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The Great Gatsby
This is a fairly complex assignment. In your first paragraph, you should set out a discussion of what your paper will be addressing. Perhaps the best issue to talk about is the decline in social...
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The Great Gatsby
In The Great Gatsby, the characters have different ways of expressing and living out their dream lives. Gatsby, for example, is chiefly concerned with winning back Daisy, his lost love. He believes...
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The Great Gatsby
In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald illustrates the failure of the American Dream in two ways. First of all, he does this through the settings he creates. Think, for example, about the differences...
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The Great Gatsby
The rejection of the Sloanes in Chapter Six of The Great Gatsby evinces the rejection of Jay Gatsby by the upper class of East Egg who have "background." After having arranged for Gatsby to meet...
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The Great Gatsby
Gatsby uses the phrase "old sport" to sound upperclass British, more like the "Oxford man" he claims to be. It's an English phrase, similar to "I say" or "I say, old chap," and it grates on the...
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The Great Gatsby
Arguably, Nick is the narrator of The Great Gatsby because he is an outsider. Nick is not from West or East Egg, for instance, and was, in fact, raised in the Midwest. In addition, Nick does not...
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The Great Gatsby
I do not feel that Gatsby is fair to Daisy throughout the novel. Gatsby naively believes that Daisy should leave her husband who she has a child with in order to be with him. He gives her an...
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The Great Gatsby
At the Plaza Hotel, Gatsby and Tom Buchanan face off over Daisy. Tom does everything he can to press his class advantage over his rival. First, Tom, a Yale graduate, taunts Gatsby over allegedly...
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The Great Gatsby
Despite its slim size, The Great Gatsby encompasses a diverse array of important themes, commenting on everything from the state of capitalism to gender relations. As such, it's very difficult to...
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The Great Gatsby
The party in question occurs in chapter 6. Daisy initially displays a mood of conviviality and enthusiasm, as evidenced by her remarks: “These things excite me so,” she whispered. “I’m...
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The Great Gatsby
As chapter seven closes, the reader recognizes a series of ends. Myrtle Wilson's life has violently ended, and with it, her dream of escaping the Valley of Ashes. With Daisy back in the Buchanans'...
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The Great Gatsby
Gatsby's determination to better himself is made evident in the daily schedule he devised for himself, along with a list of the "general resolves." He wrote them on the last, blank page of a copy...
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The Great Gatsby
Jordan doesn't narrate all of Chapter IV, but she does narrate one section of the chapter. After Nick describes the usual guests at Gatsby's parties, Gatsby and Nick go into town, and Gatsby...
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The Great Gatsby
To say that Chapter 4 represents a turning point in the novel means that it marks some significant change in the plot or narrative. Nick begins this chapter by listing the usual guests at Gatsby's...
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The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is a Modernist novel in that it searches for meaning during the breakdown of traditional values in the era following WW I. Gatsby refutes many traditional...
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The Great Gatsby
Tom's newfound philosophy is one based on racism. According to the text, Tom has been reading a book named "The Rise of the Colored Empires" by someone named Goddard. Tom's book, of course, is...
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The Great Gatsby
Fitzgerald was a Midwesterner; he was born in Minnesota and spent his youth there. In many of his novels and short stories, including The Great Gatsby, the West symbolizes certain values. Nick, a...
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The Great Gatsby
D'Invilliers was both a pen name for Fitzgerald and a character based on Fitzgerald's friend, the poet John Peale Bishop. The quote reflects Gatsby's conviction that if he can earn enough money and...
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The Great Gatsby
Fitzgerald's portrayal of three principal female characters in The Great Gatsby through Nick's narration is indeed negative. Daisy Fay Buchanan emerges as a shallow, spoiled, and selfish woman....
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The Great Gatsby
Throughout the novel, Daisy is a physically attractive woman who is unhappily married to a wealthy man. Although Daisy is in love with Jay Gatsby and has an affair with him, she chooses to stay...
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The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald) begins with the green light in Chapter I, as Gatsby "stretched out his arms in a curious way, and. . . was trembling" (26-27), and it ends with the green light, too,...
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The Great Gatsby
This is ultimately a matter of personal opinion, but I believe that Gatsby was the instigator of his own tragic demise. Gatsby's motivations throughout the entirety of the book are hidden and...
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The Great Gatsby
Fitzgerald told his editor, Maxwell Perkins, in 1923, "I want to write something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned." This was the seed of his plan to...
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The Great Gatsby
From his wife, Daisy, Tom Buchanan wants to be respected and loved. When she mocks the books he's been reading, he "glanc[es] at her impatiently." Further, when Daisy refers to him as "hulking,"...
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The Great Gatsby
Gatsby begins to have a problem with Daisy as his dream of recapturing her is effectively over and he must now work to sustain her interest in him. For years Jay Gatsby has worked and planned for...
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The Great Gatsby
It is not really a single character who kills Myrtle, George, and the title character, Jay Gatsby. It is instead a certain trait: carelessness. If you have to blame a person or two for causing...
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The Great Gatsby
The Don McLean song "American Pie" might be a fitting song to describe Gatsby's death. For example, at the beginning of the song, the lyrics are as follows: "And I knew if I had my chance / That I...
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The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby doesn't strike this reader as particularly comical, but I can think of one part where Nick's ironic commentary on Myrtle Wilson might produce some comedy. Myrtle, Tom's mistress,...
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The Great Gatsby
Ultimately, we cannot determine the answer to this as it would require being able to see inside the mind of Fitzgerald and assess his inner feelings and motives, something that is not possible. We...
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The Great Gatsby
In this quote, Fitzgerald uses a metaphor to compare the future (and the fulfilment of one's personal goals) to the green light outside Daisy's house. He also uses personification to describe the...
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The Great Gatsby
At the beginning of Chapter VIII, the night after the accident that killed Myrtle Wilson, Nick feels he needs to warn Gatsby about the probability that he'll be blamed for Myrtle's death. He...
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The Great Gatsby
In The Great Gatsby, George Wilson is a minor character who acts as a foil--a character who has character traits that are the opposite of another character. Mr. Gatz is a flat character, a...
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The Great Gatsby
What you write for your thesis statement depends on the evidence you use. There are many different thesis statements you could come up with about what makes Gatsby great. For example, Nick writes...
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The Great Gatsby
You can find lots of examples of irony in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Many examples show how empty, stagnant, and self-absorbed the upper class is. Daisy's first words are "I'm...
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George Wilson lives in the area known as the valley of ashes, located between West Egg and New York City. Here, it seems as though everything is coated with a thick layer of this ash: the...
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Based on the two choices you have, it would be most accurate to say that F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is a satire critiquing American ideals. On the one hand, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The...
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The Great Gatsby
The mood in the first few chapters is somewhat sad. Nick Carraway, the narrator, is telling the story after all the events have taken place, and he uses foreshadowing to help establish this mood....
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The Great Gatsby
In answering this question, I'd like to focus on the consequences (or lack thereof) Daisy faces as a result of her recklessness. In doing so, I'm not saying that Tom or Gatsby's guests aren't...
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The Great Gatsby
Daisy is shown to be very alluring to the other characters. In the scene in which she is first introduced, she laughs "an absurd, charming little laugh, and I [Nick] laughed too." In this instance,...
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The Great Gatsby
The idea of the American Dream is a huge theme in The Great Gatsby. Each character is searching for his/ her version of the American Dream. Typically, the American Dream refers to the belief that...
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The Great Gatsby
In the Scribner, New York, 2004, edition of the novel, the passage to which you seem to refer begins on page 23. It is in the very first paragraph of Chapter II. Nick says, This is a valley of...
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The Great Gatsby
A vigil beside a body would be a funeral service (actually a vigil is an all-night prayer service) held in the room where the dead body is laid out. So, the manner in which Tom and Miss Baker...
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The Great Gatsby
Both Jay Gatsby and George Wilson were chasing the American Dream, and both were somewhat out of touch with reality in their inability to realize that the American Dream is really a fiction....
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Hamlet
At first glance, it would appear F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and William Shakespeare's Hamlet are too dissimilar to warrant any kind of comparison. Upon further analysis, however, the...
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The Great Gatsby
Nick's description of Myrtle Wilson when he first meets her at Wilson's garage, sharply contrasts his characterizations of Daisy Buchanan, who is young, girlish, languid, and has a "low, thrilling...
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The Great Gatsby
There are multiple ways that this question could be answered. From one perspective, it could be reasoned that Fitzgerald is condemning the American Dream entirely. Gatsby's idealization of Daisy is...
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The Great Gatsby
This is certainly an intriguing, opinion-based question. One could argue for or against the idea that Jordan Baker should be with Nick. The two characters have many similarities. They are both...
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The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald once said, "There are no second acts." It is helpful to analyze Gatsby's obsession with Daisy, and his insistence on "living in the past," in light of this statement. What...
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The Great Gatsby
Chapter Two starts with a description of the Valley of Ashes, an area between West Egg and the heart of New York City. This is a desolate area where the color grey is repeatedly mentioned. This...
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The Great Gatsby
Tom values power over others to a great extent. At the beginning of the novel, he is unable to fully control his wife. She pokes fun at him and his ideas, calls him a "brute" even though he hates...