... and indifference" (Meyers, 30). Although heartbroken at the time, Fitzgerald answered Yeats" crucial question-- "Does the imagination dwell the most / Upon a woman lost or a woman won?" -- by using his lost love as imaginative inspiration. For in his 1925 masterpiece, The Great Gatsby, he recreated the elusive, unattainable Ginevra as the beautiful and elegant Daisy Fay Buchanan. Throughout the novel, Fitzgerald described ... , 42). Despite Zelda's striking beauty and strong personality, she had numerous flaws that were impossible to hide. She was often rude, selfish, sexually promiscuou...

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... is the corruption of the American Dream? In The Great Gatsby, the longing for the real American Dream---a simple white picket fence, a perfect family, a true love, and security---is not uncommon, but the corruption is characterized by greed and overpowered by money and material wealth. Gatsby's one lingering hope throughout ... it is solely how one goes about their life living each day to its fullest and the achievement of true happiness without substance and genuine love with or without commitment. The American Dream is a universal hope familiar to our society and characters in the bo...

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... Fitzgerald could be nearer to Broadway. While living there, he became an alcoholic and was characterized as an irresponsible writer. This was the basis for the family's move to France in 1924, where Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby. Although it was not completely successful immediately, it is now accepted universally as a ... first of these is optimism which, of the three, is the most underlying. Jay Gatsby was a poor young man in the army who fell in love with a wealthy and shallow girl named Daisy. While he was off fighting, Daisy became bored and impatient and married a rich man nam...

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... many notable novels in his career, and one of them is Great Gatsby. It was published in April 20, 1925. Great Gatsby is a story of the hopeless love between a man and a woman in early 1920's. Fitzgerald shows the difference between lower class and upper class people in the novel. He represents the 1920s as ... He teaches Gatsby to earn money illegally and changed his name to Jay Gatsby. He lives an extravagant life but he is an unhappy person betrayed by the love of his life, Daisy. After earned all money Daisy wanted him to have, he moved to West Egg. He bought a big castle so Daisy wou...

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... where every one has the opportunity to get what they want. Gatsby's dream was not that of money and power actually. His dream was that of love. He chose to pursue wealth and stature in hopes of achieving what he wanted, Daisy, but inevitably he lost sight of his original intent and found ... comfort in his wealth. In the end it wouldn't have mattered either way. Gatsby's dream of having Daisy love him as he loved her would never happen no matter if he had all the money, power and wealth in the world. Strong social class lines ... this. Tom had a "hard mouth and a supercilious manner arr...

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... to fit in Princeton life. He was barred from many social clubs with prestige. The rich and wealthy class people rejected him mainly on his middle-class family background. These moments in Fitzgerald's life can be compared when people, in the book, without knowing him, scorned Gatsby and refused to accept his mysterious past ... and always be together. Tough time and constant arguing ended up with Zelda leaving him again. In the book Gatsby at one point had Daisy in love with him and in his life again, but lost her. When Fitzgerald and Zelda got back together he often questioned their re...

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... from his need to experience success and his will to achieve his dreams. Nick Carraway narrates the story, and his cousin, Daisy Buchanan, is Gatsby's love. Daisy, however, is married to Tom Buchanan, a wealthy, arrogant womanizer who despises Gatsby. Gatsby feels the need to be successful and wealthy, ... Great War- (World War I), Daisy fell in love and married Tom Buchanan. The most significant difference between Tom and Gatsby was their economic and social standing in society. Tom was wealthy and powerful, and Gatsby was from a middle class midwestern family with little money or presti...

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... 2360). "The substance for The Great Gatsby is largely material Fitzgerald had used before; at the heart of it once again are the love affairs of Scott Fitzgerald with Ginevra King and Zelda Sayre- (Kenneth Eble 88). Fitzgerald met Ginevra in St. Paul with Marie Hersey ... Ginevra in with the character of Daisy and many other women in his novels. Kenneth Eble is quoted as saying, "the details of Gatsby's and Daisy's love affair all come from Fitzgerald's own experience delete [] [. . .]- (99). Fitzgerald advised his daughter, Scottie, to marry someone who follows a "calculated path ... , ...

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... 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 meet him, Jay Gatsby is a mysterious, fantastically wealthy ... -made millionaires of the Jazz Age, the nouveau riche. A brutal, hulking man, Tom Buchanan is a former Yale football player who, like his wife Daisy, comes from an immensely wealthy Midwestern family; they are o...

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... , a novel written by Fitzgerald, includes many autobiographical elements of the author's life. On the surface, The Great Gatsby is a story about disillusioned love between a man and a woman. However, the novel also portrays the American Dream of the 1920's and how it begins to crumble, much like ... strong desire for financial success, much like the author himself. Gatsby and Fitzgerald are both men who idolize wealth and luxury and who fall in love with a beautiful woman from a higher class. Gatsby's admiration of the rich is rationalized in Nick's thought, "I think that voice held ......

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... to the reader. Fitzgerald shows the reader what makes Gatsby so different from the rest of the characters - Gatsby did not become rich out of self-love, but to get the woman he loves. Jay Gatsby has a soul. He proves it to the reader in the end of the novel, when ... not have a soul. When introduced to Daisy and Tom Buchanan, the first thing that the reader learns about them is their financial status: His [Tom Buchanan's] family were enormously wealthy - even in college his freedom with money was a matter for reproach - but now he"d left Chicago and come east in a fashion that ... lif...

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... in the exclusive high social class. However, Gatsby's drive and passion for money is mostly for Daisy Fay, a girl whom Gatsby fell in love with during his younger years in the army. With Gatsby leaving with the US Army and Daisy choosing her separate ways, Gatsby eventually concludes that ... he must be included in the higher class along with having endless riches in order to steal back his love so that him and Daisy could pursue happiness together. Unfortunately, Gatsby does not see clearly throughout his life as this dream eventually consumes and ... the participate in the illegal bus...

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... mansion but suspected of being involved in illegal bootlegging and other clandestine activities. However, the narrator is Nick Carraway, a young mid-westerner from a prominent family who came to New York to enter the bond business. Carraway is involved in all of the events of the novel, yet does not play a significant ... live in East Egg. Nick resides in the nearby (and less fashionable) West Egg, where Gatsby also lives. Like Nick, Tom Buchanan is from a prominent family from the mid-west. Tom is a former athlete at Yale, a vulgar and insecure man preoccupied with the decline of society...

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... to Daisy. "On the last afternoon before he went abroad, he sat with Daisy in his arms for a long, silent time". This was the love they shared in Louisville before Gatsby had to leave and have Daisy fall out of his life. This happiness with Daisy is what fueled Gatsby's dream ... little flirtation is over"". Tom is saying that the fling Gatsby had with Daisy and the whole basis of his dream is dead. He also trivializes Gatsby's love by calling it a "flirtation". Finally, the very end of the book eloquently states the inevitability of Gatsby's dream for the past. "So we beat on ... and bui...

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... and F. Scott Fitzgerald being extremely successful. Hemingway's masterpiece The Sun Also Rises and Fitzgerald's masterpiece The Great Gatsby reflect the 1920's perfectly; meaningless love affairs, endless parties, and the evolution of the female's role. After World War I the people of the world faced what is now called the ... by Jake Barnes, who is a veteran of the first world war. Jack opens by introducing Robert Cohn. Cohn, born to a wealthy Jewish family, turned to boxing as an escape from the anger and seclusion he faced from the anti-Semitic atmosphere at Princeton University where...

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... west - all dea! d now. I was brought up in America but educated at Oxford because all my ancestors have been educated there for many years. It is a family tradition" (Fitzgerald 69). Gatsby also worked for a millionaire named Dan Cody. Cody is a gold miner, in Nevada. He becomes a millionaire through hard work, and a ... bright future. As for Gatsby's present, it also doesn't look promising. He has lost the one thing that meant anything to him, which was the love of his life, Daisy to another man. Gatsby tries too much to impress his "friends" by having parties and spending money on friv...

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... happiness as shown threw his house, clothes, and Daisy. Jay Gatsby, formerly James Gatz, was raised on a farm in North Dakota. He was raised in a family who didn't have an excess of money. "His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people - his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all."( ... finally becoming apart of the American Dream. Gatsby looked toward the American Dream as a way into wealth he would soon realize that money does not give one love and happiness. James Gatz soon met a man named Dan Cody and who would teach Gatsby what he needed to be succ...

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... In 1918, after being stationed at Camp Sheridan in Montgomery, Alabama, Fitzgerald had rose to the rank of 2nd Lieutenant and had fallen in love with the very rich, very beautiful, 18 year-old Zelda Sayre. Still stationed at Camp Sheridan, Fitzgerald's publisher once again rejected the revised ... of short stories for publications such as the Saturday Evening Post. In 1924, seeking peace from his wild life at home, F. Scott Fitzgerald moved his family to Europe. While living in France in the summer and fall of that year he wrote his next novel, The Great Gatsby. During Fitzgerald's writ...

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... Despite first appearance, all individuals in pursuit of wealth and merit are demoralized either mentally, physically, or both. Tom Buchanan, powerfully built and of a prestigious family, is an "East Egger." The East Egg is known as residence to the traditional money, and because Tom lives there, it is obvious that he is ... own social standing as head honcho. Tom exclaims: "Self control! I supposed the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife (137)." This excerpt displays both Tom's hypocrisy as well as his possessive nature. He is angered by a cr...

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... light, the valley of ashes, and the eyes of Doctor T.J. Ekleburg. Nick Carraway: The novel's narrator, Nick Carraway comes from a wealthy Minnesota family. He traveled to New York to learn the bond business; there he becomes involved with Gatsby and the Buchanans. Honest, tolerant, and inclined to reserve ... the woman Gatsby loves. As a young woman in Louisville before the war, Daisy was courted by a number of officers, including Gatsby. She fell in love with Gatsby and promised to wait for him. However, Daisy harbors a deep need to be loved, and when a wealthy, powerful young man named...

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... of the main characters in the novel, attempts to gain the affection of a woman named Daisy. However, it becomes clear that he does not love Daisy as a person, but rather as an asset for his own image. View this situation through a Marxist lens and one can see that Daisy ... 's love becomes a commodity. View this situation through a feminist lens and his feelings are based upon ownership of women. In other words, by looking through marxist ... the relationship he had with his parents suffered because of it. Another connection that would suffer in the future would be Gatsby's bond with Dai...

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... the members of the upper class within the society of the twenties. This materialism is prevalent in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald was born to a poor family in Minnesota in 1986, and throughout his childhood, he worked hard to become a member of the famed upper class. It is said that "He thought by his ... Tom and Daisy are so careless that they even play with the life of their own daughter, Pammy. They see their daughter not as a child to love, but as another possession to show off. Whenever company comes over, Daisy beckons for Pammy to come and put on an act for h...

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... its way to the end. One chapter involves his riches and parties, while another chapter remains incomplete. Throughout the novel, the reader realizes that his true love, Daisy Buchanan, is what's missing. Initially, it seems that Gatsby grasped onto his unattainable dream, because Gatsby and Daisy saw each other on a somewhat ... regular basis. Later on in the story, however, conflicts arose due to Daisy's husband, Tom. When Tom and Gatsby confronted each other about their love for Daisy, something was said that truly showed how long Gatsby had wanted to complete this chapter of his life...

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The idea of the American Dream is based on the fantasy that an individual can achieve success regardless of family history, race, and/or religion simply by working hard. The 1920's were a time of corruption and degradation of moral values in society. ... embody the American Dream is the green light located at the end of Tom and Daisy Buchanans' dock. This green light represents Gatsby's ultimate aspiration: to win Daisy's love. Nick Carraway's first vision of Gatsby was when he: Stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him ... a key symbol of aspir...

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... volumes about her. The reason she stays with Tom is because he is "stable", or in other words, rich. No matter how much she may love Gatsby, she will not leave Tom because he has money and LOTS of it. So, in effect, if she stays with Tom, even if she doesn ... has all the things Tom has, which he cannot, he will win Daisy back. So, he is materialistic but not for materialism's sake; he is materialistic for love. For example, he throws extravagant parties and buys things that he normally would never really need, all in hopes of attracting Daisy to his parties, but of course, ... "And I li...

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