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4. I think the best part in The Great Gatsby is when Jay Gatsby lures Daisy to his home to rekindle their five-year long romance. Nick Carraway, who is Daisy’s cousin, is over for tea and Gatsby shows up. They start to talk and Gatsby shows Daisy around his very extravagant home. As she is trying on various beautiful outfits, he tries to impress her by throwing all of his clothes at her and telling her how he has someone pick out every single one of his outfits that he wears. I think that…

1. I believe the author uses the words hope and dream to draw emphasis on the American Dream. 2. Nick is the narrator and tells the story as he is standing on the outside, looking at the other character’s lives. Nick has many advantages that are brought to light in the first chapter. One being, Nick receiving good moral education from his father. Additionally, Nick possessing the ability to distance himself from others to stay away from the foolishness that occurs. 3. During the first scene at…

The American Dream is the idea that anyone can attain success and upward mobility, despite what class they were born into. In The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, many characters desire to obtain this dream; however, their failure to achieve this lifestyle shows the concept of the American Dream is just an illusion. Fitzgerald shows few characters actually successfully living in the elite upper class; most are just trying to get there. Tom and Daisy Buchanan are the only two characters that…

On the second visit to Manhattan, the reader then joins Nick in meeting Meyer Wolfsheim, a notorious gangster in The Great Gatsby who fixed the 1919 World Series and sells illegal alcohol (Fitzgerald 78). Fitzgerald creates Wolfsheim to represent Arnold Rothstein, a real 20th century mobster who supposedly fixed the 1919 World Series and illegally sold alcohol during the prohibition. Wolfsheim represents an evil within Manhattan that will never leave. Manhattan is also a place of conflict. At…

The Great Gatsby is unique because of the great contradictions between different people and places throughout the novel. The novel shows what wealth can do to moral values, on small and large scales. Most of the binaries in the novel are based on this key idea. Another key idea is how dreams of the future and memories of the past transfer into the present and how that changes one’s mentality about life. These are some of the most important themes of the novel and can be expressed with binaries.…

The novel The Great Gatsby written by an American author F. Scott Fitzgerald is a typical story about the life of American people in the 1920s. In this novel the two main characters Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby became the best friends and found many similar qualities and traits in each other. However, they had the very different families that trained them different qualities and traits. Nick Carraway was raised by his father that gave Nick very effective mentoring for his future life. For the…

The American Dream is the core of all American icons. Achieving the American Dream is the most quintessential aspirations of both Americans and immigrants. To strive to get the American Dream can be very hard to do. Some people give up everything to get here just to have the opportunity to achieve it. Sometimes even if someone achieves the American Dream they are always left wanting more, such as companionship and love if they don 't have it. An example of this is through F. Scott Fitzgeralds…

Humans establish expectations in an attempt to better control the world around them. However, Randy K. Milholland points out that, “It hurts to find out that what you wanted doesn’t match what you dreamed it would be.” He is expressing that when expectations are set regarding a situation or conflict, the actual outcomes are often disappointing in light of the predetermined “reality”. Humans enjoy trying to create their own reality because it provides a specific type of all-encompassing power.…

The Circle of Characters in The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby is an early modern fiction mixed with a romantic tragedy by F. Scott Fitzgerald, introducing the life of characters in high society New York City. Nick is a self-invented man thrown into the circle of his reckless neighbors. Gatsby is a mysterious man who only has one thing on his mind and will do anything to get it. Daisy is a selfish woman who only believes in material possessions bought with money. Tom is an abusive man to the…

The American dream is a debatable proposition that can be deciphered in many different manners, today people realize that it is just a matter of accepting the fact that there is not just one ‘American Dream.’ Some people have hopes of becoming rich, while some have dreams to be given more opportunities, others have dreams to become someone famous, and have a perfect reputation. These examples pinpoint that there is not just one ‘American Dream’. Everyone has dreams, but not all are the same.…