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    husband. Due to her words in the first time Nick join the party they have in New York City. “‘I married him because I thought he was a gentleman,’ she said finally. ‘I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn’t fit to lick my shoe.’”(Fitzgerald, pp.37) She blamed his husband that he was poor. Apparently wealth is more important than love in commonplace. Gatsby knows it very well. As a result, he makes his success in by using his money. It influence the way about Gatsby doing things…

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    Within the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald the journey of the newly rich protagonist, Jay Gatsby, is recounted in relation to his love for Daisy Buchnana. Gatsby is a charming and confident man who grew his empire of welath himself to attract his true love Daisy. While many believe Jay gatsby is an unforeseen hero, due to his obtained wealth and persistence for love, I believe that Gatsby is a tragic hero due to his flaws, naiveness, and finally his tragic fall. What brought Gatsby…

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    Blinded Some critics argue that Jay Gatsby 's devotion to Daisy Buchanan in Fitzgerald 's The Great Gatsby is obsessive and dysfunctional; I believe that some of his actions, although ultimately tragic, prove Gatsby to simply be a man blinded by love. Jay Gatsby is first portrayed after Nick Carraway spots Gatsby at the dock of his mansion overlooking the river separating the West Egg from the East Egg. However, Jay Gatsby is only an identity created by James Gatz; he created his identity after…

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    named Francis Scott Fitzgerald sits over a desk pondering the events that he just barely avoided. This is the birthplace of a quite influential lovechild, The Great Gatsby. A book filled with the embodiment of the times, anxiety and worry dotting a big illuminated banner. The American dream-- quite the ambitious idea to tackle-- is something present in all, despite the label of ‘American’.The idea of just wanting something so bad, even obsessively so, is something Fitzgerald heavily criticizes.…

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    Great Gatsby Greed

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    Celebrities nowadays, such as Amanda Bynes and Lindsay Lohan are going crazy and getting addicted to drugs because of their fame and the pressure that comes with it. It is difficult to pinpoint an A-list star who hasn’t experienced some degree of insanity or addiction resulting from the stress of being in the spotlight all of the time. Why does the desire for fame and being famous seem to always cause some sort of mental breakdown in celebrities? Linden Hills is about a man named Nedeed who…

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    stable on the outside, but on the inside it can be unbalanced and frail, the same philosophy goes with people; you can never really tell what a person has truly gone through just by looking at them. In the novel The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald a man named Jay Gatsby has come a far way, from poverty. Gatsby works his way up to becoming a wealthy man in order to reach his dream of being with the one he loves, Daisy, even if that means being something that he is not. In chapter…

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    have any romantic interest in Nick Carraway to begin with. Fitzgerald used the dishonesty of Jordan Baker in order to show the dishonesty of the people living in the…

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    or myth. For example, Hearne says, our supposed perfection and idyllic “ease” is a myth, and like, Gatsby, we are “way off [our initial] ambitions, getting deeper in love every minute” with an illusory vision of what it is to participate in (as Fitzgerald sees it) “ the last and greatest of all humans”- the American Dream(189)” (Hearne 191). It is clear that George’s appreciation of the American Dream is one of hard work and…

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    to do anything he desired. Therefore, the innocence of not being exposed to wealth when he was younger incorporates itself into the romantic idealism that he has during the story that he can buy the person he loves anything she desired. Scott F Fitzgerald portrays in Jay Gatsby the kind of materialistic man that believes anything is possible, “He presents it in Gatsby as a romantic baptism of desire for a reality that stubbornly remains out of his sight” (Bewley 2). Since he has a substantial…

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    According to Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby is the a masterpiece in American Literature. A masterpiece takes a great deal of work with the development of the characters and the plot of the story. Nick as the narrator does this by giving brief crucial descriptions of both the major and minor characters. Nick repeatedly demonstrates how almost every character has been consumed by the need and want for money. The greed within the hearts of both the East Eggers and West Eggers blinds them to the…

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