About the Life and Work of F. Scott Fitzgerald Writers on Fitzgerald He had one of the rarest qualities in all literature‚ and it’s a great shame that the word for it has been thoroughly debased by the cosmetic racketeers‚ so that one is almost ashamed to use it to describe a real distinction. Nevertheless‚ the word is charm charm as Keats would have used it. Who has it today? It’s not a matter of pretty writing or clear style. It’s a kind of subdued magic‚ controlled and exquisite‚ the sort
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When I was in elementary school I was friends with what you would call the “popular” crowd. I thought it was the best thing and I would be with the cool crowd and help me not to become the target. At first I thought I was cool and they were nice because they were my friends‚ but in reality after being friends with them and hanging out 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
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In the Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald’s cynicism about the american dream in the 1920s is represented by the characters Gatsby‚ Daisy‚ and Nick. America was changing because in the 1920s an era of unexpected prosperity and material excess. Decayed social and moral values. Rising stock market equals lots of newly wealthy people spending money at unprecedented levels. These changes affected fitzgerald’s belief because he believed people had grown cynical‚ greedy‚ and obsessed with the empty pursuit
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Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby begins with an epigraph‚ this epigraph could be interpreted as a poetic device that foreshadows the plot of the novel. “Then wear the gold hat‚ if that will move her...Lover‚ gold-hatted‚ high-bouncing lover..." The poem is a piece of advice that urges the reader to attain wealth for him to gain his love interest’s affections‚ just like Gatsby attained wealth for him to win Daisy’s love. The concept of Gatsby donning a gold hat could be seen as Gatsby putting on his Oxford
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The book‚ The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald‚ has some wonderful and extravagant lifestyles portrayed between the pages. The are examples of the many forms of life; the rich‚ high class: Daisy‚ Tom‚ Jordan‚ and Gatsby; The middle class: Nick; and the Lower‚ blue collar‚ working class: George‚ and Myrtle. They all have their stories of what they came from and what they have become. Some have moved down; others have moved up. This movement may be large‚ it may be petite‚ but in either way they
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Great Gatsby: Symbolism and Themes The Novel‚ The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ illustrates many themes and symbols that affect the plot. The setting is in the 1920s on Long Island‚ New York. The story is told in Nick’s point of view as he goes through life and is faced with themes like The American Dream‚ Society vs. Class‚ and corruption with wealth. A symbol is an object‚ color‚ or figure that is used to represent a key idea or theme that is trying to be presented. The author uses The Valley
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book review on The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald The plot of the story was that Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan have an affair and her husband Tom Buchanan finds out and goes to confront Jay Gatsby. Meanwhile Myra is killed in a car accident cause buy Daisy Buchanan. Jay Gatsby takes the blame. Myra’s husband finds out and goes over to the mansion owned but Gatsby and shoots him‚ and then himself. Killen them both. This Book makes you want to keep reading. The book does not grab your attention
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Which this makes it very to succeed with their dreams. This is seen in the novel The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ as George Wilson realizes his dream will always be crushed and unable to obtain. George Wilson an ordinary everyday type of person‚ who was not known for being luxurious or elegant. Although he only ever wanted to get away‚ “ I’ve been her way too long. I want to get away”(Fitzgerald 122). George was locked in‚ never to get out of his tiny‚ old house or out of town. No matter
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How does F Scott Fitzgerald tell the story in chapter two of ‘The Great Gatsby’? The introduction of Tom’s mistress‚ Myrtle‚ in Chapter Two of ‘The Great Gatsby’ plays as the focal point of the chapter. It begins with Tom and Nick travelling into New York on the train‚ however they get off in the Valley of Ashes‚ a derelict setting between West Egg‚ East Egg and New York. The pair stop at a mechanics‚ and speak with the man who is married to Myrtle‚ Wilson. Myrtle‚ Tom and Nick then go to their
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In my opinion the most important theme of The Great Gatsby is Friendship. There are so many friendship’s in this novel and it is important to the readers that there are mysteries going on in between these friendships. Without friendship in this novel there is just wealth and that would make the novel less appealing. There are good friendships‚ such as Nick and Tom‚ and there are not so good friendships‚ such as Tom and Gatsby. Friendship is the main theme in this novel. Nick was Gatsby’s only true
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