... dispensed starlight He wants her to see his house-. In most forms of tragedy, the tragic figure also experiences self-realisation - a catharsis. Tragedy which preys on Gatsby because his creative vision is incompatible with reality is clearly evident throughout the text and is highlighted specifically in extract two - "Of course she might have loved him just for a minute and loved me ... lost its significance in the presence of Daisy, so too has Gatsby's perception of the world been contaminated by reality. The tragedy of The Great Gatsby is that Gatsby's creative vision has vanished. I...

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... were poor. The ashes in the Valley act as a symbol of the death of the American Dream. More specifically, they illustrate society and how what was once a pure and honest vision for success quickly turned into greed and selfishness. Consequently everything in the path of this greed became destroyed and lost. Anyone who lives in the Valley of Ashes is constantly ... American Dream is the green light located at the end of Tom and Daisy Buchanans' dock. This green light represents Gatsby's ultimate aspiration: to win Daisy's love. Nick Carraway's first vision of Gatsby was when he: Stretche...

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... life wasting his money and committing adultery. And he is perfectly happy with having had the "American Dream- handed to him on a silver platter. Gatsby, on the other hand, has a vision which he has wanted and worked extremely hard to get. He wanted so badly to have true love with Daisy and did everything to acquire it, even though his dream ... never came true. That is the huge rift in the similarity of Tom and Gatsby and of the aristocrats and the working people. The aristocratic Tom has no vision but gets one anyways, while Gatsby and those who work and dream for something for so lon...

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... with a hubristic sense of self - which eventually leads to their downfall. In the same vein as Narcissus - who was cursed for not being able to see past his own conceited vision that the nymph may truly love him - they are so transfixed with themselves that they do not notice as the worlds they had constructed crumble around them. Gatsby and Lear ... ...

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... pressure to be what Gatsby wants Daisy to be, to only love him, and admit that she never loved Tom, is too much for her. She cannot be Jay's perfect vision anymore, because that is in the past. While Gatsby is obsessively loving to Daisy, Tom seems to show no respect for her. This example of disrespect is demonstrated when he ... ...

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... extravagant parties each week, and yet fails to actually introduce himself to his hundreds of guests. He is a fraud; he is a bootlegger; he is an adventurer; he is royalty. Thus, a vision of a fantastical man begins to take form before we are even directly introduced to him. It is implied that Gatsby posses some sort of sixth sense; a sense of determined, persistent ... ...

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... the funeral. However, Nick does find Gatsby's father, Henry Gatz, and brings him to New York for the funeral. It is from him that Nick learns the extent of Gatsby's vision and his grand plans for self-improvement and achievement. Thoroughly disgusted with life in New York, Nick decides to return to the mid-west. Before leaving, Nick sees Tom Buchanan ... ...

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... the focus of that historic dream for which he stands. In the final thoughts of the novel, Fitzgerald would like the reader to see a much broader picture of the theme- a vision of America as the continent of lost innocence and lost illusions. He compares Gatsby's experience to that of the Dutch Sailors who first came to Long Island and had an ... ...

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... Daisy, he wears his best outfit. . . . the front door opens nervously and Gatsby in a white flannel suit, silver shirt and gold colored tie hurried in.4 To Gatsby his clothes create a vision of power and happiness, that his money can buy. Another object of Gatsby's that corrupted the true American dream was his massive house. Gatsby tells Nick and Daisy, "My house ... ...

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... the picture Gatsby is still left with the consequences of his indulgences in wealth and materialistic lifestyle, yet they seem to lose there meaning. Similarly, despite the vitality of Gatsby's vision of her, Daisy remains a curiously beautiful fraud of a hopelessly corrupt world, which is ambiguous to Gatsby and his ignorance as a dreamer. (Minter 86). Gatsby ultimately knows in his heart that ... ...

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... to be there. F. Scott Fitzgerald's social insight in The Great Gatsby focuses on a select group: privileged young people between the ages of 20 and 30. In doing so, Fitzgerald provides a vision of the "youth and mystery that wealth imprisons and preserves." Fitzgerald, himself, was a participant of the "Roaring Twenties." He went to wild parties with his wife, Zelda, and drank heavily ... ...

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... Wilson to murder Gatsby and commit suicide. Although Gatsby and Tom are very much alike, Tom is a much more outwardly violent and aggressive man than Gatsby, making him much like a vision of Gatsby's evil alter ego. East and west are expansively used in this novel to contrast certain types of people and their mannerisms. Fitzgerald seems to be implying that a person ... ...

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