He "sets out to give personality - 'gesture' as Nick calls it - to the personage he has created. The 'gestures,' of course, include the pink suits, the silver shirts, the gold ties, the Rolls-Royce swollen with chrome and hat boxes, the clipped speech, the 'old sports,' the formal intensity of manner, the gracefulness on the ballroom floor theses and many more 'gestures' complement the personage of Gatsby." ...

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One possible theme of the Great Gatsby is falseness. Many of the key characters were false in some way or another and wore "false faces". The falseness of each character and how they interacted and intertwined with each other was definently a directing force of the novel. First of all the nar...

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Gatsby vs. Bodega Willie Bodega, from Ernesto Quinonez's Bodega Dreams, and Jay Gatsby, from F.Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby both experienced a strong love for a woman, and yet could not get that love returned to them. Gatsby tried to win over Daisy's heart similarly to Bodega, who had trie...

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"If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, he had an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again." ...

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The Great Gatsby is an excellent novel, which greatly depicts the roaring twenties, and what is was like during the Jazz age. The Great Gatsby was written by Scott Fitzgerald, an odd, interesting but greatly intelligent man, who wrote the popular book shortly after he married his wife Zelda. The nov...

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Nick Carraway says of Gatsby, "[i]f personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines-(Fitzgerald 6). ...

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The novel The Great Gatsby written in 1925 by F. Scott Fitzgerald is considered the quintessential book about the American Dream. The story is told from the point of view of a first person narrator, Nick Carraway. At the beginning of the book Nick introduces the reader to Gatsby and hates everythin...

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Nick Carraway says of Gatsby, "[i]f personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines "(Fitzgerald 6). ...

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If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away"(2). ...

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Her laughter, her gestures, her assertions became more violently affected moment by moment and as she expanded the room grew smaller around her until she seemed to be revolving on a noisy, creaking pivot through the smoky air" (p. 35). ...

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When Gatsby believes that his dream has been fulfilled, Fitzgerald describes that, "He literally glowed; without a word or a gesture of exultation a new well-being radiated from him and filled the little room." ...

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The Great Gatsby and the American Dream For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs. - 1 Timothy 6:10 - As people, we do not realize what kinds of sorrows we bring upon ourselves. A...

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