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    says that she had bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth with an excitement in her voice that men who cared for her found difficult to forget... (14). These details show that Daisy is obviously a character hard to forget‚ foreshadowing future events with her in the book. When he first mentions Gatsby he describes him saying "if personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures then there was something gorgeous about him"(6) This shows how Gatsby is looked up to in the town

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    How does Fitzgerald depict social stratification through setting and characterization in the Great Gatsby? The Great Gatsby‚ a text by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ is a literary text that revolves around many different themes like the American Dream‚ the emancipation of women‚ loss of moral values‚ justice‚ power and many more. One such theme that is prevalently presented throughout the text is the evident distinctions of social stratification. Social stratification has been prevalently developed through

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    Symbolism in the Great Gatsby The Color symbol 1. “Here even the dust in the rooms‚ usually grey‚ is shining‚ while the usually golden tea is served at the grey tea hour. We find that contrast between golden and grey once more in "we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs‚ filling the house with grey-turning‚ gold-turning light” (144). -This is telling that money is taking over their life. Its everything they are and everywhere they go. They are saying that the usual grey rooms

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    Fitzgerald use setting in Chapter 1 and 2 of The Great Gatsby? Fitzgerald uses setting throughout The Great Gatsby as a technique for suggesting the differences between the working and upper classes. During both Chapter One and Two of the novel Fitzgerald’s descriptions of the differing settings are extremely useful in developing the story and individual characters further. The first setting that Nick describes to us is the house of Gatsby himself. The house is described as a ‘colossal affair’

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    It is all useless. It is like chasing the wind." (Ecclesiastes 2:26). The "it" in this case‚ F Scott Fitzgerald’s groundbreaking novel The Great Gatsby‚ refers to the exhaustive efforts Gatsby undertakes in his quest for life: the life he wants to live‚ the so-called American Dream. The novel is Fitzgerald’s vessel of commentary and criticism of the American Dream. As he paints a vivid portrait of the Jazz Age‚ Fitzgerald defines this Dream‚ and through Gatsby’s downfall‚ expresses the futility and

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    English 11 December 18‚ 2011 The Unattainable American Dream The Great Gatsby‚ a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ is a story of misguided love between a man and a woman. Fitzgerald takes his reader through the turbulence and trials of Jay Gatsby’s life and of his pining for the girl he met five years prior. The main theme of the novel‚ however‚ is not solely about the love shared between Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby. The main purpose is to show the decline and decay of the American Dream

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    The Great Gatsby is a novel that is treasured as a renewable book in American literature collections. Read among a variety of age groups‚ it holds testament to its honorary title. The missive of the how the pursue of American dream can lead to consequences and decoration are not only evident in the star characters‚ but in the relevance of modernity‚ drama‚ and composition in F. Scott- Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. The Great Gatsby is not a story about Jay Gatsby. It is a story about the green light

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    In the novel the Great Gatsby‚ the character Jay Gatsby is defined and clarified by the way that he faces external forces. Gatsby’s goal was to get Daisy at all cost‚ so he did everything to do so and this corrupted him. A lot of people seen Gatsby as a mysterious wealthy guy that they just attend his parties. But when Gatsby was faced with the problem that Daisy might not have loved him. Or she onced loved another man‚ a lot was revealed about Gatsby. It was shown that Gatsby was just another

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    mean to be great? In the novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ the author introduces a character known as the‚ “GreatGatsby‚ but is this character truly great? I think that the character‚ the Great Gatsby truly is great because of the following reasons. The Great Gatsby’s born name is James Gatz. He was born poor‚ in poverty in which he knew he didn’t belong. He always knew he was destined for greatness and power beyond anyone’s imagination. However‚ despite his great poverty stricken

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    In The Great Gatsby setting represents the characters personalities‚ all the main locations for example Valley of Ashes‚ West Egg‚ and East egg all describe the characters in some way. Gatsby lived in West Egg where all the very rich people and the new emergence of the new rich lived. Gatsby described West Egg because he was very rich‚ was young‚ had a ginormous home with glorious parties. Tom and Daisy Buchanan lived in East Egg “Across the courtesy bay by the white palaces of fashionable East Egg

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