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    The Parties of Great Gatsby During the 1920’s‚ many people were making their money off of the stock markets and living their lives to the fullest potential. In The Great Gatsby‚ money is a huge motivator in the characters’ relationships‚ motivations‚ and outcomes. Gatsby shows his wealth by throwing extravagant parties every so often. These elaborate parties are the reason for Gatsby becoming so famous around New York. They are lavish gatherings to which many people long to be invited. Gatsby’s

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    The Great Gatsby: Realism

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    The Great Gatsby: Realism F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby has been labelled a masterpiece‚ and perhaps even one of the greatest novels of all time. In order to be revered as a classic‚ a novel must have one or more qualities that place it above the rest. One of The Great Gatsby’s best qualities is Fitzgerald’s incredible use of realism. This realism is evident in the development of plot‚ setting‚ and characters throughout the novel. The Great Gatsby is well known for its deeply entangled

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    The “Great Gatsby” written by F. Scott Fitzgerald is one of the best- written books of all time‚ the narrator Nick is a very well spoken storyteller when it comes to talking about a man named Jay Gatsby‚ who he introduces in the first few pages of the novel. Nick explains that Jay Gatsby is a rich man who earned all the money he could have hoped for‚ but he never reached his goal of making Daisy his lovely wife. Much of Jay’s early life consisted of being born on a farm with poor parents‚ he later

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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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    Dream still alive in The Great Gatsby? from my personal view on reading the great Gatsby the American Dream was dead. Although there was corruption which still today there is corruption in the government. Many things have changed but others have stayed the same since 1920. People do not take marriage seriously anymore and people have different beliefs since the 1920’s. Furthermore‚ we could see some of these examples from the book that F.Scott Fitzgerald wrote in 1920‚ F.Scott Fitzgerald gives

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    Great Gatsby Movie

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    I chose The Great Gatsby to watch for my movie review because the movie gives you a look at how life was in the 1920s. The Great Gatsby was released in 2013 and is rated PG13 for violence and sexual content. The movie was 143 minutes long. Baz Luhrmann directed The Great Gatsby and takes place in 1922. Leonardo DiCaprio played Jay Gatsby who bought a mansion across the lake from the love of his life (Daisy) who is now married. Casey Mulligan plays daisy who is in a hard place deciding whether

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    Gatsby and Reader Comparative Essay The values of each age are reflected in the texts which are composed in them. Both The Great Gatsby and The Reader are written with the values of each age in mind. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby examines the culture of the 1920s and the context that surrounded Fitzgerald whilst writing the novel. Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader is an investigation into the post World War II generation of Germany and the views from each generation. The Reader is written

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    Great Gatsby Setting

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    "The Great Gatsby" Setting The Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ is a popular novel that has remained one of the best-known literary works to this day. Set in the 1920s‚ the story is narrated by Nick Caraway‚ an easy-going bond salesman who lives next door to Jay Gatsby whom the story revolves around. Jay Gatsby is a man with a mysterious past‚ who lives in New York and is famous for his extravagant parties and fabulous wealth. The story is set during the summer in which Tom Buchannan‚ his wife

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    The 1920s was a booming decade for the people in America. The economy was up and many Americans became very successful. The novel‚ The Great Gatsby especially highlights the upper class. The characters in the book that fit this role are Tom‚ Daisy and Gatsby. The author F. Scott Fitzgerald connected the values and goals of the characters and the theme of the book with the theme of the 1920s. The values of the characters in The Great Gatsby are very important to the overall plot of the book. The

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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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