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    Innocence Lost In the early 1900’s, in the aftermath of WWI, New York City was the liveliest place in America. Wall Street 's booming opportunity is everywhere; people are looking for the good life. This world is captured perfectly in F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel “The Great Gatsby”. Jay Gatsby is a man of good will who is caught up in the world around him. He acts as though he is invincible and this is what leads to his early demise. Jay is a romantic idealist and is blinded by his love for Daisy…

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    Pablo Picasso, a famous artist throughout the 20th century, once proclaimed, “Colors, like features, follow the changes of emotion.” Pablo Picasso, a painter who used colors in his works to convey emotions, explains to us that colors can often be used to reflect different emotions. Artists, authors, painters, graphic designers, and many more people like Picasso have used the technique of color symbolism to portray different points, emotions, or symbols that they wish to express to their viewers.…

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    In society people judge others on appearance before they judge their actions. The beautiful and wealthy Daisy Buchanan is Jay Gatsby’s one true love. Unfortunately when Gatsby was away in the war Daisy didn’t want to wait for him she selfishly married Tom Buchanan. As time went on Tom and Daisy’s marriage wasn’t doing well since both were having affairs behind each other’s back. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel “The Great Gatsby”, Daisy is behind the deaths of both Jay Gatsby and Myrtle Wilson.…

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    Does money truly buy happiness? Many people don’t believe that it does, but in The Great Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan lives her life searching for money that she can hide all of her problems in. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, A wealthy man named Gatsby throws outrageous parties to attract his old love, Daisy Buchanan, who lives across the New York Sound with her wealthy and arrogant husband Tom. The novel revolves around a group of affairs and lies told by all of the characters in…

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    Many people believe that elite social status and acquiring expensive materialistic possessions are possible in a prosperous country like America. As a result, countless Americans by the name of Abraham Lincoln, John D. Rockefeller, and Henry Ford have set an example and were able to rise to financial and social success. In the same way, the characters Jay Gatsby, Myrtle Wilson, and Daisy Buchanan, in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, are clear examples of the pursuit of the American Dream,…

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    Throughout The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, it is clear that the character Jay Gatsby has multiple personas. The first is his Gatsby persona— who is a suave, sophisticated, big shot businessman millionaire. The second is James Gatz, who is a poor, immature seven-teen year old, who created the Gatsby persona as a means to get a fresh start in life in order to achieve his dream of making it big. However, in the process of all this, he meets a girl in Louisville, Daisy Fay, who he…

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    The Great Gatsby is a very important novel from the 1920 's, that goes into the minds of the people from that time. It provides a very good insight into the way people acted and how they perceived America at that point in time. Jay Gatsby goes from rags to riches, throughout the novel. With his riches, Jay Gatsby is trying to achieve the American Dream. But in the end, even with all the money that Jay Gatsby had, he fails at his dream. Hardly anyone attends Jay Gatsby 's funeral, this shows that…

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    Relationships can be complicated, especially when there are multiple people involved. Sometimes people get so tied up in their relationships that it becomes their life, their passion, and their one goal, to perfect the relationship. For Jay Gatsby, this case is true. He fell in love with a girl he never could see himself with, and she fell in love with him. However, not all relationships always will work. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald is trying to convey how even if you try your best…

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    In the short novel, The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby proves to be a static character through the entire book. Within The Great Gatsby, we learn that Jay Gatsby is a dreamer, that he is motivated, and that he can become very easily manipulated. Gatsby had been proven to be a static character because from start to finish he doesn’t change; from the beginning Gatsby is just as idealistic, motivated, and easily manipulated as he is in the end of the story. Throughout the book, Fitzgerald makes it…

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    To obsess over someone is to have them occupy or fill your mind of that person continually, intrusively, and to a troubling extent. In the book “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, obsession is shown greatly by the main character Jay Gatsby. Jay Gatsby is a man who wanted a life so magnificent, successful, and rich in order to accommodate the life of Daisy Buchanan. Daisy Buchanan is Gatsby’s first love and he did anything and everything for her. After attempting to wait for Gatsby to get…

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