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    Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby‚ while the remainder of characters remain flat‚ Nick Carraway evolves into a round character through his developing moral judgments about Jordan Baker‚ Tom and Daisy Buchanan‚ and Jay Gatsby. As the narrator and an intricate character in the plot‚ Nick Carraway probes into the lives of the other characters and then forms judgments upon them. Through this experience‚ the reader learns about the insight and morals of the narrator. For example‚ during his affair with

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    Daisy change the point view of love along with the society change. Because of the society of Daisy in is a mix with corruption‚ and Hedonism. Which means everyone are pursuing money‚ status‚ and become wealthy. In the book the Great Gatsby‚ Daisy ‚who is a young‚ pure‚ and “white” woman‚ loves Gatsby‚ who is a poor young boy‚ when they first meet each other. There is an evidence that it shows Daisy has loved Gatsby at first. According to the author Beeb‚ “Daisy remembers Gatsby with more than just

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    “If you cheat on someone that is willing to do anything for you‚ you actually cheated yourself out of true loyalty” (Unknown). The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is about how awful and gross cheating can become‚ and how you can easily get caught. Doing something behind someone’s back can severely backfire because of the horrid things that someone has done which is unacceptable. Gatsby had a relationship with Daisy before Tom and Daisy were together. They were in love until Daisy and Tom

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    The novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald shows that money isn’t a problem.Gatsby likes to have big parties he is having a specific party to invite Daisy the girl he likes.He invites random people he doesn’t know all he wants is to talk to daisy. Gatsby is a very wealthy person he shows through his lifestyle described by nick. Nick describes Gatsby’s lifestyle when he states his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus because bearing parties to and from the city. Also his Rolls Royce became

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    In the Great Gatsby when Gatsby decides to pursue Daisy I believe that it is wise. When Gatsby decides to pursue Daisy she is already married to Tom Buchanan. Daisy’s tells Gatsby that she is not happy with her marriage. She says she is not in love with Tom. In the past Gatsby had a relationship with Daisy. They were separated when Gatsby went to war. Daisy still has some feelings for Gatsby. Tom is also having an affair with a girl named Myrtle. The Money and power in the Great Gatsby has a

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    Struggle No one ever had that difficult conversation with me about the realities of depression and what it can do to a person. F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ a great American novelist‚ once said‚ “The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart‚ and all they can do is stare blankly.” Depression has the habit of destroying the lives it touches. It brings feelings of self-hatred‚ worthlessness‚ and apathy to those who get brushed by it. Worse of all‚ it brings

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    later in the story when he finds out about the affair “God knows what you’re doing”(199). George Wilson realizes that something isn’t right when he remember that he‚ nor his wife have a dog‚ yet she had a leash in her drawer. The lies told in The Great Gatsby are told for each character to disguise who the really are as people and to show himself as a better person that they really are. In the story Jordan Baker admits to

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    IB English Language and Literature SL: Written Task on the Great Gatsby Seungchan Yang Rationale: For part four of my English course‚ I studied the novel ‘The Great Gatsby’ by Fitzgerald. It not only depicted the hideous manners originated from the sudden prosperity during the 1920s in America but also Gatsby’s pure love or more precisely the obsession towards Daisy‚ which cruelly led to a rather miserable ending. I decided to write a set of short letter formats from Gatsby to Daisy‚ which

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    Also in The Great Gatsby many characters got betrayed. Gatsby betrayed his old life for a new and better life for Daisy. Everything that Gatsby ever did was for Daisy. He buys the house right across from hers and throws big parties hoping that she might show up. All of this just for Daisy. He fell in love with Daisy and he did everything to get her. Money and social class was important to Gatsby. He lied and told everyone that the came from a rich family when in reality‚ “his parents were shiftless

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    What is wasted in “The Great Gatsby”? In what sense Gatsby’s a waste. The Francis Scott Fitzgerald’s novel “The Great Gatsby” is a chronicle of its times. Times of prohibition‚ bootleggers and economical prosperity‚ but also the times of people still recalling the World War I‚ those who try to forget its horror and compensate all the harms suffered‚ with the life full of luxury. The period of 1920s‚ so called Roaring Twenties‚ is the time when the United States experienced cultural revolution

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