... to the great distance that had separated him from Daisy it had seemed very near to her, almost touching her. It has seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was again a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one." Now that Gatsby and ... bay from Daisy, and has parties to gain wide-spread recognition in order to impress her. Yet, Owl Eyes, a minor character who attends Gatsby's parties, compares Gatsby's mansion to a house of cards. Owl Eyes states, "that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse." Ultimately, the inevitable c...

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... to the great distance that had separated him from Daisy it has seemed very near to her, almost touching her. It had seemed so close as a star to the moon. Now it was again a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects has diminished by one" (Fitzgerald 94). Gatsby had ... 's dream- and that the dream gives way to ashes- is made clear through descriptive detail. Over the desolate area, known as the Valley of Ashes, brood the eyes of Dr. T. J. Eckleburg. "Gatsby is a kind of T. J. Eckleburg; he has created a god like image of himself, but the image is doomed- ... (Lehan 121). Th...

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... which, Gatsby realized at the end, was "full of money." Fitzgerald wrote, "her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget" (Fitzgerald, ... the postwar modern girl" (Meyers, 44). Fitzgerald was excited-- and sometimes tormented --by other men's love for Zelda, which enhanced her worth in his eyes. This precise uncanny feeling is felt by Jay Gatsby towards Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald writes, "It excited (Jay) too, that many m...

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