... women began to change. Before, men were thought to be more superior to women. However in F.Scott Fitzgerald's, The Great Gatsby the three main characters, Daisy, Jordan, and Myrtle, are modern women. Although modern, they are portrayed as dishonest and unflattering. In The Great Gatsby Daisy Buchanan is portrayed as shallow, ditzy, and foolish. Daisy cares about her appearance and wealth more than anything. ... wanted his money. "Myrtle Wilson, her life violently extinguished, knelt in the road and mingled her thick dark blood with the dust " (Fitzgerald 131) She tried hard to achieve the...

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... embedded in in the life of every American. In The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald Gatsby failed to achieve his American dream because although he found financial stability, he did not find the happiness to come with it. For Gatsby, the pursuit of his American dream took the path of amassing of great personal wealth and social success that will capture the heart Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby was born very poor he was the son of a "shiftless and unsuccessful ... win Daisy's love as seen in the idea of the mysterious green light that extended from Gatsby's dock to the end of Daisy's window, th...

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... important authors to write in between the two great wars (Magill 1032). After writing the Great Gatsby he became known as the " chronicler of the Jazz Age" (Eble 95). Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on September 24 1896. On his father, Edward's, side of the family his second cousin was Francis Scott Key, the lawyer who wrote, "The Star Spangled Banner." On his mom's side of the family they inherited a million dollar ... , so he became interested in girls at a young age. He even wrote in his journals as a child which girls at school he liked the most. When he was thirteen he a...

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... her mother did before her. Her 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 ug...

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