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        <title><![CDATA[One passage that relates to money, dishonesty, carelessness, hypocrisy,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[One passage that relates to money, dishonesty, carelessness, hypocrisy, and the American dream is the scene in Chapter 5, in which Gatsby shows Daisy his house. This scene climaxes in Gatsby throwing his shirts on the bed while Daisy cries.
Throughout the reunion, he points out his obvious trappings of wealth in an attempt to impress Daisy. The shirts are no exception. He finishes the tour of his ostentatious mansion by desperately offering...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[While most would see being sophisticated as a positive trait, Daisy...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[While most would see being sophisticated as a positive trait, Daisy diminishes the word's connotation.  When Daisy scorns her own sophistication, she really means that she hates that she must live up to an image of sophistication. If she were not Old Money (or "sophisticated"), she would have been able to be with Gatsby when he returned from the war.  If she were not sophisticated, she would not have to stay with Tom and endure the...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Gatsby has several illusions, all of which pertain to many themes....]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Gatsby has several illusions, all of which pertain to many themes.  Most of the themes in the novel are paradoxes, or occur in opposing pairs.  Here are a few:
1.  Gatsby believes that he can recreate the past.  Themes: past vs. prensent
2.  Gatsby believes that he can have love and money, when in fact, both are short-lived.  Themes: materialism as a form of love, marriage is happily ever after
3.  Gatsby believes in the "green light."...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 13:47:38 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Whats Gatsbys illusion,how it differs from reality presented in the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Whats Gatsbys illusion,how it differs from reality presented in the text, and how the destruction or perpetuation of the illusion illuminates a theme?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:42:50 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[There is much in your statement which holds validity.  I think that...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[There is much in your statement which holds validity.  I think that some possible rewording might center on the idea that relationships and associations depicted in the work are predicated and influenced on social status and wealth.  This is one of the elements that Fitzgerald seems to be raising about "The Jazz Age" and the time period.  Namely, social advancement and material wealth were substitutes operated as substitutes for substantive...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:17:08 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I am working on a research paper and i need a thsis that has to do with...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I am working on a research paper and i need a thsis that has to do with how the social classes of the 1920s' effect the lives and decisions of the characters in the novel! So far I have All of the superficial relationships that develop throughout the novel are bassed on the amount of money one possesses. help me if you can1]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:17:42 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ So far i have all of the superficial relationships that develop...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ So far i have all of the superficial relationships that develop throughout the novel are based on the amount of money one possesses. Help!]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:14:45 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In The Great Gatsby, why does Daisy scorn the fact that she is...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In The Great Gatsby, why does Daisy scorn the fact that she is sophisticated?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:40:10 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Cody was a yachtsman who he worked alongside. The young Gatsby was, at...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Cody was a yachtsman who he worked alongside. The young Gatsby was, at that stage in his life, aimless when he met Cody. The priceless education that Cody left for Jay on how to live was what he did for Gatsby. Cody's picture is onthe wall in Gatsby's mansion.
What Cody actually did for Gatsby was give him a reason "why" to work toward something. He was more like a fatherly influence.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:34:55 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What did Dan Cody do for Gatsby? What did Gatsby learn from him?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What did Dan Cody do for Gatsby? What did Gatsby learn from him?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[When Gatsby and Daisy first met in Louisville, she was an...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[When Gatsby and Daisy first met in Louisville, she was an eighteen-year-old girl whose family was socially and financially prominent. Daisy drove a little white roadster, lived a life of ease, and enjoyed her station in life. Gatsby, however, had run away from his poor family's North Dakota farm at seventeen, held a series of odd jobs, spent five years sailing with Dan Cody, and found himself penniless and out of a job when Cody died. He...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Literally, Dr. T. J. Eckleburg was an oculist in Queens, NY, according...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Literally, Dr. T. J. Eckleburg was an oculist in Queens, NY, according to chapter 2 of the book. The importance to the story is his old advertisement sign that resembled a large pair of round eye-glasses with eyes looking through them. The sign was adjacent to the Wilson's garage and apartment.  Of greater significance however, is the figurative purpose of the sign.  The sign represents moral judgement.  It is located at the juncture where...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Who or what is Dr. T.J. Eckleburg?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Who or what is Dr. T.J. Eckleburg?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Your question has several correct answers.
1. It is an example of a...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Your question has several correct answers.
1. It is an example of a metaphor because Fitzgerald is making an indirect comparison between two seemingly disconnected or unlike objects.  Someone's voice is not normally associated with his/her wealth/status; admittedly, we do connect accents, dialect, and vernacular with social classes, but generally, the tone of someone's voice is not compared to his or her social class.
2. The quote is also an...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Which type of literary device is the quote, "Her voice is full of money"...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Which type of literary device is the quote, "Her voice is full of money" from The Great Gatsby.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[As opposed to denotation or the "dictionary" literal meaning of a word,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[As opposed to denotation or the "dictionary" literal meaning of a word, its connotation refers to the sum total of all the associations the particular word in question conjures up. The connection may be even subliminal,  but it is all the more powerful because it touches the subconscious mind off guard.
One recurring leit motif throughout the novel which is multiple in interpretation is the colour green. It can mean 'without experience' (as...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:03:42 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[A connotation is a suggestive meaning or an association of a word.
Look...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A connotation is a suggestive meaning or an association of a word.
Look at Daisy's quote:

"All right... I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool--that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."

Originally, a fool was a male court jester (with the conical cap and bells).  Later, a fool became any person lacking in judgment.  Here, Daisy associates her unborn little girl with the word.  Typically, the...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Give one example of connotation in The Great Gatsby and explain the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Give one example of connotation in The Great Gatsby and explain the purpose of it.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[In this chapter of Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," there is interwoven...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In this chapter of Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," there is interwoven with the narrative ironic descriptions of Gatsby's guests whose moral irresponsibility and callousness Fitzgerald found reprehensible, In mentioning Gatsby's guests, Nick lists the important names such as a senator who attends despite the existence of Prohibition, and then ironically ends the paragraph with one was there three days before he went to the penintenary,...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[In chapter 4 of "The Great Gatsby," how does Fitzgerald develop his...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In chapter 4 of "The Great Gatsby," how does Fitzgerald develop his narrative?]]></description>
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