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    Materialism Great Gatsby

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    dirty secrets. In The Great Gatsby‚ by Scott F. Fitzgerald‚ he describes a unique story of character development to display the difference of between classes of the social system in the 1920’s in America. Throughout the novel‚ Fitzgerald demonstrates how money and materialism deceives people’s perspective of their illusion being the reality of their lives to display the emptiness of achieving the American Dream. Characters with a higher wealth status‚ such as Tom and Daisy

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    The Great Gatsby Essay

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    Money  symbolize  certain  statuses  in  the  world.  In  the  novel  “The  Great  Gatsby”  by  F.  Scott  Fitzgerald  portrays  these  views  of  money  among  the  characters  in  the  novel.  Personally‚  I  think  that  money  doesn’t   buy  you  happiness.  It  may  make  you  feel  happy  for  a  short  period  of  time  but  not  forever.  Happiness  is a feeling from within‚ money doesn’t  relate to it. In The Great Gatsby‚ it proves that  it  doesn’t  matter  how  wealthy  you  are  you  can’t 

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    in The Great Gatsby Lizhe I.Introduction: 1. About the novel: The Great Gatsby‚ the exemplary novel of the Jazz Age‚ stands as the supreme achievement of his career. T. S. Eliot read it three times and saw it as the "first step" American fiction had taken since Henry James; H. L. Mencken praised "the charm and beauty of the writing‚" as well as Fitzgerald’s sharp social sense; and Thomas Wolfe hailed it as Fitzgerald’s "best work" thus far. The Great Gatsby was published

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    Symbolism in The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ author of The Great Gatsby‚ uses symbolism throughout the novel to create the characters and events of the post World War I period. Colors are one way symbolism was used to develop the characters’ personalities and set up events. This is shown by colors like the green at the end of Daisy Buchannan’s dock‚ the color of Jay Gatsby’s car and how Myrtle and Jordan surrounded themselves by white. Other symbolisms used to set up events are the difference

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    Ebb and the Great Gatsby

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    1925 American‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel ‘The Great Gatsby’ is set in 1922‚ a time period commonly referred to as the ‘the Roaring twenties’ or the ‘jazz age’. This period in American history reflects the extremities of both romanticism and materialism‚ as well as a time of prosperity and the classic ‘American dream’ due to the conclusion of world war one. Love‚ hope and morality are reflected through the naivety of the time. Although a time of great societal change‚ 1840’s England still held traditional

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    The Great Dilemma The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby is about a young man who has fallen in love with a young woman. But at the time they meet‚ they are unable to be together I think because of complications surrounding WW1. A few years later in the 20’s‚ they meet again‚ but Daisy married to a man named Tom‚ and has a child. Gatsby then tries everything to get her to fall for him and leave Tom. Gatsby gains money by unscrupulous means and buys a house

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    goes east to work. In flashbacks he reveals the story of Jay Gatsby‚ his next-door neighbor. The nine chapters develop around seven parties interspersed with flashbacks. Nick meets Jordan Baker‚ Daisy’s friend from Louisville‚ who reveals that Tom is having an affair with Myrtle Wilson‚ the wife of a garage owner in the Valley of Ashes. Nick is shocked at the lack of morality in every level. At the second party‚ Tom introduces Nick to Myrtle‚ who invites her sister Catherine and the McKees. At Gatsby’s

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    Buchanan and his wife Daisy‚ and there he meets Jordan 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

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    The Great Gatsby Theme

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    The Great Gatsby explores a number of themes‚ none is more prevalent than that of the corruption of the American dream. The American dream is the concept that‚ in America‚ any person can be successful as long he or she is prepared to work hard and use their natural gifts. Gatsby appears to be the embodiment of this dream—he has risen from being a poor farm boy with no prospects to being rich‚ having a big house‚ servants‚ and a large social circle attending his numerous functions. He has achieved

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    “Can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can” ~Jay Gatsby The latest version of The Great Gatsby‚ directed by Baz Luhrmann‚ uses many of F Scott Fitzgerald’s original descriptions and dialogue. It respects the fact that the book is told from the point of view of Nick Carraway‚ cousin of Daisy‚ the woman who Gatsby loves. It carefully reproduces various details‚ such as the clock Gatsby drops when meeting Daisy again for the first time since she married Tom Buchanan five years earlier. It follows

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