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    hope the great gatsby

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    Hope In the novel “The Great Gatsby”‚ written by Fitzgerald‚ hopefulness plays an immense role. Hope is something that Fitzgerald utilizes as what transfers characters and allows them to have the will to keep searching for their dreams and ambitions. What Fitzgerald shows that helps Jay Gatsby gain all his hope is the love he has for Daisy Buchanan and The Green Light. Fitzgerald reveals many obstacles Gatsby has to face in order to pursue his ambitions and also shows how he stays hopeful in order

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    people‚ could never fully understand the world‚ themselves‚ or others. In The Great Gatsby‚ the characters are all very troubled. They cheat on their spouses‚ commit murder‚ do dirty business‚ yet the characters never see these issues in themselves and only partially recognise the issues with others. Gatsby never comes to understand himself and though Nick understand Gatsby‚ he is blind to himself. Nick and Gatsby’s

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    Title: The Great Gatsby Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald Date of original publication: 1925 Genre: fiction‚ novel‚ drama Historical information about the period of original publication: The novel was published during a time known as the “Roaring Twenties”. There was economic prosperity and America became a consumer society. There were many cultural and social reformations. Jazz music became popular‚ and flapper women emerged. Flapper women were women who wore makeup‚ short skirts‚ and kept their hair

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    Baker‚ who becomes a romantic interest. Later in the summer‚ Nick and Jordan meet over tea‚ and Jordan tells him that Jay Gatsby had met and fallen in love with Daisy before World War I‚ and soon the two fall in love again. On the drive home from a hotel‚ everyone but Gatsby and Daisy stumble upon a car accident in which Myrtle‚ Tom’s mistress‚ had been killed. Tom believes Gatsby had been driving‚ but Nick learns it was Daisy. Sometime later‚ Nick finds Gatsby’s body in his pool after being shot to

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    Past In The Great Gatsby

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    In the novel of the Great Gatsby the past come and hunt the characters that are present on the book. Many of them want to change the past‚ or they think that they can fight the present to change the past. In everyone’s life the past is a big problem because is something that you can not change‚ it can have a positive or a negative outcome‚ and in the Great Gatsby was a negative outcome. In the novel there is a character whose name is James Gatsby‚ he lives a healthy life in the West Egg‚ where next

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    I feel us as a society at least need to change the way the lower and upper class are recognized as. I enjoyed the connection that was made to the story‚ “The Great Gatsby”‚ “the fact that Gatsby has made a great deal of money isn’t enough to win Daisy Buchanan back. Rich as he has become‚ he’s still ‘Mr. Nobody from Nowhere‚’ not Jay Gatsby but Jimmy Gatz.” (Michaels pg. 674). Our Society may have gotten much better at race diversity‚ but we still have a huge problem with the way we see and treat

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    American’s had the right to the pursuit of happiness instead of automatic happiness? Did he believe happiness was unachievable? In the book ‚ The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald‚ Jay Gatsby is in the pursuit of happiness trying by all means necessary to achieve this goal‚ the goal that all human kind shares‚ happiness. For his entire life‚ Jay Gatsby has been striving to find happiness. From when he was a young boy keeping a journal on how to better himself‚ until his adulthood where he worked

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    The Geography and Setting of The Great Gatsby The geography in The Great Gatsby contribute to the setting‚ character development‚ and the tone of critical events. The setting is important because Fitzgerald uses setting to reveal character. Where people live determines what they do‚ telling the reader the kind of person they are. Weather often matches the emotional tone of events. The setting of The Great Gatsby is divided into four major areas: West and East Egg‚ the valley of ashes‚ and

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    destroying their own dreams. When Gatsby was trying to remake his past with Daisy‚ He messed up his own American-Dream‚ which was being successful. In Scott F. Fitzgerald’s Novel The Great Gatsby‚ Jay Gatsby past created an obsessive illusion‚ a vision of himself and Daisy living in a perfect world‚ in which lead him to destroy his own life. It is Gatsby’s ideas and illusions created by his past that blind him to reality. The authors use betrayal in the Great Gatsby to describe the characters to get

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    novel The Great Gatsby the main character‚ Jay Gatsby is portrayed as a religious Saviour. The Saviour has to fall in a novel and Gatsby does. Gatsby is a model figure in the novel. He is considered royal. Jay Gatsby was born into a less wealthy family and had to make himself into something. In The Great Gatsby Judgement plays a big part. The novel shows the part of everyone that has spiritual emptiness. This novel portrays a lot of religious imagery. The savior in the story is Jay Gatsby‚ he is a

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