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    Is Gatsby great or not? Section 1: Gatsby is generous to the people at his parties. He throws banquets and spends a lot of money on food‚ preparations and entertainment. Gatsby is a generous host. “most people were brought” “Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in New York--every Monday these same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid of pulpless halves.” “At least once a fortnight a corps of caterers came down with several hundred feet

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    Theme Of The Great Gatsby

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    are several setting within the novel “The Great Gatsby.” Each of the setting within the story contributes to the growth of the story‚ the Midwest‚ East and West Egg of Long Island and Manhattan and an industrial area of Queens the novel calls the Valley of Ashes. The main setting of “the Great Gatsby” is the time period during prohibition. In a time period where alcohol was illegal we find all of the charters enjoying social drinking at every event. Gatsby throws elaborate parties where free food

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    The Symbol I have chosen for the cover of The Great Gatsby is the green light that Daisy Buchanan has on her pier. The green light symbolizes the hopes of Jay Gatsby getting Daisy back after 5 years of being in the military. He hopes for their relationship to be the same as it did when they first got together‚ but that’s not possible since she’s married to Tom Buchanan and has a daughter. Gatsby has moved to west egg and has bought an enormous mansion right across the bay and throws huge parties

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    Themes The American Dream On first glance‚ The Great Gatsby is about a romance between Gatsby and Daisy. The true theme behind this wonderful novel is not merely romance‚ but is also a very skeptical view of the extinction of the American dream in the prosperous 19s. This loss of the American dream is shown by Fitzgerald’s display of this decade as a morally deficient one. He shows its incredible decadence in Gatsby’s lavish and ostentatious parties. This materialistic attitude toward life

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    statement with his set piece novel‚ The Great Gatsby which was written during 1925 that signified as the Roaring Twenties. The 1900’s came with great economic prosperity‚ which lead to people living luxurious lives‚ and throwing lavish parties. That specific time period‚ the women were held as hostages of leading and controlling their lives. At that present era‚ women were recognized as a major influence on the American culture. A feminist approach to The Great Gatsby focused on the female characters

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    Language in the Great Gatsby A key point for the structure is how Fitzgerald has played with the chronology; Nick’s narrative starts in the present and then from about chapter 4 onwards he starts to integrate stories of Gatsby’s past‚ however these are not in chronological order either! I think that this is because Fitzgerald understands that 1) the reader cannot absorb lots of information at once‚ 2) they will not understand/believe this information until they are interested in Gatsby and 3) it further

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    Great Gatsby Biography

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    father. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote his novels and short stories in a similar fashion. The protagonist of his works and himself‚ typically‚ share similar economic status and taste for rich women. “The Great Gatsby‚” looked not only at Fitzgerald’s life‚ but an historic case of his time. “The Great Gatsby.” could be considered both autobiographical and historical fiction. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on September 24‚ 1896 in Saint Paul‚ Minnesota. Namesake‚ also second cousin three times removed

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    Ambition In The Great Gatsby

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    goals can have a series of destructive effects potentially leading to their demise. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby‚ is a novel that depicts the consequences that relate to one’s obstinate devotion to their goal. Characters in the novel strive to achieve their individual goals‚ however they become blinded by their ambition in the process. Jay Gatsby‚ the protagonist in The Great Gatsby is an ideal representation of an individual whose ambition lies in his love for a woman he had lost long ago

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    Love In The Great Gatsby

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    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 obsession with Daisy‚ and Gatsby’s need for wealth‚ the reader can see that the value of this book is to

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    Great Gatsby Essay

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    Gatsby and The American Dream What is the American dream anyway? In the book The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ Gatsby represents the American dream. This novel says some things about the condition of the American dream in the 1920s. The ideas of dreams‚ wealth‚ and time all are related to each other in the novel’s exploration of the idea of America. Many people have their own idea of what is the American dream. The definition can differ from person to person. It can be things simple as

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