country where moral values were slowly crumbling and Americans soon only had one dream and objective to achieve‚ success. Distorted love is one theme in the novel The Great Gatsby‚ present among all of the characters relationships; Daisy and Tom‚ Tom and Myrtle‚ Daisy and Gatsby‚ and Wilson and Myrtle‚ though Myrtle does not return the love. This distortion illustrates that it is not love that leads several characters to death‚ but lust and the materialistic possessions that really drive the characters
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to win back a long lost love‚ Daisy Buchanan with the help of his lower class neighbor‚ Nick Caraway. The characters in The Great Gatsby have dreams that they believe is achievable but in the face of reality‚ Nick Carraway‚ Daisy and Tom Buchanan‚ and Jay Gatsby show that it is really impossible. Nick Carraway is a man with
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Diana Valenzuela Mrs. Lanciaux IB English III HL A August 22‚ 2016 1.“The Jazz Age was certainly marked by a huge increase in consumerism” (Spanner). -This quote proves to be a literary convention for historical setting. It lets the reader know that the novel takes place at a time where objects are very important. Having the historical setting is significant to the novel as a whole‚ because it makes the reader understand that the characters might be a lot more superficial and materialistic than
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as he intends to inch himself closer towards Daisy. Additionally‚ the amalgamation of this selfish nature of his and his crippling moral compass reveals a manipulative aspect of his persona. Gatsby’s pursuit of Daisy can be characterized as both selfish and incessantly manipulative. Gatsby’s undeviating belief that Daisy must confess her love to him and only him leads to the deduction that he only cares about himself; his utter disregard for Tom Buchanan corroborates this assumption because
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Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby is a beautifully illustrated love story‚ which one can enjoy over and over again. F Scott Fitzgerald skillfully portrays women as shallow immoral beings throughout his novel‚ The Great Gatsby. The characters Daisy Buchanan‚ Jordan Baker‚ and Myrtle Wilson are depicted in a less than favourable light. From the beginning of the novel and as it progresses‚ Fitzgerald‚ time and time again‚ displays these women as despicable characters. In Fitzgerald’s classic novel
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Gatsby is told to us by Nick Carraway‚ a Midwesterner back from the War‚ looking to learn the bond business on the East coast. He settles in West Egg on Long Island Sound‚ next to the mansion of one Jay Gatsby. His second cousin once removed‚ Daisy Buchanan‚ lives in East Egg with her husband Tom‚ and their daughter. East Egg was known as the more fashionable part of Long Island‚ the wealthy inhabitants coming from “old” money as they did. As we soon discover‚ Tom‚ Daisy’s husband‚ has a mistress
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the upper class and the characteristics and decline of the American Dream during the prosperous years preceding the Great Depression. The Great Gatsby is presented at the surface as a thwarted love story between a man‚ Jay Gatsby‚ and a woman‚ Daisy Buchanan. However‚ the main theme of the novel goes beyond this and comprises a larger‚ and indeed less romantic‚ social context. Furthermore‚ despite the novel’s setting in New York during the summer of 1922 it is still a representation of America throughout
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triangle between Daisy Buchanan‚ James Gatsby and Tom Buchanan. Daisy is Tom Buchanan’s wife‚ who was James Gatsby’s long lost love. Before the war‚ Daisy was courted by a number of officers‚ including James Gatsby. Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby fell in love in Louisville and she promised to wait for him. However‚ Daisy harbors a deep need to be loved and when a wealthy‚ powerful young man named Tom Buchanan asked her to marry him‚ Daisy decided not to wait for Gatsby after all. Tom Buchanan has an affair
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“gorgeous” personality Summer of 1922-- East Egg and West Egg Nick’s cousin Daisy Buchanan+ husband Tom Buchanan (Nick new from college-played football) live in East Egg‚ across the Sound from Nick+ Gatsby-- Very rich Tom (as described by Nick)-- “Now don’t think my opinion on those matters is final‚” he seemed to say‚ “just because I’m stronger and more of a man than you are.” (displays his smug aura and air of superiority) Daisy (after she had her daughter)-- “All right‚ I’m glad it’s a girl. And I
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Fitzgerald‚ uses his book to portray and critique many male-female relationships. Some of these relationships are marriages‚ while others are not. There is the relationship between Daisy and Tom Buchanan‚ Nick Carraway and Jordan Baker‚ Tom Buchanan and Myrtle Wilson‚ Myrtle and George Wilson‚ and Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan. Some of these relationships had the ability to affect many other people‚ even if the two in the relationship did not mean for that to happen. Just by looking at and judging each
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