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    The Great Gatsby, a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, depicts that the American Dream is unattainable. The novel portrays the ignorance of society after the war. The Great Gatsby was published in 1925 after World War I had ended. Americans, at the time, lived in an illusion to try to forget about the war, thus, the American Dream was very appealing to Americans. The American Dream set an illusion that allowed Americans to believe that one could change the past and “re-do” the mistakes all over

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    The Past in The Great Gatsby Conflict with the past is a central idea in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. While Gatsby longs for the past, “a simpler time”, he also goes through many attempts to avoid it. From his name change to his obsession over his teenage sweetheart, Jay Gatsby's unusual actions reveal a complex relationship between himself and his past. Gatsby's attempts to escape his past along with his longing to recreate it develop Fitzgerald's message that people have a natural complexity

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    excellently portrayed in The Great Gatsby, a realistic fiction by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The novel focuses on the downfall of Jay Gatsby due to the moral vacuum generated by his social class status and his inability to recreate an idealistic past, even with the assistance of his massive fortune. Therefore, wealth generates the downfall of the respective people in this story. It is highlighted as a vehicle for recklessness when Daisy doesn’t take responsibility for her crime and within Jay Gatsby’s impulsive

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    1920’s era because there was much success around the nation, subsequent to World War 1. F. Scott Fitzgerald writes “The Great Gatsby” with it’s setting dating back to the 1920’s. In this novel, Fitzgerald writes about the baffling main character known as Jay Gatsby and other complex symbols throughout the novel. Followed by this novel were many films, one being “The Great Gatsby” (2013) successfully directed by Baz Luhrmann. The novel and the book both share similarities, yet have some differences

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    century, also known as “The Great Gatsby”. In this story, F. Scott Fitzgerald throws love, mystery, and historical conflicts and blends it all with just a dash of life lessons. These messages are exercised throughout the book with different scenarios and breathtaking risks. In the novel “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the main character Gatsby experiences one of the most powerful forces known to man. This force is more commonly known as love. Love, drives Mr. Gatsby to do some crazy things

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    Jay Gatsby Decay

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    Throughout the book The Great Gatsby which portrays the luxury and glamour of the 1920’s as well as the opposite where it is an era of materialism and moral decay, Jay Gatsby encompases it all. At first he is a mystery, an enigma shaded by flashing lights and the upper class, the mysterious gentleman who holds elaborate parties and is only known as Gatsby. As the story progresses he is come to be known as Jay Gatsby a man deeply infatuated with the idea of Ms. Daisy Buchanan, come from a bootleg

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    In the novel, The Great Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan is the reason for Jay Gatsby’s death. The Great Gatsby is a novel that takes place in the upper parts of New York and the era is the 1920’s. Nick Carraway is a poor man who lives next to Gatsby. Jay Gatsby moved to the West Egg to hopefully rekindle his relationship with his previous lover, Daisy Buchanan. Daisy is married to Tom Buchanan, who is also having a side affair with Myrtle Wilson, who is very poor. All of these things cause drama and tension

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    In the Great Gatsby, Gatsby announces, “You can’t repeat the past.” Innumerable amounts of people have stated that, history always repeats itself. Nick assumes that Gatsby’s appalling sentimentality has formed Daisy into a mere image of supremacy. Then in retrospect, history shall only create a portal of itself, if we do allow it. So as we deposit our minds into this dissertation, allow yourself to think among this statement. The excerpts are about Gatsby that we see would pertain to him because

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    once was on the minds of many Americans. In The Great Gatsby, the American Dream was presented as a corrupted version of what used to be a pure and honest ideal way to live. The idea that the American Dream was about the wealth and the possessions one had been ingrained, somehow, into the minds of Americans during the 1920’s. As a result of the distortion of the American Dream, the characters of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby along with many others, lived life fully believing

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    Who Is Gatsby?

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    intense feeling of deep affection. In the novel The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, a question that crosses many readers minds’ is: Is Gatsby really in love? The main character of the novel is Jay Gatsby, and his neighbor Nick Carraway. Gatsby has a large house in West Egg and throws many parties in it to try and impress Daisy who is Nick’s cousin. The novel is revolved around Gatsby trying to win Daisy over from her husband Tom. Gatsby and Daisy spend a lot of time together and he begins

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