In Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, all the characters are in one way or another, attempting to achieve a state of happiness in their lives. There are only two main social groups, the rich upper class and the poor lower class, which struggles to attain a higher position. ... The rich are greedy and think they are the best, the rich women seemed to float in thin air, as though they " were buoyed up upon an anchored balloon" (Gatsby 12). ... The poor are in way on the outside looking in, as the rich have a great time and enjoy life. ... Daisy suggests that we " beat them down" (Gatsby 18)....

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Nick Carraway the narrator of The Great Gatsby has qualities, which are the complete opposite of those of Tom Buchanan, his cousin-in-law. ... It shows that Nick's morals are high he can not hurt an old man who had just lost his son; whereas Tom's morals are so low, that he hurts a poor stranger walking down the street, who is trying to make a living. ... Willison, to Gatsby. ... I told him the truth. he said, He came to the door while we were getting ready to leave and when I sent down "?... In The Great Gatsby, there are three illicit relationships: Gatsby and Daisy, Nick and Jo...

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Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby resembles a Christ-like figure. ... However, a closer look reveals a religious connection with the protagonist, Jay Gatsby. ... " When the party starts to die down and Gatsby is "standing alone...looking from one group to another", Nick can "see nothing sinister about him" (Fitzgerald 50). ... Wilson, which represents the Roman soldiers, then arrives at Gatsby's house to shoot him for Daisy's crime. ... In conclusion, Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby has many biblical allusions to connect Gatsby and Jesus...

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In using psychoanalysis, the classic novel, "The Great Gatsby" evolves from a tragic love story into one full of dysfunction. ... When Tom tells her he wants to eat supper with a group of strangers at Gatsby's party, rather than with her, because he finds one of the men amusing, she immediately realizes that her husband is pursuing another women. She offers him her "little gold pencil" in case he wants to "take down any addresses," and "she looked around after a moment and told Nick that the girl was 'common but pretty'" (Fitzgerald, p. 112). ... ...

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Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. ... Many people in the era of The Great Gatsby (circa 1920's; also known as the Jazz Age) thought the American Dream was easily accessible and did not notice the hardships in which one might have endured to get to place in their life in which they reside. ... Unless you were raised correctly and/or into money, you were looked down upon by upper class society. ... People automatically assumed that this "Nouveau Riche" were just a group of hooligans whom did not know how to conduct themselves properly in public. ... The people of a higher social...

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It trends from old puritanical American culture, the affirmation that Americans everywhere are a special people, "a city upon a hill" like the old puritans of New England called it, a land and place formulated by divine providence and right to be a beacon of hope, promise and freedom to the rest of the world. ... For Fahey, this dream involves "a rise from rags to riches, of amassing a great fortune that will assure a life of luxuriant ease, power, and beauty in an ideal world untroubled by care and devoted to everlasting pleasure with nothing to intervene between wish and fulfillment (70)." I...

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He was an African American civilian injured upon arrest and fell into a fatal coma. ... The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald, The Adventures of Walter Mitty by James Thurber, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain show numerous examples of this throughout their storylines. ... Lemme look at you chile, lemme feel o' you. ... In addition to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald exhibits a form of lack of conformity to society as well. ... He is set off as being more practical and down-to-earth than other characters, says Clif...

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Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is driven by her belief that she is of a greater social caliber than indicated by her life in the valley of ashes with George; it is this idea that inspires her intense longing for escape through her relationship with Tom which ends in her violent death. ... She realizes that she is tied down in an unfulfilling relationship with no hope of improvement and little hope of escape. ... The third facet of the party scene from which Myrtle's character can be gleaned is the way in which Myrtle speaks and relates to the other party guests and the c...

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