The Great Gatsby | Themes
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By juxtaposing characters from the West and East in America in The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald was making some moral observations about the people who live there. Those in the Midwest—the newly arrived Nick Carraway—were fair, relatively innocent, unsophisticated, while those who lived in the East for some time—Tom and Daisy Buchanan—were unfair, corrupt, and materialistic. The Westerners who moved East, furthermore, brought the violence of the Old West days to their new lives. Fitzgerald romanticizes the Midwest, since it is where the...
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The Great Gatsby: Essays and Criticism
- Three Themes in The Great Gatsby
- Major and Minor Characters in The Great Gatsby
- Critique of American Upper Class Values
- The Paradoxical Role of Women
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- The American Dream
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- A Modernist Masterwork
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