... Buchanan first is in Gatsby's house, she remarks "I love it, but I don't see how you live there all alone' - and then Gatsby simply replies "I keep it full of interesting people, night and day. People who do interesting things. Celebrated people'- (Fitzgerald 96). While emphasizing the word "interesting- in this passage, the author intends to show that Gatsby concentrates more on the ... on monetary value, but on a person's drive and accomplishments, as Gatsby sees without faltering. Yet another passage that emphasizes Gatsby's good moral fiber is when he reflects back to the night when...

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... , "He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled under the night" (Fitzgerald 180). Nick uses sensory details and imagery to recreate his accounts of the events for the reader. Nick's overall decency and straightforwardness greatly adds to his characterization; therefore ... ...

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... the American Dream, but the green light also reflects the illusion of the American Dream. When Gatsby mentions to Daisy that "[she] always [has] a green light that burns all night at the end of her dock"(92), he unveils his naiveté and false hope in claiming Daisy. He accepts this tacit idea and assumes that he has fulfilled ... ...

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... funeral appears to take on an even colder, lonely and desolate shape. Referring to the aftermath of the death, Nick also says, "remember the rest of that day and that night and the next day"" (Fitzgerald, 210). This lamentation of time through the repeated use of the word emphasizes his aimlessness and alludes time to something of a prison, a never-ending cycle ... ...

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... , we see in the last scenes of The Great Gatsby that Wilson, Myrtle's husband believed that Dr T.J Eckleburg's eyes is the ever watching eyes of God. Wilson spent the whole night telling Michaelis about Myrtle's love affair and how he had confronted her and told her that she will never escape the eyes of God. The next morning, Wilson is astonished ... ...

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... . He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night." Gatsby felt that he was so close to his dream, but the true happiness in Jay was already somewhere in his past. It also describes that the need to move ... ...

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