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    In The Great Gatsby, the characters grow and flourish, but are exposed as having something all living creatures possess: weakness. However, each of their weaknesses has a role to play in the events that later unfold. George Wilson, husband of Myrtle, is cursed with ignorance and a lack of power. Tom Buchanan is victim to the loss of George’s wife, Myrtle, his secret lover, and the loss of Daisy to his foe, Gatsby. Meanwhile Daisy faces problems of her own, divided

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    Daisy? Myrtle? Gatsby himself? Give reasons why or why not each character is implicated in the murder.” Great Gatsby Essay There are five people that are responsible for Jay Gatsby’s death. One of them is directly to blame, since he pulled the trigger. The other three were involved in the murder. The one who pulled the trigger was George Wilson. He was in pain because of the murder of his wife. He loved her, and he was completely insane with grief. Wilson thought that Gatsby was Myrtles

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    concept is demonstrated in The Great Gatsby. Although Gatsby, Tom and Myrtle have different motives for being deceitful, they all lie in order to fulfill their desires and personal needs. Myrtle’s desire to be wealthy is illustrated when she first meets Tom, dressed in his expensive clothing, as her attitude changes when she puts on the luxurious dress and when she encourages Tom to buy her a dog. Tom’s deception is clear when he hides his affair with Myrtle by placing Myrtle in a different train, withholding

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    and they will do anything for money. That relates back a lot to the 1920s. A famous novel called The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald is set in the 1920s. The Great Gatsby is about a higher class wealthy man, Jay Gatsby, who fell in love with a beautiful high class woman, Daisy Buchanan, when they were younger. Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan and the rest of the characters in The Great Gatsby all have goals and values that intervened with the story and the life lesson of the story. In the

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    The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald effectively portrays 1920’s America and its twisted, unsavory values. The novel has been called “the American masterwork,” by Jonathan Yardley of The Washington Post, because of the novel’s characterization of the Jazz Age and all of it’s unsatisfactory glory. One critic has written, “The theme of Gatsby is the withering of the American dream.” Fitzgerald’s work validates this statement. The Great Gatsby wonderfully depicts the death of the American

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    Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, characters are killed, hearts are broken, and lives are forever changed. The atmosphere of the deaths of Myrtle and Gatsby foreshadow the later mental and physical deaths that occur between the characters. The atmosphere of the death’s of Myrtle Wilson and Jay Gatsby was violent, unexpected, and very different. The curious Tom and Nick “...peered over a circle of heads…” which reveals how chaotic the Wilson’s garage was after the death of Myrtle Wilson (Fitzgerald 138)

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    dream in his paperback, The Great Gatsby where he tries to explain the approving ways and disapproving ways of the “good life”. In the 1920’s the American dream is rendered in symbolic ways throughout the novel, but is specifically shown in the roles of the characters. The American dream is not always achievable, sometimes the effects of reaching it can be a lot worse than anyone can imagine, especially through the lives of George, Myrtle, and Gatsby. In the novel Gatsby is not only the main character

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    it come into play in The Great Gatsby? Throughout the novel, characters like Tom Buchanan and George Wilson experience many similar situations. Tom Buchanan is married to Daisy Buchanan and Daisy ends up cheating on Tom with Jay Gatsby. The Buchanans live in West Egg. George Wilson is a married working man that owns a gas station.George is married to Myrtle Wilson. They live in the valley of the ashes. Myrtle Wilson cheats on George with Tom Buchanan. Tom and George Wilson are both very similar people

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    The Great Gatsby is the classic American novel that many high school students have quandered numerous times. The novel seems to have many themes throughout, but I believe the main theme is a combination of two ideologies prominent during the book. These two points are the author’s, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, thoughts on love and wealth. Love and wealth throughout a the book are portrayed as being terrible and dangerous. Fitzgerald writes of the consequences when the two concepts are combined

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    The novel “the great Gatsby” is told through the perspective of nick carraway who is a new residence in the neighborhood of west egg. Nick carraway moves from the Midwest to west egg, as he arrives he soon find out his neighbor is Mr. Gatsby. Soon after arriving, nick travels to east egg to meet his cousin, daisy buchanan. Daisy is married to tom buchanan, who is a portrayed as a strong, big and hulking individual. While visiting, nick meets Jordan baker who both attract to each other throughout

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