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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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    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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    the American Dream The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ portrays a society of high social standings‚ immense wealth‚ and love. This can be classified as the American Dream. If an individual is determined‚ that individual has a reasonable chance and holds the hope for acquiring wealth‚ and the happiness and freedoms that go with it. In essence‚ the American Dream gives the chance to gain personal fulfillment‚ materially and spiritually. In The Great Gatsby‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald depicts

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    believed that intelligence held a calming peace of mind in a person and somehow knowing everything made a person happier. After reading Flowers for Algernon‚ I realized this is not necessary true. We see the theme of intelligence trying to create happiness in the beginning of the novel. Charlie believed that if he became smart then everyone would want to be his friend and those around him would be proud of him. In fact this is seen in the following quote‚ " I just want to be smart like other pepul

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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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    such as money in The Great Gatsby. Daisy falls in love with Gatsby‚ who is a poor man at the time‚ and when Gatsby leaves for the war‚ Daisy marries Tom Buchanan‚ who is a rich man‚ because he is “old money‚” meaning he will always have the money and status to support Daisy. When Gatsby returns from the war‚ his pursuit of Daisy’s love reveals his materialism and he eventually becomes rich for Daisy and believes that he can win her back because he now has money. The Great Gatsby demonstrates the way

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    for happiness. It can be argued that people will never find true happiness‚ because as humans‚ we don ’t know what it means to be truly happy. Many believe that achieving true happiness can only be done by achieving the American Dream first. However‚ once an individual achieves the American Dream‚ will he or she truly be happy? Is money happiness? Through characters Jay Gatsby from the novel "The Great Gatsby"‚ and Christopher Gardner from the movie "The Pursuit of Happyness"‚ true happiness will

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    Symbolism in Great Gatsby

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    through here the characters need to betake themselves to the lower status‚ that are located here in the Ashes. The valley of ashes differants the rich from the poor‚ however it also symbolizes moral and social decay which is made from unrestricted pursuit of wealth. This is where the Wilson’s live‚ and is not high standard of living. The Valley of Ashes is the example how the rich indulge in nothing but for their own pleasures. The Wilsons lose their excitement when living the ashes‚ however the rich

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    to greed‚ similar to the characters in the Great Gatsby. Essentially the idea of an American Dream seems to promise that through hard work‚ anyone can succeed and live a happy life; however this dream can mean different things to different people. In the novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ shows that not all American Dreams are ideal and can lead to corruption in one’s life. Through the characters of George Wilson‚ Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby‚ Fitzgerald symbolizes that chasing hollow

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    Disillusion of Great Gatsby

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    Gatsby’s” American Dream" in The Great Gatsby The disillusionment of the American Dream is a frequent but important written theme in the American literature. Fitzgerald’s famous book The Great Gatsby is one of the most important representative works that reflects this theme. F. Scott Fitzgerald is best known for his novels and short stories which chronicle the excesses of America’s Jazz Age during the 1920s. His classic twentieth-century story of Jay Gatsby examines and critiques Gatsby’s particular

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