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    were beginning to work‚ pursue educations and careers; they were drinking openly‚ accompanying men while being unmarried‚ cutting their hair short and purposefully downplaying their femininity. In 1925 F. Scott Fitzgerald published his novel The Great Gatsby

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    The Great Dilemma The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby is about a young man who has fallen in love with a young woman. But at the time they meet‚ they are unable to be together I think because of complications surrounding WW1. A few years later in the 20’s‚ they meet again‚ but Daisy married to a man named Tom‚ and has a child. Gatsby then tries everything to get her to fall for him and leave Tom. Gatsby gains money by unscrupulous means and buys a house

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    January 2012 Many books have a specific theme. A specific theme in the novel “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ is the American Dream. The American Dream is having material success‚ family‚ equality‚ and that you worked hard to earn success. The theme of The American Dream is shown in the main character in the book‚ Jay Gatsby. Jay Gatsby‚ the main character of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby symbolizes the American dream. The American dream offers faith in the possibility of

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    The inspiring and Heartfelt story The Great Gatsby was written by F.Scott Fitzgerald . The Great Gatsby novel falls under the genre of ‘Romance’ Nick Carraway‚ is a young man from Minnesota who moves to Long Island New York in the summer of 1922. He rents a house in the West Egg district of long island. Nick’s next door neighbour in West egg is a mysterious man named Jay Gatsby who lives in a gigantic mansion and throws extravagant parties every Saturday night. Nick’s cousin Daisy Buchanan lives

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    THE GREAT GATSBY This quarter I read The Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby is a fiction novel published in 1925. It takes place in New York‚ 1922 and follows the story of a great man named Gatsby. Although Gatsby is the main character‚ the book is in perspective and supposedly written by Nick Carraway‚ a friend of Gatsby. This novel has a very developing story line that hits all kinds of moods‚ happy‚ sad‚ and mysterious. The main character of this story is Jay Gatsby

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    uses symbolism throughout The Great Gatsby to show many ideas of the 1920’s life and who Jay Gatsby and the other characters really are. The symbols that are most present are colors‚ the eyes of T.J. Eckleburg‚ and Gatsby’s books. Fitzgerald uses the symbols; colors‚ The billboard‚ and Gatsby’s book to show America its idea of money and people. Colors such as green‚ yellow‚ gold‚ and white play a big role in showing the reader the real sides of characters such as Gatsby‚ Daisy‚ and Nick. It also shows

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    I chose The Great Gatsby to watch for my movie review because the movie gives you a look at how life was in the 1920s. The Great Gatsby was released in 2013 and is rated PG13 for violence and sexual content. The movie was 143 minutes long. Baz Luhrmann directed The Great Gatsby and takes place in 1922. Leonardo DiCaprio played Jay Gatsby who bought a mansion across the lake from the love of his life (Daisy) who is now married. Casey Mulligan plays daisy who is in a hard place deciding whether

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    The Great Gatsby Symbolism

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    The Great Gatsby‚ written by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ is a novel filled with symbolism with different meanings. The Great Gatsby is written in Nick Carraway’s perspective‚ who was once Gatsby’s neighbor in West Egg. The story begins when Carraway moves into West Egg from the Midwest to seek out his fortune as a bond salesman. Nick then meets Gatsby on his dock long towards West Egg from East Egg. With the help of Nick‚ Gatsby finally reunites with his past love‚ Daisy Buchanan‚ who is married to Tom

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    Disillusion of Great Gatsby

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    Gatsby’s” American Dream" in The Great Gatsby The disillusionment of the American Dream is a frequent but important written theme in the American literature. Fitzgerald’s famous book The Great Gatsby is one of the most important representative works that reflects this theme. F. Scott Fitzgerald is best known for his novels and short stories which chronicle the excesses of America’s Jazz Age during the 1920s. His classic twentieth-century story of Jay Gatsby examines and critiques Gatsby’s particular

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    people in America. The economy was up and many Americans became very successful. The novel‚ The Great Gatsby especially highlights the upper class. The characters in the book that fit this role are Tom‚ Daisy and Gatsby. The author F. Scott Fitzgerald connected the values and goals of the characters and the theme of the book with the theme of the 1920s. The values of the characters in The Great Gatsby are very important to the overall plot of the book. The characters values seem to only be about

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