the most important themes in The Great Gatsby. The success story is that hard work allows a man to become incredibly wealthy. Fitzgerald shows how the American Dream can fail in The Great Gatsby. Even though Gatsby has worked hard‚ he makes his money by bootlegging. His purpose is in attaining the love of Daisy‚ a girl whom he had a relationship before the war. The multiple people who attend Gatsby’s parties show the greedy want for wealth. As Nick explains in Chapter 9‚ the American Dream was originally
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Plot Summary: Beginning- Exposition: Characters - pay attention to capitalization!! (5 Points) - Protagonist Name: Georgia Antagonist(s) Name(s): Robert‚ Dorothy Conflict (5 Points) - Character vs. Society‚ Character vs. Self The protagonist‚ Georgia‚ is struggling with being trapped inside her Newport summer house (Rosecliff) by her strict parents‚ but her perspective changes when she is transported into the speakeasy and party scene of the 1920s‚ and realizes the excessive freedom isn’t
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At dawn‚ Nick goes to Gatsby‚ who says that he waited for Daisy until four o’clock‚ but that nothing happened. Nick tells him he should leave before they trace the car‚ but Gatsby doesn’t want to because he doesn’t want to leave Daisy. He tells Nick about how much he loved her when they first met. She was the first girl he wanted to seem worthy to even though he was a penniless young man. Eventually‚ he loved her so much that he started to feel as though they were married. She promised she would
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Chapter 1: Cards laid on the table In Chapter 1 we are introduced to our narrator and also one of the main characters‚ Nick Caraway. He talks about his morals and thoughts about who Gatsby is. He gives us a summary of his life so far; talking about his ancestors and everything up to his life now. Then he talks about moving to West Egg where he originally wanted to learn all about the bond business. Nick is also not like most of the people on West Egg mostly because of the connections he has on
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The Great Gatsby Outline I. Introduction A. Symbolism B. Thesis Statement: In the classic novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ the author‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ creates a satirical work of literature that uses symbolism to point out geographical and environmental characteristics throughout the different settings of the story. II. Color A. Symbolic location of the green light. III. West Egg and East Egg A. Geological and social values portrayed IV. Valley
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Summary of Chapter 7: Preoccupied by his love for Daisy‚ Gatsby calls off his parties‚ which were primarily a means to lure Daisy. He also fires his servants to prevent gossip and replaces them with shady individuals connected to Meyer Wolfshiem. On the hottest day of the summer‚ Nick takes the train to East Egg for lunch at the house of Tom and Daisy. He finds Gatsby and Jordan Baker there as well. When the nurse brings in Daisy’s baby girl‚ Gatsby is stunned and can hardly believe that the
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Caroline Meeber 18 years old‚ takes a train to Chicago‚ where her sister Minnie‚ and Minnie’s husband‚ agrees to let her move in. On the train‚ Carrie meets Charles Drouet‚ a traveling salesman and they decided to meet up the next week. Carrie soon looks for work to pay rent to her sister and her husband‚ and she finds a job running a machine in a shoe factory. One day‚ after she got sick she lost her job‚ she meets Drouet on a the street. He persuades her to leave her sister and move in with him
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THE GREAT GATSBY ESSAY “I want to write something new-something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned. Masterpieces are not accidents. Geniuses know what they are doing or trying to do. They need luck‚ but knowing how to use the luck is an essential element of a writer’s equipment.” This quote written by F. Scott Fitzgerald is quite phenomenal‚ and I agree with it 100%. It tells us a bit about Fitzgerald like he strives to make sure that the reader understands
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The Vapidity of the American Dream: Characterization in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald’s seminal work‚ The Great Gatsby‚ offers insights into the use of literary devices in combination with brilliant narrative development. A good deal of the novel’s true genius rests in the character descriptions. For the most‚ they are not pleasant or sympathetic. Indeed‚ Wilson stated‚ “The only bad of it is that the characters are mostly so unpleasant in themselves that the story
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A Study of the Use of Symbolism in The Great Gatsby Abstract The Great Gatsby was written by a famous American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Firstly published in 1925‚ it was one of the greatest novels in the history of American literature [waste of space to restate common sense knowledge]‚ for it truly reflects the life of different classes in America and the decline of American dream during the Jazz Age. In order to display these moral degeneration and corruption lying deep under the surface
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