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    Is gatsby great? A great person is someone who can accomplish something that most can’t. In the great Gatsby, by F. scott fitzgerald, a man named Nick carraway moves to West Egg New York to fulfil his work bonds and stalks sales man. When nick goes to one of gatsby's party he is stunned by how amazing gatsby's house is this is when Nick finds out that gatsby is great. Gatsby is great because he is generous and kind to his friends and devotes a lot to others in chapter 3 fitzgerald stats that gatsby

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    Lit. 2/29/16 The Great Gatsby The novel, The Great Gatsby, is written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Born on September 24, 1896, most of his novels are said to relate to his own life during his childhood years. The Great Gatsby is just one of those novels that can relate to his life by the way the main character lives in the book. The Great Gatsby takes place at a time preceding the Great Depression of the 1930’s. “Even alone I can’t

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    Ladies describes Gatsby, the protagonist of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and his ambitions throughout his life. Gatsby is from North Dakota and is born into poverty, therefore he dedicates his life to chasing wealth and improving his social status. The song lists all the different ways the singers would spend a million dollars like: “I'd buy you a house”, “I'd buy you furniture for your house”, “I'd buy you a k-car”, etc. It is a greedy and money driven song, just like Gatsby. The reader can

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    one of the largest progressive epidemics, spreading across the American population challenging people to stand for themselves, their rights, and their desires as people. F. Scott Fitzgerald captures and shares this new lifestyle in his novel, The Great Gatsby, to allow his audience the chance to travel back in time and

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    Professor Benjamin West Literature 221 23 August 2015 Gatsby versus Paradise To look at F. Scott Fitzgerald popular “The Great Gatsby”, which has been recreated for film many times, but the one that this paper will be using is Jack Clayton’s 1974 version and compare it to Fitzgerald’s first novel “This Side of Paradise”. The two are set in America, his first novel being set in the 1910’s and the other set in the roaring twenties. Fitzgerald's “The Great Gatsby” and “This Side of Paradise” portray very different

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    Literary Genre The three texts I have studied are ‘Great Gatsby’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald, ‘Children of men’ by Alfonso Cuarón and ‘Plough and the Stars’ by Sean O’Casey. Literary genre deals with how a story is told. On a basic level, the texts tell their stories differently depending on whether they are a novel, play or film. For the novel this involves the use of descriptive prose with a narrator(s) forwarding the plot. In the play the story is told through the dialogue and stage directions. While

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    I disagree with the statement, Nick Carraway is a crucial element in the narration of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Numerous vital information would be lost if the narration was done by a third person narrator. Nick is a character in the novel and also the narrator, this duality allows Nick to communicate his thoughts with the readers throughout the novel. As a character Nick is honest, loyal and “inclined to reserve all judgements” as he is not wealthy and materialistic and he is not

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    In his novel The Great Gatsby, author F. Scott Fitzgerald had the main character Nick Carroway stand out as being overall, a decent person. Nick stands out especially when being compared to the other characters in the story. It is Nick's honesty with himself and toward others, his morality, and his unbiased, slow to judge qualities that make him the novel's best character. <br> <br>The chain of events that occur in the story begin with Nick meeting Jordan Baker at Gatsby's party. It was this meeting

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    experiences. In the Great Gatsby, Nick attends his first Gatsby party and was the only one who was formally invited whereas everyone else simply showed up. In the first ten minutes Nick is there, he constantly hears everyone romanticizing Gatsby’s past. Despite the convincing arguments people had about him being a war hero, an oxford man and cousin to a German general, Nick’s face still lit up the second he was introduced to the famous Jay Gatsby. James Gatz formally known as Jay Gatsby was raised by a

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    In the James Weldon Johnson’s “Audio biography of an Ex-Colored Man”, Jonhson’s narrator at face first is written to be perceived as a white male, when in fact he is inherently of colored descent in regards to societies principle of the one drop policy. Consequently, the narrator is faced with an identity complex who finds it difficult to understand whether he is black because of societies has categorized him on the account of his bloodline, or white because of his appearance. For in the end of the

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