... . She lets Gatsby take blame over killing Myrtle which in the end gets Gatsby killed. Jordan Baker is different from the other girls in the novel and most women of the 1920s. Jordan is portrayed as hard, independent, and confident. She does not put all her time into a relationship like the other girls. ... which makes her rather blunt. Myrtle Wilson is portrayed to be foolish and adulterous. Myrtle is married to George Wilson which owns a car garage in The Valley of Ashes. "I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn't fit to lick my shoe. (Fitzgerald 34) She married George be...

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... Boarding School in Hackensack, New Jersey, before enrolling at Princeton in 1913. After nearly four years of bad grades and poor health Fitzgerald dropped out of Princeton without a degree and joined the Army as a second lieutenant. It was while he was on duty in the Army outside of Montgomery Alabama where he met his soon to be wife Zelda Sayre. F. Scott Fitzgerald was ... never recognized as a great writer until the 1950's and 1960's nearly fifteen years after his death. After a successful first novel, This Side of Paradise, Fitzgerald "began a destructive lifestyle marked by drinking,...

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... father is an unfair man, who makes his daughter work and then keeps her wages. Rather than appreciate her work, he ridicules her. Mostly the circumstances of her family make Eveline want to escape. b) Eveline's father is a shadowy but menacing bully who has ruined her mother's life and is set to ... ruin hers. Eveline's father is the repressive authority in her life. She is helpless to break away from him. c) The weight of poverty and family responsibilities bear down on this young woman heavily; her financial situation is very bad. She is trapped in an ugly situation, responsible ... t...

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... became very ambitious and set off to become rich and famous. He eventually enrolled as a military officer stationed in Louisville, Kentucky where he met the love of his life, Daisy. Their love did not last long given that he had to go fight in WWI. Daisy, though did promise to wait for him ... upon his return home, Gatsby rededicated his life with even more fervor towards attaining wealth and social status that will recapture the heart of Daisy. Forever enthralled by the power of wealth, Gatsby knew his dreams would call for resiliency and tenacity and hard work and he was ready to make t...

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• Grade Level: High School