... the newly rich live, and show off their wealth. I think the setting very much affects the personalities of the main characters. Their lifestyle is based around parties and gossip; they are trying to get into the right social circles. They drink excessively and gossip, some people do a lot to be accepted, and this ... to empress Daisy; he throws an opulent party, and invites both Daisy and her husband. But it turns out to be a terrible night, with both parties feeling uncomfortable. The climax of this story, and the relationship between Gatsby and Daisy, to me would have to be the confron...

• Word Count: 1246
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... is used to set the mood of the era. It was called the Roaring Twenty's. It was a time when everyone forgot all morality and lived each day to fullest with parties, and trying to either stay wealthy or attain wealth. Organized crime and bootlegging became powerful because of prohibition. This is how many men gained their wealth in the twenty's. That ... though nothing could ever be proven. Jay Gatsby lived according to the era by throwing one lavish party after another, sparing no expense to impress the people that attended the parties. Although most were never actually invited, they sti...

• Word Count: 914
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool and more than forty acres of lawn and garden- (Fitzgerald 9). Because Gatsby's house was so large he often had parties to which many people were invited. This is how Gatsby and Nick first met. They started to talk and found that they had some things in common like the ... Third Division during the war and they became intrigued with each other when they began to learn more about each other. The second encounter with diversity occurs when you learn about ... ...

• Word Count: 768
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... blue gardens' to symbolize that Gatsby did everything differently and his house and lifestyle were different from a normal person. The second device the author uses is exposition and describes the parties that "Gatsby- holds during the summers and then he goes on to describe a certain one towards the end. The author changes his tense and the scene in the middle of ... the passage from past to present so that the use of this device becomes more clear and understandable to the reader. The third device the author uses is hyperbole. The author uses it several times just to make the reader a...

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