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    Period 1 10 December 2012 The Great Gatsby The novel the Great Gatsby is a very well written book by F. Scott Fitzgerald and is probably the most known out of his novels. In the Great Gatsby Fitzgerald shows us that in the 20’s money was a huge part of how you are viewed by everyone. Money determined how you were viewed and how people perceived you.People felt like they could alter how people viewed them by having a lot of possessions. In the novel Jay Gatsby has to resort to Daisy’s materialistic

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    Yellow Throughout the novel The Great Gatsby there are several symbolic meanings of colours that Fitzgerald has incorporated. Specific colours in the novel contrast several different meanings and representations. Yellow is one colour in the book that Fitzgerald has incorporated for many reasons. The main representation of the colour yellow in the book is death. Death contrasted in yellow has been a main factor during the novel as in the end‚ basically the only yellow thing that has not been a part

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    Jasmyne Lundy Summer reading assignment The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby is romance novel based in the 1920’s. in this book money makes everything happen and is the center of everyone’s lives. The money they posses is to buy them the best and most expensive things to try and impress everyone else. The money can buy everything but it doesn’t seem to be buying anyone happiness. “’Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone’ he told me ‘ just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had

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    Is Gatsby Great? ‘Gatsby turned out all right in the end’ – a judgment that takes Nick Caraway some time to make‚ and one that not everyone would agree with. This essay states three reasons why the character Jay Gatsby from the novel ‘The Great Gatsby’ is not great. To some readers‚ Gatsby may seem like a great guy because he was doing anything and everything to make Daisy‚ the woman that he loved‚ love him back but Daisy has a husband‚ Tom‚ and Gatsby is with Daisy pursuing an affair and

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    person’s past can be the ideal driving force and motivation needed in order to move up the ladder of success as displayed in F Scott Fitzgerald’s short novel‚ The Great Gatsby A man’s past‚ filled with poverty and desperation‚ very analogous to Jay Gatsby’s‚ can only drive him to become successful in everything he does or attempts. Gatsby distant relationship with Daisy as motivation to attain superfluous wealth and fame in attempt to win his soul mates heart back. Everything he owned was subliminally

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    Dreams In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby‚ the main character‚ Jay Gatsby lives a very contradicting life style. Jay Gatsby lives a very extravagant lifestyle filled with money‚ cars‚ and houses‚ but he is missing one thing‚ his love Daisy. Daisy Buchannan is Gatsby’s dream. Gatsby’s only wish is impossible to achieve because what he wishes is to have the relationship with Daisy like he did 5 years ago. Even though Gatsby seemed to have it all he really didn’t. He was

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    Thode Melum 8 The Great Gatsby Essay 6.4.13 In The Great Gatsby‚ we are faced with many interpretations of the American Dream. The American Dream is often seen achievable in different ways than others. The rebellious‚ middle aged‚ wealthy individuals have already achieved their own interpretation of the American Dream. Whereas the working class‚ in The Valley of Ashes‚ is still trying to obtain the motivation to find their own American Dream. Throughout The Great Gatsby‚ one might find that

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     Schulman English Honors 11 November 3‚ 2012 The Great Gatsby Jay  Gatsby from the 1920’s novel The Great Gatsby was many things. He was smart‚ brave‚ and of course great. However‚ in the story when he is murdered no one attends his funeral‚ but his father and only friend Nick. The reason no one shows up is because Jay was great for his accomplishments‚ not his character. Although he was called the “great” gatsby‚ he didn’t fit the full description. He wasn’t great for saving children from a burning building

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    essay   The great gatsby‚ a novel by F.Scott Fitzgerald‚ is about the loss of innocence and society’s downfall as they try to reach this dream. The goal is different for each person‚ as well as the loss. He or she has a chance of achiving wealth and happiness that sccompaniesit. The great gatsby believes that one can acquire happiness through the accumulaton of wealth and power. Fitzgerald uses images of the character Jay Gatsby‚ excessive wealth‚ and immoral actions with the characters to portray

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    In the book “The Great Gatsby”‚ arguably the finest work of art by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ none but a few people had the idealistic “American Dream.” To some characters‚ it seems that the American Dream has been replaced by just materialism and greed. What does the American Dream mean? What does it stand for? If a person has achieved their American Dream how should they go about living? The American Dream is the vision to be successful and to provide from our pocket to ourselves as well as our families

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