unpleasant realities is present in the first chapter. Nick Carraway‚ the persona of this great American novel‚ introduces his relative Daisy Buchanan and her husband Tom in this chapter as people everyone would desire to be as the two are not only wealthy but aristocratic (Fitzgerald 9-11). Despite seeming to lead completely flawless lives due to how privileged they are‚ Daisy and Tom really do not‚ for their marriage is in name only. This is so because‚ like many women from old money families‚ she married
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Megan Moore Dr. Wood 2/16/14 The Great Gatsby: The Decline of the American Dream Following the much adored novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ came the phenomenal screenplay of The Great Gatsby‚ released in May‚ 2013. 1920’s America boomed with unprecedented prosperity and material excess as stock markets skyrocketed and spirits rang high. The film‚ however‚ focuses on a much larger underlying theme that is a highly symbolic rumination of the entirety of America in the 1920’s: the disintegration
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Gatsby is also one of those people who is often associated with a lot of rumors. Catherine‚ the sister of Tom Buchanan’s mistress‚ says "Well‚ they say he’s a nephew or a cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm’s. That’s where all his money comes from"(pg.37). The guests of Mr. Gatsby’s parties also suspect him of murdering a man. Many of the rumors have to do with a woman Gatsby is obsessed with named Daisy Buchanan. This shows that this book is either a love story or a character study of Jay Gatsby. Fitzgerald
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The Valley of Ashes: “ This is the valley of ashes – a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke‚ and finally‚ with a transcendent effort‚ of ash-grey men‚ who dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.” (26) The valley of ashes is located between West Egg and New York‚ the characters need to pass through here to get to New York‚ when they pass through here the characters
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literary style for one specific reason. The Puritan writing style focused on divine mission to settle in America. In Gatsby‚ Gatsby has a mission of his own to live the American Dream. At the beginning of the story he is nobody‚ he is not rich. He loses Daisy because of that. Then he sets a mission for himself that he will become rich and upper class person. He’s this mission is just like the mission of the Puritan’s. In this way Gatsby
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Write about some of the ways Fitzgerald tells the story in chapter 6. Fitzgerald uses Nick to introduce Gatsby’s past as “James Gatz" and his evolution into “Jay Gatsby”. Nick narrates entire the story retrospectively‚ resulting in the narration of Gatsby’s evolution containing a greater amount of Nick’s interpretations of Gatsby’s past‚ along side factuality. This is especially prominent as Nick describes Gatsby telling him “…all this very much later‚ but I’ve put it down here with the idea of exploding
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and everything he does is to please her. Myrtle is having an affair with Tom Buchanan. Wilson does not know about this. Tom treats Myrtle very differently to how he treats Daisy‚ he treats Myrtle with no respect. Even though he lavishes her with gifts Myrtle is still not happy. Myrtle is in despair because she wants the life Daisy has‚ permanently. She will never be happy if her and Tom are only an affair. Yes when he looks after her she has a good life‚ but when they’re not together she goes back
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“American dream” also known as goals; are standards that people set for themselves to reach success or greatness. Fitzgerald is saying that the people who pursue the “American dream” can never be satisfied because they will always strive for more. Tom Buchanan’s life represents the typical “American dream” in the 1920’s‚ Myrtle Wilson and Jay Gatsby represent why the “America dream” corrupts and destroys. The desire
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with Daisy. Gatsby fails to notice the bridge between social classes that is blocking him form Daisy. A factor in the social difference between Gatsby and the Buchanan’s‚ Gatsby has made his money through illegal means whereas families in East area are heritage rich families. These problems experienced by Jay Gatsby‚ give insight to advantages and disadvantages of the 1920s. Fitzgerald reveals the fine lines between success‚ corruption and The American Dream. Jay Gatsby first meets Daisy as a young
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like Tom‚ living in East Egg‚ think that they are better than everyone else and can disrespect or ignore others because of social status. This is the underlying cause of the deaths in the novel. One of the most tragic scenes of violence occur when Daisy Buchanan is driving in the car with Gatsby‚ returning home from their dramatic visit to the city with her husband. She is hysterical because Tom revealed that Gatsby is a bootlegger. While passing through the Valley of Ashes‚ Myrtle runs out to the
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