Chapter One In Chapter One‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald mainly uses detail to introduce the setting and characters. For example‚ when introducing the main setting of the book‚ he describes his house as squeezed between two huge places that rented for twelve or fifteen thousand a season. (9). One of these houses was Gatsby’s. This detail gives the reader an idea of what kind of town this was‚ and what kind of people lived in it. Fitzgerald also uses detail to introduce characters. When introducing
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The American Dream is described as the perfect lifestyle. No one wants challenges or problems; they want the ‘perfect life’. This idea is stabilized by the different desires‚ wants‚ and needs for each person trying to obtain it; every individual has a different dream but it still can be obtained‚ as we see from Gatsby and Nick. The people in this country all have different backgrounds‚ they have come from different situations. The dreams of each of these people are different and the journey to achieve
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work‚ drive and passion‚ it’s possible to achieve the American Dream.” - Tommy Hilfiger. Or is it? The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald illustrates the final years of the life of a hopeless romantic‚ Jay Gatsby‚ and his unrequited love for Daisy Buchanan‚ an already married young woman with a beautiful little girl. Gatsby longs to be with Daisy‚ only to realize that it is not at all possible. Gatsby’s ideal dream and Daisy’s American-Dream-like qualities are very different‚ yet so similar at
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LITERARY DEVICES (ELEMENTS AND TECHNIQUES) Allegory Definition: An allegory is a symbolism device representing an abstract idea. Example: Faith is like a stony uphill climb: a single stumble might send you sprawling but belief and steadfastness will see you to the very top. Alliteration Definition: Alliteration is a literary device where words are used in quick succession and begin with letters belonging to the same sound group. Example: The Wicked Witch of the West went her own way. Allusion
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Back in days the American Dream was different than today’s. In “The Great Gatsby”the american dream is that gatsby was living the life he wanted but still chasing his dreams for daisy but didn’t come true with daisy. “ A new world‚material without being real‚where poor ghosts ‚breathing dreams like air‚drifted fortuitously about..like that ashen‚fantastic figure gliding toward though the amorphous trees.” (pg 124) “But he didn’t despise himself and it didn’t turn out as he had imagined.” (pg105)
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The American Dream encompasses the idea that all people have the equal opportunity to achieve prosperity‚ liberty and happiness through hard work and determination. However‚ in reality this idea is flawed and unachievable due to lack of equal opportunity and excessive materialism. This is emphasised in both F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel‚ The Great Gatsby and in Langston Hughes’s poem‚ ‘Let America be America Again’‚ which is about the social inequality and injustices that occur in America today.
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Ellis is an American author‚ screenwriter‚ and short story writer‚ Ellis made is breakthrough at the early age of 21 and has made several novels ever since but is most known for his novel “The American Psycho”. This story is revolved around a young stockbroker who is a a average man by day with friends and a fiancée who attends dinner events and party but by night he takes joy in taking the lives of other human in New York and engaging in sexual activates with multiple women. In the American Psycho‚
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The American Dream is defined as someone starting low on the economic or social level and working hard towards wealth. The dream represents that people no matter who they are can become successful in their life for their own work. The American Dream can either become a reality or it can die out. In the Great Gatsby characters were corrupted by wealth and materialism that it affect their dream. Jay Gatz or Gatsby did not come from a wealthy family he worked for Dan Cody and got his money. Gatsby’s
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as the American Dream‚ and there is no bigger factor than that of wealth. (Insert thesis statement here) Jay Gatsby wanted to achieve the American Dream‚ much like all people of his day. To accumulate piles and piles and piles of money‚ to own the biggest and most beautiful house‚ to live in the perfect neighborhood with the perfect wife and family‚ that‚ that was what Gatsby wanted. If Gatsby wanted it‚ he got it. Well‚ almost everything. Gatsby acquired money‚ more money than he knew what to do
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When I think of the American Dream‚ I think of a diverse dream. The United States of America is diverse than ever before‚ in fact‚ it is a melting pot filled with unique American Dreams—including my American-Brazilian Dream. Francis Key Scott Fitzgerald and Arthur Asher Miller are known to be prominent writers of the twentieth century. Nevertheless‚ Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Miller’s Death of Salesman revolve around the hope of achieving the American Dream. Determination‚ as well as hard
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