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Fitzgerald became very vulnerable to this era and could not control himself, which came back to haunt him. Fitzgerald wrote the book in first person limited, and used Nick as his narrator to explain the dramatic story which revolved around the life of Jay Gatsby. Nick told of the roaring 1920’s, and how the wealthy people of New York lived and prospered, just like Fitzgerald. Drinking, partying,…

In “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby is a very wealth well fit man. His major goal is to try and let Daisy Buchanan to fell in love with him. Love at first sight, Jay Gatsby experienced it when he first met his love, Daisy. The first moment Gatsby saw Daisy, his whole world changed. Both of them planed out the future like they had a clue. Unfortunately, Gatsby when to fight in World War One, Daisy made a promise that she will wait for Gatsby to return. Both kept sending…

simply because some groups of people are not allotted the same opportunities as others. Jay Gatsby – protagonist of the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald – and Troy Maxson – protagonist of the play Fences by August Wilson – wish to achieve their dreams and advance in life; however, they are unable to do so because of society’s unjust exclusion of those who are not born both white and rich. From the time Jay Gatsby was known as James Gatz, he had always dreamt of one…

will do anything it takes to be with that one person. Sometimes people know they will never be with that person but they still imagine their lives with them and want to work it out. In “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald Jay Gatsby is portrayed as a hopeless romantic. Jay Gatsby is still deeply in love with Daisy Buchanan after five years of not being together. Although Gatsby knows Daisy is married to Tom Buchanan. Gatsby wants Daisy to divorce Tom, and marry him so they can move in…

In "The Hunger Game Mocking Jay", I like how Katniss Everdeen never give up on the fighting against the inequality from the capital 1 and leads people to fight for their freedom. I felt this was a big pressure on her shoulder because what she has gone through was so tough, her lover has been arrested and tortured by capital 1, her family's safety was under threaten and she needs to be a goof leader to carry everyone to fight back. These challenges are not just physically but also mentally. An…

Daisy presents herself as a pure character in the novel, but really she is the center of tragedy and drama that occurs in the book. There are many examples where daisy seems to arouse Tom and Gatsby, this causes dismay and tragedy between the two, Jay and Tom. Daisy’s friends often realise what is going on between Tom and Daisy, this also stirs up conditions between the group. “‘Look!’ she complained. ‘I hurt it.’ We all looked—the knuckle was black and blue. ‘You did it, Tom,’ she said…

Specially, Jay Gatsby (James Gatz) is stubbornly holding onto the past while trying to recreate memories with his old fling Daisy. Meanwhile Daisy Buchanan is seen as dependent on being loved and her husband, Tom Buchanan, is unfaithful and overbearing. Even Jordan Baker, a friend of Daisy’s, is a self-centered and dishonest female golfer. Hollowness is a recurring theme thought the story, which affects not only the newly rich in West Egg but the old aristocracy in East egg. Jay Gatsby…

with desires”( Ayn Rand; The Atlas Shrugged). In Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby money and love are intertwined in almost every way. Fitzgerald writes about the distinction between old money and new money- represented in this novel by Tom Buchanan and Jay Gatsby. Gatsby lived in West Egg, a neighborhood in New York of the newly wealthy. Mr. Buchanan lived in East Egg, amongst those of old money. Both men find themselves trying to buy the love of one woman, Daisy Buchanan. Daisy, while married to…

as a person, but more about the ruthless pursuit of the dollar. In the book The Great Gatsby it talks about how Jay Gatsby parents were unsuccessful farm people it goes on to say “his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all” [pg.98] This shows how even though they were his parents he didn’t acknowledge them as the people who…

The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is set in the Roaring 20s, which is defined by the technology and life styles that changed a nation. Americans had a higher salary after WWI, and they had more to spend it on. Life seemed grand for the dapper citizens of the 1920s, yet all that glitters is not gold. Fitzgerald portrays the dark and sinister side of the Roaring Twenties. The Great Gatsby provides an assessment of the gilded life of the 1920s and its underlying corruption. Fitzgerald, like…