... diplomacy, Martin Luther had equality, and similarly in literature, F. Scott Fitzgerald's Jay Gatsby had the American dream. For in The Great Gatsby there is a great exploration of this theme revolving around one central character, Jay Gatsby, who to this day, still speaks for today's America. Gatsby still speaks for today's America because he still embodies the American dream, for although not as reckless and prodigal as ... his use of point-of-view, first person, or more specifically, his use of Nick as the narrator of the majority of the story. Fitzgerald chose Nick, a young man who c...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... scrutinizes what people say to him and selectively chooses which information he wants to believe about someone or something, he gives the reader a sense of security and trust, that the information that Nick is relaying back to the reader is genuine and significant. The Great Gatsby is a novel of lavish parties filled with drunken orgies of sheer debauchery, love affairs, and murder, but yet ... of Nick Carraway. While it is true that the reader has little choice but trust the words of a narrator to be nothing but forthright, in The Great Gatsby Nick Carraway gains the readers trust early...

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... all faith in man shaken", what's more, he depicted the postwar unprecedented boom of material revelry and at the same time presented the disappointment of the postwar generation for America, the concern for the loss of conventional values and ideals, and the regret for the disillusionment of American Dream.The Great Gatsby is well-known as the most mature work of Fitzgerald, whether in thought or ... in writing techniques. He overcame the precious flaws and applied imagism ... the ruin of Gatsby and Wilson, which are what they finally paid for love. The two different idealists, for thei...

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