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    The Great Gatsby Chapter 18 Summary/Analysis Nick wakes up early with an eerie feeling that something bad will happen to Gatsby. When he arrives at Gatsby’s mansion‚ he finds his friend tired‚ and leaning against a table in the hall. Nick notes that "Gatsby’s mansion had never before seemed so enormous to him". Nick gives Gatsby the advice‚ that he should go into hiding for some time‚ because it’s sure that "they" will be able to trace down his car‚ and eventually find him‚ but Gatsby refuses

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    Scott Fitzgerald‚ in his novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ defines how life was like for the rich and the newly rich during “The Roaring 20s”. Fitzgerald’s purpose in chapter 9 is to acknowledge how even though Gatsby obtained to have all the pleasures the money can buy‚ he still was not happy. He utilizes imagery and diction to convey an image or feeling of melancholy and sympathy regarding the great Jay Gatsby in order to fully describe Nick’s attitude toward Gatsby. Fitzgerald illustrates his novel

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    chapters 1 2 3 4 Chapter four opens with Nick attending another of Gatsby’s parties. Nick uses this as a starting point and begins recounting some notes he claims to have taken‚ listing some of the more notable people he encountered that summer. His point is to prove that Gatsby’s party attract the most notable people of the time. He also describes one man‚ Klipspringer‚ who never seems to leaves Gatsby’s parties and has come to be known as the "boarder‚" which suggests he is living in the

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    Katie Coleman ALC Period 3 12/19/13 Fitzgerald’s Colorful Imagination The Great Gatsby‚ written by F. Scott Fitzgerald is an ever exciting story about a trouble-some wealthy man‚ Jay Gatsby. He spends his life creating a rich status for myself to allure people in. Among the people his wants to in his life‚ is his one true love‚ Daisy Buchanan. Color Symbolism plays a huge roll in describing characters and lending extra meaning to inanimate objects and descriptions of society. The use

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    The Great Gatsby “The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart‚ and all they can do is stare blankly.” In The Great Gatsby‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald presents his audience with a novel with intricate symbolism. Nick Carroway‚ the protagonist‚ has recently moved from the Midwest to get his career started in New York. He lives on the island of West Egg the poorer side of town‚ across from East Egg the wealthier side of town. In East Egg are where his pompous

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    Analyse F Scott Fitzgerald’s presentation of his first person narrator‚ Nick Carraway‚ in Chapter 1 of “The Great Gatsby” Fitzgerald casts Nick Carraway as our narrator and guide throughout the Novel‚ The Great Gatsby. Immediately we discover that he is from an affluent socio-economic background and makes attempts to prove that he is from “good stock”‚ boasting about his family being descendant from “The Dukes of Buccleuch” illustrating the American obsession with lineage‚ and how it was often

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    In The Great Gatsby‚ Fitzgerald’s main innovation was to introduce a first person narrator and protagonist whose consciousness filters the story’s events. This device was not a total invention since a character through whose eyes and mind the central protagonist is discovered is to be found in two of Conrad’s books : Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim. As usual with this device‚ the main protagonist remains strange and shady. This technique reinforces the mystery of the characters. The second advantage

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    characters and incidents from Nick’s point of view. Nick has a vivid imagination that he uses to interpret people’s reactions and feelings‚ this is especially found in the chapter eight in which Nick creates the past of Gatsby and Daisy; and the last movement of Gatsby at the end of the chapter. When Fitzgerald is presenting Gatsby and Daisy’s first meet‚ ‘he had never been in such a beautiful house before. But what gave it an air of breathless intensity was that Daisy lived there’ suggests Nick

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    Chapter One: The novel begins with a personal note by the narrator‚ Nick Carraway. He relates that he has a tendency to reserve all judgments against people and that he has been conditioned to be understanding toward those who haven’t had his advantages. Carraway came from a prominent family from the Midwest‚ graduated from Yale and fought in the Great War. After the war and a period of restlessness‚ he decided to go East to learn the bond business. At the book’s beginning‚ Carraway has just arrived

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    chose to read The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It is a novel set in the twenties when the American economy was soaring (SparkNotes…). I choose this book because I had it in my bookshelf for a long time‚ but never found time to read it. I had no expectations of this book because I had never heard anything about it‚ and the summary on the back was un-descriptive. In this paper I will accurately and specifically go into the characters of the book‚ and present the themes‚ motifs and symbols of

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