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    This book‚ The Great Gatsby‚ written by F Scott. Fitzgerald in 1925‚ is a novel dedicated to the inhabitants of wealth‚ power‚ and social status. It was mainly about this astonishingly wealthy man known as Jay Gatsby who dreamed of revitalizing the love that was once present between him and Daisy Buchanan. Fitzgerald has written this story as a connection to his past life to show that acquiring the American Dream is not always accessible. Throughout the story‚ the author has embedded many symbolic

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    words depict the atmosphere of the great expansion and hustle of society into the new age of the 1920’s. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel‚ The Great Gatsby is a social commentary on American society in this golden age. His novel presents the betrayal of the "American Dream" through the illusion of money‚ materialism‚ and social status. Fitzgerald uses Jay Gatsby to show that The Dream of wealth and social acceptance can corrupt the most innocent of people‚ as Gatsby uses illegal means to obtain wealth

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    is never ending‚ Just like Jays love for Daisy.The Great Gatsby ‚ written by F.Scott Fitzgerald takes place in New York during the 1920’s. Fitzgerald writes about a mysterious young man going from rags to riches in order to fulfill his "American Dream". This book is about a man named Jay Gatsby trying to win over the love of his life Daisy Buchanan. Even though she is already married to Tom Buchanan she still loves Jay. Her long lost love. Gatsby throws these elegant parties and does everything for

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    The interpretation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s work: The Great Gatsby This Research‚ paper – which is a mixture of a book review and an analysis of a problem - will present ideas about searching the American Dream in connection with The Great Gatsby and the main characters and how succesfully they could live the American Dream according to the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Moreover‚ this research paper will be about some interesting symbols by Fitzgerald. Also‚ it will give some general information

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    Is Gatsby Great? ‘Gatsby turned out all right in the end’ – a judgment that takes Nick Caraway some time to make‚ and one that not everyone would agree with. This essay states three reasons why the character Jay Gatsby from the novel ‘The Great Gatsby’ is not great. To some readers‚ Gatsby may seem like a great guy because he was doing anything and everything to make Daisy‚ the woman that he loved‚ love him back but Daisy has a husband‚ Tom‚ and Gatsby is with Daisy pursuing an affair and

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    The inspiring and Heartfelt story The Great Gatsby was written by F.Scott Fitzgerald . The Great Gatsby novel falls under the genre of ‘Romance’ Nick Carraway‚ is a young man from Minnesota who moves to Long Island New York in the summer of 1922. He rents a house in the West Egg district of long island. Nick’s next door neighbour in West egg is a mysterious man named Jay Gatsby who lives in a gigantic mansion and throws extravagant parties every Saturday night. Nick’s cousin Daisy Buchanan lives

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    Summer Reading Essay The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is truly themed on greed and power creating corruption. Gatsby‚ one of the main characters started in the book as someone nick admired‚ worshiped‚ but all of that changed after experiencing the New York lifestyle. Gatsby turns from being an idol to someone with many problems. His lies lead him to great downfall and greed of being with Daisy‚ the love of his life. His life was perfectly fine until his encounter with Daisy‚ and his obsession

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    In the novel “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald the fate of Jay Gatsby is important in conveying the writer´s theme‚ which is the American Dream and its failure. Gatsby´s American Dream is Daisy. He builds up his whole life around her‚ and he is willing to do everything for her. To achieve his dream Gatsby believes that he has to be wealthy and have a lot of money. He is so overwhelmed by luxury that he does not see that the money cannot buy him love and happiness. Gatsby thinks that if he

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    The Great Gatsby Analysis In this essay I will analyze how Nick Carraway is too deeply involved in events and relationships to be a reliable narrator. I intend to show how far and in what ways I agree with this view of “The Great Gatsby” . The story’s based on the main character Nick Carraway’s perspective. In the first chapter F. Scott Fitzgerald tells the reader that Nick goes to West Egg to visit his beloved cousin Daisy Buchannan‚ her husband Tom and their little baby Pammy. Through Nick

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    The Great Gatsby‚ written in 1925 by Francis Scott Fitzgerald‚ was a tale of the gilded East Coast of America in the wild decade known by “The Roaring 20s”. From the Wealthiest of Nobles to the Lowest of Peasants‚ The Great Gatsby highlights the differences between the proletariat and the blessed bourgeoisie‚ having come to riches through means of simple inheritance. Every identity of the character as the bourgeoisie or the proletariat are shown in definite form; the rich emanate a careless aura

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