... Jay Gatsby, the protagonist of The Great Gatsby, seems to represent this American Dream. The reader becomes aware of his wealth and position in the upper class as the novel progresses. One illustration is when Daisy and Gatsby are first reunited. Klipspringer, Gatsby's piano player, plays a song for Gatsby ... in The Great Gatsby. Also, Gatsby hires someone to cut his neighbor's grass, which was another allusion to his wealth. In addition to his upper class lifestyle, he regularly throws social gatherings in his home, which shows how many people he knows. His wealth and social life mak...

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... characters plays an important role in determining the outcome of the novel. Many problems arise because of this gap, mostly due to the attitudes of the upper class towards the lower class. Occurring in several cases in The Great Gatsby, characters try to jump into different social classes to accomplish a much wanted ... whatever he wants, and displays this behavior when he tells Nick about Myrtle. Tom is not as smooth as he thinks; otherwise he would have an upper class woman for his mistress, instead of Myrtle. Gatsby's unfeasible dream of being with Daisy is stopped by the social class ...

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... took to achieve these desires. As the title infers, Jay Gatsby is nothing short of great. Gatsby has created his own society, a lonely and pseudo-upper class. This new class was built by Gatsby in order to help him cope with his own insecurities, especially the fact that he was not wealthy. ... as immoral and hypocritical. Gatsby has used illegal means to obtain his expansive wealth, in a way, bringing shame' to their clean' reputation. However, the upper class in the book is portrayed to be much worse than Gatsby, explaining why he will not take part in his own parties. The attendees o...

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... while he was with Jordan Baker. Meeting with Gatsby, Nick mentions his politeness and his charm, something that Nick finds rare especially in the upper class where things seemed so vague. Gatsby's positive qualities seemed to attract Nick into wanting to spend time with him. His appearance influenced ... New York had heard about this grand party. The comparison between the East and West are so distinguishable that the lower classes compared to the upper classes seem poor, unrealistic, and disgusting. Jay Gatsby's life, wealth, and enthusiasm may have seemed positive but looking deeper i...

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The Great Gatsby portrays 1920's life. The novel's author, F. Scott Fitzgerald, describes the lives of the upper-class segment of society, a group of which Fitzgerald possesses first-hand knowledge. Although they lead glamorous and seemingly carefree lifestyles, the characters in the novel possess many glaring moral deficiencies ... the unobtainable American Dream represent significant themes in understanding various interpretations of The Great Gatsby's storyline. Throughout the novel, moral decadence is displayed by many members of the wealthy, ruthless upper-class society. For example, bla...

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... Dream was essentially a dream of money, wealth, prosperity and the happiness that supposedly came with the booming economy and get-rich-quick schemes that formed the essential underworld of American upper-class society. This hope that success is inevitably achieved through hard work and dedication is one in which most people either believes or would like to believe. In The Great ... fully realized. While Gatsby is the obvious embodiment of this theme, it is also illustrated through the author's other characters, namely Myrtle, George, Tom and Daisy. Myrtle Wilson's desire for upper clas...

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... Dream was essentially a dream of money, wealth, prosperity and the happiness that supposedly came with the booming economy and get-rich-quick schemes that formed the essential underworld of American upper-class society. This hope that success is inevitably achieved through hard work and dedication is one in which most people either believes or would like to believe. In The Great ... fully realized. While Gatsby is the obvious embodiment of this theme, it is also illustrated through the author's other characters, namely Myrtle, George, Tom and Daisy. Myrtle Wilson's desire for upper clas...

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... Dream was essentially a dream of money, wealth, prosperity and the happiness that supposedly came with the booming economy and get-rich-quick schemes that formed the essential underworld of American upper-class society. This hope that success is inevitably achieved through hard work and dedication is one in which most people either believes or would like to believe. In The Great ... fully realized. While Gatsby is the obvious embodiment of this theme, it is also illustrated through the author's other characters, namely Myrtle, George, Tom and Daisy. Myrtle Wilson's desire for upper clas...

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... in The Great Gatsby. One example of a character who has had her version of the American Dream ruined is Myrtle Wilson. Myrtle's dream is to be a part of the rich upper class. Myrtle tries to live out her dream by having an affair with Tom Buchanan from East Egg whose inhabitants come from old wealthy families. Myrtle puts on airs trying ... very hard to break into the upper class. For example in the train station drug store, Myrtle buys a copy of "Town Tattle", a magazine featuring celebrities, some cold cream, and a flask of perfume because she believes this is ... 's just a crazy old ...

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... . 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 an age of decayed social and virtuous values, by showing sarcasm, greediness, and bare search of desire. In this novel ... ;Her voice is full of money". Daisy goes where she sees lots of wealth more than how people are. Gatsby is a rich guy but he is not in the upper class where else Tom Buchanan is. On page 9, Nick looks at Daisy and thinks that her ...

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... and the way of life and this flaw becomes apparent in the characters of Tom and Daisy Buchanan. Nick Carraway, the narrator of the story, quickly became disillusioned with the upper social class after having dinner at their home on the fashionable East Egg Island. "Nick is forced unwillingly to observe the violent contrast between their opportunities- what is implied by ... surface of their existence- and the seamy underside which is it's reality" (Way 93). In the Buchanans, and in Nick's reaction to them, Fitzgerald shows us how completely the American upper class has failed to become ...

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... Great Neck area, Fitzgerald's closest friend was the aristocratic war hero and polo star, Tommy Hitchcock, whom he often saw playing in championship matches on Long Island. Born into a wealthy, upper-class family in 1900, Tommy went to war while still in his teens, and after having his plane shot down in German territory, escaped to Switzerland by jumping off a moving ... was moral, despite realizing at the end that reaching his goal was unachievable. Scott Fitzgerald had the same dream as Gatsby, for he yearned to join the ranks of the upper-class and accordingly obtain the love that h...

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... way: he stole it- (Cohen). He bootlegged liquor and dialed in the illegal bonds business with Meyer Wolfshiem "if Gatsby were alive today he would have been "in the upper echelons of Enron- (Cohen). Gatsby was engulfed in "the temptations of wealth and power that surrounded him; (his life) was a very American story- (Yoder). In essence through the pursuit of ... to greed and materialism during this time period. And with the distinct divisions between West Egg and East Egg, Fitzgerald shows the social divisions in American society, even at the upper class, a fact still relevant to today'...

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... 1). Materialism, or the theory or attitude that physical well-being and worldly possessions constitute the greater good and highest value in life, was a common characteristic of 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 gifts and hard work he could join this charmed circle, and he wrote about other ambitio...

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... wealthier of the two, and therefore Nick lives in the relatively poorer of the two. At this point Nick has not outwardly expressed any longing to be a part of the upper class society around him, but "My house was squeezed between two huge places that rented for twelve or fifteen thousand a season. My own house was an eyesore and it had ... book does it ever say that Nick moved into this house because it was next to a man named Gatsby, nor that he moved in because he knew there were frequent upper class society parties held there. However, in my opinion, it may not be a coincidence, due ...

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... attain it- as well as general resolves like, "read one improving book or magazine per week.""(p.164). Gatsby's speech is painstakingly wrought to be highly elegant and representative of the upper class. Nick remarks the first time he meets Gatsby, " I'd got a strong impression that he was picking his words with care.""(p. 49). James Gatz needed to have no aspect of his ... money from his wealthy family, and other untruths that shaped for him a romantic, cinematic past. Lastly, Gatsby sees to it that he acquires the defining element separating the lower and upper classes: money, and gros...

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Kailynn Sisco 7th period 4-21-15 The Comparison During the roaring twenties social class was an important aspect of society. Usually no lower class citizens would socialize with upper class citizens. In other word "by no means would anyone from a lower class be caught in an uptown setting" (Doughty). All different classes were for the most part ... ...

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... that voice held him most, with its fluctuating, feverish warmth, because it couldn't be over dreamed-that voice was a deathless song" (Fitzgerald 96). Fitzgerald suggests that Daisy, like all upper class, are the only ones who can "live forever" because they have a life full of leisure and without stress to make them age. Daisy seems to be partially ... ...

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... loved was never enough for Myrtle, she searched for more, but unlike George, Tom provided the slightest sense of security she searched for ideally. The thrill of being with an upper class man spiraled and took control of Myrtle's mind, "I told that boy about the ice-- these people! " (Fitzgerald 32) Being with this man gave her a sense of power ... ...

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... the color white. In a conversation between Tom and Gatsby it's discussed that daisy seems to live, "High in a white palace." (Pg. 127) This is symbolic because it shows how this upper-class girl never had to work a day in her life. The white represents how her hands always stayed clean and she felt superior to others, due to her wealth. We ... ...

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... . He uses his wealth to surround himself with material goods and supposed prestige. He believes that money is the key to unlocking the door to a higher social standing in the upper class East Egg, and ultimately, to the object of his dream, Daisy Buchanan. Everything revolves around Daisy; he even "revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response ... ...

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... was no longer a poor soldier. He bought expensive cars, threw gala parties and had a personal shopper in Europe. He threw his money around on a whim, as did much of the upper class. During this era it was a case of the "haves" and the "have-nots". The people who had the wealth appeared to live precociously, with love, and with out concern ... ...

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... status and lifestyle, and not because of his love. To give Daisy the life that she wanted, Gatsby had to be everything that Tom was. Jay had experience in the upper-class culture during his teen years when he had spent some time with a wealthy man named Dan Cody. When Gatsby was 17, he met Cody while Cody was dropping anchor ... ...

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... , during the "roaring" materialistic twenties when the book takes place, the American dream is on its death-bed, so to speak. Many examples of this can be found in the upper-crust Old rich like Tom and Daisy, and to some extent, Jordan. Materialism is also seen in Gatsby and other Neauveaux riche characters, such as Meyer Wolfsheim. Also the near ... ...

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... they destroy things people and events, Daisy and Tom's wealth is the shield they use to avoid blame and controversy, it is their means of escape. Daisy is represents an upper-class lady during this time. She plays the part of the early 20th century debutante, and her personality and characteristics accurately represent the female quintessence of that era. She is ... ...

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