... dreams. He pursues his visions until he is killed. This, along with Gatsby's elegance in the language he uses everyday. Gatsby is a very eloquent speaker throughout the whole novel. This grace he speaks with adds to the greatness that is known as Gatsby. Nick Carraway says of Gatsby, "[i]f personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous ... Nick's view that is. Other people may not hold Gatsby in the same regard as Nick Carraway does, but this does not change the fact that Gatsby's language shows the grace and elegance of his upbringing. Anoth...

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... dreams. He pursues his visions until he is killed. This, along with Gatsby's elegance in the language he uses everyday. Gatsby is a very eloquent speaker throughout the whole novel. This grace he speaks with adds to the greatness that is known as Gatsby. Nick Carraway says of Gatsby, "[i]f personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous ... Nick's view that is. Other people may not hold Gatsby in the same regard as Nick Carraway does, but this does not change the fact that Gatsby's language shows the grace and elegance of his upbringing. Anoth...

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... Tom and Daisy Buchanan, a married couple living in East Egg. In the novel, West Egg represents the newly rich, while East Egg and its people, especially Daisy and Tom, represent grace, taste and people who have inherited their wealth. Nick Carraway, the novel's narrator, is tolerant, open-minded, quiet, and a good listener, the exact opposite of Daisy and Tom who are ... graces and taste. For example, Jay Gatsby, the title character and protagonist of the novel, lives in a monstrously large, Gothic mansion and wears pink suits. In contrast, East Egg possesses grace, taste, and elegance ...

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... is cynical, superficial and shallow, not valuing much in her life. She wants to be loved, but somehow is not capable of doing the same. The Buchanans are people with grace, elegance and taste, but also are careless and use their money to satisfy themselves, even if it means hurting the people around them. The perfect example of this is at ... ...

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... Dakota, moved to New York City to make a fortune. "That comes, I suppose, with the absence of lifting work or rigid sitting in youth and, even more, with the formless grace of our nervous, sporadic games. This quality was continually breaking through his punctilious manner in the shape of restlessness" (Fitzgerald 77). Nick said that the richest man can have ... ...

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... 3. Gives the audience the realization of moral depletion in this era 4. Characteristics a. Tolerant b. Open-minded c. Quiet d. Good listener C. Daisy 1. Object of Gatsby's pursue 2. Represents perfection to Gatsby a. Charm b. Wealth c. Sophistication d. Grace 3. Actual Characteristics a. Shallowness b. Sardonic c. Bored D. Tom Buchanan 1. Daisy's Husband 2. Characteristics a. Hypocritical 1. Having an affair yet expects other to uphold excellent moral standards. b. Bully c. Racist d. Sexist E. Jordan Baker 1. Characteristics 1. Cynical 2. Boyish ... ...

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... carelessness in their daily life. Daisy's affliction from Tom's affair and Gatsby's obsessive yet kind personality help Fitzgerald depict an avaricious society striving on selfish motives and forgetting the social grace and reachable dreams Americans once needed. Whereas the motive within Gatsby that drives him towards success is Daisy and his fantasy of having a life with her, Tom, Daisy, Mrytle's and ... ...

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... suit, drives a Rolls Royce, and does not pick up on subtle social signals, such as the insincerity of the Sloanes invitation to lunch. In contrast, the old money people possessed grace, taste, subtlety, and elegance, epitomized by the Buchanan tasteful home and the flowing white dresses of Daisy and Jordan Barker. Also the other major theme is American dream, which symbol ... ...

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... meeting with Daisy Buchanan, who he met as a young military officer in Louisville before leaving to fight in World War I. Gatsby immediately fell in love with Daisy's aura of luxury, grace, and charm, and lied to her about his own background in order to convince her that he was good enough for her. "He might have despised himself, for he had ... ...

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... to the country beliefs. He met Daisy as a young military officer in Louisville before leaving to fight in World War I. Gatsby immediately fell in love with Daisy's aura of luxury, grace, and charm, and lied to her about his own background in order to convince her that he was good enough for her. Daisy married Tom while Gatsby was at Oxford ... ...

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... Gatsby and Hamlet form Hamlet. Both Jay Gatsby and Hamlet had undergone many hardships throughout their lives, which tested their character. Gatsby and Hamlet had to overcome these obstacles with grace, manner, and good temper in order to maintain good nature while learning from them. Both of these men had achieved this very task. Every person must maintain their lives and ... ...

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... , his main motivation in acquiring his fortune is his love for Daisy. He meets Daisy as a young military officer in Louisville, Kentucky. He falls in love with her luxurious lifestyle, grace and charm. He lies to her about his own background in order to convince her that he is good enough for her. He tells her that he is, "The son ... ...

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... she does not show the same sorrow that he does towards the late king, and ends up marring his murder. ""What have I done?...Hamlet: Such an act that blurs the grace and blush of modesty, calls virtue hypocrite, takes off the rose from the fair forehead of an innocent love and sets a blister there, makes marriage-vows As false as dicers ... ...

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... life, acquiring a rich partner and maintaining a wealthy lifestyle, and as Gatsby has remarked: "Her voice is full of money" (Fitzgerald, 1926 p.115) She has the aura of charm, wealth, sophistication, grace, and aristocracy, but on the other hand she is also fake, shallow, sardonic and ignorant. She likes life without difficulties and always tries to stay in her comfort zone. All ... ...

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