... to say something about Tom's affair, which makes her rather blunt. Myrtle Wilson is portrayed to be foolish and adulterous. Myrtle is married to George Wilson which owns a car garage in The Valley of Ashes. "I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn't fit to lick my shoe. (Fitzgerald 34) She married George because she thought he would be different ... . "Myrtle Wilson, her life violently extinguished, knelt in the road and mingled her thick dark blood with the dust " (Fitzgerald 131) She tried hard to achieve the American Dream, but in the end she belonged in The Valley of A...

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... want to escape. b) Eveline's father is a shadowy but menacing bully who has ruined her mother's life and is set to ruin hers. Eveline's father is the repressive authority in her life. She is helpless to break away from him. c) The weight of poverty and family responsibilities bear down on this young woman heavily; her financial situation is very bad. She is trapped ... burdened by poverty and hopelessness. Fortunately we have never had to face such a situation. But in general I think that I wouldn't have been as strong as Eveline. I probably would have left Ireland. page 53 tasks: 2) a) ...

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... of his younger sisters had died at birth. His mom also loved showing off her good-looking son, so he became interested in girls at a young age. He even wrote in his journals as a child which girls at school he liked the most. When he was thirteen he attended St. Paul Academy where he had his first short story published. He then spent ... two years at a Catholic Boarding School in Hackensack, New Jersey, before enrolling at Princeton in 1913. After nearly four years of bad grades and poor health Fitzgerald dropped out of Princeton without a degree and joined the Army as a second lieutena...

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... not exactly make him happy, he still did not what he wanted the most, Daisy Gatsby's sheer optimism to win Daisy's love as seen in the idea of the mysterious green light that extended from Gatsby's dock to the end of Daisy's window, this to me represents the true American dream. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us".(189) Gatsby ... 's optimism and dreams I believe is that yearning of love and pursuit of happiness in life. The Great Gatsby ended with Gatsby ... waiting in his mansion on an autumn afternoon for ... ...

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