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    The Great Gatsby is told by Nick Carraway, who was Jay Gatsby’s neighbor in West Egg. Across in East Egg were Tom and Daisy Buchanan who had one daughter and lived in a nice home, which looks like what the “American Dream” is like but it’s really not. Gatsby had enormous parties at his house every weekend. The parties were to get Daisy’s attention but no one knew that. Gatsby and Daisy loved each other but Gatsby had to leave her to go to war, years past by and eventually Daisy met Tom and got…

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    Throughout the world carless action destroys many things. Things like children can be so easily destroyed for example if the person who is responsible for them doesn’t care enough to remember that they have to feed them. Themes like this can be seen the story The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald with the characters Daisy Buchanan, Myrtle Wilson, Tom Buchanan and Jay Gatsby. Daisy is an egotistical girl who got herself entangled in an affair with Jay Gatsby while her husband was cheating on…

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    How many have ever encountered a time where we must decide whether or not to stay with a dearly loved one and end up poor; or instead accept an unhappy, but financially stable, marriage? This very issue is tackled in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. ☆A trope of many literary works is that an individual must choose between a financially volatile soul mate and an undesirable but stable spouse. In this case it’s Daisy’s struggle to choose between an exciting relationship with Gatsby and a…

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    For the Money, For the Man Eager for money, heavily weighted on influence and constantly judged are the lives the women live in within the 1920s. Females rarely worked and consistently depended on the makings of their husband which left a huge title for the male to uphold. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald characterizes three women to fit the time period in different ways. Daisy Buchanan, Myrtle Wilson and Jordan Baker all contraste each other yet show how their identity differs from how…

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    The style of an author is something unique and creative to their person and their soul. The writing of F. Scott Fitzgerald is skilled, concise, and detailed. His novels are not only distinguishable by his incredible imagination but also his impressive articulation. In the novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses diction, imagery, personification, and in order to portray the deeper meaning of his novel with his style. By using…

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    In the 1920’s, many people greatly prospered economically and socially. This caused many people, ranging from the poor to the middle class, to believe in an endless prosperity. This endless prosperity came to be known as the American dream. The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, displays how a person was able to prosper during the Roaring Twenties through the belief of the American dream. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald depicts the failure of the American dream through the…

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    In the 1920’s, The Great War was coming to an end, and new beginnings were being formed. The United States was prospering with new jobs and new industries, but suffering through the prohibition of alcohol. The novel The Great Gatsby was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and takes place in the 1920’s. Nick Carraway, an old money bondsman, has just moved into West Egg, a town in New York City where, particularly, people with “new” money stay and rent their home. Nick lives next to a mystery of a man…

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    Often in works of literature authors use color symbolism to give readers a better vision into the character’s lives. Nick Carraway, the narrator, is pushed into the scandalous lives of his neighbors. Living next to him, extremely wealthy Jay Gatsby is secretly in love with Daisy Buchanan. Daisy lives just across the bay with her husband Tom who has an affair with a poor woman named Myrtle. Myrtle lives in the Valley of Ashes with her husband George Wilson. Throughout the story we come to realize…

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    Morality is a system of values and principles to which one believes something is right or wrong. In the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the characters whose morals are most affected are Jay Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan, and Tom Buchanan. Jay is blinded by his fantasy and makes decisions based of dreams. Daisy is influenced by wealth and materials. She is used to a flashy lifestyle and being spoiled. Tom is a dominant and aggressive man, he does what he wants because he is powerful and…

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    The Great Gatsby, Reading of Power The Great Gatsby is a book by F. Scott Fitzgerald published in 1925. One of the dominant readings that can be taken from this novel is a reading of power in The Great Gatsby. The power plays a huge part in the novel ,the characters are mainly driven by power and it greatly enriches the readers understanding of the characters and the relationships between them. The reading of power In The Great Gatsby has many different forms of power that belong to many of…

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