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    Daisy in Great Gatsby

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    Daisy‚ the girl Gatsby persuaded all his life‚ was not worthful. She was the representative of money worshipers; even her voice “is full of money”. Maybe she loved Gatsby once‚ but her love was not real‚ not persistent. As Gatsby went to war‚ she kept silent a while‚ but she became active soon. “she was again keeping half a dozen dates a day with half a dozen men.” Because she “wanted her life shaped immediately-and the decision must be made by some forces-of love‚ of money‚ of unquestionable practicality

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    Daisy In The Great Gatsby

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    Gatsby’s perception of the ideal woman is essentially embodied by Daisy‚ or at least his image of her. When Gatsby thinks of Daisy he is reminded of a supernatural being because his expectations of her have been set so high that they are unreachable. “His mind would never romp again like the mind of God” (110). This is saying that once he experienced the real Daisy and gotten a sense of her legitimate being‚ he will no longer be able to imagine her as he has been. His thoughts and hopes will be

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    However‚ the dangers of teenage driving are higher than ever. According to the California Department of Motor Vehicles‚ “Vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for 15-20 year-olds” (“California”). Teenage drivers create many dangerous distractions when behind the wheel of a vehicle. These distractions usually occur in three different areas: visual‚ cognitive‚ and manual. The first major way a teenage driver may become distracted is becoming visually distracted. Some teenage drivers can become

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    Grace: Love and Daisy

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    Test Option Three: "To what extent is Daisy a powerless female?" Intro: World War One was to give women the opportunity to show a male-dominated society that they could do more than simply bring up children and tend a home. In the book "The Great Gatsby" by Fitzgerald‚ it is easy to stereotype and generalize the primary traits of women in this time period. Daisy shows insecurity and the obsession with wealth as her most outstanding qualities. Although Daisy seems powerless and ignorant‚ she does

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    Daisy Miller Analysis

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    Daisy Miller is a story that teaches how to and how not to do in relation according to love. It is based on several stages‚ and with the formation of the right atmosphere one can get everything‚ but making the wrong move cannot develop anything at all. Daisy is a nice‚ beautiful‚ but extremely frivolous young woman‚ but Winterbourne is aristocratic‚ gallant and in the society recognized man‚ that is because misunderstandings between them may seem quite normal. But in those days everything should

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    attention‚ or they may give them too much attention. In the two short stories “I stand Here Ironing” by Tillie Olsen and “Teenage Wasteland” by Anne Tyler‚ both of the mothers reflect back on the struggle they had raising their first child. They talk about how they handled situations and what they would change if they could do it over. Both “I Stand Here Ironing” and “Teenage Wasteland” depict a mother struggling with guilt‚ thereby showing the difficulties involved in raising children. Lastly‚ both

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    Daisy In The Great Gatsby

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    life in past and not letting go of it instead thinking that he can bring it back. No one knows where he comes from‚ what he does‚ or how he made his fortune. Since Gatsby met Daisy he has never let go of her even though she has started a life of her own‚ he is famous for the lavish parties he throws every Saturday night so Daisy could some how end up there and they could reunite. He still believes if she sees him that she would go back to him as if there hadn’t been a huge gap of time between them.

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    Gatsby letter to Daisy

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    Jay Gatsby West Egg New York November 19‚ 2013 Daisy Buchanan East Egg New York Dear Daisy‚ I’ve misses you more than a dry season misses rain. Without you in my life for the pasted years‚ I have been deeply depressed. You may not know it yet‚ but I have moved into enormous house right across the bay. From my backyard‚ I can see a green light on the end of your dock at night time. At night before I go to bed‚ I go out back and stared at the light dreaming of a wonderful day when

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    to accept peace and love. Specifically‚ the daisy flower is to be used in the memorial because during this time of “Flower Power‚” daisies had become almost signatory‚ as many protesters were using these flowers as symbols of their hopes and ideologies. Along with this relation‚ the daisy flower is a common symbol of both love and transformation‚ a perfect way to describe what America had to go through during the Vietnam war times. Essentially‚ The daisy flower would be used to symbolize the significance

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    November 2007 Myrtle and Fitzgerald’s Wasteland Myrtle Wilson is Fitzgerald’s vessel for illustrating the modern wasteland. His conception of the wasteland as an unavoidable‚ vulgar part of the 1920s society is parallel to his characterization of Myrtle as an unavoidable‚ vulgar character that refuses to be ignored. He uses her to point out what he sees as the faults of modern society. Myrtle is materialistic‚ superficial‚ and stuck living in the physical wasteland referred to as "the valley of ashes

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