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    The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a well known work of American literature that exemplifies American life in the 1920’s and the American Dream. The novel touches on many concepts such as ethnicity‚ class‚ gender‚ race‚ the American Dream‚ and more. It’s diversity and analytical significance makes The Great Gatsby such a commonly used novel. Different things throughout the novel have meaning like the green light‚ the weather‚ dreams‚ and other commonly touched upon things. A dream can be

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    Great Gatsby Criticism

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    3‚ 4 5/24/13 Title: Scarface‚ The Great Gatsby and the American Dream Author(s): Marilyn Roberts Source: Roberts‚ Marilyn. "Scarface‚ The Great Gatsby and the American Dream." Literature/Film Quarterly 34.1 (2006): 71-78. Rpt. in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Vol. 210. Detroit: Gale‚ 2009. Literature Resource Center. Web. 28 May 2013. In Marilyn Roberts’ criticism of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby she compares the main character Jay Gatsby to another main character of another

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    How appropriate do you think it is to describe The Great Gatsby as a tragedy? ‘The Great Gatsby’ may be seen as a tragic love story due to the love affair between Daisy and Gatsby which ultimately leads to his death. It could also be appropriate to describe ‘The Great Gatsby’ as a tragedy due to Nick’s attitude towards Gatsby that is almost tragic as he can’t see any fault in him. However‚ I think that ‘The Great Gatsby‚’ rather than being a tragic novel‚ is rather a Modernist‚ romantic fiction

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    past. The present should be lived for instead. For Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby‚ forgetting what was in the past and letting go of it was a struggle. He was so in love with Daisy Buchanan‚ a girl he met five years ago‚ that he continued to pursue her even after she was already married. In The Great Gatsby‚ F Scott Fitzgerald shows the character of Jay Gatsby as someone who dwells on the past and would do anything to get Daisy back. When Gatsby found out that Daisy and Nick were cousins‚ he had Jordan

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    decrease moral values. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald was a perfect example of the lifestyles and values of people in the early 20s. The Great Gatsby very ingeniously viewed the social and financial lives of all its characters. You could see the poverty stricken gas station owner George and his wife Myrtle Wilson‚ the middle class main character of the story‚ Nick Carraway. And the upper class Tom and Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby. Nicks next door neighbor‚ Jay Gatsby whole purpose in the story

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    hope the great gatsby

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    Hope In the novel “The Great Gatsby”‚ written by Fitzgerald‚ hopefulness plays an immense role. Hope is something that Fitzgerald utilizes as what transfers characters and allows them to have the will to keep searching for their dreams and ambitions. What Fitzgerald shows that helps Jay Gatsby gain all his hope is the love he has for Daisy Buchanan and The Green Light. Fitzgerald reveals many obstacles Gatsby has to face in order to pursue his ambitions and also shows how he stays hopeful in order

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    The Great Gatsby Analysis

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    The subliminal collapse of self-morals is evident in The Great Gatsby through several of its characters and is mirrored in the east coast society of the twenties. The characters in The Great Gatsby though spoiled with riches‚ do not stray far from their self-serving goals to do anything other that to look out for their own self-interests. It seems as if no character in the book‚ besides Nick‚ ever give thought to the results of their actions beyond their own initial perceptions of the situation.

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    Baker‚ who becomes a romantic interest. Later in the summer‚ Nick and Jordan meet over tea‚ and Jordan tells him that Jay Gatsby had met and fallen in love with Daisy before World War I‚ and soon the two fall in love again. On the drive home from a hotel‚ everyone but Gatsby and Daisy stumble upon a car accident in which Myrtle‚ Tom’s mistress‚ had been killed. Tom believes Gatsby had been driving‚ but Nick learns it was Daisy. Sometime later‚ Nick finds Gatsby’s body in his pool after being shot to

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    Past In The Great Gatsby

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    In the novel of the Great Gatsby the past come and hunt the characters that are present on the book. Many of them want to change the past‚ or they think that they can fight the present to change the past. In everyone’s life the past is a big problem because is something that you can not change‚ it can have a positive or a negative outcome‚ and in the Great Gatsby was a negative outcome. In the novel there is a character whose name is James Gatsby‚ he lives a healthy life in the West Egg‚ where next

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    destroying their own dreams. When Gatsby was trying to remake his past with Daisy‚ He messed up his own American-Dream‚ which was being successful. In Scott F. Fitzgerald’s Novel The Great Gatsby‚ Jay Gatsby past created an obsessive illusion‚ a vision of himself and Daisy living in a perfect world‚ in which lead him to destroy his own life. It is Gatsby’s ideas and illusions created by his past that blind him to reality. The authors use betrayal in the Great Gatsby to describe the characters to get

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