... chooses Tom over Gatsby. She lets Gatsby take blame over killing Myrtle which in the end gets Gatsby killed. Jordan Baker is different from the other girls in the novel and most women of the 1920s. Jordan is portrayed as hard, independent, and confident. She does not put all her time into a relationship like the other girls. Instead, her time is consumed of golfing. "she had ... money. "Myrtle Wilson, her life violently extinguished, knelt in the road and mingled her thick dark blood with the dust " (Fitzgerald 131) She tried hard to achieve the American Dream, but in the end she belonge...

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... d) I think it is difficult for our generation today to imagine how heavily the Irish were burdened by poverty and hopelessness. Fortunately we have never had to face such a situation. But in general I think that I wouldn't have been as strong as Eveline. I probably would have left Ireland. page 53 tasks: 2) a) In the letter from Zelda to F Scott Fitzgerald she somehow sees herself as ... the subservient wife. Zelda tries to convince her future husband of her extraordinary abilities as a house wife and espouse. The text provokes in me the feeling that Zelda's only ... chances of achievi...

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... published. He then spent two years at a Catholic Boarding School in Hackensack, New Jersey, before enrolling at Princeton in 1913. After nearly four years of bad grades and poor health Fitzgerald dropped out of Princeton without a degree and joined the Army as a second lieutenant. It was while he was on duty in the Army outside of Montgomery Alabama where he met his soon to ... is most recognized as one of excessive drinking and instability. An even deeper blow was thrown at his marriage when his wife became involved with a French naval aviator. The couple then returned home in 1931 to ...

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... win Daisy's love as seen in the idea of the mysterious green light that extended from Gatsby's dock to the end of Daisy's window, this to me represents the true American dream. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us".(189) Gatsby's optimism and dreams I believe is that yearning of love and pursuit of happiness in life. The Great Gatsby ended with Gatsby waiting ... in his mansion on an autumn afternoon for a phone ... ...

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