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    The Great Gatsby Essay

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    people‚ could never fully understand the world‚ themselves‚ or others. In The Great Gatsby‚ the characters are all very troubled. They cheat on their spouses‚ commit murder‚ do dirty business‚ yet the characters never see these issues in themselves and only partially recognise the issues with others. Gatsby never comes to understand himself and though Nick understand Gatsby‚ he is blind to himself. Nick and Gatsby’s

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    The Great Gatsby Failure

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    across the country‚ the 1920s served as the time of flourishing culture and endless opportunity. The American Dream surged through the veins of many people‚ giving them hope that they could succeed in life. With his novel The Great Gatsby‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald creates Jay Gatsby‚ a man that resonates with many readers. Jay grows up poor‚ and after being exposed to places of wealth and love‚ he devotes his life to the conquest of these goals. He invests his time and effort into achieving his dreams‚

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    theme of the aspect of American values Such as the Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald uses a variety of characters that express the message of failure but Gatsby is one of the characters that focuses on the truth value of knowledge‚ claims about the past and the meaning it obtains. Gatsby uses his attempts to accomplish those dreams and expresses his reasons of why Failure is the most communicating theme throw-out the novel. The author Fitzgerald uses Gatsby a Character in the novel that communicates a message

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    The Great Dilemma The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby is about a young man who has fallen in love with a young woman. But at the time they meet‚ they are unable to be together I think because of complications surrounding WW1. A few years later in the 20’s‚ they meet again‚ but Daisy married to a man named Tom‚ and has a child. Gatsby then tries everything to get her to fall for him and leave Tom. Gatsby gains money by unscrupulous means and buys a house

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    The Great Gatsby Women

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    F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the Great Gatsby with no respect or acknowledgement to the gender‚ female. This book is filled with many examples of how women are treated as possessions‚ not people‚ they are made out to be evil and dependent people when they are not‚ and how men overpower women‚ causing them to feel dependent of a man. F. Scott can apparently write a best seller‚ but he however obviously has no respect for women. What’s more important in this world? Let’s first learn a little about this

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    THE GREAT GATSBY This quarter I read The Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott 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

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    for his survival. Gatsby is a bootlegger because he was unhappy about his past about being lower class‚ & wants daisy back‚ which drives him to become wealthy. Daisy is unconscious that the way tom treats her makes her think women are fools‚ she starts to thing thinks she’s nothing of herself & allows tom to cheat on her Structure of Mind: separate motivations: Id (irrational and emotional part of the mind); the Ego (rational part); Superego (the moral part). Gatsby is driven by his desire

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    The Not-So-Great Gatsby

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    The Not-So-Great Gatsby The “Great Gatsby” is a man who knows what he wants. He is relentless in his pursuit for Daisy‚ the love of his life‚ and is determined to become the man he dreamt of being as a little boy. Many believe that his sense of hope and his determination make him great. But can a man who abandoned his parents and lied about his past‚ a man who mettles with crime and chases after a married woman really be “great”? I believe “The Great Gatsby” is not-so-great after all. James Gatz

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    The Great Gatsby Response

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    otherwise might. Avoid plot summary. The Great Gatsby takes place in 1922 following Nick Carraway‚ a bond salesman. Nick lives in a house in West Egg‚ an area for the‚ “newly rich‚” citizens. Next door is his a man he knows little about named Gatsby. Across the bay from where Nick and Gatsby live is a location called East Egg where the‚ “old rich‚” live. Nick’s cousin Daisy Buchanan and her husband live at East

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    the great gatsby poem

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    The Great Gatsby Imagine falling in love‚ with the beauty of innocence‚ mangled with the wisdom of experience.   It would make you strive to be better than anyone thought you could be his external drive only he could see   Imagine having anyone your heart could desire. Anyone to be won. All the money you could aquire.   But it will make you greedy‚ And greed causes loss.   Imagine wanting nothing‚ and getting it.   That was Gatsby. He wanted to be Daisy’s idea of perfect.   And there he stand‚ way

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