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    Isolation and separation can affect people or things in completely different ways.Separation is usually an option and people have a choice to leave or stay.On the other hand isolation is more demanding and their is not option of objection of it.Although they have two different meanings they are both difficult to coupe with at times.For the excerpt from “The Great Gatsby” by F.Scott Fitzgerald and the poem “Love song‚with two goldfish” by Grace Chua this is very true.It is shown the different ways

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    “time of their life.” However‚ the lifestyle of the city‚ money‚ and connections don’t always create fulfilled‚ happy lives. For Daisy Buchanan‚ Nick Carraway‚ and Jay Gatsby‚ they are never alone but always isolated. Daisy Buchanan uses her need for attention and people to adore her most likely to cover up her fear of isolation. From the beginning Daisy has virtually been alone. Her husband Tom was not even there for the birth of their only daughter. “Well‚ she was less than an hour old and

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    The Great Gatsby‚ written by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ is a novel that focuses on many darker themes than most books would have for the time period it came out. One main theme that recurs again and again‚ shaping the plot to fall the way it falls‚ is the decline of the American Dream. The American dream shows up time and time again throughout the novel‚ but as the novel progresses the readers get to watch as the dream crashes into a downward spiral along with many of the main characters‚ and with the

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    The Great Gatsby explores a number of themes‚ none is more prevalent than that of the corruption of the American dream. The American dream is the concept that‚ in America‚ any person can be successful as long he or she is prepared to work hard and use their natural gifts. Gatsby appears to be the embodiment of this dream—he has risen from being a poor farm boy with no prospects to being rich‚ having a big house‚ servants‚ and a large social circle attending his numerous functions. He has achieved

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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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    The inspiring and Heartfelt story The Great Gatsby was written by F.Scott Fitzgerald . The Great Gatsby novel falls under the genre of ‘Romance’ Nick Carraway‚ is a young man from Minnesota who moves to Long Island New York in the summer of 1922. He rents a house in the West Egg district of long island. Nick’s next door neighbour in West egg is a mysterious man named Jay Gatsby who lives in a gigantic mansion and throws extravagant parties every Saturday night. Nick’s cousin Daisy Buchanan lives

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    Understanding The Importance of Themes F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby‚ happens to outline the importance of love‚ friendship‚ betrayal‚ redemption‚ and sacrifice (just to name a few). Although the most centralized theme of the whole story seems to be redemption. Jay Gatsby becomes heart broken at the loss of his beloved Daisy and for years after the painful loss he tries to win her back. Through the use of extravagant parties‚ Gatsby hopes to somehow find Daisy so he can redeem himself

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    Throughout his works and especially in The Great Gatsby‚ “[Fitzgerald] always . . . wrote about himself or about people and things with which he was intimate‚ and as a consequence his life is inextricably bound up in his works” (qtd. in Oye 1). Through the words of his choice‚ a common theme can be found within almost every literary masterpiece artfully designed at the hand of Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald is even quoted saying that “the whole idea of Gatsby is the unfairness of a poor young man not being

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    The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a novel relating to his short story of Winter Dreams. The main character is Jay Gatsby. He is a wealthy man who lives in a mansion in West Egg of New York. Nick Carraway is the narrator of the story and is Gatsby’s neighbor. Gatsby is in love with Daisy Buchanan. He will do anything to get her attention again‚ but it’s difficult because she is married to Tom Buchanan. Tom is very wealthy and powerful. He lives with Daisy on the East Egg side across the bay

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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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