... this novel, Fitzgerald produces many literary devices. One of the device he used is characterization. The main characters of this novel are Nick Carraway, Jay Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan and Jordan Baker. Nick Carraway is the narrator of the story and is a protagonist. He is from Minnesota and he came to West Egg, to learn bond ... that her face looks sad. She has all she wants in her life but she is still unhappy. Her best friend is Jordon Baker and a woman that Nick Carraway falls in love with. She plays Golf and she represents the new women of 1920's. She is a selfish and dish...

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... people vary significantly in wealth, morality, background, tendencies etc. Two very important characters, Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway, live different lives as neighbors. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway differ in matters of morality, personal relationships, and wealth. Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway exist on opposite ends of the wealth spectrum, but each has had humble beginnings. Jay, born into ... to please Daisy, his love. After Gatsby attains his fortune, he buys a large house directly opposite from Daisy's. The house, built to amaze, makes qui...

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... of the world to see. There are many different types of people in this world. Apart from physical features, it is the characteristics of a person that makes him/her original. Nick Carraway the narrator of The Great Gatsby has qualities, which are the complete opposite of those of Tom Buchanan, his cousin-in-law. In the novel, the author, F. Scott Fitzgerald, uses ... married, there Relationship may have worked out. But because of the circumstances, Their relationship was doomed to fail. Of all of the relationships, I think that the most honest was between Nick Carraway and Jordan Baker. ...

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... the era and his beliefs in how the era affected people. On its simplest level, The Great Gatsby is Nick Carraway's narration and recollection of events stemming from his meeting and subsequent interaction with Jay Gatsby during the summer of 1922 in Long Island, New York ... . Nick Carraway, too, was seeking his piece of the American Dream by moving to New York from the Midwest to take job as a bond ... crazy lady whom Fitzgerald had to personally take care of and financially support, although he received no real companionship in return. Upon meeting Daisy and Jordan, Nick Carraway notic...

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... 's dream obscures his vision of the world as it is and clouds his understanding of the historical process. " At one point in chapter three, Nick Carraway has to tell Gatsby that he cannot change or repeat the past " the past is the way it is and there is nothing he can ... wish is to be with Daisy again, and to accomplish this through repeating the past with her. He says that the past can be repeated, but Nick Carraway reputes him, saying that the past cannot be repeated, at which Gatsby scoffed. Another part of Gatsby's personality, which happens to be a great ... uses everyday. Gatsby ...

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... dreams, uses a story filled with lavish characters and locations, all analyzed by a war-hardened, middle-class man named Nick Carraway. The insanity, which is narrated by Mr. Carraway, is illustrated by the Buchanans, Daisy and Tom, and by Mr. Jay Gatsby himself. And when reality finally shows ... the upper echelon of New York City what is really happening, people die, marriages are strained, and enthusiastic weekend carousing will turn fatal. As a revolutionary author, F. Scott Fitzgerald creates the character of Nick ... encountered that have read this book excited me with vague descr...

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... and dreams, uses a story of lavish characters being analyzed by a war-hardened, middle-class man named Nick Carraway to portray the American Dream. The insanity, which is narrated by Mr. Carraway, is illustrated by the Buchanan's, Daisy and Tom, and by Mr. Jay Gatsby himself. And when ... reality finally shows the upper echelon of New York City what is really happening, people die, marriages are strained, and the enthusiastic carousing of the weekends will turn into the exasperation of actuality. As a revolutionary author, F. Scott Fitzgerald creates the character of Nick ... for his gi...

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... To his community he is great because he is mysterious, wealthy, and the hub of social activities of celebrities and the newly rich. Finally, to Nick Carraway, Gatsby's neighbor and the author of the book, Gatsby is great for his fatalistic idealism, his unwavering hope to win back his lost love, ... changed his name, gleaned knowledge from his mentor, Dan Cody, and embarked upon a lucrative, albeit unscrupulous, career selling alcohol during Prohibition. By the time Nick meets him, Gatsby is famous in West Egg, a hot spot for celebrities and the newly rich, for his impressive house and fr...

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... 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 ... effeminate swank of his riding clothes could hide the enormous power of that body...it was a body capable of enormous leverage[...]a cruel body. (12) Nick describes Tom as a man of honour through his brute strength, money and racism. Gatsby's perspective of himself is his ho...

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... he should have done. For instance, inviting Daisy to have tea with him and Nick Carraway. What was worse, moreover, is the fact when he had Jordan Baker talk to Nick for him. He does not have the confidence to confront Nick and is too ashamed of himself to ask Nick to do such things. Jay Gatsby is not a hero also because of his actions ... for his death. It is all like a chain reaction. This begins with the affair of Tom Buchanan and Myrtle and ended with the killing of Gatsby and Wilson's suicide action. Nick Carraway and Jordan Baker, in my opinion, is not responsible for the death of...

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... attention" within society. Furthermore, in the novel his repulsion is evident when he and witnesses Tom Buchanan break Myrtle's nose. Although at this point of the violent event, Nick is quite drunk, he still clearly remembers every detail. This foreshadows Tom's violent and considerably rude personality, which is seen right through the narrative. For example, when Gatsby and ... age, marked by Prohibition, gangsterism ... and uprootedness. American morality was marked by questionable business ethics, commercial criteria for success, and ultraconservatism in social and political thinking...

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... around wandering from party to party, man to man, friend to friend, in a big house in East Egg with no sense of purpose" (Thevshuhaslanded, 1). The novel's narrator, and Daisy's cousin, Nick Carraway, describes the couple as: careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was ... love. Gatsby hosts lavish parties filled with high-class guests, hoping somehow to lure Daisy to him, but she never comes. Once it has been arranged, with the help of Nick Carraway, for Gatsby and Daisy to ...

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... Fitzgerald, although the book is named for James Gatz, the main character is Nick Carraway, who also acts as the novel's narrator. The narrators of many novels are not significant to the plot and just serve the purpose of telling the story. Nick, however, is quite the opposite. Though he may not seem to be ... with Gatsby and the rest of the gang. He quickly realizes his faults and returns to his original morals of honesty, responsibility, and complete selflessness. Nick is a sincere individual and observes the fallacies in the lives of his new found opulent friends. For example, he rea...

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Nick Carraway, a man from Minnesota moves to New York in 1922. He rents a house in West egg district of Long Island. Nick's neighbor is a man named Jay Gatsby who is very mysterious and lives in a huge gothic mansion. Every Saturday night he throws extravagant parties. Nick's cousin, Daisy Buchanan, and her husband, Tom Buchanan, live in East Egg Long Island. Daisy and Tom introduce Nick ... is to Tom, and Tom contemptuously sends her back to East Egg with Gatsby, attempting to prove that Gatsby cannot hurt him. When Nick, Jordan, and Tom drive through the valley of ashes, however, they discov...

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The Great Gatsby Characters: Nick Carraway is the novel's narrator and author. After attending Yale and serving in World War I, Nick moves from Minnesota to New York in 1922 to learn about the bond business. He moves next door to the mysterious Jay Gatsby who is in love with Nick's married cousin, Daisy Buchanan. After becoming friends with Gatsby, Nick helps him reunite with his long ... lost love. Nick possesses a very high tolerance level, he is a good listener, and he can keep secrets to himself; in the story ... exciting, is actually full of immoral and decadence because of the rich tha...

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... lets us all know that things cannot always go back to the way they used to be. The Plot The novel begins in the spring of 1922, with Nick Carraway, who leaves his Midwestern home to enter the bond business in New York City. He rents a small house in West Egg, a village on Long Island ... Gatsby's famous parties where he than encounters Jordan Baker once again. They sit at a table together and find their tablemate to be Mr. Gatsby himself. Nick later learns that Gatsby and his cousin Daisy were once in love before her marriage to Tom and that Gatsby's mansion and parties were all maintain...

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... seeks sexual pleasure. F. Scott Fitzgerald also depicts the rebellious young adults of the roaring 20's in his novel The Great Gatsby. It begins with Nick Carraway moving into an area on Long Island called West Egg. There is a West Egg and an East Egg. The difference of the two is West ... are viewed as leisurely relaxing or partying; seldom are they at work. Jay Gatsby throws remarkable parties, only inviting certain people. He befriends Nick once he finds out that Nick is related to Daisy; Daisy being the love of Gatsby's life. Daisy and Gatsby soon find themselves tangled in a web of ...

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... bashes. He does not drink, mainly because he has a high level of composure that cannot be compromised by the effects of alcohol. When the narrator, Nick Carraway, is allowed to venture into Gatsby's personal life Gatsby tells Nick only what he feels is necessary to keep him from being suspicious. The eerie thing about this is that while doing this he is so ... guarded that Nick often questions how concrete and truthful the information is. When discussing his past Gastby is choppy and uncomfortable telling Nick about his education and war experiences. Only when Gatsby produces a metal of...

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... . Fitzgerald uses the cities and valley to represent three distinct classes of wealth. As the book opens, Nick Carraway, the narrator of the story, just moved to New York to work in the bond business. Nick lived in West Egg, which unlike the conservative, aristocratic East Egg, is home to "new money ... ". Old money East Egg is characterized by lavish displays of wealth as well as gaudiness and loose morals. Nick's humble abode, a comparatively modest West Egg home, lies next door to Gatsby's enormous, new money mansion. Across the bay from Gatsby's mansion is Tom ... cannot be met, as s...

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... and purchase of alcohol was forbidden in the United States. Gatsby's money bought him an unspoken permission to have those parties. Gatsby acknowledges his friendly relationship with 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 ... money and those who have been affected by it to a lesser degree. It is very important for the reader to understand that there are no positive characters in this novel. Nick Carraway is the only character in ...

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... back. The colour white is used throughout the novel, it is a colour often used in life to symbolize purity, and innocence. White is often related to Daisy, such as when Nick first mentions when he sees Daisy at her home in East Egg that Daisy is wearing a white dress. Daisy's clothing always includes white, she has a white car and even regards ... or bribery between Gatsby and the policeman which becomes clear when Gatsby says "I was able to do the commissioner a favor once, and he sends me a Christmas card every year." To Nick. White is also used in relation to Tom, who is the ideal ex...

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... commitment. The American Dream is a universal hope familiar to our society and characters in the book consisting of aspirations of a perfect life and achievements. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway quotes, "Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams for a transitory enchanted ... purpose. "There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams---not through her own fault but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion," Nick acclaims in th...

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... be contributed to Gatsby's awful crimes. It is obvious that he is a affiliated with organized crime through his interaction with Meyer Wolfshiem, a notorious criminal. Gatsby even on one occasion offered Nick a job that he bluntly refused, knowing the authenticity of the job. His bootlegging comes during times of great freedom in society, a time when laws and restrictions were often overlooked. Gatsby ... with Daisy. Gatsby's morals dissipate for a time, but gradually he returns to his senses and restores some of his status as a honest character through his relationship with the honorab...

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... dream. The American Dream/ Wealth/ Dreams and Goals Many characters have the American dream in this novel such as Nick Carraway, the narrator throughout the novel, who moves to New York to become a bond salesman in hopes of making his own fortune. Nick is also arguably the most innocent among the main cast of characters usually not doing things that are wrong and ... ...

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... cutting their hair short in bob hair style and wore loose dresses, different from the tight corsets of the Victorian style, they were described as more boyish and less feminine. Nick Carraway gives us the first impression on Jordan Baker as being the ideal model of a flapper when he describes her as a "slender, small-breasted girl, with an erect carriage, which ... is a shallow and careless woman. Further, Jordan is characterized by self-centeredness. This is shown clearly through her dishonesty and her indifferent behavior towards important matters. She consistently lies to Nick and tw...

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