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  • The Great Gatsby Paper

    The Great Gatsby Paper

    The Great Gatsby Paper The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is told from the perspective of one of the main characters, Nick Carraway. Nick tells the story of a man named Jay Gatsby, who is his neighbor in the West Egg. Fitzgerald portrays Gatsby as a man who everyone wants to know and copy but deep down are very envious of him. Gatsby trusts few people and those whom he trusts know his

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    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Steve
  • Color Used in the Great Gatsby

    Color Used in the Great Gatsby

    Color, the way an object is perceived, is utilized the Great Gatsby as a means to express, a character’s personality, one’s status, and lastly, a symbolic meaning. Fitzgerald used color to express many personalities, such as those of Daisy and Jordan, who were almost always clothed in white. Interestingly, the white appearance would imply purity and innocence, which are, unfortunately, words that can not be remotely associated with either one. Daisy provided an explanation of

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    Essay Length: 263 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Mike
  • The Great Gatsby

    The Great Gatsby

    How far a person will go to accomplish a dream has no limits. If it includes self-reinvention, illegal acts, and self-indulgence the dream may not be as a result significant. But that is the case, in The Great Gatsby, by F Scott Fitzgerald, as the narrator Nick tells the accomplishments and wasted acts of the man known as Gatsby. Nick chooses to tell us this story to illustrate the consequences of Gatsby a man who

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    Essay Length: 543 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Janna
  • Great Gatsby

    Great Gatsby

    Page 1 During the novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the society suffered severe moral decay. Fitzgerald illustrates this with the narrator, Nick, who comes from a more ethical way of living in the mid-west. Since Nick is an outsider to the ways of the wealthy aristocrats and “new money” living in New York, he is quick to realize the flaws of the people around him. He sees that people are motivated

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    Essay Length: 1,336 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Monika
  • The Great Gatsby

    The Great Gatsby

    In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the characters Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan are said to be in love, but in reality, this seems to be a misconception. In this novel, Fitzgerald portrays the themes of love, lust, and obsession through the characters of Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan, who confuse lust and obsession with love. By the end of the novel however, Jay Gatsby is denied his “love” and

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    Essay Length: 431 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: July
  • The Mirage in the Great Gatsby

    The Mirage in the Great Gatsby

    The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a book of love and tragedy that all leads back to dreams and ideas, but never reality. Gatsby is a man of great wealth and is truly rich. Or is he? The Great Gatsby has many disguises that play a major role in several characters' lives, but mostly Gatsby's'. Gatsby believes that he will be very successful and get what he wants, including Daisy, if he

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    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Mike
  • The Great Gatsby - Symbolism

    The Great Gatsby - Symbolism

    Literature Some people believe The Great Gatsby is is about the pursuit of the American dream. In my opinion, The Great Gatsby can be viewed as the pursuit of the American dream in a symbolic nature. Taken literally, I do not see it as this pursuit. In literal terms, Jay Gatsby is already living the American dream for the most part. The only part of the dream that he is missing is the girl. Getting

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    Essay Length: 278 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 6, 2009 By: Monika
  • The Great Gatsby

    The Great Gatsby

    Stanford R. Fox 06/07/2005 Period. 1 The Great Gatsby Essay In all human life relationships are very important, and this is shown in many different aspects of human life . Relationships are so significant that Authors often use them as the revolving point of their stories. Such as in The Great Gatsby the author F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the different relationships as the revolving point in his story. Fitzgerald shows how the relationships between the

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    Submitted: December 6, 2009 By: regina
  • The Great Gatsby: Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan

    The Great Gatsby: Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan

    Casey Byrd Period 4 February 21, 2008 Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby Comparing how life is like in this present day to back in the 1920s, it’s easy to see how society has changed; the ways and standards of the people back then have changed predominately. The economy was booming and with World War I taking place, this time period had an affect on the young people of its decade. An example of this would

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    Submitted: December 7, 2009 By: Stenly
  • The Great Gatsby

    The Great Gatsby

    Is his novel the Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald creates Gatsby as a character who becomes great. He begins life as just an ordinary, lower-class, citizen. But Gatsby has a dream of becoming wealthy. After meeting Daisy, he has a reason to strive to become prominent. Throughout his life, Gatsby gains the title of truly being great. Even before Gatsby is introduced, he is hinted at being out of the ordinary. The first evidence of

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    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Vika
  • The Truly Great Gatsby

    The Truly Great Gatsby

    The Truly Great Gatsby Is his novel the Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald creates Gatsby as a character who becomes great. He begins life as just an ordinary, lower-class, citizen. But Gatsby has a dream of becoming wealthy. After meeting Daisy, he has a reason to strive to become prominent. Throughout his life, Gatsby gains the title of truly being great. Even before Gatsby is introduced, he is hinted at being out of the ordinary.

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    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Max
  • The Great Gatsby

    The Great Gatsby

    Great Gatsby The great gatsby and the fall of the american dream. The book 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald was an 'icon of its time.' The book discusses topics that were important, controversial and interesting back in 1920's America. The novel is 'an exploration of the American Dream as it exists in a corrupt period of history.' The main themes in the book are the decay of morals and values and the frustration

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    Submitted: December 11, 2009 By: David
  • The Great Gatsby

    The Great Gatsby

    The Great Gatsby Fitzgernald F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York: Scribner, 1925. In Scott F. Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, men fight over a woman. To stay financially secure, they go into illegal business. Dreams are crushed and lives are lost. It is a story that relates to the corruption of the American Dream. The story takes place in an area near New York called “Long Island.” It is in a shape of an egg.

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    Submitted: December 11, 2009 By: Janna
  • Great Gatsby Character Journal

    Great Gatsby Character Journal

    The Great Gatsby Journal Chapter 1 Summary- In Chapter 1, the reader finds that Nick Carraway, a moral and tolerant man from the Midwest, narrates and takes the role of author for the rest of the story. Throughout the book, the reader looks at the happenings through Nick’s eyes and finds out what he is thinking. Chapter 1, like many chapter 1’s, starts out with someone or something explaining themselves and showing how their life

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    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Janna
  • The Great Gatsby

    The Great Gatsby

    The exploring Fitzgerald’s use of gender roles in the novel requires a certain amount of scholarly research. Including text searches throughout the book, reading scholarly criticisms about the novel and reading articles that present new ideas about Fitzgerald’s work. Gender definition and patriarchal values is the main topic of Bethany Klassen’s article entitled, “Under Control: Patriarchal Gender construction in the Great Gatsby.” The quotes and ideas in this article are profound and bring on a

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    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: David
  • Colors in the Great Gatsby

    Colors in the Great Gatsby

    Colors in Symbolism Colors can symbolize many different things. Artists use colors in their paintings when they want you to see what they are trying to express. Like if an artist is trying to express sorrow or death he often uses blacks blues, and grays basically he uses dreary colors. You automatically feel what the artist is trying to express. When the artist uses bright colors you feel warm and you feel happiness. In the

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    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Victor
  • The Great Gatsby Essay

    The Great Gatsby Essay

    The Great Gatsby Essay Discuss Nick Carraway’s character. How reliable is he as a narrator? What aspects of his character make him an effective narrator? Nick Carraway is not only a character in the novel The Great Gatsby, he is also the narrator. This is very important because it makes him a central figure, like Gatsby. He is so involved in the plot that he becomes quite important and significant in the story. The whole

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    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Tommy
  • The Great Gatsby

    The Great Gatsby

    In the novel The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the narrator, Nick, portrays the characters living in a world full of corruption, materialism, and carelessness. Nick describes Daisy and Tom, two of the main characters of the novel as inconsiderate people who cause many problems yet do not deal with their consequences. By the end of the novel Nick states, "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures

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    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Great Gatsby

    Great Gatsby

    The story of Jay Gatsby is a romantic one that actually began years before. However, his romantic story turns into a troubling one when we realize that he is not the man he seems to be. The story of Jay Gatsby is not only filled with romance, but with secrecy, obsession, and tragedy. The symbol of Jay Gatsby’s troubled romantic obsession is a green light at the end of the dock of Daisy Buchanan,

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    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Great Gatsby Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Great Gatsby Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald

    “The Great Gatsby” written by F. Scott Fitzgerald was about a wealthy man named Gatsby who throws parties just to attract one woman. Gatsby's feelings for a woman named Daisy leads him to hard times that ends with his death. Two other characters died because of love a woman named Myrtle, and her husband Mr. Wilson. (TH) Love leads to arguments, jealousy, and a horrible accident all are the ingredients to the deaths in the

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    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Monika
  • The Great Gatsby Compared to the Wasteland

    The Great Gatsby Compared to the Wasteland

    Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby and Elliot’s The Wasteland are two stories that similarly express the modernist post-war disillusionment. Both stories comment pessimistically on the direction that our world is moving in from the post-war modernist perspective. Both men looked past the roaring twenties, and realized that this time period was actually a moral wasteland. The final paragraphs of The Great Gatsby sum up their mutual lack of faith in American culture to improve. Fitzgerald uses a

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    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Mike
  • Great Gatsby Info

    Great Gatsby Info

    Response paper on Gatsby The narrator of the story, Nick Carraway, has just returned from war and goes east to work, but being restless in the west. In flashbacks he reveals the story of Jay Gatsby, his next-door neighbor. Immediately after Nick moves to West Egg, he visits Daisy Buchanan, his second cousin once removed and her husband Tom, a fellow Yale graduate, for dinner. Here Nick meets Jordan Baker, Daisy’s friend from Louisville, who

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    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: David
  • A Comparison of the Modern Are and the 1920 with Quotes of from the Great Gatsby

    A Comparison of the Modern Are and the 1920 with Quotes of from the Great Gatsby

    The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is set in the 1920’s. A story of disillusioned love of men, women and money. During the rise of the stock market in the aftermath of the war led to a sudden, sustained increase in the national wealth and a newfound materialism, as people began to spend and consume at unprecedented levels. There for the novel will compromise a much larger and less romantic extent of their lives.

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    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Max
  • The Great Gatsby

    The Great Gatsby

    The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby is a really good book that deals with many different issues with its many different characters. A few of these characters share some characteristics while they are completely different at the same time. In this essay I will show you the similarities and differences in Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway. First off the similarities. Although there are not many there is a few to be talked about. Number one

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Color Symbolism in Great Gatsby

    Color Symbolism in Great Gatsby

    The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is full of symbols and symbolic ideas. Fitzgerald portrays important messages in the novel by his symbolic use of color, names, places and characters. A lot of important messages in the novel are conveyed by color symbolism. Colors are an important part in Fitzgerald’s description of the lives of Jay Gatsby, Nick Carraway and the other characters. The color grey is used to descbribe the valley of ashes

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    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: Andrew

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