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    Carraway, the storyteller of The Great Gatsby, has created a story to show The Great Gatsby is a story told by Nick Carraway, who was once Gatsby's neighbor, and is here to tell us that he tells the story sometime after 1922 sometime, when the incidents that fill the book take place. As the story opens and shows the dramatic changes throughout the story line. Nick has just moved from the Midwest to West Egg, Long Island, seeking his fortune as a bond salesman and to get his love from Daisy but, does that

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    Gatsby represents the song “My kind of woman” by DeMarco. While Gatsby is in the book, picturing this perfect life with Daisy and willing to do anything to have her unattainable love for him.The quote in the lyrics of the song, is to represent the personality of Gatsby. To understand the type of songs he relates to and listens to.Gatsby represents this song with a lyric quote says “As long as you're next to me,Just the two of us”(DeMarco 7-8) merely because the song is of this internal attachment

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    Great Gatsby Thesis

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    question the vitality of the American Dream. One of the main examples of this is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald uses his novel, to display his idea of the American Dream. It can be inferred that Fitzgerald’s idea of the American Dream is to obtain love and wealth. Fitzgerald’s American Dream was not fully achieved The Great Gatsby. This can be proven by Fitzgerald’s indictments

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    better life. However, the idea of the American dream has also been criticized. In The Great Gatsby and in Of Mice and Men, F. Scott Fitzgerald and John Steinbeck present the idea that seeking the American Dream is futile, only yielding disappointment and moral corruption. In The Great Gatsby, Gatsby is in pursuit of happiness because he already got the material success, comfort and the property. Gatsby is in pursuit of happiness because all he wants is Daisy to come back to his side and

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    reinforced by the character’s lifestyles in The Great Gatsby. Their goals are to achieve money, popularity, and power but through the novel their goals fall apart. Each person has characteristics of the American Dream in their lives but as the novel continues they lose these characteristics. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, the main theme is the deterioration of the American Dream in the lives of the characters. First, The Great Gatsby operates on a skewed version of the American Dream

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    The Great Gatsby, a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, brings to thought many issues regarding the 20’s. The 20’s were a booming time for stocks, businesses, and the wealthy. Fitzgerald was a man of his time and in The Great Gatsby we notice the differences in the way men and women were treated and the different ways of acting and reacting. Jay Gatsby, our main protagonist is a wealthy bootlegger in the city of West Egg, living across the harbour from the girl he believes to be the love of his life, Daisy

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    The Great Fantasy Idealism is the paramount theme in “The Great Gatsby.” Each of the characters have a craving for self-definition and a high position in society. The story is shaped by the ideals each of these characters hold. These ideals allude to the American Dream, along with the superficiality and corruption associated with it. Fitzgerald uses Jay Gatsby as a medium to portray hopeless romanticism, fantasy fueled ambition, and failure to achieve self-contentment. Gatsby is characterized

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    Mandi Meins Mrs. Powell Block 4 September 21, 2014 The Great Gatsby Literary Analysis The Great Gatsby includes many forms of important literary elements. The element that stands out the most is conflict. Throughout The Great Gatsby many conflicts arise and the main character deals with some very interesting situations. The author, F. Scott Fitzgerald, does a tremendous job of allowing those conflicts to sneak up on the reader. In The Great Gatsby, the amount of conflict surely increases towards the

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    The Great Gatsby is a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The sub-genre behind this piece of literature would be considered a Modernist and Jazz Age novel. Fitzgerald was an intelligent child growing up, but he had difficulty managing to do well in school. After failing to graduate from Princeton University in 1917, he enrolled in the army as World War I was ending. From this point, he instantly fell in love with his sweetheart who only agreed to marry him if he became wealthy as her. After his

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    The Great Gatsby Tarnished American Dream

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    The Great Gatsby: A Tarnished American Dream      Thesis: In his influential book The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald recognizes and describes many of the less alluring characteristics of the 1920's and the pursuit of the American Dream including dysfunctional relationships, materialism and classism.       The American dream states that people can work themselves up "from rags to riches" by hard work.1 For this reason, the new society has developed dreams of the blind pursuit

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