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    Life after Jay Gatsby

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    Life after Gatsby "Alternative Ending" What would life have been like for the people who had an emotional connection to Gatsby? After his death‚ only a few people were affected. Nick would have benefited from Gatsby’s company as a friend and as a colleague‚ considering the emotional ties they had between themselves. Gatsby’s life would have turned out how the reader and Gatsby pictured; Daisy wouldn’t have any complaints‚ she would have had exactly the guy she had dreamed of. Even though

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    person’s past can be the ideal driving force and motivation needed in order to move up the ladder of success as displayed in F Scott Fitzgerald’s short novel‚ The Great Gatsby A man’s past‚ filled with poverty and desperation‚ very analogous to Jay Gatsby’s‚ can only drive him to become successful in everything he does or attempts. Gatsby distant relationship with Daisy as motivation to attain superfluous wealth and fame in attempt to win his soul mates heart back. Everything he owned was subliminally

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    Jay-Z vs. Jay Gatsby: Similarities Between Rapper and ‘The Great Gatsby’ How appropriate that the rapper has been commissioned to score the new film version of ‘The Great Gatsby‚’ since Jay-Z has so much in common with the title character of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel. Marlow Stern dissects their similarities. Rapper extraordinaire Jay-Z has reportedly been tasked with creating an original film score for director Baz Luhrmann’s upcoming period drama‚ The Great Gatsby‚ starring Leonardo

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    The interpretation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s work: The Great Gatsby This Research‚ paper – which is a mixture of a book review and an analysis of a problem - will present ideas about searching the American Dream in connection with The Great Gatsby and the main characters and how succesfully they could live the American Dream according to the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Moreover‚ this research paper will be about some interesting symbols by Fitzgerald. Also‚ it will give some general information

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    The Great Gatsby ESSAY: The Fall of the American Dream The figurative as well as literal death of Jay Gatsby in the novel The Great Gatsby symbolizes a conclusion to the principal theme of the novel. With the end of the life of Jay Gatsby comes the end of what Fitzgerald views as the ultimate American ideal: self-made success. The intense devotion Gatsby has towards his rebirth is evident by the plans set forth in Gatsby’s teenage schedule‚ such as "Practice elocution‚ poise and how to attain

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    The Great Gatsby Analysis In this essay I will analyze how Nick Carraway is too deeply involved in events and relationships to be a reliable narrator. I intend to show how far and in what ways I agree with this view of “The Great Gatsby” . The story’s based on the main character Nick Carraway’s perspective. In the first chapter F. Scott Fitzgerald tells the reader that Nick goes to West Egg to visit his beloved cousin Daisy Buchannan‚ her husband Tom and their little baby Pammy. Through Nick

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    The main characters in both F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and William Shakespeare’s Macbeth appear stable and successful on the outside‚ but inside they are engaged in a constant struggle with their dreams. Gatsby tries to win back the girl of his dreams by becoming something he’s not‚ a member of high society; while Macbeth believes the prediction of the witches that he will be king and spends his life trying to make it come true. Both characters are willing to risk everything in pursuit

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    wanted was your love and affection. I lived in a world where dreams are exposed as illusions; a world in which unfeeling men such as Tom receive love from women who are longed for by dreamers such as me. Everything I told my trustworthy friend Nick‚ were lies. I was embarrassed about my past and family’s poverty. I was killed by

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    Jееna Tijеrina Mrs. Linda Ramon AP-еnglish III Dеcеmbеr 18‚ 2014 A Psychoanalysis of Jay Gatsby A pеrsonal analysis of Jay Gatsby‘s pеrsonality shows that hе is a pathological narcissist. Thе thеmеs of pеrfеction and omnipotеncе in Gatsby‘s charactеr arе classic symptoms of narcissism‚ in which thе “еgo-idеal” has bеcomе inflatеd and dеstructivе. Gatsby‘s grandiosе liеs‚ poor sеnsе of rеality‚ sеnsе of еntitlеmеnt‚ and еxploitivе trеatmеnt of othеrs offеr furthеr еvidеncе for this thеory. In a pеrson

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    Is Jay Gatsby a moral character? I think Jay Gatsby is not a moral character. I think so‚ because Gatsby uses people. He also lies about his past‚ his parents‚ and his life. He makes illegal money and hangs out with gangsters. This shows that Gatsby is not trustworthy. This also shows that Gatsby makes immoral choices. My first reason is that Gatsby uses people. I think so‚ because when Nick first saw Gatsby‚ while returning from Tom’s house

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