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    Flaws In The Great Gatsby

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    Just like someone said: Your character is your destiny. It decided one’s sense of worth and the ways of thinking and attitude. So‚ what are the great flaws in the character of main characters and how this lead Gatsby walk into the depths of despair? Let’s start from Gatsby. Gatsby is a typical representative who tries all his life to pursue “the American dream”. First of all‚ what he followed is not “reality principle” but “pleasure principle”. That means ephemeral and harmful pleasant sensation

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    “Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.” -Erich Fromm. Greed is an underlying theme that repeatedly takes form throughout F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novels‚ it eats up and consumes his characters to the point of their deterioration. They all yearn for an outcome that they will never get‚ however they feel that the world owes whatever it is that they seek to them. Fitzgerald uses his characters to criticize the upper

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    Great Gatsby Analysis

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    The Great Gatsby Critical Analysis In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ symbolism is used quite often‚ but sometimes left to the readers on how to interpret it. Using colors in the novel was one big way that Fitzgerald used symbolism and quite possibly used it because of how the readers could interpret it. Looking at the colors in a symbolic way explains a few things that the reader my not catch on to by just reading the story. Yellow and gold‚ blue‚ and grey are only a few named colors

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    The Great Gatsby Theme

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    Calves In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald the characters idolize one another’s images and social class; which in part is determined by one’s education. The main character Gatsby is critiqued by many different people throughout the novel for who he is‚ where he came from‚ what he owns‚ and how he managed to obtain it. The Golden Calves in the lives of the people in west pertain to an image one must uphold. Education is an idol worshipped by the characters in The Great Gatsby. The people

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    story line itself. In the Great Gatsby it occurs quite frequently in the novel to indicate what may happen. Fitzgerald uses colour‚ imagery‚ symbolism‚ dialogue and pathetic fallacy to foreshadow Gatsbys fate. So today I am going to talk about the foreshadowing of Gatsbys fate (so his affair with Daisy and his death) and whether his fate is controlled by internal or external forces. Daisy and Gatsbys Relationship Green Light -The green light on Daisys dock represents Gatsbys hope to reunite with her

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    Throughout F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby‚ the unfortunate reality of loneliness consumes the lives of the majority of the characters. The time period portrayed in this novel‚ the 1920’s‚ had brought about several changes for people. It was highly common for large groups of people to join together for parties with endless drinking‚ dancing and celebrating. However‚ when the night was over and the festivities finished‚ most people were forced right back into their regular everyday lives feeling

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    The Great Gatsby Quotes

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    THE GREAT GATSBY QUOTES 1. I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world‚ a beautiful little fool. Explanation Daisy speaks these words in Chapter 1 as she describes to Nick and Jordan her hopes for her infant daughter. While not directly relevant to the novel’s main themes‚ this quote offers a revealing glimpse into Daisy’s character. Daisy is not a fool herself but is the product of a social environment that‚ to a great extent‚ does not value intelligence in women

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    Themes The American Dream On first glance‚ The Great Gatsby is about a romance between Gatsby and Daisy. The true theme behind this wonderful novel is not merely romance‚ but is also a very skeptical view of the extinction of the American dream in the prosperous 19s. This loss of the American dream is shown by Fitzgerald’s display of this decade as a morally deficient one. He shows its incredible decadence in Gatsby’s lavish and ostentatious parties. This materialistic attitude toward life

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    The Great Gatsby Downfall

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    When you think of money do you think it’s the downfall of your life? What about love? In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald money and love all lead to the downfall of Jay Gatsby‚ born James Gatz. It’s all an illusion in which the characters believe is reality. The only one who seems to see through it is the narrator Nick. However‚ Jay Gatsby is the worst of them all. Born poor with strive and mindset to achieve in power‚ money and social status. He puts on a false front due to his

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    The Great Gatsby Quotes

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    *All page numbers listed first are for the paperback‚ Scribner books.* *All page numbers listed second are for the hardcover blue/gray books.* Chapter 1 ―Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone‚ just remember that all the people in this world haven‘t had the advantages that you‘ve had‖ (1‚ 1). ―In consequence‚ I‘m inclined to reserve all judgments‚ a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores…Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite

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