ending line in The Great Gatsby‚ spoken by the narrator Nick Carraway‚ who reflects upon Gatsby’s life‚ likening him unto a boat against the current of the times. Nick’s avid description of the hardships Gatsby faced has more dimension than the utter surface it surmises. Nick’s farewell is infused with Gatsby as a character that further examination pinpoints the underlying meaning that Fitzgerald clearly wrote. Gatsby’s life‚ his dreams‚ and his failures; all summed up by one last line. Nick likens
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Jordan’s insistence that Daisy ‘wouldn’t let go of the letter’ written to her by Gatsby suggests she wouldn’t let Gatsby leave her live either‚ as the letter may have been physically representational of their relationship. This presentation of Daisy and Gatsby’s relationship suggest to us as readers that Daisy deeply cares for Gatsby‚ perhaps even more than she cares for her social class. This notion is then reinforced by how she threw a ‘string of pearls’
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first few pages of this chapter are basically a list of Gatsby’s guests over the summer. What do you think is Nick’s purpose in giving us this information? 2. Where are Gatsby and Nick going? 3. What does Gatsby reveal to Nick about his past? 4. What two things does Gatsby always carry with him? 5. What happens with a policeman pulls up beside Gatsby? 6. Who is Mr. Wolfsheim? 7. What are Mr. Wolfsheim’s cufflinks (“cuff buttons”) made of? 8. What does Wolfsheim say about Gatsby and women?
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In the excerpt from The Great Influenza‚ author John M. Barry writes about scientists and their research. He uses rhetorical strategies such as imagery and rhetorical questions when he is describing the scientific research that the scientists are doing. By doing this‚ Barry characterizes the scientific research perfectly and the reader is able to understand the life of a scientist more. Barry uses imagery in the excerpt to allow the reader to understand the life of a scientists and how they do
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often times think of it meaning or signifying envy or sadness but that is not always the case. In the novel The Great Gatsby‚ written by F. Scott Fitzgerald there are many different colors used that signify much deeper things than just using the color to describe something. Fitzgerald’s emphasis on the green light throughout the novel plays a large role in relation to the love that Jay Gatsby has always had for Daisy. Throughout the novel the color green is brought up quite frequently. Fitzgerald uses
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Social status is a theme explored in great depth in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s "The Great Gatsby". The author shows that someone who is born to a certain class can never be fully integrated into a different class. To be more specific‚ no matter how hard Gatsby tries‚ he cannot become a part of the upper classes‚ and although he dies a wealthy man‚ he has never truly gained acceptance‚ nor through the entire novel does his wealth protect him. Two of the novel’s main characters‚ Daisy and Tom‚ are members
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Thesis: The pursuit of the American Dream is a dominant theme throughout The Great Gatsby‚ which is carried out in various ways by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ how the author represents this theme through his characters and their actions is one small aspect of it. Fitzgerald’s dominant theme in The Great Gatsby focuses on the corruption of the American Dream. By analyzing high society during the1920s through the eyes of narrator Nick Carraway‚ the author reveals that the American Dream has transformed
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Colors and Descriptions for Emotion Colors within the novel are also used to stir the emotion of the reader. Fitzgerald changes the color of the car used by Gatsby at first it is cream colored‚ but it later changes to yellow the color of corruption and greed after Daisy and Gatsby strike and kill Myrtle. When Fitzgerald writes‚ “With enchanting murmurs Daisy admired this aspect or that of the feudal silhouette against the sky‚ admired the gardens‚ the sparkling odor of jonquils and the frothy odor
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Great Gatsby Ending Journal What does the ending of this book say about the overall theme of hope? Is the failure of hopes and dreams unavoidable? What is the purpose of having hopes and dreams? This book interprets the overall theme of hope as what Gatsby had been driven by but in the end did not achieve. The green light of Daisy’s dock drove Gatsby and he believed in it. He was eluded by it in the past‚ but there was still hope that he would one day achieve his goal. This book shows how
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A narrator‚ by definition‚ is how an author chooses to portray information to readers in their work. An author’s choice‚ in how to tell a story is ideal to the effect it has on readers. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s timeless classic The Great Gatsby‚ Nick Carraway tells the entire story as a first-person‚ peripheral narrator. Fitzgerald purposefully chooses Nick as a partially removed character‚ with very few emotions and personal opinions. By doing so‚ readers experience the same ambiguity of other character’s
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