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Great Gatsby Diary

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For Part 4 of the English course, we studied The Great Gatsby, an American novel in 1920s written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It depicts and shows us New York in the roaring 20’s. It also portrays through actions of characters and through words, the changing and lowering morals of the society. And how this post-war society named “The jazz age” was a corrupted, criminalised, party-driven and materialistic society. It also tells us how the old- fashioned American values were being replaced by the pursuit of success and money.

I decided to look at the main protagonist in the novel and give his perspective on the happenings in the form of a diary entry. The goal of the written task for me is to create a better understanding of Jay Gatsby. Writing

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