... true life, what hid did and more importantly what he wanted and how he got it. Then along with that you have to look at his new life, the one he created for himself, his dream world where money can buy him everything and anything he wants. In Gatsby true life he could never be content with ... everything he has done up to the day he met Nick was to get Daisy. His parties were to attract Daisy, his wealth and stature was to attract Daisy. But even when Gatsby gets Daisy and she tells him she loves him he is not content. He needs her to tell Tom that she never loved him. Then ... again w...

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... Gatsby finding that he has fallen in love with a mystery woman. This ending could also have another twist. When Gatsby goes to shoot Tom and Daisy dives in front of Tom, gets shot, and dies. After Gatsby sees what he has done, he shots himself because he has nothing else to live for. An ... ending in this book that would make Gatsby happy would be that, Tom and Jordan are flirting and dancing and having fun all night at one of Gatsby's parties. Nick is watching them the whole night and becomes very jealous and angry with Tom. Nick discusses this incident with Daisy. Daisy comes up with a...

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... love with Daisy and wanted to have another relationship with her. However, Daisy was married to a man named Tom. Tom and Daisy had gotten married back when the war was going on. Before this though, Gatsby and Daisy had a relationship. Unfortunately, it ended and the couple of Tom and Daisy was formed when Gatsby left for war. This terribly upset Jay. Daisy was his whole life ... ; she was all he wanted in life. This love and jealously of Tom lead Jay to compromise his morals and to try and complete his goal; getting Daisy ... was wealthy. He acquired all this money though illegal activi...

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... is Maggie. Three actors play her. The first Maggie is about eight years old, the second Maggie is slightly older, about sixteen and the third Maggie is only a few years older, maybe eighteen. It is the story of Maggie Tulliver and her brother, Tom, living in a mill on the Floss River. Their father, Mr.Tulliver, is a proud man who loves his children but is easily angered by ... siblings, arguments are inevitable and when Tom and Maggie argue, the audience can clearly see that they are both affected. Maggie was brought up in a society where certain rules were expected to be followed and i...

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... they can never have it. Fitzgerald characters are so petty, and small-minded. Gatsby is a man with, as he sees it, an attainable dream. He wishes to re-create the past. This of course is so impossible that he seems nave to even consider it. Gatsby's brain is so freakishly devoured by this dream, that he believes that it is possible. He ... no plans to do such a thing. Myrtle is blinded by the riches and the love she finds in Tom. She does not know that it is just a dream that can't ever come true. Fitzgerald's characters are so self-involved. They are selfish people who think of no one ...

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... allaw them to do what they want,however,what they do must not against law and not make trouble to other people.I think the couples who live together before marriage have the right.They do not do anything wrong because they did not make any trouble to anyone. It is about 2 people loving ... that they are mature enough and have responsibility. Live-in relationship is the good way to get to know each other.I think when people love each other,they have the idea of getting married but they will never know whether they are the perfect match or not.In order to get to know each other ... better...

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... could you embarrass your sister and I the way you did. The house, the things I bought, your sisters heart. You know what Tom you did it to hurt me, why don't you just go to the movies. Tom: No mother I will not go to the movies, I shall go to the moon, or somewhere even farther. Good-bye mother, live life Laura. ( Tom walks out of the apartment, Laura runs into her room ... crying, and Amanda goes into her bedroom and locks herself in there.) ( Tom entered the merchant marines, and left behind his past. Laura ... months after Jim and Laura wed, Tom came down and was the best man, Amand...

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... life with Tom was over and that she was going to join Gatsby in his world of the past. She chose Gatsby to ride in the car with, she made frequent visits to Gatsby, and at the one party at Gatsby, which she attended, Nick noted to the reader that the only part of the evening that he believed Daisy enjoyed was the time she spent sitting on the steps talking ... to Gatsby. However, all of the dreaming came to a halt when Tom confronted Jay. Gatsby ... , influenced to believe that Daisy was now his again, told Tom that he and Daisy loved each other, that she was leaving ... ...

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... school and college in a few months. However, London was unsuccessful and took a few odd jobs. Some of the jobs prepared him for his trip to the Klondike. In example, being an oyster pirate probably taught him how to survive on the lowest circumstances. During his time at the Klondike, he listened to other people tell their stories. After hearing their stories, he would collaborate a selected ... married his math tutor and friend, Bess Maddern. It was a Victorian marriage typical of the time, based on "good breeding-, not love. With Bess, he had two daughters " Joan and Bess. However, Lo...

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... Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald represents this statement through three women. The story is about love and deception between three girls. In the novel, Daisy loves Jay Gatsby but stays with her husband Tom Buchannan, because of the security he can offer her. Myrtle Wilson cheated on her husband and in the meantime did not treat him well. Jordan Baker is a woman who lies and is also ... it shows how she might treat her husband. Daisy loves her men but plays around with their emotions. She is in love with Gatsby but would prefer to be with Tom because of the security that he can offer her. ...

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... there somewhat similar and different. Even though, this book contained a lot of different themes, I pick one in particular, "Love vs. Money" because in the book, every couple, had some kind of problem and with love and money, like Tom and Daisy, Gatsby and Daisy, and Tom and Myrtle. Starting off with Tom and Daisy, Daisy married Tom because he was a Yale graduated and was a decent well off ... Daisy would have gone for him, if he did not try to impressed her. Lastly, Tom and Myrtle, according to the book, it said that, that was Tom's lover. If that was his true lover, then why did he ma...

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While reading "The Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb," I thought that Bibbs commitment and love for his family were drawbacks in his life. One reason why I believe that is because as I was reading the book I noticed that he wanted to escape but every time he escaped, his first thought was to go back after his family. I ... someone that he was truly interested in, he still planned for his liberty. When Henry met Malinda he expressed how quickly his mind changed by the influence of her. He mentioned how highly interesting and talented she was and also how he enjoyed her company. Henry could not...

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... Troubadors, Courtly Love, and Grail Legend, and F. Scott Fitzerald's novel The Great Gatsby reflects many of these. Medieval Troubador is the love that came from the "meeting of the eyes" as opposed to the church, and this tradition relates to Gatsby and Daisy's relationship. This is evident when Gatsby is at the Buchanan's house and he tells Tom about Daisy and his past, " Your wife doesn't love you... she ... wealthy family and she charishes money and power more than anything, and so when Tom Buchanan, a supremely wealthy man proposed to her, she said yes, even thought she was in love...

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... someone with all that they have? They can't.  The night continues and Tom finally arrives, while the struggle for control of Ann's body persists as well. Throughout the date with Tom, Ann and Cecy fight to keep their feelings known to Tom. Ann attempts to show her feelings of disdain for his courtship while Cecy plans to keep the evening going the way she wants. They often contradict one another ... odd about Ann. "'Hush, speak gently,' said Cecy. She moved Ann's fingers out toward Tom's head. Ann snatched them back (#). Tom's observations lead him towards a lot of frustration, questi...

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... people were to love anything more than the movie itself, it might possibly be the music used in it (or rather the soundtrack). The music used in movies can greatly set the tone of the current, or upcoming moments of the scene. Music can also evoke emotions of the scene that will press itself amongst the audience. In the movie, when Tom quits his job, he ponders on ... because it better helps to describe a set of events. Like when the narrator conveys that Tom get aquatinted with Summer in the seemingly large city of Los Angeles, a city inhabited with millions of people; and stresses tha...

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The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet was written by William Shakespeare. Fate is something that controls your future, and you can do nothing to change it. Destiny is what many religions and time ... a nun. Romeo declares, " She"ll not be hit by Cupids arrow. She hath Dian's wit And in strong proof of chastity well armed, From Love's weak childish bow She lives uncharmed. She will not stay the siege of loving terms Nor bid th" encounter of assailing eyes." This shows that Rosaline cannot love and will never be with Romeo. This shows that Romeo is ... be wed to Paris next Thursday. This shows that...

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... , however they remained despondent, for lack of love. Similarly, both Gatsby's and Dexter's attempts at relationships led them to misfortune. In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby had loved a young woman, Daisy, whom he had dated while in the army. Regrettably, while Gatsby was fighting in the war she fell in love with, and married another man, Tom Buchanan. Gatsby's devotion towards Daisy was ... Gatsby begin to meet regularly. However, Tom eventually realizes Gatsby's intentions for Daisy, and confronts him. After an argument, it is clear that Tom had a superior argument to Gatsby, and Daisy...

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... critic has written that "The theme of Gatsby is the withering or dying of the American Dream."" Since Gatsby represents the pursuit of the "American Dream-, Fitzgerald is clearly stating that a person cannot get too far in life unless one plays the game fairly. Just like in the old saying "cheaters never prosper,"" the "American Dream- went ... wanted money so much that he created a new identity for himself. As a young seventeen year old boy, Gatsby decided that the name of James Gatz represented his poor past so he changed his name to Jay Gatsby. If one desires money one should earn it ...

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... and corruption runs rampant through the corporate and governmental systems of the United States. Daisy, the good in the life of James, was conquered by the evil, which was personified as Tom, Myrtle, and George throughout the novel in every battle. She was beat by the power and money that Tom held pulling her away from her true love before the novel even began. She was the promise of life that kept James moving ... and striving for the better things, kept ... back to her but her good faith was misplaced. Her good turned to be the advantage of the evil. Tom aimed to bring down the succe...

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... whose morals are destroyed is Myrtle. Myrtle's attempt to enter into the group to which the Buchanans belong is doomed to fail. She enters the affair with Tom, hoping to adopt his way of life and be accepted into his class to escape from her own. Her class is that of the middle class. Her husband, Wilson, owns a gas station, making an honest living and trying his ... best to succeed in a world where everything revolves around material possessions. With her involvement in Tom's class, she only becomes vulgar and corrupt like the rich. She loses all sense of morality by hurting others in ...

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... when she is with Tom, as if she was the richest woman in the world. But ironically she was still part of the lower class, but doesn't realize th! is because she has the wealth and protection of Tom. These situations in the lives of the characters show the worthlessness of materialism. Marriage is what many people see as one of the main components of the American Dream. Tom and Myrtle are both guilty of misrepresenting marriage by cheating ... on their spouse for the hope to have more being with the other person. Marriage is supposed to be for love ... ...

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... whose morals are destroyed is Myrtle. Myrtle's attempt to enter into the group to which the Buchanans belong is doomed to fail. She enters the affair with Tom, hoping to adopt his way of life and be accepted into his class to escape from her own. Her class is that of the middle class. Her husband, Wilson, owns a gas station, making an honest living and trying his ... best to succeed in a world where everything revolves around material possessions. With her involvement in Tom's class, she only becomes vulgar and corrupt like the rich. She loses all sense of morality by hurting others in ...

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... when he says to Gatsby, "They're a rotten crowd," I shouted across the lawn. "Your worth the whole damn bunch put together." (146) Gatsby's obsession for Daisy blinded him of what her true character was. Gatsby loved the Daisy of the past. Daisy was a very shallow and materialistic person who was only attracted to the wealth of an individual which made her life uncomplicated. When Daisy discovered how rich ... last hope and I couldn't bare to shake him free.". (141) He was left again by his true love, Daisy's real intentions showing through in her choice in staying with the protectivene...

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... gone under psychiatric observation. Her psychiatric analysis appears to be of a pensive and worrying individual. Nonetheless, Amanda is a strong woman who has been putting up with the worst-case scenarios a person can face in their life. Her husband has abandoned her and their children. She has to live with the fact that her son, Tom could turn out a drunkard and also her daughter, Laura ... who in life may not achieve much because of her shyness. Amanda is a strong human being even though her family life as well as her own is not much ... one would thank for. Amanda constantly repeats...

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... to be loved and appreciated. She, however, never gets what she yearns for. Compared with Lucy, the blonde, nice girl, Maggie is always criticised by her relatives for being a dark, messy girl. Tom, her beloved brother, too, never takes her seriously. He does not approve of her sympathy and sensibility and always dominates her life. Therefore, when she meets Stephen, she is attracted ... is a treachery towards them. Maggie finds that unacceptable. Moreover, I think Maggie also thinks of Tom and her family. She knows that leaving with Stephen would tarnish her family's reputation, not onl...

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