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    Beginning of Everything “Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone...just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had” (Fitzgerald 1). The first line of The Great Gatsby illustrates a heartfelt sentiment of treating others respectfully and not judging a book by its cover. However, as the chapter continues, the narrator Nick Carraway, suggests this propensity of tolerance is better used as leverage to entice more people to trust you and tell you their secrets

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    The Great Gatsby was written by a man named F. Scott Fitzgerald. He wrote it as a gift for the love of his life, Zelda. The main character is a man named Jay Gatsby, who believes he is in love with a woman named Daisy Buchanan. Fitzgerald wrote this book in an attempt to externalize his emotions by vicariously living through the life of Jay Gatsby. These two men had the same version of the American Dream, but sadly their dream died with their overindulgence in the pleasures of life. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s

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    The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald was a unique writer in his time and for that reason, he is one of America’s most recognized authors today. His work is widely read throughout the world, especially for educational purposes. He is famous for his written works that illustrate a famous time era called the Jazz Age of the 1920s. He was also unique in the way that his work portrayed a large part of his life, which became extremely valuable shortly after his death. One of his most famous written works

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    spoken aphorism, “a writer writes that of which he knows.” Such a divine mixture of author experience and fictitious imagination is easily visible in the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald. While the vast majority of his works include his recurring theme of “double vision”, his second novel The Beautiful and Damned best portrays this ability to, “... hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function” (Magill 1137). The origins of Fitzgerald's double vision can

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    Amory Blaine's "Mirrors" in Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise In F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel This Side of Paradise, Amory Blaine searches for his identity by "mirroring" people he admires. However, these "mirrors" actually block him from finding his true self. He falls in love with women whose personalities intrigue him; he mimics the actions of men he looks up to. Eleanor Savage and Burne Holiday serve as prime examples of this. Until Amory loses his pivotal "mirror," Monsignor Darcy, he

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    Fitzgerald demonstrates flashback through Jay Gatsby by associating him to self-identity and the American dream. The American Dream is known as a personal happiness and comforted by material things. Gatsby’s goal was to gain respect, to have a known reputation of wealth. He filled his days with big festive parties. Gatsby’s identity was once hidden, in his young days Gatsby did not know what he wanted to accomplish. When he was a teen he met a man named Dan Cody. He made Gatsby the man he became;

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    Gatsby Selfish Society

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    classic The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald describes the prevalent, rich culture of high society in the East Coast and uses the life of Jay Gatsby to disclose the trappings in this social structure. After he returned from World War I in 1918, Fitzgerald wrote this book when America was entering a new age of dreams. Fitzgerald is quite critical of the high society while he is also trying to raise his own social status. With his earlier success of This Side of Paradise, Fitzgerald’s life is resembled

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    classic The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald describes the prevalent, rich culture of high society in the East Coast and uses the life of Jay Gatsby to disclose the trappings in this social structure. After he returned from World War I, Fitzgerald wrote this book when America was entering a new age of dreams. With his earlier success of This Side of Paradise, Fitzgerald’s lived a lifestyle that closely resembled Gatsby’s extravagant social ambitions. Since Fitzgerald was from the “moral” Mid-West

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    The Great Gatsby is, to this day, one of the most iconic and well-written books. F. Scott Fitzgerald is the author of this glamorous, ritzy story. The storyline of The Great Gatsby took place in the 1920s of early America. It is primarily about the drama in the lives of some of America’s most wealthy families living in New York. All of which are trying to live and embody everything it means to achieve the American Dream, much like what many of the U.S. experiences today. The Great Gatsby is one of

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    Fitzgerald’s own personal life and struggles. Fitzgerald coming from a poor family, uneducated, is one of America’s most famous writers of all time.The Beautiful and Damned the characters slowly go downward as the book advances. A uneducated, unknown childhood life turned out to be one of the greatest writers, Fitzgerald’s books portrayed his own life emphasizing flaws in every aspect. F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24,1986. Fitzgerald was born in St.Paul, Minnesota . His father was

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