immoral actions and deceit. Spouses cheat on one another lie about where they go at night‚ whom they are with and who they truly love. People lie to impress strangers so that people think they are of class and should be respected. In the great gatsby a character named tom truly lived all of this dishonesty he cheated on his wife he spread lies about her so that he can sound like a better person someone more respectful than he really is he loses his mind in his deceit hiding the truth from his whole
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fractious (adj) - unruly‚ quarrelsome‚ irritable. "Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart." - Pg. 20-21 peremptory (adj) - admitting of no contradiction‚ often characterized by arrogant self-assurance Chapter 2 "The supercilious assumption was that on Sunday afternoon I had nothing better to do." supercilious (adj) - arrogant‚ contemptous "Wilson’s mother which hoveblue like an ectoplasm on the wall
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Language in the Great Gatsby A key point for the structure is how Fitzgerald has played with the chronology; Nick’s narrative starts in the present and then from about chapter 4 onwards he starts to integrate stories of Gatsby’s past‚ however these are not in chronological order either! I think that this is because Fitzgerald understands that 1) the reader cannot absorb lots of information at once‚ 2) they will not understand/believe this information until they are interested in Gatsby and 3) it further
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They want the money and tries every easy way possible to get money but failes to realize that there has to be hard work and time put in to achieve wealth and prosperity. In the book‚ The Great Gatsby‚ the author writes‚ “They were careless people‚ Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness‚ or whatever it was that kept them together and let other people clean up the
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The Great Gatsby The “roaring twenties” were a great time of wealth‚ progressivism‚ and music. One thing that ties in with all of the other subjects listed above is envy. The Great Gatsby is a great example of how envy ties into the twenties. One example is when Gatsby‚ the main character of the book‚ is looking out at the end of his dock toward Daisy’s house. At this point in the novel‚ the reader is unsure of what is going on between Gatsby and the green light out on the Long Island Sound. Yet
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Friend in need is friend indeed People say that true friends are those whom we meet in childhood. Children are more open to communication and don’t bother about social status of their friends‚ about money friends have‚ and a lot of other things that worry adults. The most important thing for children is communication and playing.The help of a friend is the most valuable in life. A friend is a person on whom we may always rely. And in the most difficult moment of our life we turn to friends for love
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Great Gatsby & Atonement Explore how Fitzgerald presents doomed love in ‘The Great Gatsby.’ How does ‘Atonement’ illuminate this key aspect of Fitzgerald’s novel? In your response consider the authorial use of form‚ structure and language‚ context and some critical views. Give primary focus to the core text. 1920’s America was very much a materialistic society revolving around money‚ love being a simple emotion‚ unimportant and always coming second to luxury. This obsession with wealth
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loving Daisy” (Pg 110) The Great Gatsby By ‚F. Scott Fitzgerald In the novel The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald ‚ he uses this particular quote to show the symbolism that Gatsby was trying to live in the past. Nick and Gatsby were talking about Daisy‚ Nick clearly tries to change Gatsby’s opinion. Fitzgerald He showed the motif of Time . And showed the theme of Reality‚ and the theme of memory. That Gatsby was living in a Fantasy instead of a reality‚ and that Nick was the only one living in
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Gatsby was great. Not so because of all his wealth‚ but because of his persistence in fighting for his American Dream‚ which witnessed his pure love towards Daisy. Gatsby can be viewed as a tragic figure in the story. When he is first introduced‚ he seems to be surrounded by people and wealth. However‚ as the story progresses‚ we identify that everything in his life is fabricated. The true Gatsby‚ Jay Gatz‚ came from a humble background. When Jay Gatz fell in love with Daisy that came from a well
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Heli Nguyen 8/25/12 Word Count: 761 The Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ is a novel about the upper-class American life in the 1920s. Specifically‚ it takes place from spring to fall in the year 1922. The ending of the novel is very tragic and gloomy. In the end‚ Myrtle‚ is ran over by Gatsby’s car‚ and the car does not stop; it keeps on speeding by. Tom is deeply affected by this because Myrtle was his girlfriend. George Wilson‚ Myrtle’s husband‚ finds out the owner of the yellow car
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