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    out of things, but you would be surprised how quickly life can change. The Jazz Age seemed to be well described as a time of carelessness among many who lived in the 1920’s, but soon reality would hit. As portrayed in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby, The Jazz Age was a carefree era of happiness and bliss when everything was…

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    desires to work towards it. F. Scott Fitzgerald describes the American dream in The Great Gatsby as a longing or desire to constantly dream of an unachievable dream. Once the dream is achieved there is nothing left to chase and there is nothing beautiful left to dream about. Fitzgerald expresses this idea through the eyes of Mr. Gatsby. The reader witnesses Gatsby’s longing for a long lost lover he met during the war. Gatsby devotes his time after the war to becoming wealthy enough to be…

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    more one wants” (Benjamin Franklin). The American Dream is that every single person can become successful in life by their work. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Gatsby attempts to remake the past by altering his identity and accumulating riches in order to win over his lost love Daisy Buchanan, who married another rich man while Gatsby was away fighting in WWI, and events are already set in motion that lead to Gatsby's lonely, unfulfilled demise. The narrator of the novel is Gatsby's…

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    commentary about taking separate train cars because he’s afraid of soiling his reputation by being seen with Myrtle, which symbolically shows his priority of social judgment over spiritual judgment. Other events that he sees include Daisy’s affair with Gatsby, George locking Myrtle up, Myrtle’s death, and the degradation…

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    Rain In The Great Gatsby

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    completely astounded me! It is the section where Gatsby arranges and prevails in both welcoming Daisy to tea at Nick's home and after that over to Gatsby's to revive their adoration without Nick around. Along these lines, how about we investigate the rain here with a weight on its capacity to influence plot. Unexpectedly, the principal thing the rain does is to not influence the plot by any stretch of the imagination. Notwithstanding the deluge, Gatsby sends his yard trimmer over to Nick's…

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    Greed Outline in “The Great Gatsby” Introduction: Part 1: Money is power and that power can change a person completely from who they were when that money was nonexistent. Money is the root to all evil is a phrase that has much truth behind it. Cash flow may lead to one becoming very greedy. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel “The Great Gatsby” is a perfect example of how money can change the way people think. Part 2: In the novel many characters don’t look at people for who they are, but judge them on…

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    focused more on immoral actions and “being free”. By alluding to biblical times, Fitzgerald is able to show the irony in The Great Gatsby of how unimportant religion was during the time and the misconstrued view of God. Fitzgerald mirrors the symbolic use of dust in his novel, to parallel that dust/ash clouds clear vision and causes misguided actions. The author of The Great Gatsby uses the symbolism of dust and ashes to foreshadow death and indicate a loss of innocence. Readers meet Wilson…

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    Are the Rich Different? Who would ever want to be rich? Having all the money in the world and living the dream life of everyone! People dream of having the rich luxurious life, but is it really worth it? In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, shows the reader the life of very rich and very poor people: Two very different and difficult lives to live. In the book, mon Racicky 2 meets Wilson in the Valley of Ashes at, “Repairs. George B. Wilson. Cars Bought and Sold” (29). Mr. Wilson is always…

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    The american dream is a subject that has been debated about for quite some time. In the book “The Great Gatsby”, F. Scott Fitzgerald implies that the american dream is based on wealth and materialism through his description of his characters’ extravagant lives. Set in the early 1900’s, in Long Island, New York, the book is a collection of characters’ lives from the viewpoint of Nick Carraway, the main character, and the difference between east and west egg, long island. This book hints the…

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    Twenties represented the age of social and political change. The American Identity during the 1920s was one of the unique identities. The Great Gatsby had symbolized some major events and changes of the American Identity in 1920s. America had been through some big events that has impacted Americans socially and politically. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby reflects the turning point of American Identity during the 1920s through the prohibition of alcohol, inequality income, and a new image…

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