... the differences of social class and the four main locations used by Fitzgerald; The East Egg, The West Egg, The Valley of Ashes, and New York City. In The Great Gatsby "geographical locations separate social classes" (Hoggart 204). Hoggart explains how different geographical areas have a contrasting economy, social ... tasking situations that pushed characters to the breaking point. This location is like the light at the end of the tunnel. While in New York City Tom Buchanan has a scandalous affair with Myrtle Wilson. She doesn't care about anyone except those who will help guide her on...

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... involved in illegal bootlegging and other clandestine activities. However, the narrator is Nick Carraway, a young mid-westerner from a prominent family who came to New York to enter the bond business. Carraway is involved in all of the events of the novel, yet does not play a significant active role; he is only ... and insecure man preoccupied with the decline of society and of class boundaries. It is soon revealed that Tom is having an affair with a woman in the city. His wife, Daisy, is Nick's second cousin. She carries herself with an insubstantial manner. While seemingly nave, she cl...

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... and Daisy's friend, Jordan Baker. Nick's impression of these two women in particular, as well as the others he encounters during his brief stay in New York, are noteworthy in that they demonstrate the vapidity and emptiness of the wealthy and socially connected crowd during that time. In contrast to the modern day woman, ... Fitzgerald's view of women based primarily upon his relationship with Zelda - a girl he met while stationed in Alabama who ended up following Fitzgerald to New York where the couple became engaged to be married. Zelda ended up breaking their engagement when she bec...

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In the Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the settings of East and West eggs, The Valley of Ashes, and New York City to assist the actions of the main characters. The East Egg is more of the upscale region of the setting. People that live there have all the money, drive fancy ... less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express of the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them."(9) Lavery 2 Halfway between West Egg and New York City sprawls a deserted plain; a gray valley called The Valley of Ashes. The Valley of Ashes is a symbol of absolute unh...

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... 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 ... ashes, and the eyes of Doctor T.J. Ekleburg. Nick Carraway: The novel's narrator, Nick Carraway comes from a wealthy Minnesota family. He traveled to New York to learn the bond business; there he becomes involved with Gatsby and the Buchanans. Honest, tolerant, and inclined to reserve j...

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... Egg and the slums who live in the valley of ashes- a gray industrial dumping ground between West Egg and New York City. The novel's narrator, Nick Carraway, is a man from Minnesota who ventures to New York in the summer of 1922 to become a bondsman. He rents a house in West Egg, a district of Long Island ... Jay Gatsby, who hosts wild parties every Saturday night. Some time after the dinner party, Nick finds himself in New York City with Tom and his lover, Myrtle. During his visit to the city, Nick is invited to a vulgar party at the apartment in which Tom keeps the affair. Heavy drinkin...

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... arrogant and a bully person. He normally bullies people around him and does crazy things. He is also a cheater because he takes the character Myrtle to New York City in an apartment so Daisy would not know anything about it. Myrtle is very poor so she sticks with Tom out of town lying to her husband. Great ... Gatsby was set in 1922 summer in New York on two areas, East Egg and West Egg. East Egg is described as the wealthier place, then the West Egg. West Egg is also referred as ... lives in East Egg and is very wealthy because he inherited from his father. The novel The Great Gatsby ...

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... ; Gatsby in a elegant mansion, Nick in a small cramped cottage. In more fashionable East Egg live Daisy and Tom Buchanan. Midway between West Egg and New York City lies a vast ash dump near, which are the garage and home of George and Myrtle Wilson. Significantly all the characters pass through this " valley of ashes, ... and Daisy is aware of his habits. Tom insists that Nick meet his mistress, Myrtle Wilson. Nick joins Tom and Myrtle at their private New York apartment. The climax of the party occurs when Tom breaks Myrtle's nose for daring to mention Daisy's name. Caught up in the bit...

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... having an affair with a woman named Myrtle Wilson. Myrtle (and her husband) live in the valley of ashes, a dumping ground between West Egg and New York City. As both the story and the summer progress, Nick finally accepts an invitation to one of Gatsby's parties. While there he bumps into Jordan Baker, and ... Tom is involved in an affair himself, he is angered that his wife is being unfaithful to him. Later that day, the group drives into New York where Gatsby and Tom argue about whom Daisy is in love with. After a heated battle, Daisy chooses Tom and the weary group heads home. As Nic...

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... become anyone. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald was published in 1925. The book illustrates the American Dream when the narrator, Nick Carraway from the middle class, moves to New York City to be successful in the bond business. He lived next to Gatsby, a man who started with next to nothing in the Midwest, but grew to be extremely wealthy to impress ... because as people grow old, their eyes never change, always displaying our true selves. For example, the Valley of Ashes in the Great Gatsby is an appalling place between New York City and the eggs filled with poor, hopeless peop...

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... [Gatsby] out obscurely in the anteroom, talking to another man."" (73) Again, we are given the feeling of retreating from the brightness of New York City, into the dark and veiled underground world within the city of New York. Along side the more general constant stream of details is a much more specific form of description: color. Fitzgerald's use of color is one of the ... around the next bend. Michaelis wasn't even sure of its color " he told the first policeman that it was light green. The other car, the one going toward New York came to rest a hundred yards beyond, and its driver h...

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Nick Carraway, a man from Minnesota moves to New York in 1922. He rents a house in West egg district of Long Island. Nick's neighbor is a man named Jay Gatsby who is very mysterious and lives in a huge gothic mansion. Every ... that they want him to start a relationship with her, which he does. Later on, Tom travels to the valley of ashes, a gray industrial dumping ground between West Egg and New York City. He goes there to visit his lover Myrtle Wilson. Tom takes Nick there with him to a party to meet Myrtle. At the party were many vulgar people and Nick did ... her and clarifies their lov...

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... Yale, he likes literature and considers himself one of those "limited" specialists known as a "well-rounded man," and he works in the bond business in New York City.(Fitzgerald 4) He's connected to wealthy and important people, like his cousin Daisy and Tom, his college acquaintance, but he is definitely not one of them. Unlike everyone around him, Nick ... continually smoldering." (Fitzgerald 25) Nick carefully avoids any emotional entanglements. He writes letters signed "Love, Nick" to a girl back home, but one reason he's come to New York is to avoid "being rumored into marriage" wit...

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... , which is narrated by Mr. Carraway, is illustrated by the Buchanans, Daisy and Tom, and by Mr. Jay Gatsby himself. And when reality finally shows the upper echelon of New York City what is really happening, people die, marriages are strained, and enthusiastic weekend carousing will turn fatal. As a revolutionary author, F. Scott Fitzgerald creates the character of Nick, with his drab, Midwestern ... encountered that have read this book excited me with vague descriptions of Gatsby's regale in regards to social functions. Following this party, Gatsby brings Nick along for lunch in New Yor...

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... , which is narrated by Mr. Carraway, is illustrated by the Buchanan's, Daisy and Tom, and by Mr. Jay Gatsby himself. And when reality finally shows the upper echelon of New York City what is really happening, people die, marriages are strained, and the enthusiastic carousing of the weekends will turn into the exasperation of actuality. As a revolutionary author, F. Scott Fitzgerald creates the ... what a party thrown by Gatsby is like - all the rich and famous people attending this amusement park of a party. Following this party, Gatsby brings Nick along for lunch in New York with a spec...

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... diligently worked on. Never actually seeing any combat time the now engaged Fitzgerald was discharged in 1919 ("A brief life of Fitzgerald- 1). Fitzgerald moved with Zelda, his fiancé, to New York City leaving army life behind to seek his fortune. He found a job in the advertisement business; however he was unsuccessful ("A brief life of Fitzgerald- 1). Disappointed in the meager $90 per month ... kind, thoughtful young men from Minnesota. Both have been educated at an Ivy League school. Both also have done time in the service during World War I and moved to New York City after being d...

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... the novel portray to everyone except an oblivious Gatsby that Daisy possesses a true nature of raw carelessness. After Daisy hit Myrtle with the car on the way home from New York City, she "stepped on it," and she would not even stop the car (151). Despite Gatsby's unwavering love for her, she continues play with his feelings. Even Osborn 2 after his death ... . Myrtle, the wife of a poor garage mechanic George Wilson, belongs to the low class of society. However, with Tom, Myrtle puts on an air of superiority. When entering their New York City apartment, Myrtle "gathered up her dog and ...

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... , and still have the same dramatic differences in physical appearance and morals. For example, West Egg and East Egg, West Hartford and East Hartford, or even New York and Baghdad all have striking differences. It can be the location that affects people's attitudes or morals; but at the same time, the people and morals within the ... changes as the conflict between Tom, Gatsby, and Daisy eat him alive and turn him into a hurt and changed man. In the novel, it states that New York was "haunted" to him now. The Eggs had swallowed him up and spit him out with nothing gained; he was only sca...

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... way they used to be. The Plot The novel begins in the 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 ... have lunch at the Buchanan's home, and in the course of the conversation, Tom perceives that his wife is in love with Gatsby. They all end up going to the city, with Tom driving Gatsby's yellow car and Gatsby driving Tom's. On the way, Tom stops at Wilson's gas sta...

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... novel. "The Great Gatsby" is being told through the eyes of Nick Carraway, Daisy's cousin, who moves into New York City making a living while selling bonds. Nick compares his neighbor, Jay Gatsby, to the city itself as being very diverse. "Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy of bay, just out into the most ... ...

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... and overall just live a reckless lifestyle. The way these people live is represented in the novel by Fitzgerald, who emphasizes the life of Nick Carrway, a single stockbroker living in New York, and shows us the world of the rich through his point of view. "Significant writers in the Twenties were above all dedicated to the imposing task of pointing out ... takes Nick to meet his mistress Myrtle, he talks about George Wilson, who is Myrtle's husband. He states, "Wilson? He think she goes to see her sister in New York. He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive" (26). This is an example of ...

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... of this rich environment is seen throughout the novel as something that is positive and attractive. Gatsby was well known in New York for his extravagant and alluring parties that he threw often, inviting guests from all over the city. The overall image of these fancy parties attracted many people all around since it was thrown from the most well known man ... the Gatsby mansion was more ordinary than it would have in the West Egg. This makes the parties at the Gatsby mansion even more infamous as all parts of New York had heard about this grand party. The comparison between the East an...

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... Roaring Twenties and the corruption of today, the plot of the story must be examined. Nick Carraway, a character originally hailing from the Midwest moves to a very prestigious neighborhood in New York. The title comes from his neighbor, Jay Gatsby who owns the mansion across the street in which wild parties are thrown every weekend. Nick begins to attend the parties thrown ... had begins to rise. The confrontation between Gatsby and Tom happens on the hottest day of the summer, under a very hot sun. In the planned confrontation that happens in New York City, Tom in the presence of Dais...

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... all, came for the party with a simplicity of heart that was its own ticket of admission". In preparation for such an atmosphere Gatsby's house was transformed into one of New York's finest nightclubs every Saturday night. "The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun and now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music and the opera of ... his odyssey for love will ultimately mangle his premature success. Economically and socially equipped it appears that a man of Gatsby's statue would have no trouble finding love in a vast city such as New York. Affection brought G...

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... for many of the other scenes in The Great Gatsby is the site of the Valley of Ashes. Running close to the train tracks and to the road into New York, the Valley of Ashes is "a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens, where ashes take the form of houses and chimneys and rising ... smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air" (27). This description of modern New York presents a sharp contrast to the previous description of the newly discovered, newly settled land. The tran...

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