... people,' James Gatz was always ambitious." He left his family at the earliest opportunity and invented a new history and persona for himself," ("Fitzgerald" 37). Although Gatsby belongs to the high society, he never quite fits in. He always feels somewhat like an outsider even though he hosts ... His vast riches will never lift him into their social milieu. There is no room for Gatsby's sentimentality in the sophisticated cynical world" ("Fitzgerald" 38). He will never be an "equal" because his money was earned rather than inherited, he knows the value of a dollar and ... scandal that de...

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... care, celebrate every weekend by getting drunk and overall just live a reckless lifestyle. The way these people live is represented in the novel by Fitzgerald, who emphasizes the life of Nick Carrway, a single stockbroker living in New York, and shows us the world of the rich through his point ... creates elements of satire within the narrative by using sarcasm, humor and irony. The use of sarcasm plays a big part in the novel when Fitzgerald presents sarcasm to display humor. "Sarcasm" is defined as the use of irony to mock or convey contempt (dictionary.com). The Great ... possessed a...

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... must provide good recommendations. West Side is less sophisticated and therefore less desirable for it is open to the "new money." By creating this setting Fitzgerald is trying to make the reader understand that a character like Gatsby needs a certain environment to exist. Although Gatsby's persona is surrounded by different ... the commissioner to Nick. He says that he "was able to do the commissioner a favor once, and he sends me a Christmas card every year." Fitzgerald completely trashes the power of the laws when Gatsby was stopped for speeding and acknowledged himself, the policema...

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... , rampant dishonesty is effortlessly shown by Myrtle, Jordan, and Tom. According to Nick Carraway, "[Jordan Baker] was incurably dishonest. She wasn't able to endure being at a disadvantage (Fitzgerald 63)." Jordan's frequent dishonesty shows that she will lie to protect or assist herself, and that she possesses very little regard for the truth, or fairness toward others. Dishonesty and ... an extravagant lifestyle. When Nick first visits the Buchannan's, he says that "their house was even more elaborate than I expected, a cheerful red and white Georgian Colonial mansion overlooking the b...

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... it was a revolution, women started to gain equality in the eyes of men, the culture exploded with celebrities and music and economic growth. F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author of The Great Gatsby, was going through a rough time when he wrote this book, which reflects who the corruption can taint your soul ... nature would have, Myrtle however took a different route, "'Daisy! Daisy! Daisy!' shouted Mrs. Wilson. 'I'll say it whenever I want to!' (Fitzgerald, 37) When asked about their husbands they both replied, that they never loved them, Roxie said that she was too young to even know wh...

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... like a vision of Gatsby's evil alter ego. East and west are expansively used in this novel to contrast certain types of people and their mannerisms. Fitzgerald seems to be implying that a person's behavioral characteristics are due to their environment. In the novel, the east is used to represent an evil ... own parties. The attendees of these parties drink profusely and also are extremely immoral, crashing cars and such. They don't care about their actions. Fitzgerald is clearly criticizing them for this behavior through Gatsby, who is too good and not good enough at the same time. Tom ...

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... lives in the sea of false beliefs. As a result, the outcomes for these people, and the people around them, are often awful. F.Scott Fitzgerald was proficient with the use of illusion and deception in the creation of the characters. In the novel The Great Gatsby, many of the characters build ... related to a wealthy man named Kaiser Wilhelm's. " 'Well they say he's a nephew or a cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm's [Mr.McKee put forth]'''(Fitzgerald 35). This statement is truly false. During the five years he lived on the yacht working as the rich Dan Cody's right hand man, they sailed around ...

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... subtle differences between them. Daisy Fay's lighthearted and sensitive personality causes her to be defenseless towards the men in her life. At the beginning of Fitzgerald's book, she is described as a very attractive and cheerful woman. "Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, ... was in the middle thirties, and faintly stout, but she carried her flesh sensuously as some women can" (28). Just like Daisy Fay, Fitzgerald also sets a hidden meaning to Myrtle's name. Myrtle is a Greek botanical name of a plant with pink or white aromatic berries; ruled by ... symbol for hope...

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... exchanging original traditional values for modern values. These people didn't care for their future nor what belonged in it, being reckless and inconsiderate. F. Scott Fitzgerald revealed the negativity of this time period, opening viewers eyes to adapt to the lifestyle of society that wasn't so glamorous. In The Great Gatsby ... warned Gatsby about Daisy's new life, although Gatsby didn't insist on it being true. "Can't repeat the past? Why of course you can!" (Fitzgerald 110) Gatsby was a fool to love by the false faces and emotions of society; a traditional man who didn't belong. Myrtl...

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... is inevitably achieved through hard work and dedication is one in which most people either believes or would like to believe. In The Great Gatsby, Scott Fitzgerald illustrates the American Dream and the "foul dust" or the carelessness of a society that floats in the wake of this dream. He both subtly ... characters are Tom and Daisy Buchanan. From first glance, it would seem that they live the perfect life, both being rich, young and beautiful. Instead, Fitzgerald uses them to show the bad qualities of the American Dreams modern face. Nick describes the Buchanan's as careless people, as h...

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... is inevitably achieved through hard work and dedication is one in which most people either believes or would like to believe. In The Great Gatsby, Scott Fitzgerald illustrates the American Dream and the "foul dust" or the carelessness of a society that floats in the wake of this dream. He both subtly ... characters are Tom and Daisy Buchanan. From first glance, it would seem that they live the perfect life, both being rich, young and beautiful. Instead, Fitzgerald uses them to show the bad qualities of the American Dreams modern face. Nick describes the Buchanan's as careless people, as h...

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... is inevitably achieved through hard work and dedication is one in which most people either believes or would like to believe. In The Great Gatsby, Scott Fitzgerald illustrates the American Dream and the "foul dust" or the carelessness of a society that floats in the wake of this dream. He both subtly ... characters are Tom and Daisy Buchanan. From first glance, it would seem that they live the perfect life, both being rich, young and beautiful. Instead, Fitzgerald uses them to show the bad qualities of the American Dreams modern face. Nick describes the Buchanan's as careless people, as h...

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... just fictional stories read for pleasure, but rather a more in-depth view of American history and the ordinary people living during this time. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel the Great Gatsby, morality played a huge factor in how the reader views the people of the 1920s. The 1920s was a period in our history ... , much like many other eras, where people were attempting the reach the "American Dream" at any cost. In Fitzgerald's novel the most common dream was wealth, power, and social status. This dream was evident in every character in some way. It was each of ... Gatsby, and man! y of ...

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... answer, friends, is quite simply, yes. Money leads to materialism and materialism leads to the decline and downfall of the American Dream. In the book, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald seems to be saying that materialism and the decline and death of the American dream are interrelated. As one increases, so does the other and visa-versa. And so, during ... , in effect, no matter what, he (or anybody else, for that matter) does or says, try as they might, the riche get richer, and the poor get poorer. So, what Fitzgerald is essentially saying, is that it is called the "...

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... that he is superior to Gatsby, who is not a blue blood man. His superiority is shown when Tom says: "An Oxford man! Like hell he is! He wears a pink suit" (Fitzgerald 129; ch. 7). He means that it does not matter if Gatsby is rich now and went to Oxford because what really matters to Tom is that Gatsby is still not ... Holden and Ackley's conversation when Holden says: "But he"d give you the goddam tie. Most guys would probably just-" and then Ackley says: "Hell, if I had his dough I would, too" (Fitzgerald, 33; ch. 3), but Stradlater is much more worried about what is important to a te...

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... Gatsby Tom Buchanan and Jay Gatsby have many things in common. They both seem to love Daisy, they are both very wealthy men, they both lie, and both cheat. But Fitzgerald does not see both men as equally corrupt. Tom has no reasoning in his actions, he is just purely malicious. Gatsby's actions however, are all for the only thing he ... . Gatsby is noble and if given the chance could be Daisy's "knight in shining armor- while Tom is insolent and would probably let the horse run her over. As F. Scott Fitzgerald saw it the American dream was originally about discovery, individualism, and t...

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... that he is superior to Gatsby, who is not a blue blood man. His superiority is shown when Tom says: "An Oxford man! Like hell he is! He wears a pink suit" (Fitzgerald 129; ch. 7). He means that it does not matter if Gatsby is rich now and went to Oxford because what really matters to Tom is that Gatsby is still not ... Holden and Ackley's conversation when Holden says: "But he"d give you the goddam tie. Most guys would probably just-" and then Ackley says: "Hell, if I had his dough I would, too" (Fitzgerald, 33; ch. 3), but Stradlater is much more worried about what is important to a te...

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F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel, "The Great Gatsby," provides a commentary on a variety of themes, including justice, power, greed, time, betrayal, and the pursuit of the American Dream. One of these themes, the American ... . Wolfsheim at a restaurant. During this first meeting, Wolfsheim is talking to Gatsby about a transaction with another person in which Wolfsheim would not pay "him a penny till he shuts his mouth" (Fitzgerald 55). This bribery-tainted business deal is the first indication of Wolfsheim's nefarious nature. Mr. Wolfsheim caught Nick's attention when he was looking at so...

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... let four taxicabs drive away before she selected a new one..." (p. 32) Even her flat was " crowded to the doors with a set of tapestried furniture entirely too large for it..." (p.35) Fitzgerald's vision of American society is not that of the superficial gloss of the "Jazz Age" but of a moral and spiritual wasteland symbolised by the "valley of ashes" surveyed "by the ... and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground." (p.29) It is entirely fitting that they are literally an advertisement (cf. p.166) an image of the capitalist society. 3) HOW DOES FITZGERALD SHOW HIS DISILLUSIONMENT...

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... ] came East I don't know. They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together' " (Fitzgerald 19). As Nick Carraway mentions in this quote, Tom uses his earnings to travel particularly for his affairs and for pleasure, although Gatsby sees his money as the one thing ... ...

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... soul; she is pure and whole, she loves and is loved and like that little girl down the way, she laughs at ones jokes and scorns at ones misbehavior. F. Scott Fitzgerald felt strongly of the forces of evil and felt no single person could embody the limitless aspects of that dark side so he simply employed multiple characters to do its ... ...

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... entirely self-made. During the "roaring twenties," however, an economic boom triggered a frenzy of capitalism that adulterated this dream into being wholly based on materialism and social merit. Throughout F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby, the author lives the corruption of this dream through Tom and Daisy (the inheritors of success), Gatsby (the achiever of success), and Myrtle (the seeker of ... ...

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... the wild forest without shoes, and hungry, beaten by many rains tired by the sun; yet she rejected the sweet life of home so that her father should have sustenance" (Fitzgerald 104). Because she is secluded, Antigone never has to take her place in society as a woman. Without a female role model to show her how a woman is supposed to act, there ... ...

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... McKee's are very weird people in my opinion. Ms. McKee kept talking about her husband taking pictures and he kept ignoring her, as if he way annoyed with her. I think Fitzgerald out this scene in his book to let us readers know about Tom and Myrtle's affair and let us know where they went to go and get away from everyone ... ...

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