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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Name Tutor Course Date Why Gatsby is great One of the outstanding pieces of classic American literature that many admire to read‚ especially in high school‚ is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. The whole story detailed in this book took place during summer in a small town in Long Island. Fitzgerald details on issues of romance‚ wealth‚ adventure‚ American dream in order to attract the reader’s attention and take them back to the Jazz Age of the twenties. The most interesting concern arising
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and it was because of this that I first met Tom Buchanan’s mistress.” While people are waiting for the train‚ between West Egg and New York they are surrounded in a place where Fitzgerald names the “valley of ashes.” The opening chapter of the Great Gatsby details the rich and American values. The second chapter is where the valley of ashes is introduced. Fitzgerald portrays this landscape in such specific words that helps the reader capture the ambience of the plot. The valley of ashes influences
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The Great Gatsby By: Ashley Williams Setting In the first quarter of this book the setting is evenly split between two different places‚ West Egg‚ NY and New York City. The author described his new town on page 10. “Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs‚ identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay‚ jut out into the most domesticated body of salt water in the Western hemisphere‚ the great wet barnyard of Long Island Sound.” This gives readers a beautiful image of where
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Symbols are always used in novels to help readers understand the story in-depth. In Francis Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby‚ symbols are widely used for Jay Gatsby and George Wilson’s character development. Symbols such as the area where these two characters lived‚ the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg‚ and the cars in this story were all used for this. This novel was filled with symbols and symbolism‚ which try to convey Fitzgerald’s ideas to the reader. Symbols were constantly used in Fitzgerald’s novel
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Summer Project 2012- “The Great Gatsby”: FULL SUMMARY OF “THE GREAT GATSBY”: During the 1920’s era‚ within the various movements of prohibition‚ women’s rights‚ and the Jazz Age‚ F Scott Fitzgerald bore a timeless novel by the name of “The Great Gatsby.” The predominant character‚ Nick‚ who duals as narrator‚ is indecisive but thoughtful. He lives in West Egg on Long Island Sound‚ amidst the aristocratic air and luxurious titles. Gatsby‚ Nick’s neighbor‚ whose affairs apart from his parts
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The Great Gatsby: Plot Analysis Our narrator Nick Carraway is back from World War I and is renting a house in West Egg‚ a small but fancy town on Long Island. His cousin Daisy and her ex-football player husband Tom live across the bay in fancier East Egg. Jay Gatsby‚ Nick’s next door neighbor‚ is a wealthy newcomer who throws large parties weekly‚ during which his guests are happy to drink his (illegal) booze while snubbing him for being “nouveau riche” and possibly involved in some shady activities
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as though rich and famous people are larger- than-life and virtually impossible to touch‚ almost as if they were a fantasy? In The Great Gatsby‚ set in two wealthy communities‚ East Egg and West Egg‚ Fitzgerald describes Gatsby as a Romantic‚ larger- than-life‚ figure by setting him apart from the common person. Fitzgerald sets Gatsby in a fantasy world that‚ based on illusion‚ is of his own making. Gatsby’s possessions start to this illusion. He lives in an extremely
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born on September 24th‚1896 in St. Paul‚ Minnesota (“F. Scott”). He was an American novelist and is remembered for his boisterous personal life and the world renowned novel The Great Gatsby. Aspects of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s personal life‚ along with the culture of the roaring twenties‚ inspired the famous novel The Great Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald was born the son of Mary McQuillian and Edward Fitzgerald (“F. Scott”). Fitzgerald started his writing career in high school and continued it at Princeton
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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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