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story Fitzgerald presents that they are both having affairs and lie in many aspects of their lives. Jordan Baker, a professional golfer, lies during her first golf match and no one questions it because of her social status. Tom Buchanan takes Nick Carraway to a street with “a long white cake of apartment houses” where they drink, party, and Tom has an affair (28). These white apartments are the setting of much sinful and impure behavior. White shows much hypocrisy through The Great Gatsby because Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and was published in 1925. The novel vividly paints the wasted American Dream in a 1920’s America just out of World War 1. It shows the postwar panic, the shaking of social; mores, loss of innocence and a culture shock where values of the old generation were rejected with fashion; which included skirts above the knee bobbed hair and a Bohemian lifestyle that came with little moral. The Great Gatsby consists of nine chapters where Fitzgerald presents

Caribbean and he was also the main character in Edward Scissorhands. If you've seen any of Jonny Depp's movies you would know that he is very versatile and will go to any depth to be the best he can as a character. Nick Carraway- For my Great Gatsby movie, the person playing Nick Carraway will be Jim Carrey. Jim Carrey is a perfect fit for Nick because Jim can go from a freak to a complete romantic guy, with all the movies he has done he can do any personality there is. And the way

pictures of the characters, and it symbolizes “New Money” and indicates how important is the theme of class and society. Also, the color grey represents lifelessness through the character George, while the color white represents innocence through Nick Carraway and Jordan Barker. Finally, the color red indicates the

trying to achieve this dream are chasing something that can’t be caught. The American dream is unattainable and gives false hope to people who desire wealth and power. Scott Fitzgerald conveys this idea in The Great Gatsby by telling the story of Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby’s failures in achieving the American dream. Jay Gatsby is a wealthy man, but he doesn’t achieve the American dream entirely and ends up losing his life

Tom Buchanan is a very horrible man that can basically be considered an antagonist to anyone in the book. He is does not care for people’s feelings, only his own matter to him. First off he actually told Nick about his mistress eve though Nick is Daisy’s cousin. Tom has many qualities that make him an opposing force. He feels he is above others and can do as he pleases. Plus he does not mind being a bully in front of people and ordering people around as though he is the boss. First off he is cheating

The Desire of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby film The Academy Award winning film, The Great Gatsby, is narrated by the writer Nick Carraway as he heads on to New York City in the spring of 1922, an era of bootleggers, jazz and undeniably the American Dream. Following his own version of the American Dream, Nick finds himself next door to the mysterious millionaire, Jay Gatsby, and diagonally across the bay from his cousin, Daisy. Gatsby is a man who lives with one desire, to be reunited with

Literary devices help convey and strengthen the message of a story. Whether it be symbolism, tone, juxtaposition, or diction, authors have been using their special tools of writing for hundreds of years. “The Great Gatsby,” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is no exception. Fitzgerald used diction, tone, and the characters of “The Great Gatsby” to impact his audience by repainting America the way he viewed it in his setting. Fitzgerald’s word choice suggests that the setting of “The Great Gatsby” is a mini

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s tale of love, wealth, and an unfavorable fruition of the general American dream, The Great Gatsby describes the life of its title character through the perceptive eyes of Nick Carraway. After Jay Gatsby befriends Nick Carraway when he invites him to his house for a lavish party, Nick chronicles his friendship with Gatsby and his life in West Egg. Nick and Gatsby share a peculiar relationship that is laden with Nick’s pure admiration of Gatsby as well as his sharp criticism

The Great Gatsby : Summer Reading Assignment 1 By: Harrison Hodge "The Great Gatsby" by Francis Scott Fitzgerald is about an aspiring young businessman named Nick Carraway who moved New York to experience the American Dream. Nick settled in a house located in the West Egg District of Long Island where he met the wealthy yet peculiar Jay Gatsby. Throughout the book, Nick and Gatsby become great friends as Gatsby teaches Nick about life as Nick helps Gatsby with the love of his life. Within the