of happiness‚ which are internal. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s‚ The Great Gatsby‚ Jay Gatsby’s character also faces this dilemma as he reaches for the American Dream‚ believing that his happiness will come from accumulating wealth‚ and in turn‚ gaining the love of Daisy. Throughout the story‚ the motif of the color green appears as a symbol of love and wealth for Gatsby‚ the pursuit of which ultimately leads to Gatsby’s demise‚ symbolizing the decline of the American Dream. The green light at the
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The Great Gatsby Gatsby’s obsessive attachment for his dream to come true is his downfall and ultimately leads to his death. The Great Gatsby is book that explores a man who wants to make his unrealistic dream a reality. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses drama and imagination to draw the readers in. Gatsby’s dream is very unrealistic because it depends on other peoples actions‚ daisy’s love for tom‚ and because his dream would only work in a perfect world. Gatsby’s dream is unrealistic because
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(Gatsby) career as Trimalchio was over.” Fitzgerald’s allusion to the Italian character Trimalchio mocks Gatsby’s unachievable dream and characterizes him as a failure. The reference characterizes all of Gatsby’s personality as being like a façade‚ and compares him to a common background character later driven to parties and lavish spending. The word “career” makes it seem to the reader that Gatsby’s whole purpose of existence and job was this futile search for Daisy
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them into a similar cycle of poverty. Over time‚ many people become disillusioned by the prosperity and security that the West promises. In The Great Gatsby‚ the author F. Scott Fitzgerald shows the disillusionment of the Western dream through Jay Gatsby’s loss of identity‚ the lifestyle‚ and his legacy. Since he was young‚ Gatsby changes his identity in order to mold himself into the epitome of Western culture. In many instances‚ Gatsby attempts to conceal his initial poverty‚ such as when he claims
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due to Gatsby’s frequent vanishing – both emotionally and physically. This is especially evident at the end of chapter five when Gatsby and Daisy are enveloped in their rekindling. Nick realises this trait of Gatsby’s during the last paragraph of chapter five‚ in which is states ‘Gatsby didn’t know me now at all’. This dismal of Nick‚ once Gatsby has obtained his goal of possession‚ illuminates that Gatsby only associates with people in order to help him achieve his
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Daisy is the human embodiment of the green light at the end of Gatsby’s dock. However‚ the green light itself is not the crucial all American symbol of the novel‚ but rather Gatsby’s reaching for it (Corrigan‚ 5). The green light exploits Gatsby’s future with Daisy‚ for which he “could not possibly fully understand the elusiveness of dreams and the contradictory quality of the mirage before him- so close‚ yet so far”(Hearne 191). Gatsby’s intense yet tragic commitment to his own American Dream is so
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The Great Gatsby Study Questions American Literature Name _____________________________________ The Great Gatsby Pre-reading Questions: Respond thoroughly to the following questions. 1. How might people who are born into wealth compare or contrast to those who acquired their wealth overnight? 2. Would you date or marry someone just for their money? What are possible advantages and disadvantages of doing this? 3. What defines a person’s “social
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vary in these characters? Nick’s narration exposes Gatsby’s obsession with accumulating worldly possessions. The car‚ a symbol of prosperity and success in the 1920s‚ is also the embodiment of Gatsby’s materialism. He has modified his motor to the point of being overpowering‚ excessive and frightening (‘and there in its monstrous length’) solely for his image and projection. The ‘triumphant hat boxes and supper boxes and toolboxes’ infer that Gatsby’s vast (repetition of ‘and’) accumulation of possessions
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Jesus Christ and suggests towards the beginning of the novel‚ the reader learns more about Gatsby’s early life and can see how he to Biblical stories. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby‚ the intriguing and mysterious character Jay Gatsby is undoubtedly represented as a Christ figure. Fitzgerald uses strikingly similar characteristics between Gatsby and Jesus‚ resulting images to the Bible and Gatsby’s ultimate death echoing that of Jesus’ crucifixion to relate Gatsby to Christ. Jay Gatsby
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Daniel: Nick recalls Gatsby’s funeral where Mr. Gatz‚ the owl-eyed man‚ and himself were the only ones to attended. Nick tried to get a hold of Daisy‚ but she left with Tom with no forwarding address. There are still many exaggerated and untrue rumours floating around about Gatsby after his death but the only Nick knows the truth about him. It is revealed by Gatsby’s father that Gatsby always tried to improve himself as a child and always strived for success‚ shown by Gatsby’s personal journal. Nick
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