... is confused as to which one she wants. In chapter 7 she chooses Tom over Gatsby. She lets Gatsby take blame over killing Myrtle which in the end gets Gatsby killed. Jordan Baker is different from the other girls in the novel and most women of the 1920s. Jordan is portrayed as hard, independent, and confident. She does not put all her time into a relationship like ... 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 ...

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... , so he became interested in girls at a young age. He even wrote in his journals as a child which girls at school he liked the most. When he was thirteen he attended St. Paul Academy where he had his first short story published. He then spent two years at a Catholic Boarding School in Hackensack, New Jersey, before enrolling at Princeton in 1913. After ... nearly four years of bad grades and poor health Fitzgerald dropped out of Princeton without a degree and joined the Army as a second lieutenant. It was while he was on duty ... his wife spent five years abroad in Europe. During this t...

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... 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 poverty and family responsibilities bear down on this young woman heavily; her financial situation is very bad. She is trapped in an ug...

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... his American dream because although he found financial stability, he did not find the happiness to come with it. For Gatsby, the pursuit of his American dream took the path of amassing of great personal wealth and social success that will capture the heart Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby was born very poor he was the son of a "shiftless and unsuccessful farm people."(104) he also "never accepted them as his ... ) . As he grew older he became very ambitious and set off to become rich and famous. He eventually enrolled as a military officer stationed in Louisville, Kentucky where he met the love of...

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