The Great Gatsby Summer Reading Assignment Chapter 1: 1) A) Nick Carraway is both a good and bad narrator for the story. We can personally witness the events in the story as if we are actually part of the novel‚ but at the same time‚ he cannot display an accurate interpretation of what happened between Gatsby and Daisy before he met them. To fill in the blanks of information that Nick does not know about‚ he turns to other characters in the story (Joran Baker and Gatsby). He is too deeply
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In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby‚ we follow a “commoner” around in a very rich environment. We witness the absurd and strange events that occur in East and West Egg‚ Valley of Ashes‚ and New York. Fitzgerald’s use of reoccurring motifs shows readers the characteristics of public and private parties. This motif ties all the events together‚ leading readers to make subconscious assumptions. At times of a big party or small meals‚ readers can expect alternate personas or the revealing of carefully guarded
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Who is Daisy Buchanan? She can be described as superficial‚ shallow‚ fake and ditzy. However‚ there is another part of her‚ a deeper part‚ that she hides from everyone‚ including herself. Beneath the surface‚ there is a pool where not even light dares to go. That is her character‚ and it takes Jay Gatsby to churn the waters and bring the purest form of Daisy to the surface‚ if only for an instant. At a first glance‚ Daisy is an utterly flat character‚ she came from wealth‚ she is currently wealthy
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Ms.Meyer English III 18 April 2013 Compare and Contrast: Daisy and Myrtle The Great Gatsby is a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. This novel features Jay Gatsby‚ George Wilson‚ Nick Carraway‚ Jordan Baker and Tom Buchanan along with many others to show the hopes‚ the struggles and the romance the characters went through each and every day. Due to the mixing of the two social classes: the rich and the poor‚ we learn about the causes and effects of what they face. In the book‚
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Gatsby is a tragic hero By Xin.Li The tragic hero must be a person of significance‚ whatever a particular time period defines as significant. He must have a tragic flaw that leads to his down fall and he must meet his fate with courage. According to these criteria Jay Gatsby is a tragic hero. Gatsby symbolizes the American Dream. We know the protagonist was not born into a wealthy family “His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people.”(pg63). Gatsby dreamed of a better
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A reporter who had previously interviewed Gatsby before the information about his early life was known‚ headed to New York in anticipation of interviewing him again. The truth is Gatsby was born James Gatz in North Dakota on a farm. He attended St. Olaf’s in Minnesota while working as a janitor to pay his tuition‚ but dropped out after only two weeks. The next summer while he worked on Lake Superior digging for clams and fishing for salmon‚ he spotted a yacht owned by Dan Cody‚ who was a wealthy
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During history there have been literary works that had characters that were remarkably similar to each other. Two characters that stood out was Jay Gatsby‚ from The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald and Hamlet from The Tragedy of Hamlet‚ Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare because they were both being driven to a separate kind of person than who they usually which is being more insane than the usual human would be. Some reason for their peculiar outbursts of who they really are is a particular
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Great Gatsby Economics of Happiness Today’s society teaches people to be happy but in that‚ they focus on the material items to make them happy. Many people in the world define happiness as living a good life or exceeding the expectations of others. But happiness begins with finding what is within‚ what is one’s true desires in life. People focus more on the price of life than life itself‚ and they tend to make happiness out of material objects and then not being happy in the end. Wealth and being
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Money in the World of the Great Gatsby is a Bad Thing Money in the world of the Great Gatsby is a bad thing and it negatively influences everyone in the book. Throughout the book‚ we see its negative influences and it corruptive powers. There are examples of this being true throughout the book. From how it destroyed Gatsby to even how its ability to desensitize the rich from their ethics and morale code. Money destroyed Gatsby. From the very beginning‚ money became Gatsby’s bane of existence. His
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