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    Everyone has their own morals which molds them into who they are. This also often determines the choices they make. From the book The Great Gatsby‚ Nick has a decision to make based upon his standards and values of living. His decision in this case is determining what his next step would be after knowing the broken relationship between Tom and Daisy. Both Tom and Daisy are identified to value money and love more than anything else. Money plays a big role in their lives‚ because it shapes their reputation

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    The Great Gatsby Downfall

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    When you think of money do you think it’s the downfall of your life? What about love? In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald money and love all lead to the downfall of Jay Gatsby‚ born James Gatz. It’s all an illusion in which the characters believe is reality. The only one who seems to see through it is the narrator Nick. However‚ Jay Gatsby is the worst of them all. Born poor with strive and mindset to achieve in power‚ money and social status. He puts on a false front due to his

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    The Great Gatsby Analysis

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    MANAGER AS WELL AS THE WAYS IN WHICH THEY RELATE TO ACHIEVING THE AMERICAN DREAM • DISCUSS VARIOUS ART AND LITERATURE PIECES AND THEIR RELATION TO THE PROFESSIONAL WORLD THE GREAT GATSBY THE GREAT GATSBY IS A FICTION NOVEL WRITTEN IN 1925 BY F. SCOTT FITZGERALD. ( SCOTT‚ 1925) THE GREAT GATSBY THE GREAT GATSBY IS HIGHLIGHTED WITH THEMES OF EXPLOITATION‚ FANTASY‚ CONFLICT‚ SOCIAL TURMOIL‚ AND EXCESS. TOGETHER‚ THESE CREATE A PICTURE OF THE ROARING 20’S THAT HAS BEEN LABELED AS AN ADVISORY

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    The Great Gatsby Summary

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    In this article‚ Barry Gross talks about The Great Gatsby as one of the colossal disastrous works of American writing. He trusts that the durable advance of Gatsby lies‚ partially‚ in the American peruser’s ready response to the novel’s disastrous legend. The Great Gatsby was distributed in 1925 and has turned into a social archive. Gross incorporates into the paper that Nick perceives everything in telling the story from his discernment and how Gatsby is a disastrous legend in the novel. A collection

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    This is impersonated in Buchanan’s failure to adhere to the institution of marriage‚ as seen in his affair with Myrtle Wilson. Conversely‚ Gatsby appears to embody the supposition of the traditional American

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    literature authors use betrayal as a means for their characters to get what they want. Betrayal plays a significant role in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby. The first betrayal that takes place is Tom’s betrayal of Daisy. Tom betrays his wife Daisy when he has an affair with a woman named Myrtle. The second betrayal is Gatsby betraying himself. Jay Gatsby could have easily been a very successful man and could have done a lot of great things with his life. He instead wasted all his potential

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    The Great Gatsby In the novel “ The Great Gatsby”‚ by F.Scott Fitzgerald‚ the author speaks of a time when morals were corrupted‚ religion was absent‚ facades were mistaken for character‚ and hope was a double-edged sword; people call it “The Jazz Age”. Fitzgerald‚ one of the best-known writers of “The Jazz Age”‚ aims to clarify the fallacy of idealism in America as he opposes the idealist views of the time with a realistic perception of society. At the time‚ people viewed America as a symbol of

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    This book‚ The Great Gatsby‚ written by F Scott. Fitzgerald in 1925‚ is a novel dedicated to the inhabitants of wealth‚ power‚ and social status. It was mainly about this astonishingly wealthy man known as Jay Gatsby who dreamed of revitalizing the love that was once present between him and Daisy Buchanan. Fitzgerald has written this story as a connection to his past life to show that acquiring the American Dream is not always accessible. Throughout the story‚ the author has embedded many symbolic

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    <center><b>Greed‚ Corruption‚ the Search of One’s Self and the 1920’s</b></center> <br> <br>The characters’ search of their own identities and the struggle that ensues is the most suffusive theme throughout The Great Gatsby . The fact that we never really know the characters‚ and the corrupt immoral things they do‚ directly represent the 20’s high society lifestyle. The characters continued to cheat on their spouses‚ let money become their obsession‚ and debated the American dream for the hopes of

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    in The Great Gatsby Lizhe I.Introduction: 1. About the novel: The Great Gatsby‚ the exemplary novel of the Jazz Age‚ stands as the supreme achievement of his career. T. S. Eliot read it three times and saw it as the "first step" American fiction had taken since Henry James; H. L. Mencken praised "the charm and beauty of the writing‚" as well as Fitzgerald’s sharp social sense; and Thomas Wolfe hailed it as Fitzgerald’s "best work" thus far. The Great Gatsby was published

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