the story. Yellow and gold‚ blue‚ and grey are only a few named colors

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    Great Gatsby Analysis

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    Smithley Vil Mr.Haughey World Literature 10 October 2012 Gatsby Analysis Isolation is a significant and recurring theme throughout the novel “The Great Gatsby”‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ that has had a great impact on its characters. A few in particular are Nick Carraway‚ Daisy Buchanan‚ and “Jay Gatsby”. Nick who appears to be everyone’s closest friend and confidante when he is really the most alienated character in the novel. Daisy Buchanan who feels alone and ignored‚ even while married‚ with

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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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    Gatsby Is a Tragic Hero

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    In the novel The Great GatsbyGatsby is a tragic hero because he displays the fundamental characteristics of modern tragic hero. He is a common man‚ he contains the characteristics of a tragic flaw‚ and he eventually has a tragic fall. Although at first glance Gatsby might not seem to be the everyday man‚ in reality he actually is. At one point Gatsby’s past is being examined and his parents are described as “shiftless and unsuccessful farm people” which shows the readers that he came from humble

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