... Tom Buchanan, William Mitchell also went to Yale (Lehan "Careless People- 70). "Jordan's going to play in the tournament tomorrow,"" explained Daisy, "over at Westchester."" "Oh, - you're Jordan Baker- (Fitzgerald 23). This quote from the novel describes Nick's first meeting with Jordan. Jordan plays golf, as does Edith Cummings, an affluent friend of Ginevra's whom Jordan Baker is based on ... . Bruccoli writes, "This name [Jordan Baker] combines two automobile makes: the sporty Jordan and the conservative Baker electric. Fitzgerald informed Maxwell Perkins that Jordan Baker won the 192...

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... the characters Jay Gatsby, Nick Carraway and even Tom Buchanan, we see the dueling parts of Fitzgerald's personality. We learn of the many similarities between F. Scott Fitzgerald and his main character, Jay Gatsby. Gatsby and Fitzgerald are alike by both being self-made men who have achieved financial success. Similarly, they both ... achieved their financial success for the love of a woman. Gatsby felt that he needed wealth to win the hand of Daisy. For Fitzgerald it was a woman by the name of Generva King, an old girlfriend who concluded their relationship when she realized she could ...

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... so he made Gatsby a war hero in the novel. Gatsby worked on Dan Cody's yacht after Daisy married Tom. This parallels Fitzgerald working on a boat when Zelda broke off their engagement. Fitzgerald might have used his parents as an inspiration for Dan Cody. They helped him be a part of the upper class by sending him ... words into the novel. She said that she hoped her baby would be a beautiful little fool, and he made Daisy say this in the Novel. Fitzgerald could understand what these characters' emotions would be and how they would act in the situations he put them in better because he b...

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... the most prominent are the automobile, representing wealth; the color white, representing Daisy's purity and innocence; and the seasonal change from Summer to Fall, representing Gatsby's death. From chapter one, Fitzgerald relies on the color white to characterize Daisy as an innocent and pure character. In this chapter, Daisy is wearing a white dress, and correspondingly, she behaves innocently as well. Nick ... became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city, between nine in the morning and long past midnight" (43). Near the end of the novel, when Daisy hits Myrtle, Fitzgerald...

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Hemingway and Fitzgerald were keen observers of the changes in women's behavior and they worked enthusiastically to reflect the female's point of view in their novels. The Victorian Era which ended in late ... represented by different female characters in the three classic works, and it will focus on the idea of the "flapper" women, who they were and what they symbolized. Fitzgerald and Hemingway used the narrative point of view to present the important roles of female characters through a central male consciousness in their fiction. This is a way to analyze the evolving ... their individua...

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... play a big role in how a piece of work turns out. One great example of this is in American author Francis Scott Fitzgerald's literary works. Fitzgerald uses this form of writing in his novel, The Great Gatsby. The writings and characters of The Great Gatsby, arguable an American literature ... important too because wealth alone makes it possible for a man actually to live the life the imagination conceives" (Mizener 77). This statement about Fitzgerald mirrors the statement about Gatsby's importance of wealth "he overwhelmingly aware of the youth and mystery that wealth imprisons." (Blo...

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... there are innate deficiencies in people in which East is unsuitable or unobtainable; in other words, there are inherent deficiencies or flaws in which the American Dream is unobtainable. Thus Fitzgerald once again shows us that the American Dream does not function. The inherent flaws of the American Dream accompanies aristocratic conservatism, impediment, and corruption and the Dream pursuers' own ... a difference between the poor and the rich, there's also differences within the poor. This strict stratification contradicts the ideals of unlimited vertical mobility stated in the America...

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... has qualities, which are the complete opposite of those of Tom Buchanan, his cousin-in-law. In the novel, the author, F. Scott Fitzgerald, uses the comparison between two cousins to show how their differing characteristics reflect the themes of morality and reality versus illusion. One of Nick's ... main characters in The Great Gatsby all have very different personalities. Despite this however, all of the characters are affected by money, and Fitzgerald uses this fact to influence the response of the reader. Some characters, like Gatsby and Tom Buchanan, have money, and are very expressiv...

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... and claim for themselves a piece of what they considered to be the "American Dream", they inevitably got lost in the process, and Fitzgerald created several poignant and distinct characters in The Great Gatsby who epitomized the era and his beliefs in how the era affected people. On ... would go crazy living the life that Daisy Buchanan and Jordan Baker seem to live. In another way, perhaps Daisy's feelings toward her daughter mirrored Fitzgerald's feelings for his wife Zelda. During the Buchanan's dinner party, Nick noticed that: "[s]ometimes she [Daisy] and Miss Baker talked at once, .....

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... revolves around Daisy; he even "revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes." (Fitzgerald 97) Gatsby has built his fortune through some mysterious business practice. He knows Daisy loves money, wealth, and prestige, and he believes ... got a man in England who buys me clothes. He sends over a selection of things at the beginning of each season, spring and fall." (Fitzgerald 97) Again, Daisy doesn't disappoint: "'They're such beautiful shirts,' she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. 'It makes me sad ... the formal inte...

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... material things before anything else, showing society's influence on how she lives her life based on the capitalist economy that controls America. To further develop the covetous nature of Daisy, Fitzgerald uses the sudden change of her behavior upon viewing Gatsby's house and his wardrobe to express that greedy people change their mannerisms to get what they want. Daisy swings from ... , but I don't see how you live there all alone' - and then Gatsby simply replies "I keep it full of interesting people, night and day. People who do interesting things. Celebrated people'- (Fitzgerald 96)...

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... people,' James Gatz was always ambitious." He left his family at the earliest opportunity and invented a new history and persona for himself," ("Fitzgerald" 37). Although Gatsby belongs to the high society, he never quite fits in. He always feels somewhat like an outsider even though he hosts ... His vast riches will never lift him into their social milieu. There is no room for Gatsby's sentimentality in the sophisticated cynical world" ("Fitzgerald" 38). He will never be an "equal" because his money was earned rather than inherited, he knows the value of a dollar and ... scandal that de...

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... St. Paul, Minnesota to ordinary parents. When he was only thirteen, his first work was published in the St. Paul Academy newspaper. Fitzgerald went on to write scripts and lyrics for the Princeton Triangle Club's musicals and contributed to the Tiger Humor and the Nassau Literary Magazines while ... he became an alcoholic and was characterized as an irresponsible writer. This was the basis for the family's move to France in 1924, where Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby. Although it was not completely successful immediately, it is now accepted universally as a superb piece of literature w...

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... as, "the land of opportunity." The novel was published in 1925, which was in the bridge between World War I and the Great Depression. Fitzgerald displayed the attitudes and actions of people during the times of the "Roaring Twenties." During this time, there was sort of a reckless abandon taken ... suicide, but continues to claim innocence because he has never known guilt nor shame as a member of the established elite of society. Through Nick, Fitzgerald pinpoints the effect of the modern dream on the upper class, thus condemning an entire people and its revered society: "It couldn't forg...

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... must provide good recommendations. West Side is less sophisticated and therefore less desirable for it is open to the "new money." By creating this setting Fitzgerald is trying to make the reader understand that a character like Gatsby needs a certain environment to exist. Although Gatsby's persona is surrounded by different ... the commissioner to Nick. He says that he "was able to do the commissioner a favor once, and he sends me a Christmas card every year." Fitzgerald completely trashes the power of the laws when Gatsby was stopped for speeding and acknowledged himself, the policema...

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... his status as a chronicler and poet laureate in the jazz age. He was once credited by T. S. Eliot for "the first step that American fiction has taken since Henry James, because Fitzgerald depicted the extolled grandest and most boisterous, reckless and merry-making scene" through what he knew or indirectly experienced and discovered the disillusionment that "a generation grown up to find all ... things by using visible symbols; the other is the connection and relation between symbols and meanings. Hence symbolism in fiction aims to present the hidden things and thoughts under phenomena....

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... Gatsby's car, everything becomes vivid but in an unreal form, some of the imagery seems as though it comes from an unburied subconscious. Fitzgerald consistently uses color imagery to create atmosphere in different scenes, to bring out the characters" personalities, and to reinforce theme development. Even though ... he refers to a vast array of colors, they differ in prominence and influence. The most prominent color Fitzgerald uses is green. Green is significantly associated with both the green light of Daisy's dock and the "green breast of the new world," ... the "gleaming white hou...

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... this theme that has attracted my interest in the text. Although later in the text it becomes apparent that Gatsby's dream can never be fulfilled, Fitzgerald is careful to underline the beneficial aspects of being dedicated to a dream, namely the purpose and motivation it brings to Gatsby's life. In the ... , but an extravagance for a man who was once content, and to an extent still is, with the simplest of possessions. All is explained however when Fitzgerald informs the reader that across the sound is Daisy's house. The desire to be near to her has driven him to build this extravagant p...

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... of the most significant parts of The Great Gatsby. Characters maintain the books plot, and build the readers attention of the book. All of Fitzgerald's characters are carefully detailed, and each is specified many different kinds of personalities. Jay Gatsby also known as James Gatz is perhaps the most ... interesting character in the novel for countless reasons. Gatsby was a great gentleman and was very successful. Fitzgerald uses numerous unusual types of habits to depict Jay Gatsby as the wealthy and grand man that he is. Jay Gatsby was a noble man ... residence near Daisy. Jordan an...

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... boundaries by all that lived during the era. We see all three of these aspects perfectly portrayed in The Great Gatsby, a novel by Francis Scott Fitzgerald. In this novel, the main character Jay Gatsby is shot by George Wilson. Even though Gatsby was physically killed by Wilson, there are many other ... his car. "Anyhow- Daisy stepped on it. I tried to make her stop but she couldn't so I pulled on the emergency brake" (Fitzgerald 151). By Daisy murdering Myrtle, Wilson was driven to revenge his wife's death. Daisy allowed Gatsby to cover for her careless and selfish action too. This ... ...

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... , rampant dishonesty is effortlessly shown by Myrtle, Jordan, and Tom. According to Nick Carraway, "[Jordan Baker] was incurably dishonest. She wasn't able to endure being at a disadvantage (Fitzgerald 63)." Jordan's frequent dishonesty shows that she will lie to protect or assist herself, and that she possesses very little regard for the truth, or fairness toward others. Dishonesty and ... an extravagant lifestyle. When Nick first visits the Buchannan's, he says that "their house was even more elaborate than I expected, a cheerful red and white Georgian Colonial mansion overlooking the b...

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... possibly how the author sees the route to achieving the goals of the American Dream: "The idealism evident in Gatsby's constant aspirations helps define what Fitzgerald saw as the basis for the American Character. Gatsby is a firm believer in the American Dream of self-made success: he has, after all, ... the murder of Jay. This is showing the reader that although an affair may give short-term pleasure, it is fated from the beginning. Fitzgerald is showing that through deceit and immorality, true happiness is not found. Another depiction of the selfish attitudes portrayed in this novel ...

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... it was a revolution, women started to gain equality in the eyes of men, the culture exploded with celebrities and music and economic growth. F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author of The Great Gatsby, was going through a rough time when he wrote this book, which reflects who the corruption can taint your soul ... nature would have, Myrtle however took a different route, "'Daisy! Daisy! Daisy!' shouted Mrs. Wilson. 'I'll say it whenever I want to!' (Fitzgerald, 37) When asked about their husbands they both replied, that they never loved them, Roxie said that she was too young to even know wh...

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... several false tales. First she said, "Well, they say he's a nephew or cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm's. That's where his money comes from" (Fitzgerald 32). Gatsby wasn't in any way related to Kaiser Wilhelm; therefore, it became evident how incorrect these accusations were. As Nick and Catherine continued to talk, ... she also said, "I'm scared of him" (Fitzgerald, 32). Gatsby fully separated himself from people, so as an outcome, people got crazy ideas, like Catherine who said she was scared of him. ... Many other people also had outrageous thoughts about him, like one lady who said, "one ti...

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... the green light at the end of the dock. "and distinguished nothing except a single green light/...might have been the end of a dock"(24), Fitzgerald symbolized the green light as the key to reaching Daisy. While on the beach, Gatsby is stretching out his arms to the light as if he will ... even though he only has new money. These actions are shown through some of Gatsby's possessions, "here's my little golden pencil"(111). Fitzgerald depicts how Gatsby reveals little hints of having old money in order to impress Daisy. The colors in The Great Gatsby reveal the true intentions of the ... ...

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