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The Great Gatsby is about nick carraway telling the story. The characters motivations are driven by their desire of money. Daisy marries and stays with Tom because of the lifestyle he can provide for her. She is all about money. F.Scott Fitzgerald is trying to teach us that money can’t buy you happiness. Gatsby tries to win daisy back with money ,Tom was old and many wanted to buy daisy's love, and Daisy wants to have a rich lifestyle with someone who can support her with all the money in the…

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel “The Great Gatsby” the past has always played a huge role on the main character Jay Gatsby life . When we think of time past, present and future pop into our heads . The present is the place where all our attention is focused , where we think about our future and what is yet to come. Then there are people who are “stuck” in the past and they cannot move on into the future. In the novel Jay Gatsby is one of those people who struggles to let go of the past.Gatsby…

The “Roaring Twenties” was a time of extravagance for the United States Of America, the stock market was rising. The market rose to a new point where it reached an all time high as some like to say. The rise of the stock market had factories and businesses booming. In the twenties several new things were being produced. New costly things being introduced consisted of washing machines, cars and toasters. This made the world very modern, it was the first time it had ever been like that. Not only…

The color white is typically associated with purity and light. White is typically predominant in circumstances regarding elegance and symbolizes cleanliness. In “The Great Gatsby”, the color white is utilized to allude to the same ideas but in an ironic fashion. For example, Daisy and Jordan are said to be wearing white multiple times in the novel. When they are first introduced, Nick tells the reader that, “They are both in white and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had…

Through The Eyes of Nick Carraway Personality is “the complex of characteristics that distinguish an individual, especially in relationships with others” (“Personality”). This is shown very clearly in The Great Gatsby through Nick Carraway. Through dishonesty, inconsistency, and self-absorption Fitzgerald shows that a single personality can dictate a story. When Nicks’ personality gets the best of his social life, He quickly finds himself in troublesome situations between friends and family.…

In America during the 1920’s the roles of women were beginning to change, and women were getting more and more independence. This idea of changing women’s roles in society is illustrated throughout the novel, The Great Gatsby. Within the novel two of the main characters, Daisy and Jordan are both shown to represent the different roles women played in society. For example Jordan lives a very independent life while Daisy is almost the opposite in the fact that she has little to no freedom in her…

The Great Differences Between the Gatsbys; Film versus Novel The Great Gatsby, a classic novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is said to be one of the most influential novels of the 1920’s. Later, adapted into a film by Baz Luhrmann, this quintessential novel has striking differences when compared with its adaption; giving viewers a skewed perception of the Jazz Era. Characters, main plot points and even the main character Gatsby all carry some sort of difference from the book to the movie.…

In this novel we notice how the men all come from different socioeconomic backgrounds and different breeds of money. We also see through the actions and motives of these men that they are the same at heart in the sense of their possessive and materialistic propensities, but if for a moment we shift our attention to the more dainter character leads we’ll see less coincidence between them. The women in this play are drastically different from each other in contrast to how the men are basically…

I learned that The Great Gatsby is considered the Great American novel due to its effect of making you understand why you like to read, and ability to show how literature can somehow grab you across great expanses of time and cultural differences. Even though Joel Achenbach’s idea of why The Great Gatsby is considered the Great American Novel, I also think this title is due the the book’s ability to portray the American Dream and the fantasies generated by the book's portrayal of this idea. The…

Even Though many people lie to try and cover up what they have done their lies have a major impact on others.In the novel,The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald he talks about the death of Gatsby and who caused his tragic death.Gatsby's death occurred because of all the lies that were told by the characters that lied to cover up their mistakes.While George Wilson took a great part of Gatsby's death Daisy and Tom are held accountable too.The author Scott Fitzgerald was born in St.Paul Minnesota in…