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    The ideology of the American Dream reaches and inspires the minds of people from around the globe. The American Dream has created a metaphorical blue print for the upward social mobility of a person or family, can be achieved through determination and hard work; despite the social class or circumstances one is born into. The Novel The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald helps gives the reader a better understanding of the of The American Dream. However the novel portrays the American Dream in a…

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    blossoms. The captivation the season entails mirrors the effect that Gatsby has on the reader. With Gatsby comes a mystery. One filled with a new life including wealth, parties, and new acquaintances. The start of Jay Gatsby’s new life is what Fitzgerald intended the reader to focus on. Jay Gatsby, a man living in West Egg, was one who lived their life established by new money. He threw extravagant parties all to gain the attention of a single woman, Daisy Buchanan. Daisy however was raised in…

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    Wall Street, it is seen that there are many similarities. Both works having characters hypnotised by greed, the pursuit of the American Dream, and last but not least the everlasting spell of love. F. Scott Fitzgerald did as great as a job of creating Jay Gatsby the helpless rich man that escapes through money. On the same page Jordan Belfort did a great job explaining how money and greed consumed his…

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    Daisy Buchanan is and her previous relationship with Jay Gatsby. The shift in narration is not only significant because it only occurs in chapter four but because it shines a romantic light on Jay Gatsby which is not how he has been perceived prior to Jordan’s brief narration. Before the narration switched from Nick Carraway to Jordan Baker, Jay Gatsby was viewed as a mysterious, rich man who was hiding something. Although the idea of who Jay Gatsby truly is did not completely change after…

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    Throughout history, women were expected to be conservative, ladylike, and conform to society. However, during the 1900’s, the role of women began to change. Women wore short their hair short in a hairstyle, known as a bob, and broke out of their traditional attire. The novel, The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, demonstrates how women tried to break out of the social norms by becoming flappers, but ultimately were held back due to the stereotypes placed upon them by men. Although…

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    “For wisdom is protection just as money is protection, but the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.” (Ecclesiastes 7:12) Through the centuries money grew to become an ideal importance. Money’s importance has blinded some people from their morals or reality. As evidence, the term affluenza describes the form of living a life with an abundance of money. Material possessions become a source of “happiness,” but will this ever satisfy them? It is important to…

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    get along very well, due to their different social classes and personalities. That seems to be the scenario in many of the relationships in the novel, when social classes mix up it doesn’t seem to work out, or just money is the issue. In the novel Jay Gattsby tells Tom “Your wife doesn’t love you...She only married yoiu because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me.” This is the main focus of marriage is in 1920’s, the mix of classes and the view of a typical marriage. By a typical…

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    Do You See What I See? Will Rogers once said, “You will never get a second chance to make a first impression.” Capturing the audience in the first few moments is crucial; without a grand opening, the ending is pointless. Directors’ careful decisions regarding precise details, particularly in the opening of a film, can cause viewers to interpret films in various ways. With such a successful novel like The Great Gatsby, two directors accepted the challenge of bringing this novel to the big screen.…

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    Esha Parikh Ms. Dunphy AP L&C 19 January 2014 The Great Gatsby and the American Dream The Great Gatsby is set during a time period of prohibition, yet no one seems to abide by it, bootleggers, music and extravagant, showy parties, and the American Dream. Fitzgerald showcases this “jazz age” period in history as a time where the rich do not seem to have a care about the world, while the poor are left in a heap of debris. Fitzgerald wanted his readers to see what happens under The Read White and…

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    experiences his life through dreaming? In the novel The Great Gatsby, written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925, concern the life of a mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his ambitious American dream. Under the discriminative society, as ordinary people lose their direction to their American Dream in the turbulent trend, Jay Gatsby continues pursuing the satisfaction of spiritual level. However, the dream that Gatsby dreamed embodies a meretricious, unsophisticated, great…

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