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    In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s‚ The Great GatsbyJay Gatsby completes a decline from his carefully crafted image of greatness to his exposed‚ unsightly‚ and lonely death. The story of the novel is really the deconstruction of this image‚ and the various ways in which the true “Jay Gatz” is uncovered. Hailing from a middle-class‚ rural family‚ Gatsby… The Great Gatsby: Nick vs Gatsby - The Great Gatsby: Nick vs Gatsby Mainframe computers analyze information and present it so that the observer is able

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    Journey to Find Wealth While Jay Gatsby is seen as fabulously wealthy‚ Fitzgerald shows how he came into being simply from one mans impoverished dream. James Gatz’s parents were shiftless unsuccessful farmers. Gatz never accepted nor claimed they were his parents‚ as he did not feel he belonged in the lower class of society. Gatz grew old enough to be on his own and thus started his transformation from James Gatz‚ the son of two unsuccessful parents‚ to Jay Gatsby‚ a wealthy member of the upper

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    The Great Gatsby Jay Gatsby has a list of ordinary character flaws‚ though Gatsby’s flaws are only revealed through the telling of the story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The book’s plot revolves around the history of Jay Gatsby and his undying love for Daisy Fay. Did the downfall of Gatsby’s character leave him to be an innocent victim‚ a foolish dreamer‚ or a guilty imposter? The downfall of this main character was destroyed by love and money‚ when Gatsby and his lavish life eventually

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    Great Gatsby as Modernist Literature By the end of World War I‚ many America authors were ready to change their ways and views on writing. Authors were tired of tradition and limitations. One of these writers was F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald was a participant in the wild parties with bootleg liquor‚ but he was also a critic of this time. His book‚ The Great Gatsby is an excellent example of modernist literature‚ through its use of implied themes and fragmented storyline. The Great Gatsby is a

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    open hand (41).” This shows how abusive and violent of a man he was. He was a bully that used his social status and strength to control and boss people around him. Jay Gatsby on the other hand was a caring business man who had met Daisy in Louisville while he was in the war before she was married. Daisy promised him she would wait for him but ended up marring Tom Buchanan due to pressure from her family. Jay Gatsby always hoped Daisy and he would be together again in the

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    status as any story ever invented by a single author”. Cantor: “Mary Shelley gives a gnostic twist to her creation myth: in her version the creation becomes identified with the fall”. Cantor explains that “Frankenstein does God’s work‚ creating a man‚ but he has the devil’s motives: pride and the will to power”. This article explains mainly the downfall of Frankenstein’s creation in Mary shelley’s Frankenstein. The Things They Carried Lynn Wharton’s “Tim O’Brien and American National

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    Rollercoasters! You may be asking yourself why I started off with the word rollercoasters‚ and I will tell you but first I want to say that reading The Great Gatsby has been a very eye opening experience for me. I didn’t expect many things to happen the way they did. This book to me was sort of a mystery novel. One minute people are having a wonderful time at a party and the next conversations are brought up about killing and death. It is almost as if this book was intended to make you think and feel differently

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    Stereotype: Global Tragedies of our Time. * “Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev indicted. Mr Tsarnaev‚ 19‚ faces 30 total charges in the 15 April blasts‚ which killed three and injured more than 260 others. The brothers are from a family of ethnic Chechen Muslims from Russia and had been living in the US for about a decade.” - All Muslims are terrorist. * “When poor children‚ Blacks or women are able to access careers or universities from which they have been historically excluded

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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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    Case Study: Jay W.

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    RECOMMENDATIONS Name: Jay W. DOB/Age: May 2‚ 1994/ 20 years old Dates of Interviews: Friday‚ May 2‚ 2014 Evaluator: Reason for Assessment: Jay’s parents are concerned with his drinking and how it seems to be interfering with his desire of being a chemical engineer. Jay W. was referred for assessment after flunking out of his freshman year in college. Sources of Information: Interview with the patient‚ Jay W. and his parents‚ Don and Beth W. Background Information: Jay W. was born May 2‚

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