... getting attention from men, but is not interested in a relationship. When she is with Nick she feels like she can be herself and talk to him about anything. Jordan loves big parties. "And I like large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties there isn't any privacy. " (Fitzgerald 54) In smaller parties ... Jordan was the first to say something about Tom's affair, which makes her rather blunt. Myrtle Wilson is portrayed to be foolish and adulterous. Myrtle is married to George Wilson which owns a car garage in The Valley of Ashes. "I thought he knew something about breeding, but h...

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... that will recapture the heart of Daisy. Forever enthralled by the power of wealth, Gatsby knew his dreams would call for resiliency and tenacity and hard work and he was ready to make those sacrifices. However, he had no idea what the ramifications of his dream will entail to its ... III Gatsby attains the wealth that he so desired. "At least ounce a fortnight a corps of caterers came down with several hundred feet of canvas and enough colored lights to make a Christmas tree out of Gatsby's enormous garden."(44) Living in New York, Gatsby threw all kinds of lurid parties in bid ... parti...

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... be wife Zelda Sayre. F. Scott Fitzgerald was never recognized as a great writer until the 1950's and 1960's nearly fifteen years after his death. After a successful first novel, This Side of Paradise, Fitzgerald "began a destructive lifestyle marked by drinking, partying, and overspending"(Magill 1032). In May of 1924 Fitzgerald and his wife spent five years abroad in Europe. During this time he became good friends ... promote his work. Also while he was in Europe his masterpiece The Great Gatsby was published. However, besides befriending Hemmingway his trip is most recognized as one o...

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... that she is responsible for keeping the family together, as her mother did before her. Her father is an unfair man, who makes his daughter work and then keeps her wages. Rather than appreciate her work, he ridicules her. Mostly the circumstances of her family make Eveline want to escape. b) Eveline's ... father is a shadowy but menacing bully who has ruined her mother's life and is set to ruin hers. Eveline's father is the repressive authority in her life. She is helpless to break away from him. c) The weight of ... may well repeat her mother's sad life story d) I think it is difficult ...

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