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    In The Great Gatsby‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the motifs of hiding and concealing to emphasize the strange aura of Gatsby‚ how he tries to cover up his past‚ and his “love” of Daisy. From the way he talks‚ by constantly saying “old sport”‚ to his actions; always pulling guests aside to have private conversations‚ at parties‚ Gatsby’s actions are unusual. He makes up false stories regarding his past and how he became so rich. Gatsby’s love of Daisy has been a delusion‚ as he only wants to marry into

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    social transformation and industrialization. Through this shift‚ a degradation in social moral occurred. A victim of this shift is the character J. Gatsby in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Gatsby is “corrupted by values and attitudes that he holds in common with a society that destroys him”(44). Through this mutual and obscured social moral‚ Gatsby seems to obtain a destructive view of his “American Dream”. Where the American Dream once “consisted of the belief that people of talent in this

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    novel The Great Gatsby the main character‚ Jay Gatsby is portrayed as a religious Saviour. The Saviour has to fall in a novel and Gatsby does. Gatsby is a model figure in the novel. He is considered royal. Jay Gatsby was born into a less wealthy family and had to make himself into something. In The Great Gatsby Judgement plays a big part. The novel shows the part of everyone that has spiritual emptiness. This novel portrays a lot of religious imagery. The savior in the story is Jay Gatsby‚ he is a

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    major part of people’s characteristics in the 1920’s ‘easy money’ era because of the great economic boom. During this era‚ people earned their money by corruption with smuggling alcohol during prohibition. In addition‚ people earned their money by people unknowingly investing in major stocks. A few people earned their money with hard work; it was mostly made easily for them. Throughout the novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ written by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ the shallowness and hollowness of the upper class is

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    ClassicNote on The Great Gatsby Chapter One The narrator‚ Nick Carraway‚ begins the novel by commenting on himself: he says that he is very tolerant‚ and has a tendency to reserve judgment. Carraway comes from a prominent Midwestern family and graduated from Yale; therefore‚ he fears misunderstanding those who haven’t enjoyed his advantages. He attempts to understand people on their own terms‚ rather than holding them up to his personal standards. Nick fought in World War I; after the war‚ he

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    Ch.19 Quotes ‘The Year of Self Reliance - Reach to the Star’ (P.209) Why only one star? I wondered‚ and compared transcripts with Henri Bouchard‚ who was sweating beside me in the crowd under the morning sun. Yes‚ it was only one star. Sukarno (P.210) Confrontation of the outside world had come to a stalemate: now there was only one struggle left to kindle his aged blood‚ to answer his boy’s need for tumultuous events: Confrontation within the nation. (P.210) A time had come‚ he said to ‘swing

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    from The Great Gatsby. Nick moved to the West Egg in hopes of making it as a bondsman buying tons of books on the topic‚ but then finding himself get caught up in the world of a man named Gatsby. Gatsby lived and died from the darkest of the 1920s‚ and is Fitzgerald’s own struggles that make Nick disgusted with the world that society pushed as exciting and fulfilling at the time. That those exciting things were hidden evils that lessened the purity of the world. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

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    "The Great Gatsby" Setting The Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ is a popular novel that has remained one of the best-known literary works to this day. Set in the 1920s‚ the story is narrated by Nick Caraway‚ an easy-going bond salesman who lives next door to Jay Gatsby whom the story revolves around. Jay Gatsby is a man with a mysterious past‚ who lives in New York and is famous for his extravagant parties and fabulous wealth. The story is set during the summer in which Tom Buchannan‚ his wife

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    F. Scott Fitzgerald’s great American masterpiece‚ The Great Gatsby is not a love story between two people as most would think; it’s more of a love story between a character and the characters American Dream. This 1920 style novel is set upon characters that are so caught up in a mental dream the reality sets back in and kicks them in the face. Jay Gatsby‚ a man with a mysterious past suddenly swoops in and has intentions to win back a long lost love‚ Daisy Buchanan with the help of his lower class

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    The American Dream is defined as the belief that anyone‚ regardless of race‚ class‚ gender‚ or nationality‚ can be successful in America. Once America started to become a popular society‚ people from all over the world made the decision to make the move. The time period of The Great Gatsby‚ the 1920s‚ was a big movement period in America. Unlike other countries‚ there was freedom in America‚ which was sought as the golden ticket for immigrants. The American Dream proves to be a proves a positive

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