... ramblings and secrets. And this unwillingness to judge others is evident throughout the novel, considering that the company he keeps is quite reprehensible. For instance, he passes no judgement or criticism upon Tom when he openly has an affair with Myrtle and shows no evidence of guilt or remorse about cheating on Daisy. Though the refusal to pass judgement on such ... simply dismisses things he knows are false especially if coming from Tom or Daisy. This is apparent several times in the first chapter when Nick is at Tom and Daisy's house. When hearing of Tom's theory of the supremacy ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... relationships became in the consumer society that Chicago was transformed into, is first evident on the fact that Minnie and Hanson invited Carrie to stay at their house not out of a desire for the companionship of a close family relative, but so they can make profit from her labor by charging her for board ... her job because she is sick and could not work. In this regard, Minnie and Hanson wasted no time in kicking Carrie out of their house because she no longer was profitable to them. Instead of returning back to Wisconsin, Carrie moved in with Drouet, the traveling salesman that she ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... merge into up-classes, which showed his vanity and vulgarity; Tom's "Georgian colonial mansion" is the represent of his status as a hereditary aristocrat; Nick's house, which was "squeezed between two huge places" and was "a weather-beaten carboard bungalow", suggests his position and his envy toward money when he first settled ... means, are after all "thin"and quite a few; however the property-inherited and self-oriented selfish parasites are "bright" and thriving. Car is like house, tending to be associated with the materialism of American Dream. Nick only had a shabby car; Wilson liv...

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... " the sordid reality lying beneath the fictions of the American dream of limitless Opportunity and Achievement. If for a time "the whole front" of Gatsby's mansion "catches the light," if   the house, "blazing with light" at two o'clock in the morning, "looks like the World's Fair," the reader understands why it comes to be filled with an inexplicable amount of dust everywhere ... upon an anchored balloon. They were both in white, and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had just been blown back in after a short flight around the house." White traditionally symbolizes p...

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... lives her life based on the capitalist economy that controls America. To further develop the covetous nature of Daisy, Fitzgerald uses the sudden change of her behavior upon viewing Gatsby's house and his wardrobe to express that greedy people change their mannerisms to get what they want. Daisy swings from being a fake, happy acting person, to a small child with "her head ... the public through their upright actions. In several instances, Fitzgerald denotes a tone of respect toward Gatsby and his strong will and good character. When Daisy Buchanan first is in Gatsby's house, she remark...

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... the book consisting of aspirations of a perfect life and achievements. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway quotes, "Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent ... perfect yet twisted sense of their corrupted dreams they experience. It ties in to the fact that they appear to live the American Dream in that they have a beautiful daughter, house, and look happy in marriage, however the...

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... that so many people desire - the dream of wealth. He needed reassurance about his possessions, "he hadn't once ceased looking at Daisy, and I think he re-valued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes." Fitzgerald uses irony by having Gatsby's automobile, one of the possessions attained by wealth, lead to his ... the diminishing of his self-respectability to where his original love began. "He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight He wants her to see his house-. In most forms of tragedy, the tragic fi...

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... way, Fitzgerald shows us how different the wealthy elite were from normal people. This interpretation is reinforced by how Fitzgerald describes each place through color. He describes Tom and Daisy's house as "a cheerful red-and-white Georgian Colonial Mansion" in contrast to the valley of ashes, which is a "grey land." Through the absence of color in the ... ...

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... 't say that she "never loved Tom"(133), it unveils how meritocracy isn't existent at all in this novel. Gatsby plans for such a long period of time by buying a house in West Egg, arranging their nostalgic meeting, and reinventing himself from James Gatz into the idea of Jay Gatsby, which is a concept he is "faithful until the end" ... ...

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... his assumption of Gatsby once again dictates his description of him. After the car accident that he assumes Gatsby is guilty of causing, he responds to Gatsby standing around Daisy's house by calling it "a despicable occupation" (Fitzgerald, 184). This immediate of association of Gatsby with evil and sinister actions reflects how Nick is once again, driven by his pre-set assumptions ... ...

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... own money and this began leading them to independence. After the war women generally came to the conclusion that there was more to life than taking care of children and a house. It was in 1920 when women earned the right to vote which was a massive leap of a step upwards being accepted as equal citizens. This changed female society's attitude towards many ... ...

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... of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors" eyes...a fresh, green breast of the new world. It vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; or a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent ... ...

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... of the dream's destruction; it becomes easily entangled with hope and success, inevitably replacing the American dream with materialism. Due to this sentiment that money will bring happiness, Gatsby built a house directly across the bay from Daisy's in order to impress her with his great wealth. Through flaunting his wealth with lavish parties, elaborate mansion and extravagant cars of "monstrous length ... ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate