... suburbs of New York in the summer of 1922 to pursue a career in the bond business. He rents a house in the West Egg district of Long Island, just across the bay from his cousin Daisy and her husband Tom. Throughout the movie, Nick visits Tom and Daisy periodically, and on one of those visits ... , Jordan, and Tom pass through the valley of ashes they discover that Gatsby's car has hit and killed Myrtle, Tom's lover. They rush back to Long Island, where Gatsby tells Nick that Daisy was driving the car, but that he plans to take the blame. The next day, Tom tells Myrtle's husband that Gatsb...

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... summer of 1922, Nick, a working man in the bond's business tells his story of his neighbor Jay Gatsby. Jay Gatsby is a wealthy business man who lives in West Egg, Long Island. Gatsby was well known for his lavish weekend parties in his West Egg mansion, with excess amounts of liquor, and endless tables of food. Gatsby has an uncontrollable obsession with ... Tom. As Daisy watches this go about, her feelings return to Tom once again. Tom realizing he has won the battle for Daisy, lets him drive her back to Long Island. Driving home Tom, Daisy, and Nick discover that Myrtle has been fatal...

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... that the American Dream is upside down and society very corrupt for encouraging this type of lifestyle. Jay Gatsby, a young and reserved upstart, lives on the "West Egg" of Long Island. He is not a beneficiary of family wealth and has therefore made his fortune independently. When he was growing up a common man, a wealthy boat-owner befriended and introduced him to the ... first tastes this social status that he becomes completely obsessed with it and refuses the return to normalcy. Nick ponders: The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conceptio...

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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is set in the 1920's during the Jazz Age. Nick Carraway is a man in his late twenties residing on West Egg island in Long Island, New York living anormal? life. That is, until he meets his mysterious neighbor, a wealthy man named Jay Gatsby. He is a man of mystery, living in a mansion that is constantly full ... in the 1920's. It's about the lives of a group of people who all become entangled in a web of, lying, scandal, and cheating together. Nick Carraway lives anormal? life on Long Island, until he meets his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Parties went on eve...

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... impressive surroundings, which attracted girls from New York, Philadelphia and beyond, may well have provided the first grain of inspiration for Fitzgerald's portrayal of Jay Gatsby's fabulous parties on Long Island" (Meyers, 27). Although Fitzgerald was a "social butterfly" while at Princeton, he never had any girlfriends. However, at a Christmas dance in St. Paul, MN during his sophomore year, he met Ginevra ... " (Meyers, 126). Fitzgerald had now managed to weave Ginevra King's beauty as well as Zelda's corruption into his deceiving portrait of Daisy Buchanan. Great Neck, along the co...

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The Great Gatsby Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald Number of pages: 189 Publisher: Scribner Paperback Fiction in New York Copyright date: 1991 Setting: Around the summer of 1921or 1922 in Long Island and New York City Type of book: Classic novel The Great Gatsby is narrated by Nick Carraway but he also implies that he is the author. Carraway narrates in both ... Buchanan asked her to marry him, Daisy decided not to wait for Gatsby after all. Daisy lives with Tom across from Gatsby in the stylish East Egg district of Long Island. She is ironic and somewhat cynical, and behaves apparently to mask he...

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... is very mysterious and lives in a huge gothic mansion. Every Saturday night he throws extravagant parties. Nick's cousin, Daisy Buchanan, and her husband, Tom Buchanan, live in East Egg Long Island. Daisy and Tom introduce Nick to a friend of theirs named Jordan Baker. Tom and Daisy hint to Nick that they want him to start a relationship with her, which he does ... him. When Nick, Jordan, and Tom drive through the valley of ashes, however, they discover that Gatsby's car has struck and killed Myrtle, Tom's lover. They rush back to Long Island, where Nick learns from Gatsby that Daisy wa...

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... . Americans threw expensive never-ending galas. One result from the grand parties and riches was the gain in fame. Prominence in The Great Gatsby is imperative for life in Long Island and also reflects 1920s America. Gatsby throws magnificent parties, boasts about his car, and flaunts his costly materials. Gatsby's materials and riches result in his vast popularity. During one of ... from those who had found little that it was necessary to whisper about in this world"(Fitzgerald 48). Gatsby's fortune and parties cause great speculation and gossip all over Long Island. The "talk" is based...

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The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald chronicles the vapid, materialistic lives of the upper class of Long Island during the booming times of the Jazz Age. The characters in the novel do not work, and live solely for the purpose of amassing their wealth, recklessly indulging themselves, and ... and toolboxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of windshields that mirrored a dozen sons. (Page: 68) Gatsby's car is described as very luxurious, and very expensive. For the wealthy residents of Long Island, the automobile was used as a way to display how wealthy someone was. Gatsby's car was the nic...

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... to rise from the lower class. In contrast to Myrtle, who aims for the upper class, is Nick Carraway. Nick, who comes from a rich family in Minnesota, travels to Long Island, New York where he lives in a not-so-wonderful house. He had the riches and "the perfect life" in Minnesota, yet he goes to Long ... Island for a complete change. Fitzgerald uses Nick to point out the flaws of the upper class and the American Dream. His move from his rich lifestyle in Minnesota to his independence ... ...

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... simplest level, The Great Gatsby is Nick Carraway's narration and recollection of events stemming from his meeting and subsequent interaction with Jay Gatsby during the summer of 1922 in Long Island, New York. Nick Carraway, too, was seeking his piece of the American Dream by moving to New York from the Midwest to take job as a bond salesman " I decided to go ... , Tom Buchanan has an affair with a woman named Myrtle Wilson, the wife of a gas station proprietor down in the valley of the ashes - an industrial and unsightly area of Long Island that one passes through going to New York City...

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... 's novel, The Great Gatsby, analyzes the legitimacy of this principle through the inevitable downfall of Jay Gatsby. The novel takes place during the roaring twenties' in two sophisticated, affluent Long Island neighborhoods. The people in these neighborhoods epitomize the superficiality and arrogance that distorts the American Dream. Fitzgerald utilizes this environment and its people to examine the negative attributes of the ... silk shirts: "Theyre such beautiful shirts, she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. It makes me sad because Ive never seen such beautiful shirts befo...

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... spring of 1922, with Nick Carraway, who leaves his Midwestern home to enter the bond business in New York City. He rents a small house in West Egg, a village on Long Island made of mansions and the rich. Next door to Nick's house is the enormous home of Mr. Gatsby. One evening, Nick has dinner with his distant cousin Daisy Buchanan. There ... tries to force Daisy into telling Tom that they are in love, but she denies it. So Tom, who is feeling victorious, insists that Daisy and Gatsby return to Long Island together in his yellow car, to say their final goodbyes, as Daisy will not be see...

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... his life, he decided to move to New York to enter into the business of selling bonds. He settled down on an area of Long Island called West Egg, directly beside a more fashionable area of Long Island called West Egg. Across from him lived a rich man named Jay Gatsby who also was a World War I vet. Not far away lived a married couple Daisy ... ...

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... 's The Great Gatsby is a novel that elegantly and truthfully details the period of American history known as the Roaring Twenties. Taking place on the West and East Eggs of Long Island, The Great Gatsby tells the tale of Jay Gatsby (an incredibly wealthy but yet a complete mystery of a man) and of his undying love for Daisy Buchanan. During extravagant parties in ... of what is considered the upper tier of society. It is through the eyes of Nick Carraway that the reader is exposed to the frivolities that take place on Long Island during summer of 1922. In the first chapter of the novel N...

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... . Americans threw expensive never-ending galas. One result from the grand parties and riches was the gain in fame. Prominence in The Great Gatsby is imperative for life in Long Island and also reflects 1920s America. Gatsby throws magnificent parties, boasts about his car, and flaunts his costly materials. Gatsby's materials and riches result in his vast popularity. During one of ... from those who had found little that it was necessary to whisper about in this world"(Fitzgerald 48). Gatsby's fortune and parties cause great speculation and gossip all over Long Island. The "talk" is based...

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... expresses a sense of mystery, a questioning of Gatsby's wealth; "Young men didn't- at least in my provincial inexperience I believed they didn't- drift coolly out of nowhere and buy a palace on Long Island South." His words show scepticism that wealth can be achieved from nothing, showing us that the American Dream is rarely achieved. Gatsby's mysterious attributes are shown to have been achieved ... through Myrtle's love of materialism. The Valley of The Ashes contains a hopeless atmosphere, a place where dreams are not able to exist. It does not reflect "I became aware of the old isla...

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... one start reading "the Great Gatsby" by Fitzgerald you are introduced to the decadence and carelessness of the wealthy people living on Long Island, a great setting for a novel detailing the corrupting power of money. The inhabitants of Long Island seem to have it all, but none of them are truly happy. We immediately meet Tom and Daisy, the truly rich, which live ... ...

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... of mine. We went to the same college. Q: Could you give me his address? I would like to ask him some questions. A: Sure, he lives in East Egg. 200 Dosoris, Long Island, NY 11542 I took a picture of the mechanic and went directly to Tom Buchanan's. When I arrived at his house, he was about to leave for New York. I told him that I came ... ...

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... sinister contrast between them Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water " (pg.5). Nick is talking about the two ˜eggs' of Long Island. The West Egg is where Nick lives, which is dubbed to be new money, for people who have just earned their wealth, and the East Egg is where the old ... ...

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... is a symbol for hope and vitality and growth. In its going out, so also was Daisy, the light that had always occupied Gatsby's life. On the drive back to Long Island to their Egg residences, Nick and Tom and Jordan who were in the same car, discovered a frightening site of someone killed on the road. A Greek man who runs the restaurant ... ...

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... from War, Nick decides to move to New York in the summer of 1922 to learn about the bond business. He rents a house in the West Egg district of Long Island. One weekend Nick gets together with his cousin Daisy and her husband Tom Buchanan, a rich man who lives in West Egg who is having an affair with a woman named Myrtle ... ...

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... looks like it is cut every day, and very handsome. The narrator describes early in the story that Gatsby lives in a gigantic, gothic mansion in the West Egg, on Long Island. Also, he lives directly on the bay. In the beginning chapters of the story, outside impressions of Gatsby were very vague and general. Nobody really knew anything about him. He ... ...

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The Great Gatsby The year is 1922, the setting Long Island, New York. At West Egg live Jay Gatsby and his neighbor Nick Carraway; Gatsby in a elegant mansion, Nick in a small cramped cottage. In more fashionable East Egg live Daisy and ... ...

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... her because of the difference in their social status, he leaves her to amass wealth to reach her economic standards. Once he acquires this wealth, he moves back to Long Island where Daisy resides - "Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay,"(83)- and throws extravagant parties, hoping by chance she might show up at one ... ...

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