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    maximum intensity or is a major turning point in a plot. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald the major moment of intensity in the novel is when Gatsby finally talks to Daisy for the fist time in years. When they finally reconnect Gatsby feels like it was a “terrible mistake.”(87) The situation is awkward in every aspect. Gatsby is so uncomfortable to be with Daisy he breaks Nick’s clock while in a fluster of her presence. Gatsby although more noticeably uncomfortable in Daisy’s presence

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    Social status plays a big role in every society. Everybody wants to achieve some form of social status. In the movie The Great Gatsby‚ Jay Gatsby sole purpose in life was to achieve a very high social status and not live as his parents did. With Jay’s vision of himself‚ along with the love he poured into Daisy and his insistence on reliving the past his Gatsby’s ultimate down fall. Jay’s own vision of himself started out at an early age‚ he even denied his own parents since they were not of the

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    Katie Coleman ALC Period 3 12/19/13 Fitzgerald’s Colorful Imagination The Great Gatsby‚ written by F. Scott Fitzgerald is an ever exciting story about a trouble-some wealthy man‚ Jay Gatsby. He spends his life creating a rich status for myself to allure people in. Among the people his wants to in his life‚ is his one true love‚ Daisy Buchanan. Color Symbolism plays a huge roll in describing characters and lending extra meaning to inanimate objects and descriptions of society. The use

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    ‘The novel paints a world of desolation and despair.’ How far and in what ways do you agree with this view of The Great Gatsby? I completely agree with this view everyone is in despair at some stage in the novel and everyone is depressed even if they don’t show it. Myrtle and Wilson are an unhappily married couple‚ they live in a small rundown town. Myrtle is Wilson’s everything‚ he loves her so much and everything he does is to please her. Myrtle is having an affair with Tom Buchanan. Wilson

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    “The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking‚ in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at some time…” (75) The Great Gatsby Love‚ love‚ love; the only thing everybody talks about. Every movie‚ every series‚ every story talks about how two people fall in love and live happily ever after. All stories get to the conclusion that the love the couple shared was unique and that the two lovers matched perfectly together. But what happens when two lovers do not belong to the same social

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    21 November 2013 Money in The Great Gatsby Gatsby has it all‚ the money‚ lavish parties‚ fame and many connections. But money can not buy love‚ class and happiness. Class is what separates the old money East Egg and the Nouveau riche west egg that is described as the "less fashionable" (Fitz-Gerald‚ 7) and although Gatsby has an equivalent amount of money as the Buchanans’ he is still known as the "newly rich" of Long island and couldn’t buy class that would impress the rather demanding Daisy

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    power were the only things that the characters in The Great Gatsby cared about. Rolls Royce made more than half aircraft engines used by the Allies in World War I. The Phantom I was the replacement for the Silver Ghost‚ presented in 1925 as "New Phantom". Rolls-Royce had a factory in Springfield‚ USA where at first the Silver Ghost‚ and then the Phantom I was built‚ too. The Phantom I was replaced by the Phantom II (Gruszczynski). Jay Gatsby possessed numerous of cars‚ one being the Rolls Royce

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    Yellow Throughout the novel The Great Gatsby there are several symbolic meanings of colours that Fitzgerald has incorporated. Specific colours in the novel contrast several different meanings and representations. Yellow is one colour in the book that Fitzgerald has incorporated for many reasons. The main representation of the colour yellow in the book is death. Death contrasted in yellow has been a main factor during the novel as in the end‚ basically the only yellow thing that has not been a part

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    person’s past can be the ideal driving force and motivation needed in order to move up the ladder of success as displayed in F Scott Fitzgerald’s short novel‚ The Great Gatsby A man’s past‚ filled with poverty and desperation‚ very analogous to Jay Gatsby’s‚ can only drive him to become successful in everything he does or attempts. Gatsby distant relationship with Daisy as motivation to attain superfluous wealth and fame in attempt to win his soul mates heart back. Everything he owned was subliminally

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    age groups and backgrounds share this fear. Many individuals believe that to receive somebody’s affection‚ they must assimilate into that person’s society. Jay Gatsby‚ like any normal person‚ wants to fit into society. His feelings for Daisy make him strive to achieve that goal. In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ Jay Gatsby attempts to fit into Daisy’s society by any means available. The only way Jay makes enough money to enable him to be able to live near Daisy is by bootlegging

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