... both narratives observe a certain form of distance, with the narrator in the Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway, being a peripheral one and the narration of Of Mice and Men being done in third person. However, as Nick Carraway himself is immersed within the story, it makes for a more subjective narrative. The third ... 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. This allusion of Gatsby to malevolence influences the reader to perc...

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... was a son of God and he must be about His Father's Business, the service of a vast, vulgar, meretricious beauty." (Fitzgerald 104). Therefore, Nick is suggesting that Gatsby was striving to be a man he envisions in his fondest dreams, in a sense a perfect human being. Gatsby is thus the novel ... in that, America in the 1920s had become a place where nothing could be attained and attempting to transcend ones social status was futile. As Nick Carraway narrates, "I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors" eyes...a fresh, green breast of the new world. It ...

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... is important to note how Gatsby sees himself, how the audience views the tragic figure, and also how Nick perceives Gatsby at this present moment. Significantly, Nick Carraway, the novel's narrator, tells Gatsby that "you are worth more than the whole bunch put together-. Ironically, Nick remembers that it is the first compliment he has ever paid Gatsby. These are amongst the last words ... that Gatsby will ever hear spoken, and the last he will hear from Nick. Fitzgerald also uses these words to ... ...

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... commitment. The American Dream is a universal hope familiar to our society and characters in 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 ... purpose. "There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams---not through her own fault but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion," Nick acclaims in th...

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... cutting their hair short in bob hair style and wore loose dresses, different from the tight corsets of the Victorian style, they were described as more boyish and less feminine. Nick Carraway gives us the first impression on Jordan Baker as being the ideal model of a flapper when he describes her as a "slender, small-breasted girl, with an erect carriage, which ... is a shallow and careless woman. Further, Jordan is characterized by self-centeredness. This is shown clearly through her dishonesty and her indifferent behavior towards important matters. She consistently lies to Nick and tw...

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