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    Great Gatsby Theme

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    The inspiring and Heartfelt story The Great Gatsby was written by F.Scott Fitzgerald . The Great Gatsby novel falls under the genre of ‘Romance’ Nick Carraway‚ is a young man from Minnesota who moves to Long Island New York in the summer of 1922. He rents a house in the West Egg district of long island. Nick’s next door neighbour in West egg is a mysterious man named Jay Gatsby who lives in a gigantic mansion and throws extravagant parties every Saturday night. Nick’s cousin Daisy Buchanan lives

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    An Analysis of The Valley of Ashes and The Eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg as symbols in The Great Gatsby The 1920s are generally regarded as a decade of cultural and economic prosperity. The American economy boomed following the end of World War I‚ becoming an industrial powerhouse because as the other countries were building themselves back from the rubble‚ America was implementing policies of “laissez-faire”‚ promoting business growth under minimal regulation. As the rich became richer‚ the poor

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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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    Menagerie Social Commentary When Tennessee Williams wrote his The Glass Menagerie‚ he intended for it to correlate directly to the everyday lives of the people around him in his time. He was very successful in this aspect. The main aspect of life that Williams intended to apply to his play was the struggle of African-Americans in their everyday life. The characters’ struggles in this play reflect some of the conflicts that black people faced every day in their lives. The social commentary made in

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    THE GREAT GATSBY QUOTES 1. I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world‚ a beautiful little fool. Explanation Daisy speaks these words in Chapter 1 as she describes to Nick and Jordan her hopes for her infant daughter. While not directly relevant to the novel’s main themes‚ this quote offers a revealing glimpse into Daisy’s character. Daisy is not a fool herself but is the product of a social environment that‚ to a great extent‚ does not value intelligence in women

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    they get there attention. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ there is a great deal of action and drama that occurs. Fitzgerald depiction of Gatsby as a rich party host to a sensible‚ live struck man illustrates Gatsby’s many different sides. Gatsby is shown as a hopeful romantic man that strives to get Daisy to live him again. Gatsby was used to representing “hope”. In the novel everything was happy at first‚ however‚ it all started to go downhill when Gatsby firmly confronts Tom even when

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    The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a well known work of American literature that exemplifies American life in the 1920’s and the American Dream. The novel touches on many concepts such as ethnicity‚ class‚ gender‚ race‚ the American Dream‚ and more. It’s diversity and analytical significance makes The Great Gatsby such a commonly used novel. Different things throughout the novel have meaning like the green light‚ the weather‚ dreams‚ and other commonly touched upon things. A dream can be

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    Great Gatsby Criticism

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    3‚ 4 5/24/13 Title: Scarface‚ The Great Gatsby and the American Dream Author(s): Marilyn Roberts Source: Roberts‚ Marilyn. "Scarface‚ The Great Gatsby and the American Dream." Literature/Film Quarterly 34.1 (2006): 71-78. Rpt. in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Vol. 210. Detroit: Gale‚ 2009. Literature Resource Center. Web. 28 May 2013. In Marilyn Roberts’ criticism of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby she compares the main character Jay Gatsby to another main character of another

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    past. The present should be lived for instead. For Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby‚ forgetting what was in the past and letting go of it was a struggle. He was so in love with Daisy Buchanan‚ a girl he met five years ago‚ that he continued to pursue her even after she was already married. In The Great Gatsby‚ F Scott Fitzgerald shows the character of Jay Gatsby as someone who dwells on the past and would do anything to get Daisy back. When Gatsby found out that Daisy and Nick were cousins‚ he had Jordan

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    Themes The American Dream On first glance‚ The Great Gatsby is about a romance between Gatsby and Daisy. The true theme behind this wonderful novel is not merely romance‚ but is also a very skeptical view of the extinction of the American dream in the prosperous 19s. This loss of the American dream is shown by Fitzgerald’s display of this decade as a morally deficient one. He shows its incredible decadence in Gatsby’s lavish and ostentatious parties. This materialistic attitude toward life

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