... yacht to become his Personal Assistant. Aboard the yacht Gatsby gave his name as Jay Gatz. Cody took him on the yacht to a trip in Barbary Coast and West Indies, where Gatsby gained a window into the life of the wealthy and famous. Nick notes that Cody and his yacht represented to Gatsby, "all ... of The Great Gatsby, has attained the wealth that he so desired and lives in a gaudy mansion in New York's West Egg, where he practices a life of extravagance. New York's West Egg residential section in Contrast to its East Side is symbolic of the social hierarchies in America of the 1920's. T...

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... money were viewed with skepticism and thought to have gained their money through corruption. This social class division is further perpetuated in The Great Gatsby between those who live on West Egg versus those on East Egg. Those who lived on East Egg, Tom and Daisy, represent the American Aristocracy, they had established wealth and were known as "old money ". Contrary ... West Egg was home to, Gatsby and Nick, people who had recently acquired money. The people of West Egg were known as "new money ", and the "old money " inhabitants of West Egg looked down upon them. The location of th...

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... is a flawed character, Nick sees that Gatsby has a profound commitment to his ideals, a trait that is missing from the likes of the west-eggers, Daisy and Tom. Gatsby had to make himself, while Daisy and Tom are reckless and careless and simply inherited their social status. Fitzgerald emphasizes ... more specifically, his use of Nick as the narrator of the majority of the story. Fitzgerald chose Nick, a young man who comes from the west, to enhance the differences amongst the characters. Nick proclaims in the beginning of the novel that he is "inclined to reserve all judgments- because ...

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... in the first chapter of the Great Gatsby. Nick describes where he and the other affluent individuals live, in the towns of East and West Egg on Long Island, an area around New York City. East and West Egg are fictional places, but their names represent the affluence of their residents. The word "egg" suggests vitality and contrasts to Fitzgerald ... ; in contrast to the valley of ashes, which is a "grey land." Through the absence of color in the valley in comparison to the colorful towns of East and West Egg, Fitzgerald suggests that everything seemed to be perfect, but only for the weal...

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... elite New York community. Furthermore, his attempts to merge into a high-class New Yorker become apparent when nothing he says is quite true, '" What part of the Middle West?' I inquired casually. 'San Francisco'" (Fitzgerald 65). Obviously, Gatsby does not quite know what he is lying about because of the fact that San Francisco is most definitely not ... in the Middle West. Many of his fibs are just attempts to fit in with Daisy Buchannan. Finally, Gatsby's carefree attitude is clearly demonstrated through the lavish parties that he throws, "Once there ... ...

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... point, but is important to understand how important this second factor is. The separation of identity is actually outlined in the novel by the physical separation of the east and west egg in which exclusively the old and newly rich resigned respectably. Despite what the American dream had men like Gatsby believing it is actually impossible to truly make the leap ... between the two groups represented by the separation of east and west egg. No matter what happened Gatsby would never be a part of the truly upper-upper class as he so desired. In this sense it can be said that the cultural ...

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... 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 in West Egg. Gatsby's mansion was "sparking new under a thin beard of raw ivy", while Tom's had the lawn "drifting up the side in bright vines", subtly suggesting their common money-pursuit ... which are essentially void and empty despite their purity and beauty.The preclude of the second chapter offers an impressive picture of "a valley of ashes" located between East Egg and West Egg. The ...

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... Huckleberry Finn with The Great Gatsby we see that each book represents "different Americas": the lower and upper classes, rural and urban life, the discriminated and the privileged, the frontier west and the civilized east, the prejudices of south and north, traditional conservatism and radical emotionalism. Each book gives opinions on each opposing faction of American life, but in the biased ... denounces black people as naturally inferior and ridicules the government for not feverishly enforcing his racist ideas. The Great Gatsby takes place in the imaginary upper class neighborhoods...

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... in adoration. As he steps forward, as he raises his hand, as he purses his lips, he interprets his reflection's mirror imagery as requitment of the desire. This mythology may sound absurd when relating it to Jay Gatsby and King Lear - however, both these figures are guilty of misreading the actions of those around him; with Gatsby having the audacity to ... ...

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... 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"(98), but ... ...

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... Trustworthiness of Nick Callaway F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is a novel that elegantly and truthfully details the period of American history known as the Roaring Twenties. Taking place on the West and East Eggs of Long Island, The Great Gatsby tells the tale of Jay Gatsby (an incredibly wealthy but yet a complete mystery of a man) and of his undying love for ... ...

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... then, what is called the jazz age, the generation in flames or the lost generation, Fitzgerald became the spokesman of all this, jazz being the lively music coming from the west, the pursuit of pleasure, excessive drinking and endless parties, , all of this he was part of it, yet as writer , he also so the grim disillusionment in the America dream ... ...

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... condescension because he is not of the long-standing American upper class. Though Gatsby is fabulously wealthy, he is still regarded as socially inferior as part of the nouveau riche West Egg. Perhaps Nick sums Gatsby's fate well when he states, " So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." (Fitzgerald 189). Here, Nick reveals Gatsby ... ...

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... gardens... of ash grey men". In contrast, there was Long Island which was divided into East Egg, home to the "old rich" where "white palaces glittered along the water" and West Egg, "the less fashionable of the two". This division among classes emphasizes the deterioration of an American dream and reinforces the significance of materialism in a society obsessed with wealth and ... ...

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