One’s Dream In the words of the great rock band‚ The Beatles‚ it is said‚ “For I don’t care too much for money‚ for money can’t buy me love.” For his entire life‚ Jay Gatsby tried to rise up his social economic status to have the girl of his dreams marry him. The attempt to capture the American dream was the main focus of this novel. Gatsby devoted his whole life trying to achieve his so-called dream but failed to do so at the end. He misunderstood the real meaning of his own dream similar to how many
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Haley 12 February 2013 Jay Gatsby – The Gilded Man In an era made infamous for its displays of corruption and carelessness‚ the Upper Class of the 1920’s faced a degradation of character due in part both to their grand accumulations of wealth‚ and the materialism that had become associated with their prosperity and the life of excess. Within the pages of The Great Gatsby‚ a novel written by author F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ the oppressive powers of wealth are demonstrated through the corruption of
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became a widespread term to describe the American way of life. It deals with the act of individuality‚ and working hard for what you have. Despite having these dreams‚ money and social values appeared to be the key to happiness. Reading The Great Gatsby allows the audience to witness the act of corruption for themselves‚ as they take a glance at how many individuals are living with the wrong idea of the American Dream. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul‚ Minnesota on 24 September
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place where people can recreate themselves without being categorised and judged on their place in society. In this setting‚ the socioeconomic division created by the W.A.S.P society is slowly closed‚ as characters from Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby‚ unite with one another confidently‚ without any fear of being judged. Geographically close‚ yet far away from Manhattan is East Egg; a place where the association of the “rich” and poor is unheard of‚ in fact‚ a place that closes themselves off from
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The interpretation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s work: The Great Gatsby This Research‚ paper – which is a mixture of a book review and an analysis of a problem - will present ideas about searching the American Dream in connection with The Great Gatsby and the main characters and how succesfully they could live the American Dream according to the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Moreover‚ this research paper will be about some interesting symbols by Fitzgerald. Also‚ it will give some general information
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u i D i e u Ly Tr a n H o a i T h u Hoang Thi Phuong Anh H a n o i U n i v e r s i t y‚ A p r i l ‚ 2 0 t h 2 0 1 5 Outline Part 1:Introduction - Plots - Characters Part 2: Influences on the novel - Historical context - Similarities between author’s life and the novel Part 3: The American dream - What is the American dream? - Reflection of American dream on the Great Gatsby - What can we learn from the Great Gatsby? References Nick Carraway Novel’s narrator‚ from Minnesota Educated at Yale
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The Great Gatsby is a magnificently written story about the loss of love‚ the problems of American wealth‚ and the reality of life. With these themes in mind‚ it is important to remember that in our complex reality‚ not all men are only sexually attracted to women as some would commonly assume. The character of Nick Carraway in F. Scott Fitzgerald ’s The Great Gatsby can be characterized as sexually ambiguous and emotionally insecure. On the one hand‚ Nick Carraway is a person who came from an upper
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Obituary: Nick’s Point of View Jay Gatsby‚ my close friend and neighbor was a successful bachelor who created an aura of mystery. Gatsby‚ a man in his mid thirties‚ died an unexpected death. A car repairman‚ George Wilson‚ from the Valley of Ashes‚ murdered Mr. Gatsby. During the last moments of Mr. Gatsby’s life‚ he was lying on a mat in his pool. It was the first time he had been in his pool the whole summer. While relaxing on his pool mat‚ he was shot to death. The scene was described as a “holocaust
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their happiness‚ they sometimes have to ignore everything that is obvious or real to the human eye. Sometimes having faith in things beyond the normal comprehension is greater than settling for what is known to be realistic. Jay Gatsby from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s‚ The Great Gatsby is shown to be one of a few who possess this special quality by creating an entirely different image of himself and clinging to the hope of being reunited with the one he loves most despite what others believed. Through Gatsby’s
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