social transformation and industrialization. Through this shift‚ a degradation in social moral occurred. A victim of this shift is the character J. Gatsby in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Gatsby is “corrupted by values and attitudes that he holds in common with a society that destroys him”(44). Through this mutual and obscured social moral‚ Gatsby seems to obtain a destructive view of his “American Dream”. Where the American Dream once “consisted of the belief that people of talent in this
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Writing Task 2 on Great Gatsby Question: How and why is a social group represented in a particular way? The Great Gatsby presents different social groups to embody and transmit the idea that each class has it’s own problems to prevail over and unhappiness transcends over all the social classes. The problems in each group‚ despite the social stratification‚ reveal the instability of the world they live in. The three classes are old money‚ new money‚ and no money in which all three believe their
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Irresponsible relationships(Great Gatsby) A responsible marriage is when both sides of the relationship take responsibility for their actions‚ for one another and most importantly are not having affairs with others. When there is lack of responsibility‚ things are at risk to be destroyed or lost. In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald all of the marriages fail to show any signs of responsibility through their actions. We see three main relationships throughout the novel that
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The Vain Gatsby The American Dream is pursued in vain by the characters in The Great Gatsby‚ while the novel serves as a prophecy for The Great Depression. Life‚ liberty‚ and the pursuit of happiness appear to be for sale to Tom and Gatsby‚ yet this only is an illusion. They end up destroying everything in their path to reach their goal. In this way‚ the novel predicts the looming Great Depression‚ through the waste of money and unsupportable lifestyles of Americans. Gatsby wastes all his money
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Admiration I believe Jay Gatsby a character in this story‚ The Great Gatsby‚ is an admirable man. Nick tells Gatsby‚ “You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together” claiming that he’s worth more than all these ultra-rich people‚ including Daisy and Tom. Throughout the whole story‚ Gatsby‚ was the only one who stayed true to nick. Gatsby still pursued his dreams of repeating the past to have Daisy fall in love with him all over again; repeating the past is what Gatsby intends to do and believes
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The Great Gatsby: Plot Analysis Our narrator Nick Carraway is back from World War I and is renting a house in West Egg‚ a small but fancy town on Long Island. His cousin Daisy and her ex-football player husband Tom live across the bay in fancier East Egg. Jay Gatsby‚ Nick’s next door neighbor‚ is a wealthy newcomer who throws large parties weekly‚ during which his guests are happy to drink his (illegal) booze while snubbing him for being “nouveau riche” and possibly involved in some shady activities
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Is the American Dream still alive in The Great Gatsby? from my personal view on reading the great Gatsby the American Dream was dead. Although there was corruption which still today there is corruption in the government. Many things have changed but others have stayed the same since 1920. People do not take marriage seriously anymore and people have different beliefs since the 1920’s. Furthermore‚ we could see some of these examples from the book that F.Scott Fitzgerald wrote in 1920‚ F.Scott Fitzgerald
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of this ideal‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby portrays the life of Jay Gatsby‚ and his interactions with different people from various socioeconomic
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The Great Gatsby‚ a novel of forbidden love and disarray‚ we look at the novel and see the character‚ Jay Gatsby‚ as someone who has to contend with the aspects of his past. The frame narrative of the novel follows Nick Carrway‚ a reserved and quietly judge mental young fellow‚ who observes the success and demise of the "Great Gatsby" and becomes haunted by the people around him. Furthermore‚ we look at the past of Jay Gatsby‚ his dreams‚ and the analyzation of the literature due to the character’s
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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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