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In the novels Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Sula by Toni Morrison, the characters in each story fall victim to friendship. These friendships that the characters entertain themselves with are detrimental to their consciousness and their morality. From Nel hiding Sula’s murder of a young boy to Nick aiding in both Daisy and Tom’s infidelity, a strong pattern that emerges from these stories is, characters becoming corrupted by their friendships. In…

The Great Gatsby is unique because of the great contradictions between different people and places throughout the novel. The novel shows what wealth can do to moral values, on small and large scales. Most of the binaries in the novel are based on this key idea. Another key idea is how dreams of the future and memories of the past transfer into the present and how that changes one’s mentality about life. These are some of the most important themes of the novel and can be expressed with binaries.…

While The Great Gatsby is a fictional story written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in many ways the book mirrors Fitzgerald's real life. The Great Gatsby in its entirety represents the internal battle Fitzgerald faces between his chase of fame and fortune and his loathe of the unachievable “American Dream”. Understanding Fitzgerald's real life is key to better understanding the novel. In many instances both characters Nick and Jay represent a part of his internal conflict. The tragic love story, The…

With the power of wealth, an individual can try to win over their love but will fail in the end. The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, talks about the West Egg and East Egg in the luxurious time of the 1920’s. The novel revolves around the mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his love for Daisy Buchanan. This forbidden love is able to portray Fitzgerald’s message in the novel that money can buy an individual popularity in society but not sacrificial love. In society, money cannot…

In the great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald, there were so many themes, it wasn’t just a novel about romance. There were many significant themes and clues about all of them. The novel is about a young men trying to get back his old lover, it's the only thing he has left to be able to accomplish all his goals. Gatsby the main character in this novel is fighting against anything to get Daisy his lover back after five years of them not being together after he went to war. The story begins in the…

In the Great Gatsby written by F.Scott Fitzgerald, the narrator, Nick Carraway , is a character that helps readers navigate through the story, providing us with an experience that can only be shown through his eyes. Gatsby, is the wealthy protagonist who is deeply in love with a character named Daisy who is Nick’s cousin. However, as we follow Nick through the story his opinions on Gatsby changes several times and his judgement on his original opinion changes too. Toward the end of the novel,…

Likewise, at first, Daisy is portrayed as rather inconsequential, though charming: “I’ll tell you a family secret,” she says in one of the first encounters they have; “it’s about the butler’s nose” (p. 20). She confides that their butler has no sense of smell because he used to be a silver polisher. This story makes Daisy seem rather silly and even unsympathetic, though eager to share stories. It is hard to imagine her as the novel’s heroine. Yet Nick says, “She was only extemporizing, but a…

In The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jordan Baker was portrayed as being reckless and dishonest, having an arrogant attitude, but also having the characteristics of modern day women. The American Dream for women was shown through Jordan Baker’s character. Jordan Baker is depicted to have an arrogant attitude. This is first noticed when she first starts a conversation with Nick. “You live in West Egg, she remarked contemptuously.” She is looking down on Nick for being “new money.”…

In “the Great Gatsby” Gatsby’s past is a very important factor to who he is when the novel takes place. Revive the past is one of Gatsby's main motivations to make his fortune and be a successful man, he makes his fortune to relive the long lost love he had with daisy and buys a house right across from daisy and makes himself “famous” for his parties all for that love that he believes will come back. His persona itself is influenced by his past, we can also say that he has double standards in…

Repetition, race, and desire in The Great Gatsby by Adam Meehan discusses the topic of race not only within the book of The Great Gatsby but within all novels that Fitzgerald has written. This article is a great demonstration of how Fitzgerald was more towards the white race and discriminated other races and religions. This article also argues with the fact that Gatsby’s love and desire for Daisy is much more than him owning her or having her as “his” property. This article states the racism…