get rich quick schemes and unfortunately Gatsby became a victim of the era. As a matter of fact‚ Gatsby is not the only one who has suffered from this time of moral deterioration. Daisy Buchanan‚ Gatsby’s object of obsession‚ also is a victim of a society that allows her to not take responsibility for her actions. Daisy hides behind her public facade and her innocent carefree charm. Her husband Tom Buchanan has also manipulated the greedy‚ selfish social society that exists on East egg. Tom has no
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PAGE 1 Once upon a time in a faraway forest called West Egg‚ there lived a friendly group of happy chipmunks. Their names were Daisy‚ Myrtle‚ Tom and Jay. PAGE 2 At this time‚ winter was coming and the friends were busy gathering acorns. PAGE 3 One day‚ when the chipmunks were gathered to admire Myrtle’s collection‚ she realized they were missing! (“Where are all my acorns?!”) PAGE 4 One by one‚ all the chipmunks realized that their acorns had been stolen. PAGE 5 A town meeting was
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Fitzgerald. Gatsby‚ the main character‚ achieved success and wealth‚ the American Dream‚ by planning and working hard. He came from nothing and gained extraordinary wealth. The driving force behind his dedication was his love interest‚ Daisy. He wanted Daisy to leave her husband ‚Tom‚ and marry him. Unfortunately‚ Gatsby’s wealth and promise did not bring what he desired. Instead‚ American Idealism brought corruption and moral decay to his life and his true quest‚ Daisy’s love‚ never materialized
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gatsby do to become new money ? When gatsby met Daisy he only wanted her for her money and not for her.When gatsby wanted to marry daisy he didn’t have enough money to maintain her. He left daisy to go to war and when he comes back from fighting he discovered that daisy married a guy named Tom that is old money but he’s cheating with her with another woman. When gatsby met daisy again later on he fell in love but he is married with another woman. When Daisy finds out gatsby is wealthy what wills do does
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Egg for the sole reason that the love of his life‚ Daisy Buchanan‚ lives with her husband Tom in a house within sight of Gatsbys mansion. I think he half expected her to wander into one of his parties‚ some nightbut she never did (Fitzgerald.4.84). As Daisys friend Jordan explains the situation to the narrator and Daisys cousin‚ Nick Carraway‚ she notes that although Gatsby threw countless parties that were no interest of him in hopes that Daisy would one day stumble in‚ she was clueless to how very
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though Daisy and Tom almost look down upon others. At one point in the book‚ Nick says "in a moment she looked at me with an absolute smirk on her lovely face as if she had asserted her membership in a rather distinguished secret society to which she and Tom belonged." It is because of their belief of superiority that they deem themselves better than other and allows them to live so carelessly. The passage in which Myrtle Wilson is killed exemplifies the recklessness of Daisy and Tom. Daisy sees
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Longing For the Past With the moonlight beating down on Gatsby with an almost sad‚ dim glow‚ Gatsby’s heart slowly breaks watching Daisy and Tom share a meal‚ talking‚ neither of them unhappy‚ just peaceful. Gatsby knows he has lost‚ but he is unable to let go of Daisy‚ and thus‚ he waits outside of her and Tom’s apartment until the early hours of the next morning just holding on to the smallest bit of hope that he has left. At this point‚ Gatsby is pathetically waiting for what he had been hoping
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Fitzgerald chooses to narrate the story of the beginning of Daisy and Gatsby’s first relationship to us twice throughout the novel: once in chapter 4 and once in chapter 8. Although this structural decision will have been multifaceted‚ perhaps the most significant reason will have been to highlight the fact that due to the use of a narrator most of the information we are given is subjective to Nick’s opinions. Through the use of Jordan’s storytelling to Nick in the first section of exposition we
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Characters are commonly placed in either the hero or villain category‚ but Gatsby is the exception because he exhibits more qualities of a victim. Gatsby has fallen victimized by Daisy’s guise. During the initial relationship between Daisy and Gatsby in Kentucky‚ Daisy continues to encourage Gatsby’s affections even though she knows that there is no future with Gatsby. Gatsby is not and will never be aristocratic and in his pursuit of the impossible‚ Gatsby loses his identity along the way. A victim
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small‚ reluctant hand. Afterward he kept looking at the child with surprise. I don’t think he had ever really believed in its existence before.” (Fitzgerald 96). Gatsby looks at Daisy’s child and it represents how he missed his opportunity already and Daisy moved on. Gatsby refutes to this concept which makes him childish. Fitzgerald communicates that failure happens frequently for everyone ‚ but as you mature you learn from these mistakes. Gatsby wants to shift time in his favor ‚ but the concept of
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