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    Through The Great Gatsby‚ Fitzgerald seems to communicate a message about people’s failure to accomplish their dreams—Nick‚ Gatsby‚ Tom‚ and Daisy all have ideas for the perfect life and none of them are able to achieve them. Deeply explore one character—his/her dreams‚ his/her dreams‚ his/her attempts to accomplish those dream‚ his/her reasons for failure‚ and the message that Fitzgerald might be communicating through this failure. The pursuit of dreams is the eternal topic for

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    The Great Gatsby portrays three different social classes: “old money” (Tomand Daisy Buchanan); “new money” (Gatsby); and a class that might be called “no money” (George and Myrtle Wilson). “Old money” families have fortunes dating from the 19th century or before‚ have built up powerful and influential social connections‚ and tend to hide their wealth and superiority behind a veneer of civility. The “new money” class made their fortunes in the 1920s boom and therefore have no social connections and

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    Analyse how the setting helped developed an important theme? The novel ’The Great Gatsby’ by Scott Fitzgerald was considered by many to be an icon of its time. Fitzgerald uses the setting of the roaring 1920s in America to develop the theme of the corrupt American dream. He does this through exposing corruption underlying Gatsby’s wealth‚ desire for constant entertainment and the contrast between rich and poor in this era. Fitzgerald firstly develops this theme through exposing what happens

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    of the writing process because they often have a great influence on the story. In the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ the title was created with the intention of using irony to characterize the main character. At first‚ when the reader begins the story‚ they see Mr. Jay Gatsby‚ a man of enormous wealth with a huge mansion‚ a very nice car and someone who throws crazy parties in which hundreds of strangers attended while seeing Gatsby as a glamorous and magnificent person because of

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    Fake Honesty In the novel‚ The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ the character Jay Gatsby falls for a young woman named Daisy. As a fake millionaire he set out to be the type of man Daisy needed. Once she learned the truth about Jay‚ Daisy liked that she married her current husband Tom after all. One could describe Daisy as an unhappy young woman because she always wants what looks good to her without taking time to know all there is to know about people or a situation. As a young

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    ​Taking place in the summer of 1922‚ The Great Gatsby conveys the tale of love‚ lust‚ and greed and how the American society has adapted and morphed into something unrecognizable. Within the novel‚ the reader experiences a sense of pity and injustice for the iconic character Jay Gatsby and how inevitably‚ wealth overwhelms morality. As Nick Carraway narrates the story through his own perception‚ he constantly expresses discomfort and finally disgust at how New York and its occupants guide their lives

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    Jay Gatsby and Dick Diver

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    COMPARE AND CONTRAST THE PRESENTATION OF THE CHARACTERS OF JAY GATSBY AND DICK DIVER. NOTE ESPECIALLY THEIR ATTITUDES TO LIFE‚ LOVE AND RELATIONSHIPS‚ THEIR DEMISE AND THE ROLES THEY PLAY WITHIN THEIR RESPECTIVE NOVELS. F. Scott Fitzgerald is known as a writer who chronicled his times. This work has been critically acclaimed for portraying the sentiments of the American people during the 1920s and 1930s. ‘The Great Gatsby’ was written in 1924‚ whilst the Fitzgeralds were staying on the French

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    Final for The Great Gatsby: The final for this book will be a written essay using evidence to prove your point. You will also be showing off your abilities to use academic English (vocabulary and sentence structures) and functional grammar. You will be required to use at least one example of parallelism and use both the semi-colon and colon. Choose from one of these prompts to write your essay: a. Is F. Scott Fitzgerald writing a love story that embraces American Ideals‚ or a satire that

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    (Fitzgerald 3) in the Great Gatsby foreshadows Jay Gatsby’s ambitious “American Dream” of creating himself from beginning and implies his devotion in pursuing dreams. The allusion foreshadows that Gatsby is living in an illusion he creates. In the beginning of the novel‚ Nick introduces himself and his family. “[W]e have a tradition that we’re descended from the Dukes of Buccleuch” (3). Nick knows his family tradition is only an imagined one‚ saying “the actual founder of my line

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    In The Great Gatsby‚ the narrator describes the scene at a large and lavish party he attends. The author uses vivid language to capture the atmosphere and feeling of the party. In The Great Gatsby‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald uses varied sentence structure and descriptive word choice to convey the endless excitement of the party. Fitzgerald uses varied sentence structure by using polysyndeton and asyndeton. He also uses lengthier sentences with less punctuation throughout. Polysyndeton is used in the quote

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