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    Getting Trapped in One’s Dream In the words of the great rock band‚ The Beatles‚ it is said‚ “For I don’t care too much for money‚ for money can’t buy me love.” For his entire life‚ Jay Gatsby tried to rise up his social economic status to have the girl of his dreams marry him. The attempt to capture the American dream was the main focus of this novel. Gatsby devoted his whole life trying to achieve his so-called dream but failed to do so at the end. He misunderstood the real meaning of his own

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    Shelsie Mangual Mangual 1 AP English Language & Composition Mrs. Brumbach 18 Feburary2014 Is Technology Slowly Killing Romance? In “Rule of Thumbs: Love in the Age of Texting” Natalie Y. Moore said that “technology is slowly killing romance. Technology is killing romance‚ when you think of how the current generation communicates with each other compared to a 16 year old just 15 years ago. It’s pretty outrageous. When technology is involved in any kind of relationship there’s always

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    to investigate various ideologies‚ moreover their impact on various characters and their development. A prime example of such use may be found within The Great Gatsby. By utilizing the Freudian lens to critically analyze Scott

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    WHY IS GATSBY SO MEMORABLE TO THE READER? The Great Gatsby was first published in 1925 and was one of Fitzgerald’s most well-known novels. Many aspects of this book caused this mass popularity‚ however the main reasons are his use of romantic modernism and most importantly‚ his portrayal of the different character. The different portrayals of the characters across Long island manipulate the reader’s opinion. One of the most famous examples for this is Gatsby. Gatsby is a very memorable character

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    "’Her voice is full of money‚’ [Gatsby] said suddenly. That was it. I’d never understood before. It was full of money- that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it‚ the jingle of it‚ the cymbals’ song of it...High in a white palace the king’s daughter‚ the golden girl" (127). This jarring reference to the intoxicating allure Daisy Buchanan holds over Jay Gatsby is the essence of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Gatsby‚ throughout the novel‚ is utterly infatuated with Daisy in

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    The American Hero In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel “The Great Gatsby” the protagonist is a typical American Romantic Hero. Jay Gatsby is truck by true love the moment he meet the beautiful Daisy until the moment he dies. Gatsby gives his life for her‚ he’s living and breathing for this one girl; everything he does in this novel is for her. He attains power and accumulates wealth simply so that he can see her‚ be among her and her friends because of her social status. He buys a house right

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    man he was. He was a bully that used his social status and strength to control and boss people around him. Jay Gatsby on the other hand was a caring business man who had met Daisy in Louisville while he was in the war before she was married. Daisy promised him she would wait for him but ended up marring Tom Buchanan due to pressure from her family. Jay Gatsby always hoped Daisy and he would be together again in the future. He tried making

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    Bryanna Clewis  2nd  11­19­14    In the book‚ The Great Gatsby‚ there were many characters that put on mask in order to  conceal their imperfections. These masks are not visible to others and the characters that wear  these “masks” are three of the most obvious ones in the book. These characters are Daisy‚  Myrtle‚ and Jay Gatsby. These three characters are all connected in some way. Daisy and Jay use  to have an undying romance when Jay was in World War I. Daisy promised to wait for him when  he left for the war

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    maximum intensity or is a major turning point in a plot. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald the major moment of intensity in the novel is when Gatsby finally talks to Daisy for the fist time in years. When they finally reconnect Gatsby feels like it was a “terrible mistake.”(87) The situation is awkward in every aspect. Gatsby is so uncomfortable to be with Daisy he breaks Nick’s clock while in a fluster of her presence. Gatsby although more noticeably uncomfortable in Daisy’s presence

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    Character analysis Daisy Buchanan Daisy is a beautiful young woman originally from Louisville‚ Kentucky. At first we know her as Nick’s cousin and later on find out she’s the object of Gatsby‚ his determination in getting wealthy just to impress her. Fitzgerald presents her as the ‘American Dream’‚ who for the matter of fact Myrtle is extremely envious of and is always desperately trying to climb that social scale‚ by having an intimate relationship with her husband Tom Buchanan. She is portrayed

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