... "Daisy and Tom's marriage has gone dead; they must cover their dissatisfactions with the distractions of the idle rich." Through this, Fitzgerald suggests that society was all about status. Moreover, it suggests that the rich could get away with anything and just move on, leaving the ... how ultimately the wealthy never took the consequences of their careless behavior; it simply lay with someone from outside their inner circle. Moreover, Fitzgerald suggests that the views and emotions of the wealthy elite have been corrupted by their wealth. This can be seen through how Daisy and ... we...

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... that exemplify him as a character. Gatsby uses his catchphrase the very first time he meets Nick, "I thought you knew, old sport. I'm afraid I'm not a very good host" (Fitzgerald 48). Gatsby uses his catchphrase incessantly because he tirelessly attempts to become a part of the elite New York community. Furthermore, his attempts to merge into a high-class New Yorker become ... "Once there they were introduced by somebody who knew Gatsby, and after that they conducted themselves according to the rules of behavior associated with an amusement park" (Fitzgerald 41). Gatsby's life is basica...

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... his status as a chronicler and poet laureate in the jazz age. He was once credited by T. S. Eliot for "the first step that American fiction has taken since Henry James, because Fitzgerald depicted the extolled grandest and most boisterous, reckless and merry-making scene" through what he knew or indirectly experienced and discovered the disillusionment that "a generation grown up to find all ... things by using visible symbols; the other is the connection and relation between symbols and meanings. Hence symbolism in fiction aims to present the hidden things and thoughts under phenomena....

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... . If this evaluation was placed at the end of the novel, responders may have developed their own personal opinions on the value of these characters contrasting to the portrait which Fitzgerald was trying paint of them. Subsequently, the composer managed this problem by influencing the composer's judgements from the very beginning of the plot using the convention of structure. Responders ... the Buchanan's marriage; hinting that under its veneer of perfection there is infact underlying conflict in the relationship. Ultimately this turns out to be Tom's infidelity. Furthermore, the style ...

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... " It is often said that great minds think alike. We have Shakespeare being one of the greatest playwrites in time, and F.Scott Fitzgerald being one of America's most famous authors. So it would not be surprising to say that both author and playwrite wrote works which were ... even today, despite the time difference in which they were written. Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew takes place in Elizabethan England as Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is set in America in the 1920's. Both pieces however endow characters which show similar characteristics and if carefully analyzed ... so obsess...

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... develop outstanding social skills. A study conducted on the psychological development of children 4-9 years of age, results scored within normal ranges and did not differ from children of heterosexual parents (Fitzgerald 67). The presence of a homosexual parent nor the absence of a father has an effect on a child's emotional development. Psychologist Charlotte Patterson, notes that children of lesbian couples show ... of the parent. A conducted study examined 55 gay or bisexual father's reports on their 82 sons sexual orientation. The results showed that 90% of these children were heter...

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... distinct syntax, expressions and structure, which cause confusion in intercultural communication. For example, in Asian countries the word "no" is rarely used, so that "yea" can mean "no" or "perhaps" (Fitzgerald 235). Therefore, an American traveling to Japan might be considered impolite if he ignores this rule. One might feel that it is not necessary to respect the values of different ... ), this would not be acceptable in that culture. There is evidence that native speakers are usually tolerant of problems that non-native speakers may have with grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary (...

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