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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald touches on several themes, but the one of most importance is the one relating the to the pursuit of the American Dream. The American dream was defined as the ideal lifestyle. If you lived the American dream you had wealth or fame, a steady job, a family, and a grand house. It seemed as though, if you were living the American dream, you were living a life of unbroken happiness. America was thriving in the 1920’s. People could afford to look the American…

hard work and determination and pertaining to the pursuit of happiness. This idealized dream is commonly unattained by many people who rise to face the challenge. In The Great Gatsby, Francis Scott Fitzgerald demonstrates how the wealthy and famous Jay Gatsby symbolizes the American dream. Ignited with motivation and passion, ambition leads Gatsby to become blind to his surroundings and develops a tunneled vision on wanting to claim his love with Daisy again. Moreover, Gatsby 's tragic end…

F. Scott Fitzgerald explores the difference between social classes during the Roaring Twenties through characters, such as Gatsby, Tom, Daisy and Myrtle, and situations conflicting with women and race in the Great Gatsby. The novel is set in East Egg and West Egg, which are two locations of different class. The people of this novel are either old money, new money, or they have no money. The difference in social classes puts a strain on Daisy and Gatsby’s relationship. Fitzgerald also presents…

Surrounded by vulgar mass-produced decor, she is a mockery of everything she aspires to imitate. In this respect, she resembles Jay Gatsby, whose self-invention parodies Benjamin Franklin’s success story of hard work and moral self- improvement. Nick concludes, with grim resignation, that “Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply” (48). Myrtle’s depiction is more…

the death of Jay Gatsby, daisy and himself had become quite close and were having an affair. When everything came crashing down due to the careless actions of daisy she merely disappeared and showed no sign of remorse for the death of Gatsby or myrtle. Sometime after Gatsby 's death nick says "Just as I was sure there 'd be a wire from daisy before noon-- but neither a wire nor Mr. Wolfsheim arrived. " the reader uses this quote to again symbolise that no one cared for the death of jay Gatsby…

British proposed that they were going to violate the Treaty of Paris, as well as implement the Council of Orders. Fortunately, Jefferson proved his point of leverage when the U.S. entertained joining the Scandinavian countries against the British. John Jay met with the British to negotiate a treaty until Hamilton compromised Jay’s position. The Spanish then feared that Spanish possessions would be invaded as a result of Jay’s Treaty of 1794. Resulting in a…

Nick Carraway is the narrator of the novel and the judge of the events going on. He is an empirical and traditional young man who wanted to get away from his small town, so he moved to New York. While in New York he meets Daisy and Tom Buchanan, Jay Gatsby, and many other interesting people. Nick describes himself…

Loneliness Is Inevitable “(and noone stooped to kiss his face)” (Cummings, 26). In Fitzgerald’s novel characters like Jay Gatsby, Nick Carraway, and Myrtle Wilson all have aspects of their personal lives that make it seem as though they are lonely in life as a result of decisions they have made in the past. In Cummings poem there are different ways to interpret the underlying meaning between the words. For his characters, noone and anyone, readers could take them as literally noone and anyone…

Like this example Nick learns about the money and crimes that go on around Gatsby. Surrounded by characters with poor morality he flaunts wisdom and good morals even though he is described as not a highly regarded person. Through his episodes with Jay Gatsby, Tom Buchanan, and the other haughty characters in the novel…

In The Great Gatsby, author F. Scott Fitzgerald shows the change in America’s morals during the Jazz Age in the 1920s by using characters like Jay Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan, and Myrtle Wilson, who all have experienced a large shift in mortality compared to just the generation before them. The novel shows the social change in American society after World War I, which was a time of conservatism, compared to the risqué twenties. Throughout the novel, Fitzgerald continuously brings up…