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    In a way‚ Gatsby did truly love Daisy. Gatsby loved the image he had of Daisy. He’s in love with what Daisy represents - beauty and wealth. Gatsby love for Daisy is genuine‚ but I also think it’s misguided. Just what will it take for Gatsby to win the affection of Daisy? He does many things to get Daisy’s attention for example‚ he bought a mansion that was close to the Bucannons house. T. Jordan is talking to Nick‚ “Gatsby bought the house so that Daisy would be across the bay” (Fitzgerald 83)

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    The father-son relationship and betrayal between Jay Gatsby and his father‚ Mr. Gatz‚ was quite different compared to that of Biff and Willy Loman. However‚ both relationships improved immensely when each character realized the amount of love they actually had for the other. Jay Gatsby had reinvented himself as a wealthy person instead of poor. In Gatsby’s youth “his parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people--his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all‚” (Fitzgerald

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    respect exhibited by Nick Caraway towards Jay Gatsby shows that Fitzgerald’s attitude towards respecting others was to become acquaintances before deciding whether they deserved respect or not. The mysterious Jay Gatsby has only been met by a few‚ and a stranger to Nick until he attends Gatsby’s party. Many characters wonder the nature of Gatsby‚ drawing conclusion and spreading rumors that he has killed a man and was a German spy during World War I. Gatsby knew of these rumors but decided to stay

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    extraordinary. In F Scott Fitzgerald’s fictional novel set in the 1920’s The Great Gatsby the protagonist Jay Gatsby is a tragic hero. Jay Gatsby has three noticeable characteristics: a tragic flaw‚ is responsible for his own downfall‚ and is from noble birth. Therefore‚ in F Scott Fitzgerald’s 1920 book The Great Gatsby the protagonist is a tragic hero. As a result of Gatsby having a tragic flaw he is a tragic hero. Gatsby is incapable of letting go of the past and moving on. “‘You ought to go away‚’

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    story “How to Talk to Girls at Parties”‚ and the book The Great Gatsby are novels based on relationships. Let’s first talk about the similarities“How to Talk to Girls at Parties” are similar to the book The Great Gatsby. The Great Gatsby and How to Talk to Girls at parties are similar because the characters have similar personalities‚ fighting scenes‚ and In chapter one‚ Tom and Vic have similar personalities. Both Tom and Vic enforce ownership over girls. Vic was holding Stella’s hand

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    How does Fitzgerald make Tom Buchanan an unpleasant character? Support your answer by close reference to Fitzgerald’s writing. In The Great Gatsby‚ Fitzgerald creates a most unpleasant character in the form of Tom Buchanan. Fitzgerald achieves this primarily by consistently showing Buchanan’s unpleasant characteristics to the reader in every situation where we meet him. Buchanan is displayed as a selfish‚ controlling and physically dominant bully who disregards care for anyone‚ including his

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    Comparison of Meyer Wolfstein to Jay Gatsby So far in the novel you see Gatsby as this mysterious fellow‚ but in Chapter 6 it seems like he spills his life story to Nick‚ anyway Gatsby still doesn’t reveal whether if he’s part of a mob of some sort. His character always seems to take turns‚ first it with all of the medals‚ and pictures‚ and Christmas letters from the commissioner‚ along with oxford. Then in Chapter 6 comes the “real truth” of Gatsby so…which one is the real truth. As for Meyer

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    Throughout the winding plots of love triangles in both The Great Gatsby and The Sun Also Rises‚ Lady Brett Ashley and Daisy Buchanan play strikingly similar and diverse roles. While the two novels engage towards the same theme of the American Dream and the Lost Generation‚ they also follow drama induced romances around the two idolized women who create each main conflict. The many lovebirds that mindlessly trail their woman of their dreams eventually run into sticky situations and character fallout

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    The similarities and differences between Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are two novels that focus on the lives of two different young men living in the same town. Both young men are the main characters of each novel. Tom’s character was based much on the life of the author Mark Twain. Both lost their mother at a young age and both were too smart for their own good. The novels are similar

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    topic of a variety of movies and novels; in many cases these are feel good stories about the paths of two lovers crossing. Love between two people is difficult due to several circumstances including commitment‚ family values‚ and other relationships. A famous romance novel is The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ in which a famous up and coming businessman named Gatsby pursues a girl named Daisy‚ the daughter of very affluent parents. The modern equivalent to this classical American story is the

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