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    and the east egg was where the people who inherited their riches resided. The eggs divided the people rich in two with the poor being limited to the middle‚ the "valley of ashes". Even the way the narrator‚ Nick Carraway‚ describes the two communities’ gives off a feeling of superiority. Nick describes the east as " the less fashionable of the two‚ through this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them" (Fitzgerald‚ pg. 9) When discussing the

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    Gatsby Vs Buchanan

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    The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a novel exploring the roaring twenties and the American Dream. The story is told from the perspective of Nick Carraway during the summer of 1922. The novel explores the wealthy and mysterious Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful and fickle Daisy Buchanan and how it affects the characters around them‚ including the also wealthy Tom Buchanan‚ Daisy’s husband. Marrying him allowed Daisy to be as rich as Gatsby‚ but it also revealed that she and Tom had

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    finding fortune or true love. The readers see this in the novel which shows what the people back in the day strived for. How empty their lives have become. Fitzgerald shows the idea of the American dream through Daisy Buchanan‚ Jay Gatsby‚ and Nick Carraway. Daisy Buchanan is a version of the American dream. In the novel she is the love interest of Gatsby. She comes from a wealthy family and is used to the good life. Gatsby was a part of Daisy’s life when they were younger. They were in love

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    The Great Gatsby is an intellectual stimulating novel showing factious character’s responding to social conflict in ways that were similar to that age. Throughout this essay you will be exposed to the accounts in questions and the opinions of those behind the research. The purpose is to expose 1920’s society during the prohibition and compare the events of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel “The Great Gatsby.” Through this essay the thoughts and morals of Fitzgerald’s characters will be evaluated and associated

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    The Great Gatsby‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald I have not read other fiction by this author‚ but after my experience with this novel I plan to read more of his work as a result of his ability to poetically describe the extravagant scenes within The Great Gatsby and the sheer romance of Jay Gatsby dedicating his life to reuniting with his lost lover‚ Daisy‚ during one of his wild parties. I admire Fitzgerald’s brilliance and capability to conjure such a character as dynamic as Gatsby‚ and am curious as to

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    them. Fitzgerald capitalized on this and exposed it in his novel when he portrayed various characters and their ideas. Introduction The novel is seen as a recount by a character Nick Carraway and is more of a reflection of past events by him with occasional afterthoughts and background information filled in by Nick himself explaining the events and the possible thought processes of the characters themselves. This gives the reader a semi-omniscient perspective because they are able to read Nick’s

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    Presentation of Marriage

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    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 – Modernist

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    parts of the state come to enjoy the many rooms of his estate‚ the elaborate pool in his yard‚ and the live orchestra that plays. What else could a man‚ such as Jay himself who has achieved such successes‚ want? As revealed through his encounters with Nick‚ apparently a lot. The Great Gatsby novel definitely helped create a party crazed image of the Roaring Twenties but through the characters in the plot we see that people were quite dissatisfied. We observe this discontentment through the marriage of

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    The GREAT Gastby by F. Scott Fitzgerald pages 172. I choose to read this book because I’ve heard a lot of great things about the author F. Scott Fitzgerald. His style of writing seems to intrigue and catch the audience attention. I’ve seen the movie that was created of this story but I want to read the book to see how it all started. What parts were left off in the movie that maybe I didn’t know. What sense was highlighted the most from the book and interoperated In the movie. I want to compare the

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    money people‚ where as Gatsby and Gatsby’s partygoers worked for their money and were called the new money people. The characters that are considered no money include Nick Carraway and Myrtle Wilson. Although‚ Nick may have been born into wealth‚ he wasn’t nearly as wealthy as Gatsby or the Buchannans and Ms. Baker. Maurer states that Nick turns out to be a well principled man‚ where as Myrtle keeps trying to climb the social hierarchy to get what she wants by having an affair with Tom. All of the characters

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