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    From the American novel‚ "The Great Gatsby"‚ a character known as Nick Carraway who plays a role throughout the story. Nick Carraway arrived in New York to work with bonds‚ like his father‚ and tries to become successful as the rest of the bonds salesman. However‚ all of his planning seems to slowly go away after meeting Jay Gatsby and seeing how Gatsby comes into his life which changed his goal. While Nick begins to form a friendship with Gatsby‚ he undergoes a development that will affect his decisions

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    Fitzgerald’s books/novels‚ women are seen as “decorative figures of seemingly fragile beauty‚” though they are also “ vain‚ egotistical‚ even destructive and ruthless and thus frequently the survivors.” With this information I have found‚ I believe that he has sort of stepped down with gender roles in this book. In ‘The Great Gatsby‚’ social and sexual freedom is portrayed through female characters such as Daisy‚ Myrtle Wilson‚ and Jordan Baker. There were also more women whose names were not listed

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    After finishing The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald readers are able to see that genders in the story play a huge roll in how your American experience is shaped. In Chapter 7 of the story‚ we get a lot of evidence that being a woman at this time meant that you were treated worse than men and not given as many opportunities. The quote from above is from the scene in The Great Gatsby where Gatsby‚ Tom‚ Nick‚ Daisy‚ and Jordan are all in the same room and Gatsby gets the confidence to tell Tom that

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    Two main characters in the novel Great Gatsby are Nick and Gatsby. At the beginning of the novel‚ Nick expresses his care and concerns towards Gatsby. Later on‚ Tom questions Gatsby asking if he really attended Oxford. Nick later expresses sorrow for Gatsby when he sees how he reacts to Daisy telling him she "loved him too” but Nick still feels used knowing he’d be an easy way for Gatsby to get to Daisy. The reason Gatsby wants to fall in love again is so he can “fix the past” though you clearly

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    development of the characters? The setting of a particular time and place is integral to the development of the characters. This can be seen through the book‚ “ The Great Gatsby”. The book was written in the 1920s America. It was the post World War 1 period and the time of extreme wealth and promise. It was also a Jazz Age‚ where women enjoyed a much less restricted lifestyle with newfound freedom. There was a legal ban on intoxicating drinks and homemade alcohol from bathtubs was of poor quality

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    from the eyes of the public. In Fitzgerald’s avant-garde work‚ The Great Gatsby reveals the Roaring Twenties a time were the world was coming back to normalcy after World War I. Time period were woman redefined themselves‚ jazz blossomed‚ and mob illegal operations increased. James Gatz is driven by love to transcend and become Jay Gatsby in order to win the affection of Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby’s over the top parties attracted great amount of rich and pompous people that came without invitation and

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    Tajmia Owens Mr. Putnam Language Arts 1 20 April 2013 Gatsby’s American Dream In the novel The Great Gatsby written by E. Scott Fitzgerald “ The American Dream” presents itself by showing the desperation of Jay Gatsby trying to reach his true American Dream. As we all know the American dream is unobtainable realistically speaking‚ but what will one person do to achieve this goal? Jay Gatsby is a rich‚ handsome‚ bachelor who seems to have it all. He’s living the life that most people now could

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    The Great Gatsby through the Lens of Feminist Criticism Feminist Criticism examines the ways in which literature has been shaped according to the issues of gender. It directs its attention to the cultural and economic disparities in a “patriarchal” society that has hindered women from realizing their creative possibilities. Feminist critics argue that women are often identified as negative or passive “Objects” while men are defined as dominating “Subjects.” There are several assumptions and concepts

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    their own individual dream of success. In the book‚ The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald‚ there is a character named Gatsby that followed his own American dream by trying to get reunited with a girl named Daisy‚ but gets himself killed at the end of the novel. Gatsby is a fictional example that applies to many of us today. The American dream is impossible because people are never satisfied with what they have. In The Great Gatsby‚ Jay Gatsby went from rags to riches overnight by rigging the 1919

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