... party goers. Gatsby's house seemed to be "a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spawning new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool and more than 40 acres of lawn and garden" (9). Gatsby had an unbelievable house yet it seemed that Gatsby derived no pleasure or satisfaction from his belongings. It ... night, five years before, they had been walking down the street when the leaves were falling, and they came to a place where there were no trees and the sidewalk was white with moon light. They stopped here and turned toward ea...

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... to make careless decisions because she has already won him over effortlessly. Therefore leading him to describe her as "the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in ithigh in a white palace the king's daughter, the golden girl" (120). She is the one. Except, he doesn't have her. What he does have is money, and money has always been something ... a month" for a mansion that "was a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool, and more than forty acres of lawn and garden" (5). It was...

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... is gathered in Nick's description of the East Egg and the West Egg: " I lived at West Egg, the "well, the less fashionable of the two . Across the bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water ."" (p. 9-10). As seen with Daisy and Gatsby, the importance of money is placed before affairs of the heart. The description of ... affair by any standard "it was a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy and a marble swimming pool and more than forty acres of lawn and garden. It was Gatsby...

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• Grade Level: High School