Josh Williams 33086951057 Mr. Williams ENG4U June 6th‚ 2013 Dear Ms. Hartill Rollercoasters! You may be asking yourself why I started off with the word rollercoasters‚ and I will tell you but first I want to say that reading The Great Gatsby has been a very eye opening experience for me. I didn’t expect many things to happen the way they did. This book to me was sort of a mystery novel. One minute people are having a wonderful time at a party and the next conversations are brought up about
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The 1920’s marked a time of great post-war economic growth and F. Scott Fitzgerald captured the frenzy of society during this time by setting up three distinct social classes which are old money‚ new money‚ and no money. In the novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ Fitzgerald introduces three main characters‚ each from a different class‚ Jay Gatsby‚ Tom Buchanan‚ and Myrtle Wilson. These characters each have many imperfections that they must contend. Wealthy or not‚ each character wants to appear as the greatest
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The Great Gatsby Revision Notes Contents 1. Background 2. Setting 3. Characters 4. Narration 5. Themes 6. Symbolism 7. Imagery 1. Background Economic extremes The early part of the 1920s was a time of economic boom for the United States. Their industries had supplied the war in Europe‚ generating enormous profits. The automobile industry and those related to it‚ such as the oil companies‚ were expanding very rapidly. In The Great Gatsby‚ we are
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(prd 3) The Great Gatsby Essay Essay Topic #4 In The Great Gatsby‚ Nick Carraway said‚ “It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance that one may come across four or five times in life. It faced - or seemed to face - the whole eternal world for an instant‚ and then concentrated on you‚ with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you so far as you would like to be understood‚ believed in you as far as you would like to believe in yourself.” (Fitzgerald
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The Great Gatsby: Social Mobility Social mobility is the primary effect of the American Dream‚ which itself is an idea that seems simple‚ but is strangely hard to define. At the root of it‚ is the sense of a society’s greed for success obtained by hard work‚ honesty‚ and modesty. If in fact this Dream were in the reach of anybody‚ then society would exist as a community where "all men are created equal" and everyone would have the opportunity of social mobility by doing the best for themselves as
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her love for you. Daisy had promised me that she will patiently wait for my return from the war; however she broke her vow and betrayed me. Ophelia never promised you anything‚ all she wanted was your love and affection. I lived in a world where dreams are exposed as illusions; a world in which unfeeling men such as Tom receive love from women who are longed for by dreamers such as me. Everything I told my trustworthy friend Nick‚ were lies. I was embarrassed about my past and family’s poverty
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In the Great Gatsby‚ each character is longing for one particular paradise. Only one character actually reaches utopia‚ and the arrival is a mixed blessing at best. The concept of paradise in The Great Gatsby is a shifting‚ fleeting illusion of happiness‚ joy‚ love‚ and perfection‚ a mirage that leads each character to reach deeper‚ look harder‚ strive farther. There is Myrtle Wilson’s gaudy‚ flashy hotel paradise in which she can pretend that she is glamorous‚ elite‚ wanted and loved. She clings
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Abidi‚ 1 The Deceitful Green Light Green is the color of hope and it is viewed as one of the most important symbols in The Great Gatsby. Gatsby believed in the power of green light and its ability to provide him with everything that he desired. He felt that it could take away all his worries and create a prosperous life for him. Gatsby is characterized as being naïve since his dreams led him from rags to riches‚ and he was able to see a new developed America. Clearly‚ the green light
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people describe what something is‚ who a person‚ and what kind of person they may be. Color is more than just a look or a style‚ it can describe who a person is beneath the color coat they may wear. Color determines who a person is in many stories and goes deeper than thought. The extensive use of Color is key in The Great Gatsby and helps find out who people really are. Gray is a color used in The Great Gatsby that describes hopelessness. The Valley of Ashes “a fantastic farm where ashes grow
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four chapters Myrtle Wilson‚ Jordan Baker and Daisy Buchannan are three important protagonists in the novel‚ The Great Gatsby. Through the contradicting wealth and prosperity of the eggs and the valley of the ashes‚ they significantly highlight the different attitudes of women of different social statuses in the ‘roaring 20’s’. Living in an ‘elaborate’ colonial mansion’ Daisy Buchannan is presented as being wealthy‚ delicate and subtly pretentious. The ostentatious house she lives in immediately
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