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    Color In The Great Gatsby

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    Colors and Descriptions for Emotion Colors within the novel are also used to stir the emotion of the reader. Fitzgerald changes the color of the car used by Gatsby at first it is cream colored‚ but it later changes to yellow the color of corruption and greed after Daisy and Gatsby strike and kill Myrtle. When Fitzgerald writes‚ “With enchanting murmurs Daisy admired this aspect or that of the feudal silhouette against the sky‚ admired the gardens‚ the sparkling odor of jonquils and the frothy odor

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    influencing the plot of The Great Gatsby. The first relationship introduced in the novel is Tom and Daisy Buchanan. Tom is a very powerful domineering man‚ very self-centered and self-absorbed. While Daisy is a charming‚ beautiful lady‚ with a thrilling voice‚ she is very self-centered as well. Tom and Daisy’s relationship is undergoing stress. When Daisy notices that her finger is hurt she says‚ "You did it‚ Tom… That’s what I get for marrying a brut of a man‚ a great big hulking physical specimen

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    For Jay Gatsby to turn out all right at the end as the narrator promises‚ he must first be erased of his obscenity and indeterminacy. Barbara Will‚ the author of The Great Gatsby and The Obscene Word‚ argues in her criticism that only then can Gatsby come to stand as the vision of Americanism and‚ inevitably‚ America itself. The sociological criticism discusses the novel as the product of its time period‚ focusing on the American isolationist movement of the early 1920s and how‚ through the characters

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    Daisy in the great gatsby

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    VNU‚ Hanoi English Literature Mid-Term Assignment Daisy Buchanan: A selfish‚ greedy and hurtful woman of a noble social class in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby Winter 2014 Ha T.T. Nguyen hanguyenyeume94@gmail.com One of the reasons contributing to the success of F.Scott Fitzgerald‘s novel The Great Gatsby is that the author cleverly builds a network of diverse and profound characters. One of those is Daisy Buchanan‚ who is round and dynamic with various aspects

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    completed them. In The Great Gatsby‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald uses success as being wealthy because it would help the main character‚ Gatsby‚ get the girl of his dreams‚ Daisy. He threw huge parties to show off his wealth‚ lied about his past and disowned his family‚ and died chasing after his dream girl. Instead he should’ve been telling the truth about his past‚ creating bonds to make friendships last‚ and pursuing the true happiness of living a rich lifestyle. In the beginning‚ Gatsby threw parties for

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    The Great Gatsby Identity

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    The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald contains a complex storyline with many complex characters to support it. The character Gatsby is painted as a grand aspect of the book from the moment the title is read. Gatsby has an aspect of mystery in which the gossip circulating about him only helps his cause‚ as it provides other people with a desire to discover who he truly is. Despite inheriting enough money to live off of‚ he is faced with hardships in regards to finances being a bootlegger and being

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    The Great Gatsby Response

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    The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby is a novel set in the 1920’s when “gin was the national drink and sex was the national obsession.” The Jazz age‚ as some may call the ‘20’s‚ was right after the years of World War One. The novel begins with Nick Carraway telling his audience of some advice about not criticizing others his father had given him when he was younger. “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one‚ just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had”

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    The Great Gatsby Essay

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    Kelsey English 11 November 12‚ 2012 In The Great Gatsby‚ Fitzgerald expresses many themes. One of the biggest themes of this novel is moral corruption. The definition of morals is concerned with the principles of right and wrong behavior‚ and the goodness or badness of human character. Fitzgerald does a great job of using this novel to show how the 1920s really were. He uses some of his own personal experiences in this masterpiece‚ which is one of the reasons why he is known as one

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    Great Gatsby Essay

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    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 West promises. In The Great Gatsby‚ the author F. Scott Fitzgerald shows the disillusionment of the Western dream through Jay Gatsby’s loss of identity‚ the lifestyle‚ and his legacy. Since he was young‚ Gatsby changes his identity in order to mold himself into the epitome of Western culture. In many instances‚ Gatsby attempts to conceal his initial poverty‚ such as when he claims‚ “[his] family all died and [he] came into a good deal of money” (65)‚ while in

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