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    end up destroying their own dreams. When Gatsby was trying to remake his past with Daisy‚ He messed up his own American-Dream‚ which was being successful. In Scott F. Fitzgerald’s Novel The Great Gatsby‚ Jay Gatsby past created an obsessive illusion‚ a vision of himself and Daisy living in a perfect world‚ in which lead him to destroy his own life. It is Gatsby’s ideas and illusions created by his past that blind him to reality. The authors use betrayal in the Great Gatsby to describe the characters

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    Explain why the novel is known as a great American period novel? Gatsby is holding all these parties each weekend to impress Daisy. This can be interpreted as how the values at this time where. The richer you are and the more you show it the better you are off. Even though people didn’t actually get all of these things legally it was fine because they paid the police to shut their eyes and had the mafia in their back. The more people consumed products‚ the richer they were‚ and as it is all about

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    In the novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald describes numerous messages that are vital to the novel. In The Great Gatsby‚ Jay Gatsby is this mysterious character that spends his entire life trying to win over the love of his life Daisy Fay. But‚ Gatsby fails and his dreams are crushed which leads to a series of disastrous events. Because of characters’ tragic deaths‚ Fitzgerald makes it prominent that the American Dream is unachievable and it can ultimately lead to one’s destruction. Jay

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    yourself in harms way to accomplish your dream? The name of this book is titled “The Great Gatsby” written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. In this essay you will follow the tale of how one man’s dream ended in shame and sorrow‚ find out how his dream wrote his future and change his past. The american dream is envisioned as a husband‚ a wife‚ with two children ( a boy and a girl) with a nice fenced house with both both parents working a great paying stable job. However this dream was not able to be achieved by everyone

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    The American Dream became a widespread term to describe the American way of life. It deals with the act of individuality‚ and working hard for what you have. Despite having these dreams‚ money and social values appeared to be the key to happiness. Reading The Great Gatsby allows the audience to witness the act of corruption for themselves‚ as they take a glance at how many individuals are living with the wrong idea of the American Dream. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul‚ Minnesota

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    The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald is a critique of American prosperity‚ and the endless drive for wealth brought on by the economic growth against the background of Long Island‚ New York City. The Great Gatsby critiques materialism and the new American Dream‚ no longer defined by prosperity for equality‚ but by prosperity for the goal of excess wealth. Nick Carraway‚ the protagonist‚ views Jay Gatsby’s disillusionment about Daisy Buchanan‚ the object of his affection. The tale is not a story about

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    It was once said by the great abstract artist Pablo Picasso that colors‚ like features‚ follow the changes of the emotions. That is exactly what F Scott Fitzgerald shows and does in his popular novel The Great Gatsby. Readers follow the journey of Nick Caraway‚ a new comer to New York City‚ where he learns of the rags and riches of the 1920’s. Scott sprinkles symbolism throughout the book to get his readers thinking. He particularly likes using colors to fulfill this deed. Fitzgerald uses the colors

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    The Great Gatsby by Cooper‚ Niamh‚ Alex‚ Will and Jakob Daisy’s Voice • ‘a deathless song’ - her seemingly eternal youth • goal of an eternal‚ perfect life relates back to the common idea of the American dream • Daisy’s voice is ‘full of money’ - reflects the kind of life she lives. • ‘high in a white palace the Kings daughter‚ the golden girl’. • symbolise the hollowness and materialistic nature of the upper class. The Green Light • represents Gatsby’s hopes and dreams for the future • Gatsby

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    make more great literary works‚ and became a very wealthy man. With every great novel comes criticism‚ and Fitzgerald’s novels were no exception‚ receiving criticism for his depictions of the Jazz Age‚ wealth‚ and the Illusive American Dream. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s rough young life in poverty with high expectations did grow into fortune‚ but became a heavy drinker and partier that influenced great novels‚

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    the certain theme of the aspect of American values Such as the Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald uses a variety of characters that express the message of failure but Gatsby is one of the characters that focuses on the truth value of knowledge‚ claims about the past and the meaning it obtains. Gatsby uses his attempts to accomplish those dreams and expresses his reasons of why Failure is the most communicating theme throw-out the novel. The author Fitzgerald uses Gatsby a Character in the novel that communicates

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