... people. And they know me, boys, they know me up and down New England. The finest people. one thing, boys: I have friends" (Miller 19). Willy is trying to assure his sons that he is well liked throughout America and that is what is important in order to be "successful& ... over some afternoon to a stranger's garden" (Fitzgerald 85). Jay had essentially been living a fake, extravagant life all in order to find and regain Daisy's love, and Nick could not believe how invested Jay had become in reaching this goal. The magnificent investment of Jay is characteristic of a hopeful ... . Followi...

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... succeed in his dream of Daisy he never gives up trying. The main part of Gatsby's dreams deal with the past and the future. "Gatsby, unlike the other Fitzgerald heroes, sacrifices his life on the alter of his dream, unaware that it is composed of the ephemeral stuff of the past"(Miller 20). Gatsby proves this ... by the criminal activities he was involved in. He sacrifices his life for the "love of his life", Daisy. Gatsby will go to any length to win this young woman that he is in love ... As for Gatsby's present, it also doesn't look promising. He has lost the one thing that meant anyt...

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... or money- (qtd. in Lehan "Careless People- 71). Fitzgerald felt his lack of money was why Ginevra married someone else (Lehan "Careless People- 71). "[. . .] Daisy Fay Buchannan was named for Henry James heroine; Daisy Miller- (Malcolm Cowley). Lehan relates Daisy to Ginevra and shows how Fitzgerald uses Ginevra in a variety of his works. The story [of Gatsby] was compelling for Fitzgerald because it was ... ."" (Lehan "Careless People- 67) Robert Stallman also noted that, "both of the women who deceived him in the novel, rhyme with his name, Jay Gatsby, Daisy Fay and Ella Kay- (qtd. in ...

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... at one point or another. It is human nature to want to have or be something that they are not. In Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Miller's Death of a Salesman, Willy Loman and Gatsby are characters dominated by an American dream that destroyed them. Their dreams come from an illusionary past and ... fueled Gatsby's dream and his attempt to repeat the past. In the present, Gatsby makes it very clear what he is trying to do with Daisy in a conversation with Nick, the narrator of the novel. " "I"m going to fix everything just the way it was before"". He is determined that ... current, b...

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... trying to recapture it and, finally, dies in its pursuit. In the past, Jay had a love affair with the beautiful and seemingly innocent Daisy. Knowing he could not marry her because of the difference in their social status, he leaves her to accumulate his wealth to reach her economic ... and social standards. Once he acquires this wealth, he moves near to Daisy, "Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay (83)," and throws extravagant parties, hoping by chance she might show up at one of them ... the worthlessness of materialism, the futile quest of Myrtle and G...

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