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    The Great Gatsby Jay Gatsby has a list of ordinary character flaws‚ though Gatsby’s flaws are only revealed through the telling of the story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The book’s plot revolves around the history of Jay Gatsby and his undying love for Daisy Fay. Did the downfall of Gatsby’s character leave him to be an innocent victim‚ a foolish dreamer‚ or a guilty imposter? The downfall of this main character was destroyed by love and money‚ when Gatsby and his lavish life eventually

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    Americans that no matter what origin born into‚ an individual can succeed in life on the sore basis of his or her own skill level. Written about the 1920’s‚ Great Gatsby tells the story from Nick Carraway’s perspective as he introduces readers to the time period of glamour‚ wealth‚ and for some‚ depending on the American Dream. In Great Gatsby‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald uses literary devices to criticize the change in morality of the roaring twenties‚ which old values expressed in the American Dream are

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    Heli Nguyen 8/25/12 Word Count: 761 The Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ is a novel about the upper-class American life in the 1920s. Specifically‚ it takes place from spring to fall in the year 1922. The ending of the novel is very tragic and gloomy. In the end‚ Myrtle‚ is ran over by Gatsby’s car‚ and the car does not stop; it keeps on speeding by. Tom is deeply affected by this because Myrtle was his girlfriend. George Wilson‚ Myrtle’s husband‚ finds out the owner of the yellow car

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    The Great Gatsby (Novel) Author Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald Purpose To show the author’s conflicting feelings about the Jazz Age Relationship with the Author and the Characters  Fitzgerald and Carraway  Thoughtful young man from Minnesota  Educated at an Ivy League school  Moves to NYC after the war  Found the new extravagant lifestyle seductive and exciting  Fitzgerald and Gatsby  Idolizes wealth and luxury  Falls in love with a beautiful young woman while at military

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    06/07/2005 Period. 1 The Great Gatsby Essay In all human life relationships are very important‚ and this is shown in many different aspects of human life . Relationships are so significant that Authors often use them as the revolving point of their stories. Such as in The Great Gatsby the author F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the different relationships as the revolving point in his story. Fitzgerald shows how the relationships between the couples in The Great Gatsby are similar in many different

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    traits portrayed within‚ “The Great Gatsby‚” by F. Scott Fitzgerald. This novel introduces the reader to a young women named Daisy‚ as it examines her relationship with her husband Tom. Their marriage lacks a deeply connected love. The reader is lead to believe that Daisy wed Tom for mostly money . On the other hand‚ before Daisy met Tom‚ she was passionately in love with Jay Gatsby. However‚ Gatsby had little money and Daisy wanted to find a well-off man . Daisy realizing this need‚ established

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    The Great Gatsby My assignment was to compare the novel The Great Gatsby to the movies which were made in 1974 and 2000.While the basic idea of the book was expressed in both movies‚ I choose a version of 1974 because it seemed to have more noticeable details than the version which was realized in 2000. In my opinion the 2000 version didn’t do a better job in expressing the ideas of the book. The 1974 version did an excellent job in portraying the Jazz Age. The scenes of Gatsby’s party

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    The Vapidity of the American Dream: Characterization in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald’s seminal work‚ The Great Gatsby‚ offers insights into the use of literary devices in combination with brilliant narrative development. A good deal of the novel’s true genius rests in the character descriptions. For the most‚ they are not pleasant or sympathetic. Indeed‚ Wilson stated‚ “The only bad of it is that the characters are mostly so unpleasant in themselves that the story

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    city where he has his apartment which he keeps for the affair he has with Myrtle Wilson. Tom feels no guilt for cheating on Daisy with Myrtle he tries keeping them in what he believes is there place. For example once at a party Myrtle was speaking of Tom’s wife Daisy and he had told her to stop but she replied “I’ll say her name whenever I want to Daisy! Dai- Then making a short deft movement‚ Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand (41).” This shows how abusive and

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    Social status plays a big role in every society. Everybody wants to achieve some form of social status. In the movie The Great Gatsby‚ Jay Gatsby sole purpose in life was to achieve a very high social status and not live as his parents did. With Jay’s vision of himself‚ along with the love he poured into Daisy and his insistence on reliving the past his Gatsby’s ultimate down fall. Jay’s own vision of himself started out at an early age‚ he even denied his own parents since they were not of the

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