Colin Glassman English 1st Hour 4/15/2012 Great Gatsby Essay The book The Great Gatsby there are many themes‚ characters‚ and motifs. F.S. Fitzgerald uses all of them very well. That is why The Great Gatsby is one the greatest novels of all time. Its based on finding love in a world where its hard to find. In the novel Fitzgerald shows the many sides to life. The rich‚ the poor and the in between. He tells the story of a man who came from nothing and became very rich. He truly showed
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Psychology is defined as the study of mind‚ emotion and behavior. One major perspective within psychology is known as cognitive psychology‚ which is primarily concerned with the explanation of thought processes through the development of theoretical mental systems. Cognitivism is somewhat broad in its approaches to psychology and only linked in its goal to create hypothetical mental structures to explain behavior (“HSoP”). The exact origins of Cognitivism are difficult to pinpoint. Ideas
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Chapter 1: 1. Levity- lightness of mind‚ character‚ or behavior; lack of appropriate seriousness or earnestness. * “Most of the confidences were unsought- frequently I have feigned sleep‚ preoccupation or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon-…” (pg.5) 2. Supercilious- displaying arrogant pride‚ scorn‚ or indifference * “Now he was a sturdy‚ straw haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious
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changes for the modern world. Life became faster‚ moral standards relaxed‚ new technology was developed‚ and alcohol and materialism became more prevalent. F. Scott Fitzgerald addresses these changes negatively in his classic novel‚ The Great Gatsby. The party scenes found in chapters two and three are especially good examples of Fitzgerald’s antipathy on the modern world. Fitzgerald uses the characters and scenes found in these chapters of The Great Gatsby to portray the negative effects certain 1920’s
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Throughout his novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald continuously reiterates his belief that what we view as “The American Dream” is dead‚ and has been corrupted by wealth‚ rather than standing for its original ideals of freedom and equality. Fitzgerald brings this nightmarish world of reality to life using imagery‚ diction‚ and symbolism in order to prove to his audience that what was once perceived as an attainable goal‚ is held just out of grasp by the people that did not have to fight
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are several setting within the novel “The Great Gatsby.” Each of the setting within the story contributes to the growth of the story‚ the Midwest‚ East and West Egg of Long Island and Manhattan and an industrial area of Queens the novel calls the Valley of Ashes. The main setting of “the Great Gatsby” is the time period during prohibition. In a time period where alcohol was illegal we find all of the charters enjoying social drinking at every event. Gatsby throws elaborate parties where free food
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Themes The American Dream On first glance‚ The Great Gatsby is about a romance between Gatsby and Daisy. The true theme behind this wonderful novel is not merely romance‚ but is also a very skeptical view of the extinction of the American dream in the prosperous 19s. This loss of the American dream is shown by Fitzgerald’s display of this decade as a morally deficient one. He shows its incredible decadence in Gatsby’s lavish and ostentatious parties. This materialistic attitude toward life
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Title: The Great Gatsby Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald Date of original publication: 1925 Genre: fiction‚ novel‚ drama Historical information about the period of original publication: The novel was published during a time known as the “Roaring Twenties”. There was economic prosperity and America became a consumer society. There were many cultural and social reformations. Jazz music became popular‚ and flapper women emerged. Flapper women were women who wore makeup‚ short skirts‚ and kept their hair
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stereotyped and expected to conform to certain roles. Most often‚ women were seen as the inferior gender and were required to be deferential towards men. However‚ Fitzgerald challenges these assumptions with his novel The Great Gatsby. Through the lives of the women in The Great Gatsby‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald brings attention to the fact that during the 1920s‚ women were obligated to conform to a pervasive feminine ideal‚ but he also implies that women were often less ignorant and more independent than
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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is full of symbols and symbolic ideas. Fitzgerald portrays important messages in the novel by his symbolic use of color‚ names‚ places and characters. A lot of important messages in the novel are conveyed by color symbolism. Colors are an important part in Fitzgerald’s description of the lives of Jay Gatsby‚ Nick Carraway and the other characters. The color grey is used to descbribe the valley of ashes which lies between West Egg and New York‚ " grey
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