... novel. It was written by an impressionist, for impressionists. It seems that, in order to enjoy the novel, you must have a tendency, or at least a desire to see the world the way Fitzgerald does. I do not; and so, for me, the book was a failure: was, in fact, an agonizing and tedious, ... escaped by retreating underground (where, we assume, Mr. Wolfshiem spends most of his time). Carraway goes on to say "Blinking away the brightness of the street outside my eyes picked him [Gatsby] out obscurely in the anteroom, talking to another man."" (73) Again, we are given the feeling of retreating...

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... Great Gatsby "I"m going to fix everything just the way it was before . She"ll see" (117). This statement by Jay Gatsby optimizes his drive and desire to recapture the love of his dream girl. After 5 years away from his darling Daisy Fay, a stunning, privileged woman, Gatsby is brought back to her ... Cody's lady friend. His lesson in culture was complete and he next looked to making money. Reaching Chicago, Gatsby was found by Meyer Wolfshiem. Meyer was a street smart, organized crime member who had a hand in rigging the 1919 World Series. He saw something in Gatsby that sparked his inter...

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... ) that owns a run-down garage in the valley of ashes. Tom treats her as a simple object of his desire. Myrtle is incredibly jealous of Daisy. After with a fight with her husband, she runs out into the street and is hit and killed by Gatsby's car. George Wilson: Myrtle's husband, the lifeless, exhausted owner of a run-down auto shop at the edge of the ... her back to East Egg with Gatsby, attempting to prove that Gatsby cannot hurt him. When Nick, Jordan, and Tom drive through the valley of ashes, they discover that Gatsby's car has struck and killed Myrtle, Tom's lover. They rush back to...

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... him to live up to a certain moral code in which he obviously can not. For instance, Tom simply treats Myrtle as an object of his desire. Tom's social attitude could be attributed to the incident in which Myrtle and Tom begin to argue about Daisy. Tom demands that Myrtle refrain from saying ... and Daisy drive in Tom's coupe, while Tom, Nick, and Jordan go in Gatsby's car. As Tom drives along, he is constantly looking over his shoulder to make sure Gatsby has not turned down a side street taking Daisy out of his life forever, but they all arrive in the city together where ... their marr...

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... commonplace traditional American values as in this steadfast hope. In fact, through the experiences of characters in The Death of a Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire, and The Great Gatsby, a steadfast hope ultimately results in an inevitable death. In the first piece, The Death of a Salesman, there is ... prosperous American, but rather an exposition of the realistic downside to the unwavering and irrational hope associated with Americans. Similarly, A Streetcar Named Desire exemplifies the shortcomings and demise of the staunchly hopeful American through the experiences of Blanche. In...

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... and love that comes from the newly rich. However, such prosperity brings with it the complex, altered side of the "American Dream". Corruption, desire and despair penetrate through the idealism of this new society. Jay Gatsby, the protagonist, depicts a man fulfilling that American dream. With a questionable background, he ... on one hand reminds the reader of hope, lust and wealth, but on the other side, shows that of greed and envy. Gatsby emphasizes his desire and wish to win Daisy over. After achieving everything he could in life of wealth and power, he now aims to reach for Daisy's h...

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... and upper class people in the novel. He represents the 1920s as an age of decayed social and virtuous values, by showing sarcasm, greediness, and bare search of desire. In this novel, Fitzgerald produces many literary devices. One of the device he used is characterization. The main characters of this novel are Nick Carraway, Jay Gatsby, ... the Plaza Hotel. Tom accused Gatsby of being a criminal. After a little discuss there, they head back to East Egg where Daisy and Gatsby are in same car. On the way, Daisy hits Myrtle on purpose and leaves her like that on the road. Later Tom, Nick an...

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... Gatsby is the obvious embodiment of this theme, it is also illustrated through the author's other characters, namely Myrtle, George, Tom and Daisy. Myrtle Wilson's desire for upper class status rivals that of all other characters in The Great Gatsby. She cannot stand being married to a poor man, and resents being tied ... she says: " he isn't fit to lick my shoe." (Pg. 37) She dreams being a part of the elite group of the idle rich, a desire she satisfies through an affair with Tom Buchanan, a married man who is extremely wealthy. Around Tom, Myrtle pretends to be just as rich, constantl...

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... Gatsby is the obvious embodiment of this theme, it is also illustrated through the author's other characters, namely Myrtle, George, Tom and Daisy. Myrtle Wilson's desire for upper class status rivals that of all other characters in The Great Gatsby. She cannot stand being married to a poor man, and resents being tied ... she says: " he isn't fit to lick my shoe." (Pg. 37) She dreams being a part of the elite group of the idle rich, a desire she satisfies through an affair with Tom Buchanan, a married man who is extremely wealthy. Around Tom, Myrtle pretends to be just as rich, constantl...

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... Gatsby is the obvious embodiment of this theme, it is also illustrated through the author's other characters, namely Myrtle, George, Tom and Daisy. Myrtle Wilson's desire for upper class status rivals that of all other characters in The Great Gatsby. She cannot stand being married to a poor man, and resents being tied ... she says: " he isn't fit to lick my shoe." (Pg. 37) She dreams being a part of the elite group of the idle rich, a desire she satisfies through an affair with Tom Buchanan, a married man who is extremely wealthy. Around Tom, Myrtle pretends to be just as rich, constantl...

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... riche, Tom Buchanan as the old money, and Jordan Baker as the reckless, detached modern woman. The hero, Jay Gatsby, is a Midwesterner-turned-Easterner, whose ambition is fueled by the desire to be reunited with his long lost love. His quest for the American dream leads him from poverty to wealth; he is a self-made millionaire, a nouveau riche. When we first ... Myrtle, to kill Gatsby. Tom responds by saying "I told him the truth." This is ironic because not only was Tom wrong when he told Wilson that Gatsby was driving the car, but also because it sums up the destruction of truth that ...

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... of his wife. However, when he hears of his wife's affair with Gatsby, he fights to keep her with him. He even tells Myrtle's husband that Gatsby was driving the car that killed Myrtle, which leads to Gatsby's murder. Tom doesn't care who loses what or who gets hurt as long as it isn't him. But the self-centeredness does not ... that he has come to Jay's funeral. Mr. Gatz shows Nick a list that illustrates Jay's constant desire to be a better person. When the funeral day finally arrives, only three cars enter the cemetery; the hearse, the limo, and a car with a few servants and the postm...

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... an extent still is, with the simplest of possessions. All is explained however when Fitzgerald informs the reader that across the sound is Daisy's house. The desire to be near to her has driven him to build this extravagant palace (not dissimilar to the "white palace" Daisy, the "Golden girl" is ... sworn he was trembling" Here Gatsby stretches his arms out towards Daisy as he stands beside his great house and the intensity of his dream, his desire to be with her, makes him "tremble", the "enormity of the illusion" he lives overcomes him and it is with these points that Fitzgerald ... ...

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... . Nick Carraway, a character originally hailing from the Midwest moves to a very prestigious neighborhood in New York. The title comes from his neighbor, Jay Gatsby who owns the mansion across the street in which wild parties are thrown every weekend. Nick begins to attend the parties thrown by Gatsby and becomes one of his very good friends. It is after this friendship ... in America seemed almost fake, and they became very materialistic. Just after the war, the stock market began to raise leading to an increase in the national wealth and a newfound desire to use their money for pleasur...

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... hope and faith for the future. It deals with the wishes and dreams of a person and it tends to be a story of rags to riches. The American dream relates to a desire for inner and material improvement. The Great Gatsby describes the decay of a proper American dream and how the want for money and power is overtaking the spiritual and inner happiness ... symbols of great status in the 1920's was the automobile. In the novel we are told that Gatsby has five cars. He gives a car to Nick and one kills Myrtle Wilson later in the book. Gatsby's favorite yellow car was describes by Nick as, . . ....

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... the American Dream in the novel. Both Tom and Gatsby's dreams have been clouded due to the manner in which they tried to achieve them. Which resulted from the unrestrained desire for money and pleasure overtaking more wholesome goals. On the surface the men seem to be total opposites. Tom, a "hulking brute of a man- (16), looks more intimidating compared to the ... the men. When questioned by Nick about the incident all Tom could think about was himself, " He was crazy enough to kill me if I hadn't told him who owned the car... that fellow [Gatsby] had it coming to him."" (187) Tom was ...

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... Fitzgerald, is an exploration of the American Dream, as it existed during a corrupt period in history. The Great Gatsby is a description of the decay of the American Dream and the desire for money and materialism. Fitzgerald accomplishes this through the use of symbols such as the Valley of Ashes, the Green Light, Gatsby's house, and the Eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg. Mid ... through the powdery air . It is in the valley of the ashes where the most tragic occurrences take place; Tom has his affair with Myrtle, Daisy kills Myrtle with Gatsby's car, and George Wilson decides to murder Gatsby...

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... needed to have no aspect of his past interfere with his new identity, so he creates a suitable background for himself. He gives Nick a taste of this "revised- history in his car while driving him to lunch, telling Nick that he was educated at Oxford and inherited his money from his wealthy family, and other untruths that shaped for him a romantic, cinematic ... shows how he feels he can change aspects of people or of their lives to satisfy himself. His insistence that Daisy never loved Tom' is part of his strong, selfish desire to change her past in order to suit his fantasy. According ...

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... substantial love for her; nevertheless, Myrtle turns down his love and betrays it for her passion: Tom. Eventually, she becomes a victim of her own desire and is killed running out towards what she thinks is Tom's car. Myrtle's character does not change thought the story, she has a sensual charisma that is hinted in the very beginning of her introduction and continues until ... ...

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... romance. Instead, Gatsby has full intentions in regaining Daisy through the most prominent way possible, money. He buys an expensive house and a new yellow car. When Daisy and Gatsby meet for the first time in five years; Gatsby tries to surprise her with his wealth by having piano music in the ... dream for that of higher living comes to a halt. Myrtle calls Tom to pick her up from the garage. Myrtle runs desperately at Gatsby's yellow car, assuming Tom was driving, and dies. The accident kills not only Myrtle's dream of higher living but it is also the start of the departing of ... He...

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... each other and begin an affair, even though Daisy is married to Tom Buchanan. After Gatsby reminisces back to the relationship that Daisy and he once had, and adds his desire for Daisy to divorce Tom, Carraway remarks that Gatsby cannot repeat the past. An incredulous Gatsby desperately replies, "Can't repeat the past? Why of course you can!- (116). Carraway's assertion ... in it temporarily. Soon enough after, Gatsby is killed mistakenly by George Wilson, the husband of Myrtle Wilson, the mistress of Tom Buchanan, who was struck and killed by a yellow car driven by Daisy and passengere...

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... her husband live at her husbands place of work...a mechanic's garage.....Tom Buchanan previously made great efforts to get Nick to "see his girl." Wilson is interested in purchasing Toms car....There home is rather drab and does not seem to be fitting to a person as extravagant as Myrtyle...Myrtyle even dresses extravengently in her "home." Myrtlye is a dashing person with ... love struck. Ch 4: The scene opens with Nick reminiscing and providing us with a lengthy list that he compiled of all who attended Gatsby's parties. Gatsby visits Nick in his gorgeous car, this is the first time t...

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... 's effort to find Daisy and subsequently his purchase of a home that is across the bay from her house shows his pursuit of Daisy and his desire to reunite with her. The "green light" symbolizes Daisy, far from Gatsby but in his sight, leading him onward through life--giving him a point ... "green light" to symbolize Daisy and the fact that the "green light" is something that Gatsby wants to obtain is, therefore, comparable to Gatsby's desire for money. Gatsby is convinced that he has to acquire wealth to show Daisy that he is just as suitable as Tom. Fitzgerald uses the "green ... light...

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... Myrtle who got hit and killed. Also, Tom does not yet know that Daisy is the one who was driving the car that killed Myrtle. Another way Fitzgerald uses dramatic irony is when Nick questions Gatsby on who was driving the car that hit Myrtle. Gatsby responses "'Well, I tried to swing the wheel: But Nick realizes the truth. "Was Daisy ... ...

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... and encouraged. However, in the twenties these people weren't treated with the respect they deserved. "Gatsby's dream divides into three basic and related parts: the desire to repeat the past, the desire for money, and the desire for incarnation of "unutterable visions" in the material earth" (Lockridge 11). In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby will do anything to fulfill his hopes and dreams ... that reality protrudes through the dreams of Jay Gatz. Gatsby doesn't fulfill his hopes and dreams in his lifetime. "In short, the novel embodies and expresses the simple, basic human desire and yea...

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