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    The Great Gatsby After reading "The Great Gatsby” written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and watching the film directed by Jack Clayton‚ I noticed a few plot‚ character‚ and theme changes. As I was watching the movie I began to ask myself why did Jack Clayton take this event out or why did he add in this particular event? Was it for the sake of time or the fact that it was not an important part in the book? So I began to write notes and started to compare the great novel to the film. The novel The Great

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    Original cover art The cover of The Great Gatsby is among the most celebrated pieces of art in American literature.[9] It depicts disembodied eyes and a mouth over a blue skyline‚ with the image of a naked woman reflected in the irises. A little-known artist named Francis Cugat was commissioned to illustrate the book while Fitzgerald was in the midst of writing it. The cover was completed before the novel‚ with Fitzgerald so enamored of it that he told his publisher he had "written it into" the

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    The Great Gatsby True love in the 1920s was a hard thing to come by. The way that Fitzgerald portrayed relationships‚ he was implying that a true friendship and relationship during the 1920s was impossible. This is shown very well in the novel The Great Gatsby by many of the different characters. For example‚ Daisy and Gatsby fell in love but daisy got married and is now separated from Gatsby. AlsoNick a friend of Gatsby is being constantly used by Gatsby so that he can get closer to his cousin

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    Nurakhunov Davran Id : 20122506 Date : 04.04.2013 Assignment : reflection The Great Gatsby After finishing The Great Gatsby we see a theme of what the past does to one man and his dream to obtain it.   Anger is what made Gatsby‚ his wealth and power were his goals of happiness and love. Gatsby supports this when he says to Tom‚ "she only married you because I was too poor and she was tired of waiting for me." Gatsby has never forgotten that if he had had the money when he first met her‚ then

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    The Great Gatsby The novel “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a story about life in 1920s America. “The Great Gatsby” was written in 1925 by F. Scott Fitzgerald and became one of the greatest literary documents of this period‚ in which the economy prospered. It is a story told through the eyes of a young man‚ Nick Carraway‚ as he befriends his mysterious neighbor‚ Jay Gatsby‚ and witnesses a summer of love‚ extramarital affairs‚ the downfall of the American dream‚ life of the upper

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    A Study of the Use of Symbolism in The Great Gatsby Abstract The Great Gatsby was written by a famous American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Firstly published in 1925‚ it was one of the greatest novels in the history of American literature [waste of space to restate common sense knowledge]‚ for it truly reflects the life of different classes in America and the decline of American dream during the Jazz Age. In order to display these moral degeneration and corruption lying deep under the surface

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    Deceitful Green Light Green is the color of hope and it is viewed as one of the most important symbols in The Great Gatsby. Gatsby believed in the power of green light and its ability to provide him with everything that he desired. He felt that it could take away all his worries and create a prosperous life for him. Gatsby is characterized as being naïve since his dreams led him from rags to riches‚ and he was able to see a new developed America. Clearly‚ the green light represents far more than

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    drama problem. In the novel The Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ Nick being the narrator‚ “accidently” gets influenced to join a love circle‚ but the thing is that nothing actually involves real love. Just for money and all the luxuries they each have. Nick still seems to see himself as a good Midwestern boy with high standards for everyone he meets‚ including himself‚ and prides himself on maintaining his standards‚ even in the corrupt‚ he is successful. Nick calls himself "one of the few honest

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    The Reckless Gatsby We live in mammonist world. Money is first. If we have a lot of money‚ we can buy almost everything. However‚ we cannot buy true emotions‚ such as love. Emotion is above money. We can buy person to work at your side. But making that person to be truly at our side‚ we should move his/ her true heart by spending a lot of time and show who you are and know how he/she is. Otherwise he/she will just pretend to be your side. From this point of view‚ F.Scott Fitzgerald’s novel‚ The

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    valley‚ making several stops along the way. One day‚ as Nick and Tom are riding the train into the city‚ Tom forces Nick to follow him out of the train at one of these stops. Tom leads Nick to George Wilson’s garage‚ which sits on the edge of the valley of ashes. Tom’s lover Myrtle is Wilson’s wife. Wilson is a lifeless yet handsome man‚ coloured gray by the ashes in the air. In contrast‚ Myrtle has a kind of desperate vitality; she strikes Nick as sensuous despite her stocky figure. Tom taunts Wilson

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