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    Love In The Great Gatsby

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    Love is defined as having passion‚ devotion‚ and tenderness in which these feelings are shared between two people. In the 1920’s the meaning of love greatly changed in the eyes of society. Divorce was more common‚ committing adultery was normal‚ and‚ small-town women went to the big city in search for rich husbands. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ the reader is shown how adultery was normal when Tom has an open affair with Myrtle. Through Daisy’s horrible marriage with Tom‚ Gatsby’s

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    how he feels about Gatsby until now. Nick has finally come to the conclusion that Gatsby was one of the few honest people in his life‚ even though he lied about his past‚ Gatsby had been a genuine person. Nick is “alone” in his decision‚ because other than Gatsby’s father‚ Nick was the only friend that attended his funeral. Nick comes to the realization that Tom‚ Jordan‚ and Daisy are all self-centered and Gatsby was the only genuine person. Dan Cody was the person who got Gatsby involved in bootlegging

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    chapter 5 of the book great gatsby ‚Analysis Memorable Quote Daisy is overwhelmed by the great value of the shirts from England. Also overwhelmed by Jay Gatsby’s wealth. Strong emotional reactions shows what a materialistic person Daisy is - comes from the fact that Gatsby is finally wealthy enough for her to be with and her realization that she should have waited for Gatsby who eventually became rich and powerful. Also could imply that she is upset about the fact that Gatsby now seems more successful

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    MY FIVE YEAR PLANMAKAYLA G. MALLOY SEPTEMBER 26‚ 2014 MY FIVE YEAR PLAN The biggest question asked of us high school students is the‚” Are you going to college?” “Where do you see yourself in the next 5 years? Where do you plan on attending?” questions. Now some of us already have a plan set in action and others our age don’t even know if they want to go to college or not. I am asked these questions 30 million times a day. I’ve always wanted to go to college to become either an

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    The Great Gatsby Analysis

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    MANAGER AS WELL AS THE WAYS IN WHICH THEY RELATE TO ACHIEVING THE AMERICAN DREAM • DISCUSS VARIOUS ART AND LITERATURE PIECES AND THEIR RELATION TO THE PROFESSIONAL WORLD THE GREAT GATSBY THE GREAT GATSBY IS A FICTION NOVEL WRITTEN IN 1925 BY F. SCOTT FITZGERALD. ( SCOTT‚ 1925) THE GREAT GATSBY THE GREAT GATSBY IS HIGHLIGHTED WITH THEMES OF EXPLOITATION‚ FANTASY‚ CONFLICT‚ SOCIAL TURMOIL‚ AND EXCESS. TOGETHER‚ THESE CREATE A PICTURE OF THE ROARING 20’S THAT HAS BEEN LABELED AS AN ADVISORY

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    I Am Not Who You Think In The Great Gatsby‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald shows the characters Daisy and Gatsby putting on fake exteriors throughout the novel to reveal that when one tries to ignore one’s true identity‚ it will eventually be exposed. Daisy acts as the “beautiful fool” in order to hide the pain of living in the reality of her husband’s continual affair. “The butler came back and murmured something in Tom’s ear‚ whereupon Tom frowned‚ pushed back his chair‚ and without a word went inside.

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    After reading ‘The Great Gatsby’‚ I was inspired to write a literary piece with the purpose to inform and entertain the young adult reader about a materialistic distortion of the American Dream of self-determination and self-improvement‚ as the theme of identity was foreseen by all characters and with the help of stimulus texts such as ‘The Great Gatsby’ and ‘The Diamond as big as the Ritz’‚ I incorporated some of Fitzgerald’s ideas of mysterious characters by choosing what sides of the characters’

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    “Can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can” ~Jay Gatsby The latest version of The Great Gatsby‚ directed by Baz Luhrmann‚ uses many of F Scott Fitzgerald’s original descriptions and dialogue. It respects the fact that the book is told from the point of view of Nick Carraway‚ cousin of Daisy‚ the woman who Gatsby loves. It carefully reproduces various details‚ such as the clock Gatsby drops when meeting Daisy again for the first time since she married Tom Buchanan five years earlier. It follows

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    The Great Gatsby and Money Fitzgerald’s "The Great Gatsby" (1925) also shows what Dreiser calls the "impotence" of money. But it shows money’s other side as well. It is perhaps the most effervescent‚ champagne-fizzy vision of wealth ever realized in literature. It is the delicacy and fatality with which both visions are balanced that makes "The Great Gatsby" unique‚ and makes it literature’s most haunting study of money. Literature after "Gatsby‚" in what Harold Bloom calls the "Chaotic Age‚"

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    While The Great Gatsby in modern day literature is revered for its intriguing story about class‚ love‚ and society‚ it was once left to squander in the 20s. F Scott Fitzgerald‚ the author of The Great Gatsby‚ never had much success within his actual lifetime‚ despite writing over 150 pieces of literature. Born into an unsuccessful family‚ Fitzgerald found himself at the heels of other people‚ claiming inferiority based upon his wealth‚ status‚ and even his intelligence. Oftentimes‚ Fitzgerald would

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