To live a lie is to live a way that is dishonest because one is pretending to be something that they aren’t‚ to themselves or to other people. This lifestyle is and has been practiced by Americans of every social status. Today‚ society holds high expectations of what women and men should do just to gain love‚ acceptance‚ and significance. People choose to be true to their invented self rather than who they truly are‚ with the belief that this will help them accomplish dreams of perfection. Living
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Textual Intervention – Ramneet Ubbi This textual intervention is taken place when Wilson arrives to meet Myrtle and leave Wilson alone. The intention is to refer to the American Dream in a lower-socioeconomic area. Wilson bathed in the thin layer of dust that concealed a small Ford. It was crouched down begging for mercy in its operation. His skin was grey as if no sunlight had ever managed to pierce through his garage and onto him. Melting like ash. A tiny‚ shattered glass forged a reflection
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next door to a mysterious man called Gatsby. Nick has connections to the old money set - he was educated at Yale and his cousin‚ Daisy Buchanan‚ lives in the more fashionable area of East Egg. When having dinner with Daisy and her husband Tom‚ Nick meets a girl called Jordan and begins a relationship with her. Chapter2: Nick goes to New York with Tom Buchanan and his mistress Myrtle Wilson. At the party Myrtle taunts Tom about Daisy‚ repeating her name over and over again‚ and he responds by
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in West Egg near New York. Nick’s moral objections to Gatsby do not intervene in his relationship with him as his interest in Gatsby grows. Though Gatsby is in the underground business of bootlegging alcohol and hopes Nick’s married cousin‚ Daisy Buchanan‚ will leave her husband‚ Tom‚ and life with him in his huge mansion. He goes about getting her attention by throwing ostentatious parties‚ in hopes that she will attend‚ and having Nick set up secret meetings with her where they begin their affair
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SOCIOLOGY OF LITERATURE “THE GREAT GATSBY” Submitted to fulfill the requirements of Sociology of Literature Mid-term & Final Exams By Name : Mohammad Soni NIM : 147835129 Class : P2TK ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION POST GRADUATE PROGRAM STATE UNIVERSITY OF SURABAYA 2014 PLOT OVERVIEW Nick Carraway has just moved from Minnesota to New York in the summer of 1922 to learn the bond business. He occupied a rent house in West Egg which is populated by the new rich people. Jay Gatsby‚ a mysterious
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The Great Gatsby From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search This article is about the novel. For the film‚ TV and opera adaptations‚ see The Great Gatsby (disambiguation). The Great Gatsby Cover of the first edition‚ 1925. Author(s) F. Scott Fitzgerald Cover artist Francis Cugat Country United States Language English Genre(s) Novel Publisher Charles Scribner ’s Sons Publication date April 10‚ 1925 Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) Pages 218 pages
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fashionable” - There are mansions but he describes them as “colossal” “imitation” - Gatsby is Nick’s neighbor East Egg: - “glittered” - Tom and Daisy Buchanan live in East Egg (Daisy is Nick’s cousin and Nick went to college with Tom) o Their house is huge‚ old fashioned‚ yet very sophisticated Tom Buchanan: - Football player at Yale - Extremely wealthy - From Chicago - Always threw away money like it was nothing to him - Peaked at age
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As reported in the introduction of the book itself‚ Fitzgerald wanted the novel to be a “consciously artistic achievement” (VII-Introduction). The story is based around the mysteriously‚ wealthy‚ Jay Gatsby and his love for the breath taking Daisy Buchanan. The narrator‚ Nick Caraway is Gatsby’s neighbor‚ who appears to be caught within the drama amongst the characters. The foremost setting of the story is found in East and West Egg‚ Long Island‚ New York. The West Egg is the home of “Old Money” or
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that contribute to the meaning of the complete work. Wealthy‚ powerful characters such as Tom Buchanan are the major causes of violence introduced because they are selfish and careless. Through an accident that killed Myrtle Wilson‚ or the passionate murder of an innocent man‚ Fitzgerald incorporates themes of the novel. The violent act that begins the downward spiral in The Great Gatsby is when Tom Buchanan hits Myrtle‚ his mistress‚ in the face. “It was a body capable of enormous leverage — a cruel
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On August 5th‚ 1864‚ Rear Admiral David Farragut led the Union navy into Mobile Bay‚ Alabama‚ to face a smaller Confederate fleet under the command of Admiral Franklin Buchanan and neutralize three forts surrounding Mobile Bay to complete the Union blockade of the Gulf of Mexico. The battle would prove pivotal in the Union victory‚ as well as President Abraham Lincoln’s re-election three months later. The Union fleet‚ under Farragut‚ used sheer power and numbers to decimate the Confederates. The
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