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    I Am Not Who You Think In The Great Gatsby‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald shows the characters Daisy and Gatsby putting on fake exteriors throughout the novel to reveal that when one tries to ignore one’s true identity‚ it will eventually be exposed. Daisy acts as the “beautiful fool” in order to hide the pain of living in the reality of her husband’s continual affair. “The butler came back and murmured something in Tom’s ear‚ whereupon Tom frowned‚ pushed back his chair‚ and without a word went inside.

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    The Great Gatsby Monologue

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    The title character of The Great Gatsby is a young man who arose from an indigent neighborhood in rural North Dakota to become immensely wealthy. Fitzgerald initially presents Gatsby as the casual‚ ambiguous host of the extravagant parties thrown continuously at his mansion. He appears surrounded by luxury‚ admired by powerful men and pursued by beautiful women. He is the subject of gossip throughout New York and is already set on a high pedestal before he is ever introduced to the reader. From his

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    Daisy in Great Gatsby

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    Daisy‚ the girl Gatsby persuaded all his life‚ was not worthful. She was the representative of money worshipers; even her voice “is full of money”. Maybe she loved Gatsby once‚ but her love was not real‚ not persistent. As Gatsby went to war‚ she kept silent a while‚ but she became active soon. “she was again keeping half a dozen dates a day with half a dozen men.” Because she “wanted her life shaped immediately-and the decision must be made by some forces-of love‚ of money‚ of unquestionable practicality

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    F. Scott Fitzgerald’s‚ The Great Gatsby‚ portrays society as a desolate wasteland‚ immune to morality‚ punished by the decadence of the main characters. Throughout the novel‚ Gatsby pursues a life with Daisy‚ a married woman‚ who left him earlier as a result of his lack of wealth; thus‚ Gatsby sought to reap the benefits of affluence through illicit‚ unscrupulous means. Once Gatsby completes his quest for opulence‚ he hunts for his former lover‚ Daisy‚ who is married to Tom Buchanan: an aristocrat

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    The Great Gatsby

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    Macbeth that no man born from woman can harm him and Macbeth thinks that he is safe and that no one can overthrow him. The third and final apparition is a Child crowned‚ with a tree in his hand that said "Macbeth shall never vanquish’d be until / Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill / Shall come against

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    honest‚ and loyal character. He gives readers a detailed‚ accurate account of the events pertaining to Gatsby’s life. Nick spends time with Gatsby and Tom even though they do not like each other. In The Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ the color gray is continually used to show Nick’s impartiality to the characters and conflicts. Throughout the whole book‚ there is tension between Tom and Gatsby since they both want Daisy to love them. Nick acts as a friend to both characters; he spends time

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    The Great Gatsby Past

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    of the nineteen twenties‚ ‘The Great Gatsby’‚ the plot is taken primarily in past tense of Nick Carraway’s perspective. While conversing with Jay Gatsby‚ Nick states “you cannot repeat the past” (9‚ 106‚ VI). Five years prior to the novel taking place‚ Gatsby is completely and utterly in love with a young woman‚ Daisy‚ but when he goes off to war‚ Daisy can wait no longer for him and marries a rich fellow of the name Tom Buchanan. This marriage is what triggers Gatsby to go back to the past and bring

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    The Great Gatsby is a novel that is treasured as a renewable book in American literature collections. Read among a variety of age groups‚ it holds testament to its honorary title. The missive of the how the pursue of American dream can lead to consequences and decoration are not only evident in the star characters‚ but in the relevance of modernity‚ drama‚ and composition in F. Scott- Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. The Great Gatsby is not a story about Jay Gatsby. It is a story about the green light

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    past. The present should be lived for instead. For Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby‚ forgetting what was in the past and letting go of it was a struggle. He was so in love with Daisy Buchanan‚ a girl he met five years ago‚ that he continued to pursue her even after she was already married. In The Great Gatsby‚ F Scott Fitzgerald shows the character of Jay Gatsby as someone who dwells on the past and would do anything to get Daisy back. When Gatsby found out that Daisy and Nick were cousins‚ he had Jordan

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    Great Gatsby Romanticism

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    literature focus on the more logical and factual sides of things which is basically consists of everything but romanticism. In the novel The Great Gatsby one of the main characters Gatsby‚ is said to be a “romantic” living in the modern world. If one knows anything about the two eras they know that is frankly quiet true. Mostly everything big thing Gatsby has done in his life has been in some form because of Daisy.

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