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    Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby is a fiction novel published in 1925. It takes place in New York‚ 1922 and follows the story of a great man named Gatsby. Although Gatsby is the main character‚ the book is in perspective and supposedly written by Nick Carraway‚ a friend of Gatsby. This novel has a very developing story line that hits all kinds of moods‚ happy‚ sad‚ and mysterious. The main character of this story is Jay Gatsby‚ whose real name is actually James Gatz. Gatsby is a very wealthy man

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    The Awakening‚ by Kate Chopin and The Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald were both published in the Late Nineteenth/Early Twentieth Centuries. During this time society dealt with the ideologies of equal rights for women‚ marriage‚ religion‚ morality‚ individualism‚ and the dire consequences individuals face when conflicting societal norms. Such penalties consist of death and loss of faith. In The Awakening‚ Edna Pontellier is constantly conflicting with society over a woman’s role‚ which ultimately

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    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 to make accurate observations. In The Great Gatsby‚ written by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ the narrator‚ Nick Carraway‚ tells a story in which Jay Gatsby tries to attain happiness through wealth. Even though the novel is titled after Gatsby‚ Nick‚ just as a mainframe computer‚ analyzes the actions of others and

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    chose specific first words for Tom and Daisy who are married‚ and live across the bay from our narrator Nick Carraway‚ to give us an insight of who they are throughout the book. F. Scott Fitzgerald composed first words for Tom Buchanan‚ Daisy’s very wealthy husband to give us a perception of his personality throughout the book. Nick Carraway our narrator gets invited to the Buchanans for dinner‚ Nick meets Tom outside of his home and Tom says “‘I’ve got a nice place here’”(7). Tom says this and gives

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    past? Why of course you can” ~Jay Gatsby The latest version of The Great Gatsby‚ directed by Baz Luhrmann‚ uses many of F Scott Fitzgerald’s original descriptions and dialogue. It respects the fact that the book is told from the point of view of Nick Carraway‚ cousin of Daisy‚ the woman who Gatsby loves. It carefully reproduces various details‚ such as the clock Gatsby drops when meeting Daisy again for the first time since she married Tom Buchanan five years earlier. It follows Fitzgerald’s instructions

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    1) Write about the ways Fitzgerald tells the story in chapter2. Chapter 2 of ‘The Great Gatsby’ sees Nick Carraway and Tom Buchanan travel to ‘the valley of ashes’ to visit Tom’s mistress Myrtle. As the chapter continues the characters find themselves at a party at Myrtle’s sister’s apartment in New York. Chapter 2 follows a chronological structure‚ the events of that day in the summer of 1922 are recalled in the order that they occurred‚ creating the effect of a very realistic story being

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    millionaire Jay Gatsby as told by Nick Carraway‚ a Midwesterner who lives on Long Island but works in Manhattan. Gatsby’s enormous mansion is adjacent to Carraway’s modest home‚ and Carraway becomes curious about his neighbor after being invited to one of his famous parties. Nick soon learns that Gatsby is in love Daisy Buchanan‚ Nick’s cousin and the wife of one Tom Buchanan‚ an acquaintance of Nick’s from Yale. Buchanan takes his old friend for a day in the city‚ where Nick learns that Buchanan has a

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    brought on by the economic growth against the background of Long Island‚ New York City. The Great Gatsby critiques materialism and the new American Dream‚ no longer defined by prosperity for equality‚ but by prosperity for the goal of excess wealth. Nick Carraway‚ the protagonist‚ views Jay Gatsby’s disillusionment about Daisy Buchanan‚ the object of his affection. The tale is not a story about past lovers‚ but instead represents a cast of characters chasing the American Dream which destroys them. The theme

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    starts in the winter of 1929‚ as Midwesterner Nick Carraway is admitted to a sanatorium for alcoholism. Carraway talks about the single most hopeful person he has met - Gatsby. Unable to articulate his memories‚ his doctor advises him to write them down. In a flashback to the spring of 1922‚ Carraway has just moved to New York in search of the American Dream. As he settles into a cottage neighboring millionaire Jay Gatsby’s mansion on Long Island‚ Carraway grows increasingly captivated by the extravagant

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    lots of money. Nick Carraway states‚ “He was a son of God—a phrase which‚ if it means anything‚ it means just that—and he must be about His father’s business‚ the service of a vast‚ vulgar‚ and meretricious beauty” (Fitzgerald 104). No matter how he did it‚ Gatsby was going to be rich. From age seventeen he was determined and he would stick with his goal. According to critic Chikako D. Kumamoto‚ Gatsby’s “vast‚ vulgar‚ and meretricious” dream was shared by a social climbing. Nick finally figures

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