Scott Fitzgerald uses the technique of conflicting, but somewhat similar characters in The Great Gatsby in order to demonstrate how pursuing one's desires can lead to both destruction and growth. ... As the title infers, Jay Gatsby is nothing short of great. ... 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. ... Analysis of Gatsby's behavior reveals this misunderstanding. ... If placed in correct order, these observations show a culmination of his underst...

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"(50), Owl Eyes insists that Gatsby's house is one big fake to impress people. ... At first, the reader is introduced to Gatsby as just the talk of the crowd. ... Gatsby's illusion goes as far as that his name is not really "Gatsby". By developing Gatsby slowly throughout the book, Fitzgerald has allowed the reader experience first hand how Gatsby's appearance in the book is all an act to cover up his true identity. ... Like Gatsby, he goes through great pains and holds jobs that he hates, such as writing short stories, in order to satisfy his love's extravagant lifestyl...

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The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald takes us on a thrilling journey (both physically and psychologically) of Nick Carraway. ... Following Gatsby's death, Nick found himself in charge of Gatsby's burial. ... " (Fitzgerald, The Crack Up) it becomes impossible not to draw connections between this quotation and The Great Gatsby. ... " (Fitzgerald, 174) Nick's short sentences are indicative of this change. The short Sentences' only indicate the tipping point of Nicks Metanoia. ...

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The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald, The Adventures of Walter Mitty by James Thurber, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain show numerous examples of this throughout their storylines. Between Gatsby possessing an outcast reputation, Mitty possessing an abstract mind, and Huck Finn challenging a strong opposition to racism and slavery, the lack of conformity in these pieces and in this world today are evident. ... In addition to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald exhibits a form of lack of conformity to society as well. ... ...

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Another aspect that I consider to be crucial is that Citizen Kane contains the elements of great drama, the characters, the structure, the simultaneously fascinating and confounding things you find in Shakespearean tragedies. ... The figure of Charles Foster Kane -- like the protagonists in many of Orson Welles' other films -- is a tragic, I'd say Faustian one, wherein idealism and great power give way to hubris and eventual downfall. ... Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, each being a story in which an individual (who is the focus of our attention) is described from afar by a...

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