feature of the whole novel. The green light was just a simple light visible from Jay Gatsby’s house. This light was on a dock across the bay separating west egg and east egg. Even though this light seemed insignificant‚ it was really so important to Gatsby. Jay Gatsby purposely bought the house straight across from the green light so he could look out and see his ideal loves home. The green light resembles Gatsby’s struggle between wealth and his dreams. It represents how much he loves Daisy and how
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like Daisy‚ Jordan Baker‚ and Myrtle Wilson‚ as well as the many women who attend Gatsby’s glittering parties. Daisy’s explorations are the most impactful within the story. “Fitzgerald informs the reader too often of her charm without providing her with substance as a thinking‚ sentient woman. The effect is to reduce her to a charming wraith‚ a being who exists only as a fragile veneer‚ a shining radiance of Gatsby’s construction‚ the centerpiece of Tom’s wealth‚ rather than a woman with a personality
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woman and they begin a romantic relationship. Nick founds out that Tom has a lover‚ Myrte Wilson‚ who lives in the valley of ashes‚ a gray industrial dumping ground between West Egg and New York City. He receives an invitation to one of Gatsby’s legendary parties‚ and Nick encounters Jordan there. Together they meet Gatsby‚ a surprisingly young man who has a remarkable smile and calls everyone old sport. Gatsby asks to talk to Jordan alone. He tells Jordan that he knew Daisy in Louisville
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throughout major events of the novel to create the scene and feelings of the events occurring throughout the novel. In the novel‚ The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald uses the leitmotif of dark and light to creates an overall feeling of hope or despair in Gatsby’s character during events throughout the novel. The first representations of light in the novel seem hopeful. The green light seen from his dock‚ where Gatsby would spend most of his time hoping and dreaming he would day have Daisy again
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Alfred Nobel Alfred Bernhard Nobel (21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896) was a Swedish chemist‚ engineer‚ innovator‚ and armaments manufacturer. He was the inventor of dynamite. Nobel also owned Bofors‚ which he had redirected from its previous role as primarily an iron and steel producer to a major manufacturer of cannon and other armaments. Nobel held 350 different patents‚ dynamite being the most famous. He used his fortune to posthumously institute the Nobel Prizes. The synthetic
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will anything they can until they get there attention. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ there is a great deal of action and drama that occurs. Fitzgerald depiction of Gatsby as a rich party host to a sensible‚ live struck man illustrates Gatsby’s many different sides. Gatsby is shown as a hopeful romantic man that strives to get Daisy to live him again. Gatsby was used to representing “hope”. In the novel everything was happy at first‚ however‚ it all started to go downhill when Gatsby firmly
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In the novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ Fitzgerald illustrates the destructions and immorality‚ caused by the unrestrained pursuit of wealth‚ through the symbolism of the village of ashes and Gatsby’s feelings for Daisy. The valley of ashes in The Great Gatsby symbolize the negative byproducts of the endless pursuit of wealth during the 1920s. Although the Industrial Revolution brought countless technological advancements‚ the pollution and dumping from smokestacks and factories‚ responsible for the manufacturing
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the trees that had made way for Gatsby’s house‚ had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent‚ compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired‚ face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder. And as I sat there brooding on the old‚ unknown world‚ I thought of Gatsby’s wonder when he first picked out
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not seem to mind Tom’s affair. Nick‚ Tom and Myrtle go to New York to have a party with Myrtle’s sister‚ Catherine. Nick says that this is his second time getting drunk. The people of the party seem to know Gatsby‚ but Gatsby’s history is still unknown. Chapter 3 Through Gatsby’s big elegant parties‚ he has become well known. People long to be invited‚ and some even sneak in. Nick later meets Jordan Baker. Rumors about Gatsby are discussed among the guests‚ and some even suggest that
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ISSN 1798-4769 Journal of Language Teaching and Research‚ Vol. 1‚ No. 5‚ pp. 662-667‚ September 2010 © 2010 ACADEMY PUBLISHER Manufactured in Finland. doi:10.4304/jltr.1.5.662-667 Stylistic Analysis of The Great Gatsby from Lexical and Grammatical Category Xiangqi Liu Qingdao University of Science and Technology‚ Qingdao‚ China Email: shirley780204@yahoo.com.cn Abstract— The thesis tries to adopt the method used by Leech and Short in their book Style in Fiction to make a relatively overall
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