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    Fitzgerald’s Great GatsbyGatsby is affected by his failed past love‚ which led to his ultimate demise. Gatsby’s deep affection to one of the main characters in the novel‚ Gatsby‚ was a failed one. Gatsby was enchanted by Daisy’s persona and qualities‚ but most all he fell in love for what Daisy represented in society. Daisy was in the ultimate royalty as she was part of the ultimate high class.As a result‚ there wasn’t a man that did not intend to conquer and marry her. Although Daisy did love Gatsby

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    Illusion versus Reality This is an age old theme in literature. Illusion / Reality is known as a “dichotomy‚” which means two terms that are opposite to each other‚ but which create an interpretive tension. Literature is filled with dichotomies‚ and authors use them to create meaning: light / dark; good / evil; war/ peace; male / female; life / death. There are hundreds of them. A very effective way to understand and interpret literature is to locate the different dichotomies‚ and try to understand

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    The pursuit of love can feel like an endless journey‚ never ceasing until you’ve found the one. The Great Gatsby is a story told from the perspective of Nick Carraway‚ an up-and-coming bond salesman living in a small cottage in West Egg next to the affluent Jay Gatsby. Across the bay in East Egg is Nick’s distant cousin Daisy Buchanan and her husband Tom. “anyone lived in a pretty how town” can be interpreted as a poem about two lovers‚ named anyone and no one. They lived together happily and when

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    December 10‚ 2012 Money can’t buy you love. In the “Great Gatsby” money and love had a significance part throughout the book with just about every character in it. We learn of many relationships that have been based on lies with the power of money behind them the whole time. Money buys many things in this book. From lavish lifestyles to meaningless property‚ trophy wives to nightlife parties. It was a time when people were trying to live the American Dream‚ so wealth and success meant

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    all that they are to a state of extremes? Gatsby loves Daisy as this flawless being as opposed to a women that Gatsby really adores. He is fixed to her in her past without any of the limitations of the social world as though he loves her back when they initially met. Gatsby is not willing to admit or see that Daisy has proceeded onward with her life and he doesn’t even appear to acknowledge that she is married and has a kid and social obligations. Gatsby thinks that he can simply be with Daisy without

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    In the novel “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald each character have an American dream they want to have but each of them face something tragic that will cause their dream to fail. The “American Dream” can be through work to earn money or to love someone and can separate the rich from the poor. The self-Improvement can be destructive but can also be constructive because there were things that made their American dream come true and in the end it turns out to be wrong. The self-improvement

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    Motif Gatsby Essay Fitzgerald introduces many themes in his novel‚ The Great Gatsby. One of those themes is the power of love which is influenced through the emotional state of the characters. The power of love develops throughout the novel by the change in weather through the characters feelings; these provide essential viewpoints that the characters have towards the change in love. How the characters react towards others and the love that is represented through it. The weather informs the reader

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    Daisy’s relationship refutes the ideas of philosopher Nozick; that a true union of love must be perceived publicly‚ maintain their shared well being‚ and accept the shared work of the relationship. Throughout Gatsby’s and Daisy’s relationship a union of love never formed‚ and their story proves that the formation of one is virtually impossible. The young handsome solider and the rich affluent southern girl‚ crazy in love. However when reality shatters their own small world‚ Daisy’s greed will not

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    with them for awhile I came to realize they were actually mean people and talked bad about people but was nice to their face. In the story The Great Gatsby i feel as if i relate to Nick as he learns that the people he’s been around for a while aren’t really the people he thought they were. By putting together the motifs of materialism and lies and illusion. F. Scott Fitzgerald gives an expression of a powerful theme that connects with the lesson I learned. In the beginning of the story Nick goes

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    In The Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ the narrator vicariously recounts Jay Gatsby’s flaw as his inability to distinguish between reality and illusions‚ which can be seen through his persistent goal of acquiring the wealth and power of the individuals who are considered “old-money.” Although the social hierarchy established by the classification of individuals as either “old-money” or “new-money” made attaining a different status an elusive task‚ Gatsby chooses to ignore this reality. He instead

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