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    0The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India The Great Gatsby: A Rich Man in India Reasoning for title – story is similar to Great Gatsby. He’s trying to interview the richest man in India‚ but his reputation is very contradicting – fraud or the truth? Tells his story about childhood and how his dad was considered a fraud‚ then he built up the school after his father stepped down. Originally he wanted to do things with cigars‚ then it went South and now he has a real cigar business

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    06/07/2005 Period. 1 The Great Gatsby Essay In all human life relationships are very important‚ and this is shown in many different aspects of human life . Relationships are so significant that Authors often use them as the revolving point of their stories. Such as in The Great Gatsby the author F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the different relationships as the revolving point in his story. Fitzgerald shows how the relationships between the couples in The Great Gatsby are similar in many different

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    adaptation of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ the director uses several visual techniques to emphasize and heighten the illusion of the American dream. These visual techniques include: Framing‚ color‚ lighting & space. The most interesting type of framing repeated al throughout the film is the use of mirrors in trapping the characters in their surreal reflection. The director used this technique in more than one scenes‚ nevertheless this framing was used when Gatsby is about to meet a

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    The Great Gatsby Essay Alaura Gartner What are personal desires? How do we make the decision to decide between our desires and choosing to conform? When making a decision between desires and conforming it is a difficult choice that we all face in our lives. In the novel The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzerald it demonstrates the difficult conflict between what we want and conforming. When we have personal desires it can be difficult to conform. The first way in which Fitzgerald shows the idea

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    “The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking‚ in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at some time…” (75) The Great Gatsby Love‚ love‚ love; the only thing everybody talks about. Every movie‚ every series‚ every story talks about how two people fall in love and live happily ever after. All stories get to the conclusion that the love the couple shared was unique and that the two lovers matched perfectly together. But what happens when two lovers do not belong to the same social

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    The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a romantic tragedy about a man named Nick Carraway who gets involved with the life of Jay Gatsby and his not-so secretive love for Daisy Buchanan. A critic named Lionel Trilling once said‚ “Jay Gatsby is to be thought of as standing for America itself.” This is proven to be true because Gatsby moves up in life and pursues his dream. He is an example for the American way because he fails at certain things and succeeds at others. Like

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    21 November 2013 Money in The Great Gatsby Gatsby has it all‚ the money‚ lavish parties‚ fame and many connections. But money can not buy love‚ class and happiness. Class is what separates the old money East Egg and the Nouveau riche west egg that is described as the "less fashionable" (Fitz-Gerald‚ 7) and although Gatsby has an equivalent amount of money as the Buchanans’ he is still known as the "newly rich" of Long island and couldn’t buy class that would impress the rather demanding Daisy

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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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    Getting Trapped in One’s Dream In the words of the great rock band‚ The Beatles‚ it is said‚ “For I don’t care too much for money‚ for money can’t buy me love.” For his entire life‚ Jay Gatsby tried to rise up his social economic status to have the girl of his dreams marry him. The attempt to capture the American dream was the main focus of this novel. Gatsby devoted his whole life trying to achieve his so-called dream but failed to do so at the end. He misunderstood the real meaning of his own

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    attributes‚ define the character traits portrayed within‚ “The Great Gatsby‚” by F. Scott Fitzgerald. This novel introduces the reader to a young women named Daisy‚ as it examines her relationship with her husband Tom. Their marriage lacks a deeply connected love. The reader is lead to believe that Daisy wed Tom for mostly money . On the other hand‚ before Daisy met Tom‚ she was passionately in love with Jay Gatsby. However‚ Gatsby had little money and Daisy wanted to find a well-off man . Daisy

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