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    destroying their own dreams. When Gatsby was trying to remake his past with Daisy‚ He messed up his own American-Dream‚ which was being successful. In Scott F. Fitzgerald’s Novel The Great Gatsby‚ Jay Gatsby past created an obsessive illusion‚ a vision of himself and Daisy living in a perfect world‚ in which lead him to destroy his own life. It is Gatsby’s ideas and illusions created by his past that blind him to reality. The authors use betrayal in the Great Gatsby to describe the characters to get

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    day are dangerous men‚ for they may act on their dreams with open eyes‚ to make them possible.” In The Great Gatsby‚ the central theme is realizing that creating your own dreams and living in your reality is extremely different. Myrtle dreamt of having money‚ yet knew Tom would never leave Daisy‚ Gatsby dreamt of being with the Daisy he created‚ but realized she had changed‚ and Daisy dreamt of being in love and being with Gatsby‚ but would NEVER leave Tom. Myrtle Wilson desires one thing in life

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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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    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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    In The Great Gatsby‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald… During the 1920s‚ the American Dream was a provincial ideology that influenced the popular belief of achieving vast prosperity despite privilege through hard work. However‚ in The Great Gatsby‚ an obsession with the accumulation of a vast fortune and the pursuance towards his dream proves ultimately fatal. According to Marius Bewely‚ emerging from the pursuance of the American Dream is the rejection of limits and an attempt to hide the covert boundary between

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    Maybe everyone‚ like Gatsby‚ has a wonderful illusion in life and love. Even if the reality of their own torture worn‚ it will not easily give up the ideal world. Gatsby was a young man in love with Daisy when he was young‚ but his impoverished home was not properly matched with a pampered Daisy door‚ a reality that dashed Gatsby’s fantasy for the first time. However‚ he was not defeated by reality. With his love for Daisy and his vision for the ideal‚ he vowed to become a millionaire and satisfy

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    of mental processes with literature and historical context. Jay Gatsby‚ a prominent figure throughout the novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ portrays psychological forces of shame‚ grief‚ and fear of close familiarity‚ which shares correspondence with resulting behaviors. Throughout such novel‚ the character of Gatsby is depicted to derive shame‚ primarily due to an undesired past. According

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    In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ the character Jay Gatsby always has an air of mystery surrounding him. Is Jay his real name? How did he get all of his money? What is he doing in New York? No one knows‚ that’s what makes him mysterious. Being ambiguous is a big trait of the color orange. However‚ that is not the only trait of the color orange. Optimistic attitudes‚ Impulsiveness‚ and Risk taking are also common traits of the color orange. After analyzing the story‚ it becomes blatantly

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    Irresponsible relationships(Great Gatsby) A responsible marriage is when both sides of the relationship take responsibility for their actions‚ for one another and most importantly are not having affairs with others. When there is lack of responsibility‚ things are at risk to be destroyed or lost. In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald all of the marriages fail to show any signs of responsibility through their actions. We see three main relationships throughout the novel that

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    Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby‚ Jay Gatsby is said to be a great man‚ but he is not as great as the title says. The novel is about Gatsby‚ a conniving business man‚ who lies in order to fit in with the wealthy. Gatsby starts out as a poor young man from the mid-west. Everyone knew him by James Gatz before he met Dan Cody. When he leaves home‚ he meets Dan Cody who he ends up working for as an apprentice. When he meets him he introduces himself as a new man‚ Jay Gatsby. This is when Gatsby’s

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