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Theme Of Isolation In The Great Gatsby

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On the surface, a world-renowned novel such as The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Burn This Book, edited by Toni Morrison, have little in common. In reading them, however, it is easy to find common themes between the two. One of the most prominent is the theme of isolation, as shown through Jay Gatsby’s isolation of himself in The Great Gatsby and the isolation forced upon citizens of the Burmese government, as written in the chapter entitled The Man, the Men at the Station by Pico Iyer in Burn This Book. In Gatsby, the narrator, Nick, goes to his first one of Gatsby’s lavish parties. He knows virtually no one in the crowd that has attended, and so decides to seek out his host. He states, “As soon as I arrived I made an attempt

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