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    Great Gatsby Reality

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    In The Great Gatsby‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald… During the 1920s‚ the American Dream was a provincial ideology that influenced the popular belief of achieving vast prosperity despite privilege through hard work. However‚ in The Great Gatsby‚ an obsession with the accumulation of a vast fortune and the pursuance towards his dream proves ultimately fatal. According to Marius Bewely‚ emerging from the pursuance of the American Dream is the rejection of limits and an attempt to hide the covert boundary between

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    Romantic Love In The Great Gatsby: Obsession‚ Self-Destruction‚ and Greed The Great Gatsby is a story about a man‚ Gatsby‚ who is stuck in alternate reality. He is stuck in a past life and wants to remain in it forever. The Great Gatsby reflects a story about the great American dream and‚ as some may view‚ a beautiful love story. The Great Gatsby is not a story about perfect love. In fact‚ it actually mocks the notion that love having no flaws. Fitzgerald writes about the corruption of love and illustrates

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    The Great Gatsby by Scott F Fitzgerald is a book about a millionaire named Jay Gatsby who seeks to be with his lover‚ Daisy‚ even though she is already married. The book is narrated by Gatsby’s neighbor Nick Caraway‚ who observes Gatsby’s relationship with Daisy and the conflicts Gatsby faces along the way. Gatsby lives the American dream of being popular and wealthy‚ while Nick is a shadow who watches Gatsby’s and the other characters’ actions. As an outsider‚ Nick is able to observe the main characters

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    intriguing exchange between Nick and Gatsby takes place near the end of Chapter Six: “I wouldn’t ask too much of her‚” Nick says “You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” Gatsby cries out. “Why of course you can!” (p. 110). How does the past impinge upon the present in the lives of both Nick and Gatsby? Should we see Gatsby as eccentric in his view that one cannot merely repeat‚ but change‚ the past by starting over? Past and Hope in The Great Gatsby Mason Scisco “So we beat on‚ boats

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    Fools In The Great Gatsby

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    of people‚ and people are such fools to begin with‚ that it is compounding a felony” (Robert Benchley). The average person does not always make smart decisions‚ and alcohol tends to worsen that issue. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ many characters cope with their problems by drinking their lives away. But‚ what they do not realize‚ is that drinking makes their problems worse and makes their behavior portray them as unintelligent. Through the poor decisions made at social

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    This book‚ The Great Gatsby‚ written by F Scott. Fitzgerald in 1925‚ is a novel dedicated to the inhabitants of wealth‚ power‚ and social status. It was mainly about this astonishingly wealthy man known as Jay Gatsby who dreamed of revitalizing the love that was once present between him and Daisy Buchanan. Fitzgerald has written this story as a connection to his past life to show that acquiring the American Dream is not always accessible. Throughout the story‚ the author has embedded many symbolic

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    The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby is a novel set in the 1920’s when “gin was the national drink and sex was the national obsession.” The Jazz age‚ as some may call the ‘20’s‚ was right after the years of World War One. The novel begins with Nick Carraway telling his audience of some advice about not criticizing others his father had given him when he was younger. “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one‚ just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had”

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    The Great Gatsby‚ written by F. Scott Fitzgerald’s takes place sometime around 1922. The story is told by one of the main characters‚ Nick Carraway‚ a midwest native who moves to New York in search of the American dream. Nick‚ who is a writer‚ moves right next door to millionaire Jay Gatsby and across the bay lives his cousin Daisy and her husband Tom‚ who happens to also be rich. Throughout the story Nick is introduced into the‚ captivating world of the wealthy and is a first hand witness of the

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    said to ‘swing the steering wheel over’: a time of banting-stir which means ‘absolute change’. Cookie’s view on Hamilton (P.211) I had to suppress an unworthy smile; there’s something irresistibly comic about a large‚ confident man made anxious by love.

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    The Great Gatsby

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    MUNI – N             REPORTER – R   R – good evening‚ namashkaar. Satsriakaal‚ vannakumm  aur jinhe ye sab lage kumm unko mera pyaar bharaa sweet saa welcome   doston aaj hum aapko ek bahut hee aiti haasik flight per… ek historical love story sunanae waale hain – a story about a bhola bhala chori ‚and cute si anjani chori‚   jee haan aapne sahi suna – aaj hum aapko swarag lok ki sair karvaane waale hain… - and wahaan ki latest gossips se roobaroo karvaane waale

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