... to be unattainable. As it turns out, Gatsby's excessive extravagance and love of money, mixed with his obsession for a woman's love, is actually the autobiographical portrayal of Fitzgerald. While attending Princeton University, Fitzgerald struggled immensely with his grades and spent most of his time catering to his "social" needs. He became quite involved with the Princeton Triangle Club, an undergraduate club ... which wrote and produced a lively musical comedy each fall, and performed it during the Christmas vacation in a dozen major cities across the country. Fitzgerald was also el...

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... Side of Paradise. He resubmitted the novel to Charles Scribner's and Sons and it was published a year later on March the 26th, 1920. Fitzgerald was made famous and rich almost over night and a week after This Side of Paradise was released to the public he married Zelda Sayre. At ... Zelda's letters in his novels. Zelda enjoyed the wealthy upper class lifestyle in which she lived with her husband and this is reflected by Fitzgerald particularly in the characters of Daisy Fay Buchanan and and Nicole Diver. Zelda's personality traits are mirrored by the character of Daisy Fay Buchanan ......

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... skilled reader and analyzer. His sentence structure is usually always long, and with the long sentences he creates an odd path in every sentence. Fitzgerald leads onto rambling sentence where he starting on one subject and leads you on to something entirely different. It may seem confusing to nearly all ... sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away." Fitzgerald start his sentence off with description of his views on, "personality," then brings up a man that he compares this idea of ... ...

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... 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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... 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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... between the two great wars (Magill 1032). After writing the Great Gatsby he became known as the " chronicler of the Jazz Age" (Eble 95). Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on September 24 1896. On his father, Edward's, side of the family his second cousin was Francis Scott ... the family they inherited a million dollar grocery chain from his grandfather. This inheritance money made up for his father's inability to hold a job. Fitzgerald lived a pampered childhood mainly because two of his younger sisters had died at birth. His mom also loved showing off her good-looking son, so...

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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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... 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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... 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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... , for impressionists. It seems that, in order to enjoy the novel, you must have a tendency, or at least a desire to see the world the way Fitzgerald does. I do not; and so, for me, the book was a failure: was, in fact, an agonizing and tedious, clouded, and confused failure. Nevertheless ... to generate emotions regarding that action. For instance, at the beginning of the book, when Nick Carraway is shown in to the Tom Buchanan's house, Fitzgerald describes the room into which Carraway has just walked as a prelude to introducing Daisy: "We walked through a high hallway into a bright rosy-...

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... is known as the great American Dream. It is the idea that anybody from anywhere can become anyone. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald was published in 1925. The book illustrates the American Dream when the narrator, Nick Carraway from the middle class, moves to New York ... Daisy over with his new money. Did Gatsby really achieve the American Dream or does his small town background keep him from it? Fitzgerald criticizes the American Dream using multiple symbols in his book, The Great Gatsby. No matter how hard Gatsby tries to impress Daisy with ... green light disappearing symboli...

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... on to real life people and even some to portray him. Each character is tied into a Greek myth somehow. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald uses three Greek myths in particular throughout his book to describe his wistful characters, the myth of Icarus, the myth of Teiresias, and the myth the Sirens ... Icarus is the son of Apollo and he wants to fly the sun chariot because he wants to get closer to the sun. Through out the book Fitzgerald uses various examples of that. In the scene at the hotel that day is the hottest it has been all summer long. The characters are all ...

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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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... 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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... to be called "The Roaring Twenties?" Nearly all credit must be given to the arts and entertainment of this volatile period in time. F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby, is perhaps the most recognized of authors associated with the literary flowering of the 1920's in America. The concern of ... was of the materialism that had suddenly swept the country. Credit was easy, interest rates were low, and corruption abounded. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald portrays how the American dream of success had withered until at times it was nothing more than greedy desire. The sanguine Amer...

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... creates between these worlds in symbolic of the barrier that keeps these people apart from one another and from much of what they want. Second, there are many themes that Fitzgerald uses to make the novel a classic. The word that can sum up many of the themes in the book is position. The word encompasses themes like class, wealth, social standing ... up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness...". (187-188) They can use their wealth and position to escape whatever they choose. Third, Fitzgerald uses many different characters to give his i...

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