... you mind is I eat with some people over here? A fellow's getting off some funny stuff." (pg 102) Daisy too comes over as being a shallow character, a fact best supported by her comment "what'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?" Daisy does ... so that he can finally have Daisy, and Fitzgerald recognises that reality is not always kind to dreamers. In this case, the strong, bullying character of Tom represents reality, and with his powerful nature he easily quashes any hopes that Gatsby may have of a relationship with Daisy. Although F...

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... West Egg and East Egg, Fitzgerald shows the social divisions in American society, even at the upper class, a fact still relevant to today's America. New York itself symbolizes immigrant America, where immigrants used to and still do flood into America's shores in hopes of a better life. Nick himself described America ... as once being "a fresh, green breast of the new world that had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams, man must have held his breath in presence of this ... continent- (Fitzgerald 189). To this day, immigrants still flood to America and n...

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