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    perhaps‚ that had gone into loving Daisy” (Pg 110) The Great Gatsby By ‚F. Scott Fitzgerald In the novel The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald ‚ he uses this particular quote to show the symbolism that Gatsby was trying to live in the past. Nick and Gatsby were talking about Daisy‚ Nick clearly tries to change Gatsby’s opinion. Fitzgerald He showed the motif of Time . And showed the theme of Reality‚ and the theme of memory. That Gatsby was living in a Fantasy instead of a reality‚ and that Nick

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    Great Gatsby: Chapter two feb‚18th‚2013 PLOT -Tom Buchanan takes Nick to George Wilson’s garage‚ which lies at the edge of the valley of ashes. - He then meets women named Myrtle‚ who Tom is having an affair. - Nick‚ then is forced to travel with Tom and Myrtle to the city. There‚ Tom and Myrtle decide to have a vulgar party with Myrtle’s sister‚ Catherine‚ and a couple named McKee. - The group gossip about Jay Gatsby. There rumors start to stir up when Catherine begins to tell the

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    The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a romantic tragedy about a man named Nick Carraway who gets involved with the life of Jay Gatsby and his not-so secretive love for Daisy Buchanan. A critic named Lionel Trilling once said‚ “Jay Gatsby is to be thought of as standing for America itself.” This is proven to be true because Gatsby moves up in life and pursues his dream. He is an example for the American way because he fails at certain things and succeeds at others. Like

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    American society‚ people starts to wear less clothe and automobiles and radio came and made peoples life a lot more effective. During the 1920s their were riches and poor ‚ there were New Money ‚ Old Money ‚ Some Money‚ and No Money. In the book the Great Gatsby‚ Fitzgerald did a very good job at describing just how much difference their were between the rich and the poor.There are many scenes in the book that are very comparable to the real time of the 1920s‚ all can be compared from the way the two different

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    successful with a great job‚ home‚ and a family. This dream embodies The Great Gatsby who is trying to pursue the American Dream through his life. Gatsby’s dream however was corrupted because of his pursuit of wealth and the negative power of money. In Fact Gatsby is blind to know that his money cannot buy him his happiness or his love for Daisy. Most importantly it would only bring him hardship in the end. The corruption of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby is how Gatsby made his money and

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    The Great Gatsby My assignment was to compare the novel The Great Gatsby to the movies which were made in 1974 and 2000.While the basic idea of the book was expressed in both movies‚ I choose a version of 1974 because it seemed to have more noticeable details than the version which was realized in 2000. In my opinion the 2000 version didn’t do a better job in expressing the ideas of the book. The 1974 version did an excellent job in portraying the Jazz Age. The scenes of Gatsby’s party

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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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    Social status plays a big role in every society. Everybody wants to achieve some form of social status. In the movie The Great Gatsby‚ Jay Gatsby sole purpose in life was to achieve a very high social status and not live as his parents did. With Jay’s vision of himself‚ along with the love he poured into Daisy and his insistence on reliving the past his Gatsby’s ultimate down fall. Jay’s own vision of himself started out at an early age‚ he even denied his own parents since they were not of the

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    from the eyes of the public. In Fitzgerald’s avant-garde work‚ The Great Gatsby reveals the Roaring Twenties a time were the world was coming back to normalcy after World War I. Time period were woman redefined themselves‚ jazz blossomed‚ and mob illegal operations increased. James Gatz is driven by love to transcend and become Jay Gatsby in order to win the affection of Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby’s over the top parties attracted great amount of rich and pompous people that came without invitation and

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    Section: CURRENT BOOKS IN REVIEW The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli (Cambridge University Press‚ 1991. lvi + 226 pages. Illustrated. $27.95) Even if Scott Fitzgerald is‚ as someone suggested years ago‚ essentially a one-book author‚ only a prig would dispute either the stylistic beauty or the cultural importance of The Great Gatsby. With so much of the novel’s plot achieved through motif and symbol‚ with so much of its atmospheric intensity concentrated in the

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