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    In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ the character Jay Gatsby always has an air of mystery surrounding him. Is Jay his real name? How did he get all of his money? What is he doing in New York? No one knows‚ that’s what makes him mysterious. Being ambiguous is a big trait of the color orange. However‚ that is not the only trait of the color orange. Optimistic attitudes‚ Impulsiveness‚ and Risk taking are also common traits of the color orange. After analyzing the story‚ it becomes blatantly

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    Great Gatsby Imagery

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    The image of the green light in the novel Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ is a significant symbol which represents Gatsby’s hopes and dreams for the future. The novel starts and ends with a reference to the green light at the end of the dock. The first time‚ Nick sees Gatsby reaching towards the green light with the dream of being with Daisy who is across the bay. Daisy represents the American dream or Gatsby’s American Dream. The second time was when Nick goes to the beach‚ to the edge of

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    F. Scott Fitzgerald’s great American masterpiece‚ The Great Gatsby is not a love story between two people as most would think; it’s more of a love story between a character and the characters American Dream. This 1920 style novel is set upon characters that are so caught up in a mental dream the reality sets back in and kicks them in the face. Jay Gatsby‚ a man with a mysterious past suddenly swoops in and has intentions to win back a long lost love‚ Daisy Buchanan with the help of his lower class

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    Dreams in the Great Gatsby

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    social transformation and industrialization. Through this shift‚ a degradation in social moral occurred. A victim of this shift is the character J. Gatsby in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Gatsby is “corrupted by values and attitudes that he holds in common with a society that destroys him”(44). Through this mutual and obscured social moral‚ Gatsby seems to obtain a destructive view of his “American Dream”. Where the American Dream once “consisted of the belief that people of talent in this

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    Love In The Great Gatsby

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    Wealthy Love The Great Gatsby was a very twisted book so many things happened and it did not seem to add up. F. Scott Fitzgerald did not seem to know how to name “The Great Gatsby” at first‚ it is full of themes and some major themes were love‚ wealth and cheating. Therefore‚ a better title would be Wealthy Love. Almost every character in the book is wealthy or is thriving to be wealthy. Tom and Daisy were a wealthy couple‚ Jay Gatsby grew up with old money and Nick did as well. Myrtle

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    Great Gatsby Criticism

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    3‚ 4 5/24/13 Title: Scarface‚ The Great Gatsby and the American Dream Author(s): Marilyn Roberts Source: Roberts‚ Marilyn. "Scarface‚ The Great Gatsby and the American Dream." Literature/Film Quarterly 34.1 (2006): 71-78. Rpt. in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Vol. 210. Detroit: Gale‚ 2009. Literature Resource Center. Web. 28 May 2013. In Marilyn Roberts’ criticism of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby she compares the main character Jay Gatsby to another main character of another

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    reader that he is better then everyone else. He talks down about Gatsby’s house before he meets Gatsby in such a I am better then you tone because I am old money "The one on my right was a colossal affair by any standered ". That word‚ any‚ really is the kicker so any one but the owner would recognize it as a huge affair. He talks about Meyer Wolfsheim with such disdain talking about how he eats with his arm around his watching for others to take his food. He also talks about how he talks. Meyer talks

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    As a mysterious novel based on the Roaring Twenties‚ The Great Gatsby’s intriguing view on society helps people come to terms over how society has or has not changed throughout the decades. During this era‚ people in the upper class were split into “old money”‚ people who were part of a rich family‚ and “new money”‚ people who have self-made riches. In the novel‚ Jay Gatsby symbolized “new money” while Tom and Daisy Buchanan symbolized “old money”. This would be a crucial factor in the outcome of

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    The Great Gatsby by Scott F Fitzgerald is a book about a millionaire named Jay Gatsby who seeks to be with his lover‚ Daisy‚ even though she is already married. The book is narrated by Gatsby’s neighbor Nick Caraway‚ who observes Gatsby’s relationship with Daisy and the conflicts Gatsby faces along the way. Gatsby lives the American dream of being popular and wealthy‚ while Nick is a shadow who watches Gatsby’s and the other characters’ actions. As an outsider‚ Nick is able to observe the main characters

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    In a time of economic crisis all parties submit to the power of the modern grail - the dollar. Daisy‚ for example‚ must choose between love and honesty‚ and class status. Gatsby’s relationship with Daisy mirrors Tom’s‚ both in his initial rejection‚ and subsequent pursuit of her. At the outset Gatsby is rejected by Daisy because of his class. He thus thinks that outbidding Tom will enable him to own Daisy. Protagonist and antagonist have the same economic and moral characteristics – they are hollow

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