... life. He lied to her about his background in order to get her attention and confidence. Gatsby's love affair with Daisy however is short lived because he had to leave to fight in World War 1 in 1917. They made love together before his departure and Gatsby felt ... the 1920's- the returning generation of Americans who had returned from fighting in World War I had experienced such a carnage and the misery of human nature and life. They were disillusioned and came to question the Victorian notion of the morality that they were been re-assimilated back into at home ... a medal he had recei...

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... leave her whole past for Tom, to the artificial fantasy of a perfect life that the Buchanan's appear to have, the most important figures throughout the story represents corruption in one way or another. As people may hold their driven aspirations to live a perfect life, the realization that money and materialistic items ... 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, compelled into an ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate