and charming. This is shown in the words Nick talks about her: “[Daisy] dress[es] in white‚ and [has] a little white roadster” (Fitzgerald 80). This means that her daily life is linked with the color white‚ which symbolizes purity and a noble social class. However‚ her pure beauty is just a deceitful guise. Secondly‚ Daisy sustains superficial thoughts. This is indicated in the words she speaks of her daughter‚ Pammy. "[Daisy] hope[s] [Pammy] will be a fool - that is the best thing a girl can be in
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frivolous lives by believing their money would make them happy. It was a time of alcoholic prohibition and a time of emancipation for women. Thus‚ it was a time of parties‚ drinking and wild women for those who could afford it. Those who were at the bottom of society were constantly striving for the top of the economic ladder. This time era‚ in Long Island‚ is the basis of F. Scott’s Fitzgerald’s book‚ The Great Gatsby. It has become one of the great classics in American literature and is well known
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West Egg are the people who don’t have any real standing or moments The Novel also journeys to the 1900’s in the war and arrival in New York‚ an age of miracles‚ it was an time of sculpture‚ it was an age of surplus‚ and it was an age of mockery. Nick Caraway‚ recent graduate from Yale arrive home to West Egg to begin a career neighbors to the unknown Jay Gatsby Invited to the home
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2012 Diane Duncan I have chosen option no. 3 for this paper‚ exploring the course of true love in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. I will be addressing the four following questions: * What functions in the plot do Puck and Bottom serve? * What purpose is served by having Titania fall in love with an ass? * How does the famous line‚ “The course of true love never did run smooth” characterize the affairs of the couples? * Why do the fairies intervene in human affairs
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream Study Guide 1. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ Shakespeare interweaves four plots involving four groups of characters: the court party of Theseus‚ the four young lovers‚ the fairies‚ and the “rude mechanicals” or would-be actors. Briefly summarize each plot‚ identifying the characters involved‚ the conflict(s)‚ and the outcome of each conflict. The first plot in the play is the court party of Theseus; Theseus the duke of Athens is preparing to marry Hippolyta
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York and where the characters grew up in the West. The lives of these people‚ namely the narrator Nick Carraway‚ Daisy and Tom Buchanan‚ and Gatsby‚ are described both as they pursue the new American Dream only to show their lives as unfulfilled
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hope and dreams. He also does this to show how hopeful Nick is about fulfilling his aspirations. 2.Nick starts the novel by relaying his father’s advice "Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone‚ just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had." List Nick’s advantages. Nick has a college education and graduated from Yale. Nick comes from an upper-middle class background. Nick has the money to move to New York and stay in a home for
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she comments‚ “I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world‚ a beautiful little fool” (17). This personal philosophy that it is best for a girl to be a “beautiful little fool” is one prevalent in many of her decisions throughout The Great Gatsby. Instead of facing her love for Gatsby‚ she marries Tom‚ an aristocrat with a penchant for infidelity. When she is confronted by Gatsby five years later‚ she plays the “beautiful little fool” yet again by blindly remaining with
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Sisyphus‚ a Greek myth character‚ was condemned to push a giant boulder up a hill for eternity‚ only for it to return to the bottom before he can finish his task. Similarly‚ Tom‚ Daisy‚ Gatsby‚ Nick from The Great Gatsby‚ and even the 1920’s society itself move both forwards and backwards simultaneously as they navigate the waters of life. F. Scott Fitzgerald addresses this aphorism throughout the novel‚ and the final lines summarize it very thoroughly: “So we beat on‚ boats against the current‚
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One of ‘The Great Gatsby’ * Nick Carraway and his function as narrator of Gatsby’s story Nick as a first person narrator – ambivalent character – aspires to fit in and be the man of the people‚ yet is often seen as too desperate and has distorted opinions Nick as a paradoxical character – Mass of contradictions “unusually communicative in a reserve way” “I drove over to East Egg to see two old friends whom I scarely knew at all. cannot rely on Nick Carraway – audience are caution –
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