to make them possible.” In The Great Gatsby‚ the central theme is realizing that creating your own dreams and living in your reality is extremely different. Myrtle dreamt of having money‚ yet knew Tom would never leave Daisy‚ Gatsby dreamt of being with the Daisy he created‚ but realized she had changed‚ and Daisy dreamt of being in love and being with Gatsby‚ but would NEVER leave Tom. Myrtle Wilson desires one thing in life‚ money. She lives in the valley of ashes‚ the desolate and barren land
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Bad Qualities Many of the characters in The Great Gatsby have bad qualities about them‚ and these affect the people they are involved with worse. Daisy‚ a very important character in the book can be classified as selfish .When she has to choose between her husband Tom and her old love Jay Gatsby‚ she chooses Tom so she can live “her rich full life”(149). She is also very careless when it comes to raising her daughter‚ like saying she hopes that she grows up to be a “pretty fool” (17)‚ because
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American Dream In The Great Gatsby all of the characters are working towards their own happiness. Fitzgerald uses the characters to represent the different groups of people and their dreams‚ they are different in wealth and social status. Fitzgerald uses the characters in the upper class to show that the American Dream is not just about money‚ as it seemed to be in 1920’s. He felt that the people of the 1920’s had forgotten what the American Dream was about‚ so he portrayed those people
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The Great Gatsby Book Report Project by Dylan Davis For my book report project I chose to do a graffiti wall for the book The Great Gatsby. I made a brick wall out of red poster board and drawn on lines for the bricks. I chose five words that I thought related to the book and spray painted them onto the wall to create a graffiti look. The five words I chose are party‚ dream‚ love‚ eyes‚ and death. Here are the reasons why I chose each of these individual words: Party: I chose the word party because
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1 10/16/2014 The Great Gatsby Theme Essay Dissatisfaction Many people aspire great fleets and affluence and live lifestyles that only millionaires can afford; millionaires such as Jay Gatsby. From the outside he’s practically living the American dream. He has an extravagant mansion‚ butler‚ Rolls-Royce‚ and weekly parties. At these parties of his‚ people all from different parts of the state come to enjoy the many rooms of his estate‚ the elaborate pool in his yard‚ and the live orchestra that plays
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American Dream in the book “The Great Gatsby” There are many examples of meaning of the American Dream in the book “The Great Gatsby” by F.Scott Fitzgerald. In the book author shows us people‚ who started from nothing and achieved so many heights‚ no matter from which social class they came. However‚ we can also see that these money and status do not guarantee your happiness. “The Great Gatsby” is an example that actual American Dream is unachievable because for Jay Gatsby‚ money did not bring his beloved
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unfashionable area populated by the new rich‚ a group who have made their fortunes too recently to have established social connections and who are prone to garish displays of wealth. Nick’s next-door neighbor in West Egg is a mysterious man named Jay Gatsby‚ who lives in a gigantic Gothic mansion and throws extravagant parties every Saturday night. Nick is unlike the other inhabitants of West Egghe was educated at Yale and has social connections in East Egg‚ a fashionable area of Long Island home to the
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In Scott Fitzgerald’s novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ he symbolizes the American Dream in a variety of ways. The definition of American Dream is the ideal that every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work‚ determination‚ and initiative. These qualities were quite popular around the time this book was published. This period in the book is described as the Roaring Twenties. Roaring Twenties is a term for western society/culture during the 1920s; It
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Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby‚ the unfortunate reality of loneliness consumes the lives of the majority of the characters. The time period portrayed in this novel‚ the 1920’s‚ had brought about several changes for people. It was highly common for large groups of people to join together for parties with endless drinking‚ dancing and celebrating. However‚ when the night was over and the festivities finished‚ most people were forced right back into their regular everyday lives feeling all alone. The
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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a novel relating to his short story of Winter Dreams. The main character is Jay Gatsby. He is a wealthy man who lives in a mansion in West Egg of New York. Nick Carraway is the narrator of the story and is Gatsby’s neighbor. Gatsby is in love with Daisy Buchanan. He will do anything to get her attention again‚ but it’s difficult because she is married to Tom Buchanan. Tom is very wealthy and powerful. He lives with Daisy on the East Egg side across the bay
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