Jay Gatsby‚ born James "Jimmy" Gatz‚ is the fictional title character of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s best known work‚ The Great Gatsby (1925). The character has become an archetype of self-made American men seeking to join high society‚ and in the U.S.‚ the name has become synonymous with those successful businessmen who have had shady pasts.Seventeen-year-old James Gatz hails from rural North Dakota where he was born to a poor German American farming family in 1890. He despises the limitations of poverty
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REFLECTION/ REACTION PAPER After watching the movie in the cinema‚ I decided to compare Jay Gatsby from Francisco Reteche. When I first saw Gatsby‚ I already noticed one similarity that I can pair with Reteche wherein they were both mysterious in the starting part of the story and we could not predict what were they thinking. There were still some similarities that I noticed between the two of them like their main problem was about a girl wherein they wanted to be with a certain girl who left them
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singing‚ animated young prince of the jungle. How does William Shakespeare’s play‚ Hamlet relate to the Disney movie‚ The Lion King? Although Simba‚ the main character in The Lion King has an ending that is more compatible with its juvenile audience‚ and Hamlet’s ending was literally deadly. They both have to go head to head with their evil uncles and they must overcome moral conflict within themselves. Simba and Hamlet have their obvious difference but also share more unique traits in their stories
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Cook Mrs.Cottriel Eng.3 per.4 19 March‚ 2013 Gatsby’s Journey F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is a novel that best signifies America in the 1920s. In this novel‚ the narrator‚ Nick Carroway‚ helps his friend Jay Gatsby reunite with the love of his life‚ which he has been in love with for the past five years. The affair between Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby fails and unfortunately ends in Gatsby being shot and killed. These events were so surreal due to Gatsby’s vision and goals and eventually
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life. In his novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ many characters are reflective of the people he knew personally. One of those people was Ginevra King‚ whose romantic ways and elite status were the inspiration for Daisy Buchanan. Daisy’s love‚ Gatsby‚ was inspired by his own personality. The letters sent between the two of them give us insight into the inspiration of the characters Fitzgerald wrote about in the novel The Great Gatsby. The main romance in this novel‚ between Gatsby and Daisy‚ was inspired by King
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Many of Hamlet ’s themes are revived in the text of Great Expectations. Charles Dickens creates characters and plots that are intertextually linked with the elements of the fatherly ghost and revenge in Hamlet. Pip chronicles his quest for self-discovery and establishing and/or diminishing his relationships with fatherly figures. In doing so he‚ much like Hamlet‚ is challenged by situations filled with revenge and dauntless ghosts. By Dickens integrating the Hamlet motif into Great Expectation
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The Great Gatsby Essay A dream that leads to destruction‚ pain and heartache‚ the wish of succeeding in life‚ to be seen and recognized by everyone: this are the themes of the The Great Gatsby. Pursuing the American dream was all the characters asked for. Living the perfect life‚ from being at the bottom of a social class to being at the very top of what they seemed to believe in. But was it an easy way to the top? Both Gatsby and Myrtle are obsessed with the image of possessing it all; the need
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The Not So Great Gatsby The novel The Great Gatsby has always been one of my favorites. Fitzgerald does a magnificent job incorporating the ideals and customs of the 1920s and how they pertained in the lives of the characters in the novel. In The Great Gatsby‚ Fitzgerald attempts to convey the portrayal of the decline of the American Dream in the decline of morals through the way the characters Daisy‚ Gatsby‚ and Tom go about living their everyday lives. A great way that Fitzgerald evidences
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”-Sandford Wall. The American is defined as the traditional ideals such as equality‚ democracy‚ and prosperity that serve as a common foundation for the people of the United States. In literary workings such as Their Eyes Were Watching God‚ The Great Gatsby‚ “The Necklace”‚ and “The Road Not Taken”‚ the authors prove that the American Dream is attainable due to the fact that many America’s are successful in acquiring independence‚ economic prosperity‚ and finding love. One way in which the American
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ISSN 1798-4769 Journal of Language Teaching and Research‚ Vol. 1‚ No. 5‚ pp. 662-667‚ September 2010 © 2010 ACADEMY PUBLISHER Manufactured in Finland. doi:10.4304/jltr.1.5.662-667 Stylistic Analysis of The Great Gatsby from Lexical and Grammatical Category Xiangqi Liu Qingdao University of Science and Technology‚ Qingdao‚ China Email: shirley780204@yahoo.com.cn Abstract— The thesis tries to adopt the method used by Leech and Short in their book Style in Fiction to make a relatively overall
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