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    By allowing the reader to reconstruct the dates chronologically and untangle the characters experiences on their own‚ Faulkner provides a complex transition from one section to another. In‚ “A Rose for Emily‚” the concept of time present and time past is explored. By making a parallel between the main character‚

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    Nurakhunov Davran Id : 20122506 Date : 04.04.2013 Assignment : reflection The Great Gatsby After finishing The Great Gatsby we see a theme of what the past does to one man and his dream to obtain it.   Anger is what made Gatsby‚ his wealth and power were his goals of happiness and love. Gatsby supports this when he says to Tom‚ "she only married you because I was too poor and she was tired of waiting for me." Gatsby has never forgotten that if he had had the money when he first met her‚ then

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    Social status plays a big role in every society. Everybody wants to achieve some form of social status. In the movie The Great Gatsby‚ Jay Gatsby sole purpose in life was to achieve a very high social status and not live as his parents did. With Jay’s vision of himself‚ along with the love he poured into Daisy and his insistence on reliving the past his Gatsby’s ultimate down fall. Jay’s own vision of himself started out at an early age‚ he even denied his own parents since they were not of the

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    vs. The Green Life “Gatsby believed in the green light‚ the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us…” (180) James Gatz‚ the protagonist of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby‚ believes in the past and fantasy; these beliefs result in his death‚ making him a tragic hero. To resolve his internal conflicts‚ he constructs a new lifestyle with a new identity‚ a new look‚ and a new wallet‚ big enough to hold his bootlegged earnings; all for a girl he lost in the past‚ Daisy Buchanan. Although

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    The Great Corruption of Gatsby The 1920s was the time of the Jazz Age when money was abundant. Most people were trying to impress others rather than living their own life. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ the theme was “love of money leads to corruption.” Money is not the problem in the story‚ but the love for it is what causes problems. Gatsby’s grand dream for wealth leads to his downfall. Nick Carraway stated to him‚ “ You can’t repeat the past”(111). He was throwing extravagant

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    dream of traveling out West to find land and start a family has gradually transformed into a materialistic vision of having a big house‚ a nice car‚ and a life of ease. In the past century‚ the American dream has increasingly focused on material items as an indication of attaining success. In The Great Gatsby‚ Jay Gatsby is a self-made man who started out with no money and only a plan for achieving his dream. He is so blinded by his luxurious possessions that he does not see that money cannot buy

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    Past‚ Present‚ and Future Paper March 4‚ 2013 Gen 480 Randall Wilburn University of Phoenix Upon entering the University of Phoenix I had attended another University and I knew that if I was going to accomplish the many goals that I had in life I was going to have to graduate from college. I knew that if I wanted to continue to grow as a person that the best way for me to do that was to complete my degree and finish what I started. I was always taught that anything that is not growing

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    This PDF is brought to you in association with . . . The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald ©2007‚ 2002 by SparkNotes All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced‚ stored in a retrieval system‚ or transmitted‚ in any form or by any means‚ electronic‚ mechanical‚ photocopying‚ recording‚ or otherwise‚ without prior written permission from the publisher. sparknotes is a registered trademark of SparkNotes llc SparkNotes A Division of Barnes & Noble 76 Ninth Avenue New York

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    The Great Gatsby The “roaring twenties” were a great time of wealth‚ progressivism‚ and music. One thing that ties in with all of the other subjects listed above is envy. The Great Gatsby is a great example of how envy ties into the twenties. One example is when Gatsby‚ the main character of the book‚ is looking out at the end of his dock toward Daisy’s house. At this point in the novel‚ the reader is unsure of what is going on between Gatsby and the green light out on the Long Island Sound. Yet

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    Journey to Find Wealth While Jay Gatsby is seen as fabulously wealthy‚ Fitzgerald shows how he came into being simply from one mans impoverished dream. James Gatz’s parents were shiftless unsuccessful farmers. Gatz never accepted nor claimed they were his parents‚ as he did not feel he belonged in the lower class of society. Gatz grew old enough to be on his own and thus started his transformation from James Gatz‚ the son of two unsuccessful parents‚ to Jay Gatsby‚ a wealthy member of the upper class

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