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    The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald has a central theme that you can’t repeat the past. The theme is profoundly shown through the uses of money and deception. The two main characters, Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan show this theme perfectly. Overall, The Great Gatsby uses money and deception to show the theme that you can’t repeat the past. Jay Gatsby, the protagonist uses money to try and re-create the love he lost, but utterly fails. The first time we can see Jay Gatsby use money to try and

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    Rudolph Quote.”). The Great Gatsby starts off with the narrator Nick Carraway who is a nice young gentleman from the Midwest. He moves to the Midwest where he meets his neighbor James Gatz also know as, Jay Gatsby. Jay throws many lavish parties for Daisy, his longtime love that left him before the war. Gatsby sets up a tea date for Daisy at Nick’s house where Gatsby stops by. This leads to many days of Daisy stopping by and hanging out with Gatsby. Daisy never fully commits to Gatsby, but she gets his

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    The book The Great Gatsby went through multiple name changes before the author, F. Scott Fitzgerald decided on its current title. This title does not fit the themes and plot to the story as much as the previous titles. The book does not talk about Jay Gatz, or the Gatsby, as much as the title would make it seem. Also, the book seems to be quite a bit more about Tom and Daisy Buchanan’s relationship and affairs with Gatsby and Myrtle Wilson. Finally, a much more fitting title would have been Under

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    novel "The Great Gatsby" is a very good novel. Today I will be comparing and contrasting the novel "The Great Gatsby" to the movie "The Great Gatsby." To be more specific I will be talking about how my visualization of Jay Gatsby was in the novel and how he actually appears in the movie. Jay Gatsby is the main character of this story. Alright so, in the novel Jay Gatsby seems to be a rags-to-riches type of guy, he's sweet , mysterious , and gracious at the beginning of this Novel, Jay Gatsby makes his

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    Scott F. Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is the story of a delusional man named Jay Gatsby, who throws extravagant parties in the hopes it will attract his past love. However, once Jay attracts the attention of his love, Daisy, he has to deal with her husband, and this leads to a confrontation that forces Daisy to choose between Gatsby and her husband. Daisy seems to have a hard time choosing between the two, but the question is, what does she have to think about that could influence her decision?

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    think should be preserved for future generations is “The Great Gatsby.” The reason I think this book deserves to be around for a long time is because first of all I connected with it personally, it relates to human relationships, And lastly it made me think differently after I read it. Those are the reasons I think that the book needs to be saved. Firstly, I connected with the book personally. The way i connected with “The Great Gatsby” is I hate to read and I always have. I hardly ever find a

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    Since Gatsby is born as a poor farmer but has this perpetual vision of him making it big, he embodies this definition of greatness. He leaves his family and scouts out an opportunity working alongside millionaire, Dan Cody, where Jay essentially starts his life over as a wealthy young man. While Gatsby is in training to fight in World War I, he meets his true love, Daisy. As Jay Gatsby becomes a war hero, Daisy grows impatient and marries Tom Buchannan, a well-off and unfaithful man. When Gatsby gets

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    The great nation of the United States was birthed by courage and will. Great minds worked together forming rules for an idea of a nation that had never before been conceived. One of the documents that contained these rules was the Declaration of Independence, in which Thomas Jefferson writes, “[All people] are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Chief among these rights is the pursuit of happiness. In The Great

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    The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald lived during the Jazz age, much like his own experiences, Gatsby encountered ambitions, challenges and desires. Through the use of important events in his own life, F. Scott Fitzgerald reflects his own ambitions such as a trying to find meaning in life Overcoming challenges that arose with the Jazz age, such as the introduction of liquor, leading to addiction. And desires, including romances and fortune, through the main character in his novel, The Great Gatsby

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    Lupita Garcia Benjamin Arthurs Honors English 10 7 April 2024 Gatsby did it for love while Tom did it for blood To the eyes of society in The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby seemed like a corrupt man who was a bootlegger, and had a mess of a life that led him to his death. Everything Gatsby did was because he had one thing in mind, to end up with Daisy. In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby gets himself into a series of predicaments which eventually leads to his death. To avenge his dead wife, George Wilson breaks

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