... satisfying things, and obtain satisfying qualities. Characters in "Winter Dreams" and Three of the most satisfying materials that a person could own is a home, money, and a car. At least one of these items is essential for a person no matter where they live. The home is the most satisfying material that a person could own. A ... with air conditioning on a hot day. It can satisfy a person with ride to ones favorite place such as the beach. A home, money, and a car are all materials that a person can own to satisfy them. Not only can materials satisfy a person but so can activities such as...

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... means, are after all "thin"and quite a few; however the property-inherited and self-oriented selfish parasites are "bright" and thriving. Car is like house, tending to be associated with the materialism of American Dream. Nick only had a shabby car; Wilson lived on car-repairing; Tom fooled Wilson by using his bait; Gatsby had two nice yellow cars to receive guests. To Gatsby ... , car is not only a means of showing off but also a means of redeeming his primary lover Daisy. However the traffic accident of Mrs ... ruin of Gatsby and Wilson, which are what they finally paid for love. The ...

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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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... 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 valley of ashes. George loves and idealizes Myrtle, and is devastated by ... 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 ...

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... Tom's apparent rejection of their affair, she has lost all hope of joining the higher social class. This loss of hope makes her become desperate. When the yellow car Tom was driving in the afternoon approaches the garage, Myrtle makes a frantic and crazed escape from her husband, and "rushe(s) out into the dusk, waving her hands ... and shouting," but not before she establishes her dominance over George one last time.(pg. 57) When her husband tries to stop her from reaching the car, she taunts him, even invites him to "throw [her] down and beat [her]," but he cannot.(pg. 58) Her control ...

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... suggests that all five of them go into the city. Gatsby 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 ... their marriage. Daisy, Tom, and Gatsby become excited and they decide to leave the city and head back to East Egg, Gatsby and Daisy in Gatsby's car, while the others drive Tom's coupe. As Gatsby and Daisy are driving home, they pass George Wilson, Myrtle Wilson's husband, and his garage. George has ... suspec...

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... she pretends to be something she's not. The color signals to the reader of a flaw in the integrity of a character. Yellow signifies corruption as well. Gatsby's car, the one that kills Myrtle is described as "a yellow car. A big yellow car" (147). Fitzgerald tries to stress the depravation of the actions Daisy takes after the accident. Once striking Myrtle with Gatsby's yellow ... car, instead of stopping, Daisy accelerates away from the scene. Her choice to flee the crime scene points to her moral impurity. Even her name fittingly describes that of a white-pedaled ... ...

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... the heat of the day was immense. Tom, who disliked Gatsby because of his bond with Daisy, told her to come with him in Gatsby's car. She had other plans as she went with Gatsby in Tom's car. They all attended dinner in New York and got through half of the meal. Then, Tom and Jay got into a heated argument about Daisy ... , and asked to leave. Tom confidently allowed her to go home with Gatsby and she decided to drive. She was driving recklessly when a woman ran out in the street. The car killed her and they took off for home. This woman turned out to be Tom's mistress. Loving and devoted...

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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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... . Fitzgerald's use of imagery, symbols, and time add a dimension of indescribable tangibility and vision. Fitzgerald's use of imagery is brilliant. From the Valley of Ash to the description of Gatsby's car, everything becomes vivid but in an unreal form, some of the imagery seems as though it comes from an unburied subconscious. Fitzgerald consistently uses color imagery to create atmosphere in ... needs the money to get back together with Daisy. Gatsby has a large green lawn and green ivy going up his house. Inside Gatsby's car, the passengers sit "in a sort of green leather conservator...

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... 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 Tom projects throughout the rest of the novel. Tom doesn't know the difference between right and wrong, only what ... "that fellow had it coming to him... he ran over Myrtle like you;d run over a dog and never bothered to stop his car." The irony exists because that is exactly the mentality that Daisy (who was actually driving the car) and Tom have." They smashed...

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... of Mexicali. Mexicali is a small city in Mexico that borders the United States. This is where most the refugees come from. When he left Mexicali, he hide in a trains box car along with a few other men. He went from train to train. After a few days he described himself, along with the other men as savage dogs. They would get off the ... better themselves. Even though, my parents emphasized that we should help each other they never asked for one cent from us. By the age of eighteen Merna purchased her first car. My parents were so proud. This was what they wanted for us. It all made sense...

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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 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 postman. Another car pulls in after them and Owl Eyes, an attendee ...

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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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... Gatsby in a suite at 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 and Jordan discover that it was Gatsby ... 's car that hit Daisy. George Wilson, who is Myrtle's husband, was very angry about her wife's death. He went to Tom's home with a gun to kill him but Tom tells George ... ...

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... 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, . . . and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hat boxes and supper boxes and tool boxes . . . Sitting down ... ...

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... . In the 1920's, the American dream primarily had to do with being rich, and through this, being able to fulfill your dreams. "He saw me looking with admiration at his car."" "It's pretty, isn't it, old sport?" He jumped off to give me a better view. "Haven't you ever seen it before?" "I'd seen it. Everybody had seen it. It was a rich cream ... , since money rules the lives of the people in the story. Gatsby needs money to live the life that he does, and to get back together with Daisy. Inside Gatsby's car, the passengers sit "in a sort of green leather conservatory". This green leather s...

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... 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 too much of a coward to admit to being Myrtle's lover and made Gatsby pay the price for it. Gatsby ... give up his mistresses for his own wife. Gatsby waited all night to make sure Daisy was ok after the argument with Tom in the hotel room and the "death car incident- (153), while Tom refuses to hang up the phone with his lover (20) and goes as far as breaking Myrtl...

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... man about Nick's age. When Gatsby had shown his face at the table. Another scene is when Nick walks across the lawn towards his house away from a chaotic scene where a car with one wheel ripped off has landed in a ditch in front of Gatsby's thinking of Jordan Baker. Nick reveals, "I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity" (62 ... : the only information I learned about Gatsby in this chapter is that he truly does love Daisy. I know this because he keeps it a secret that it was Daisy that was the car when hey hit Myrtle. The only person Gatsby tells in his neighbor ...

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... and hence achieve happiness and was, in fact, this very dream that resulted in her downfall. George Wilson, Myrtle's husband, also wishes to come into some money, namely through Tom's car, which he hopes to buy and then sell again and make some money out of it. However, unlike Myrtle, George does not wish to join Tom's social class. Instead, his ... book who dreams about moving out, which makes him a contrast between lifestyle and morality. Ironically, George is depending on Tom to save his marriage with Myrtle by selling him the car, but it is Tom who is sleeping with his wife and who ...

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... and hence achieve happiness and was, in fact, this very dream that resulted in her downfall. George Wilson, Myrtle's husband, also wishes to come into some money, namely through Tom's car, which he hopes to buy and then sell again and make some money out of it. However, unlike Myrtle, George does not wish to join Tom's social class. Instead, his ... book who dreams about moving out, which makes him a contrast between lifestyle and morality. Ironically, George is depending on Tom to save his marriage with Myrtle by selling him the car, but it is Tom who is sleeping with his wife and who ...

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... and hence achieve happiness and was, in fact, this very dream that resulted in her downfall. George Wilson, Myrtle's husband, also wishes to come into some money, namely through Tom's car, which he hopes to buy and then sell again and make some money out of it. However, unlike Myrtle, George does not wish to join Tom's social class. Instead, his ... book who dreams about moving out, which makes him a contrast between lifestyle and morality. Ironically, George is depending on Tom to save his marriage with Myrtle by selling him the car, but it is Tom who is sleeping with his wife and who ...

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... it as something he must do to win Daisy back. Every character mentioned in this novel is dishonest except for Wilson and Nick Carraway. Tom Buchanan lies about owning Gatsby's car: "I bought it last week". Gatsby lies countless times about his past, Jordan cheats in golf and Myrtle lies to her husband about visiting her sister. Daisy does not make an ... careless people.". However, Gatsby is different, he is very careful in everything he does and says. He sacks all his servants because he wants staff who "wouldn't gossip". After his car has hit Myrtle, he "[gives] instructions that the ...

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... 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 she becomes a tragic figure. All ... ...

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... be seen in his unquestioned love for Daisy. Gatsby's love for Daisy is most evident in the death of Myrtle Wilson, Tom's mistress. While returning from New York in Gatsby's car, Daisy accidentally hits Myrtle, killing her instantly. Gatsby says that he will take the blame for Daisy (151). It is at this time that Gatsby shows his greatest love for ... ...

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