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    Hope In the novel “The Great Gatsby”‚ written by Fitzgerald‚ hopefulness plays an immense role. Hope is something that Fitzgerald utilizes as what transfers characters and allows them to have the will to keep searching for their dreams and ambitions. What Fitzgerald shows that helps Jay Gatsby gain all his hope is the love he has for Daisy Buchanan and The Green Light. Fitzgerald reveals many obstacles Gatsby has to face in order to pursue his ambitions and also shows how he stays hopeful in order

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    The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan. Considered to be Fitzgerald’s magnum opus‚ The Great Gatsby explores themes of decadence‚ idealism‚ resistance to change‚ social upheaval‚ and excess‚ creating a

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    The Great Gatsby Summary

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    In this article‚ Barry Gross talks about The Great Gatsby as one of the colossal disastrous works of American writing. He trusts that the durable advance of Gatsby lies‚ partially‚ in the American peruser’s ready response to the novel’s disastrous legend. The Great Gatsby was distributed in 1925 and has turned into a social archive. Gross incorporates into the paper that Nick perceives everything in telling the story from his discernment and how Gatsby is a disastrous legend in the novel. A collection

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    Great Gatsby Setting

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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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    "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a widely considered masterpiece of American literature. Set in Long island‚ 1922‚ The Great Gatsby portrays a time in which massive war-born wealth and cheap liquor give birth to the great American party period‚ where booze and bobbed hair reign supreme in newly rich New York. This sets the scene for the tragic love story between " The golden girl"‚ Daisy Buchanan and war hero‚ James Gatz (Gatsby). The Great Gatsby is an interesting novel due to the ideas

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    Baker‚ who becomes a romantic interest. Later in the summer‚ Nick and Jordan meet over tea‚ and Jordan tells him that Jay Gatsby had met and fallen in love with Daisy before World War I‚ and soon the two fall in love again. On the drive home from a hotel‚ everyone but Gatsby and Daisy stumble upon a car accident in which Myrtle‚ Tom’s mistress‚ had been killed. Tom believes Gatsby had been driving‚ but Nick learns it was Daisy. Sometime later‚ Nick finds Gatsby’s body in his pool after being shot to

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    Past In The Great Gatsby

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    In the novel of the Great Gatsby the past come and hunt the characters that are present on the book. Many of them want to change the past‚ or they think that they can fight the present to change the past. In everyone’s life the past is a big problem because is something that you can not change‚ it can have a positive or a negative outcome‚ and in the Great Gatsby was a negative outcome. In the novel there is a character whose name is James Gatsby‚ he lives a healthy life in the West Egg‚ where next

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    The Great Gatsby Downfall

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    you think it’s the downfall of your life? What about love? In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald money and love all lead to the downfall of Jay Gatsby‚ born James Gatz. It’s all an illusion in which the characters believe is reality. The only one who seems to see through it is the narrator Nick. However‚ Jay Gatsby is the worst of them all. Born poor with strive and mindset to achieve in power‚ money and social status. He puts on a false front due to his “socalled” goals; because what

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    is unique and their conflicts would vary from one to another. This essay will examine the different causes‚ consequences and see whether the conflicts are resolved through analyzing Extremely loud and incredibly close‚ Othello‚ The Social Network and The Great Gatsby. In Extremely loud and incredibly close‚ there is a conflict between Oskar and his mother. They have a tense relationship ever since Dad’s death. It is caused by Oskar’s self-obsession with his own grief and his emotional immaturity

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    The Geography and Setting of The Great Gatsby The geography in The Great Gatsby contribute to the setting‚ character development‚ and the tone of critical events. The setting is important because Fitzgerald uses setting to reveal character. Where people live determines what they do‚ telling the reader the kind of person they are. Weather often matches the emotional tone of events. The setting of The Great Gatsby is divided into four major areas: West and East Egg‚ the valley of ashes‚ and

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