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The Great Gatsby
Gatsby has built an empire and his fortune with the goal of getting back together with Daisy, his long-lost love. How he got his money is a source of much rumor and he keeps his background as...
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The Great Gatsby
One flash forward takes place at the beginning of chapter 2. At the end of the previous chapter, Nick has returned to his house in West Egg from Tom and Daisy Buchanan's house, where he has spent...
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The Great Gatsby
The most famous honesty quote in The Great Gatsby is the following: Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I...
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The Great Gatsby
The American Dream is the idea that anyone, with hard work and sacrifice, can achieve his dreams, no matter how monumental those dreams are. The American Dream strongly supports the notion that a...
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The Great Gatsby
In The Great Gatsby, Doctor T.J. Eckelburg is the disembodied bespeckled eyes on a billboard overlooking the Valley of Ashes. Judging by the description of the fading paint and overall poor state...
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The Great Gatsby
Nick Carraway, the novel's unreliable narrator, seems more of a friend to Gatsby than Daisy. Though Daisy is his cousin, he views her as insincere and a little arrogant. From this perspective, the...
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The Great Gatsby
In The Great Gatsby, one example of Daisy's cynicism is evident when she tells Nick the narrator about the birth of her daughter. She explains how dissappointed she was when the baby turned out to...
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The Great Gatsby
In Chapter 1, Nick Carraway arrives at Daisy and Tom Buchanan's home to visit them on their gorgeous estate in the East Egg. Nick initially describes Tom as having "arrogant eyes" and a "cruel...
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The Great Gatsby
In chapter two of The Great Gatsby, Nick travels with Tom to the Valley of the Ashes. He then goes to a party at Myrtle's apartment in New York City. For the first time, we are introduced to the...
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The Great Gatsby
Look at the language Fitzgerald chooses and the environment he describes as chapter eight opens. The morning of the day after the accident and Myrtle's death - it's foggy and still dark. Nick and...
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Ironically, individuals in The Great Gatsby compromise their happiness in two opposing ways, either by settling for too little or demanding too much. Daisy is a character who settles for too little...
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George Wilson, Myrtle's husband, has gone completely pale, and he yells out "incessantly his high horrible call" of "O, my Ga-od! O, my Ga-od!" over and over. He is clearly in shock and can hardly...
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The Great Gatsby
I think Myrtle would be an interesting choice for this assignment. Myrtle doesn't want to simply be the wife of a garage owner. She dreams of a life filled with grandeur, and she also finds a path...
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Gatsby feels the need to try to reconcile the past and present because he loves Daisy, and he hopes to rekindle their romance as though the last five years have not actually taken place. He tries...
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The Great Gatsby
In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby's life is filled with uncertainties. Born James Gatz to "shiftless and unsuccessful farm people," Gatsby grows up poor and has to make his own...
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The Great Gatsby
Nick's sense of disillusionment is aided by the fact that Gatsby could not survive. The idea that someone could be too sensitive, too hopeful, too romantic to make it in this world populated by...
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The Great Gatsby
It is in Chapter 3, when Nick goes to the first of Gatsby's parties that he attends, that he discovers the hive of speculation that surrounds his host and his mysterious background. Very swiftly,...
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The Great Gatsby
Gatsby says this important quote to Nick in Chapter 4, when he tells Nick about the "truth" of his background so that Nick will not be taken in by the elaborate fictions he has heard about Gatsby...
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The Great Gatsby
In Chapter Six, Nick advises Gatsby not to ask too much of Daisy, not to ask her to repudiate her love for Tom: “You can’t repeat the past,” he says. Gatsby disagrees: “Why of course you can!”...
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Jay Gatsby created his own persona when he transformed himself from Jay Gatz. He worked hard to appear wealthy, well educated, sophisticated, successful, and trustworthy. However, others did not...
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The Great Gatsby
By the end of chapter six in The Great Gatsby, Daisy and Gatsby have been reunited after six years apart, leading Nick to comment as the chapter closes on the "colossal vitality" of Gatsby's...
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The Great Gatsby
The regions on which Fitzgerald focuses most of his attention are New York and Long Island, the story's physical setting, and the Midwest, which emerges as an important symbol. Ultimately, the East...
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The Great Gatsby
In Chapter Four of The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby, the romantic American hero, comes alive as he balances with a "resourcefulness of movement that is so peculiarly American." His energy and "formless...
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The Great Gatsby
Nick tells the story of Jay Gatsby because he is arguably the most objective character in the novel. Also, since he has no previous knowledge of Gatsby, Nick can narrate in less of a chronological...
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The Great Gatsby
Gatsby's "platonic conception of himself" most likely refers to Plato's idea that "truth is an abstraction." Simply put, Plato argued that ideas are separate from reality. Gatsby's idea of himself...
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The Great Gatsby
There are many similarities among Fitzgerald, Nick, and Gatsby. All are sons of the Midwest, and both Nick and Gatsby served in WWI, something Fitzgerald wanted to do before the Armistice ended his...
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The Great Gatsby
In chapter 5, Nick, at Gatsby's request, arranges for Daisy to come over for tea. Gatsby will be there to greet her, though to Daisy his presence will be a surprise. The couple will meet again for...
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The Great Gatsby
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Before Gatsby was reunited with Daisy, he spent significant amounts of time and energy dreaming of the day when he would be with her again. As he built up hopes and fantasies, he often spent time...
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The Great Gatsby
Nick presents himself as a person of some ambition, privileged background (snobbishly moral in his description), and discusses how he thinks he was viewed by his peers in college. People accused...
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The Great Gatsby
The major advantage to having Nick be the narrator of The Great Gatsby is his intimacy with the situation. He is Daisy's second cousin "once removed" and is neighbor to the eponymous Jay Gatsby....
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The Great Gatsby
While at a dinner party with Tom and Daisy, Nick, the narrator, is made uncomfortable by Tom's insistence on speaking of social and racial matters. The conversation becomes disjointed as the othere...
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In the 1920s, Chicago was home to some of America's most infamous gangsters, including Al Capone, Bugs Moran, and Tony Accardo. In 1929, the infighting between Chicago's gangsters led to the Saint...
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The Great Gatsby
In general, Fitzgerld portrayed characters in his novels and stories who were very idealistic and passionate. They believed in romantic ideas like love at first sight and the integrity of an honest...
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The Great Gatsby
In the novel The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the enigmatic Jay Gatsby meets and falls in love with Daisy and then goes off to war. When he returns, he makes his fortune, purchases his...
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He does judge those around him-just like every other human being. Remember, just because someone is narrating a story, doesn't mean their point of view is reliable. In fact, immediately after...
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After the party Tom and Daisy attend at Gatsby's house, the Buchanans leave, and Gatsby expresses his fears that Daisy did not like the party and did not have a good time. Gatsby says that he...
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This passage is in Chapter 6, in a part where we are seeing the time when Gatsby was still a nobody in Minnesota. I think that the language in this paragraph creates a dreamlike world both in the...
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When Nick tells Gatsby he “can’t repeat the past,” he is referring to Gatsby’s obsession with Daisy and the dreams they had when they were young. They are not words Gatsby wanted to hear. “Can’t...
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The key to understanding the quote specified in the question -- "She was the first 'nice' girl he had ever known" -- lies in one's memory of having read the chapters that preceded the one (Chapter...
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Tom Buchanan and Jay Gatsby have several things in common. They are both very single minded. They both want Daisy. Tom wants to own her and Jay is obsessed with her. They both like the finer...
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Because of Nick's view as a narrator, we want to like Gatsby as a person. He positions the words about Gatbsy as rumors. People in general lie when spreading rumors. The gossiping feel to a rumor...
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The Great Gatsby
At the beginning of chapter 7, Daisy flaunts her affair with Gatsby in front of Nick and Jordan; she kisses him when Tom steps out of the room momentarily. The drinking that everyone partakes in at...
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The Great Gatsby
The guests at Gatsby's parties include all the "beautiful people" of his day. Gatsby's aim in entertaining, as with most things, was to present himself as being highly desirable and influential in...
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The Great Gatsby
To answer this question, take a look at chapter 4. During their drive to New York, Gatsby says some weird things and acts in a strange way. First, without any prompting, Gatsby says he wants to...
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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
At the end of chapter 3, Nick asserts that Jordan lies. In particular, he suddenly remembers an incident of barely averted scandal in which she was accused of moving a golf ball to a better...
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The Great Gatsby
This is a very interesting question. Believe it or not, you might actually debate whether he told outright lies about many things at all! You can say he definitely lied when he said his parents...
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The Great Gatsby
By the end of chapter seven in The Great Gatsby, there are few, if any, illusions left: most of the characters have been revealed for what they truly are. To take just one example, Gatsby has...
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The Great Gatsby
One of the major themes in The Great Gatsby is the nature of time and the past, and we can see this playing out in Chapter 5. Gatsby, awkward and nervous, leans back against Nick's mantelpiece and...
