... we are able to see Nick's displeasure with his hometown in the Midwest. "Instead of being the warm center of the world, the Middle West now seemed like the ragged edge of the universe." (Fitzgerald, 3) Here we clearly are able too see Nick's early emotions towards his ... often does throughout the novel, is reflecting internally. Nick soon enough, leaves the Midwest and settles on an island just outside of New York City, West Egg. Although it remained unspoken by Nick it became evident that Nick was eager to leave the Midwest in hopes for a change. Nick desperately wanted ... , 4) Clearl...

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... Tom while Gatsby was at Oxford. From that moment on, Gatsby dedicated himself to winning Daisy back, and his acquisition of millions of dollars, his purchase of a gaudy mansion on West Egg, and his lavish weekly parties are all merely an attempt to get daisy back. Gatsby has literally created his own character, even changing his name from James Gatz to ... Jay Gatsby just so he can reinvent himself into a respectful rich man. Situated at the end of Daisy's East Egg dock and barely visible from Gatsby's West Egg lawn, the green light represents Gatsby's hopes and dreams for a future with...

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... man from Minnesota. After going to school at Yale and joining the army to fight in WWI, Nick moves out to the east coast to learn the bond business. Nick moves to West Egg, a part of Long Island mostly inhabited by the newly rich. Nick's next-door neighbor is one Jay Gatsby. Gatsby ... is very hypocritical because at the same time Tom is having an affair with a woman, Myrtle, from the valley of ashes, an industrial wasteland situated between West Egg and New York. There are many symbols that F. Scott Fitzgerald uses in "The Great Gatsby". The green light at the end of Daisy's dock, the ...

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... yacht to become his Personal Assistant. Aboard the yacht Gatsby gave his name as Jay Gatz. Cody took him on the yacht to a trip in Barbary Coast and West Indies, where Gatsby gained a window into the life of the wealthy and famous. Nick notes that Cody and his yacht represented to Gatsby, "all ... of The Great Gatsby, has attained the wealth that he so desired and lives in a gaudy mansion in New York's West Egg, where he practices a life of extravagance. New York's West Egg residential section in Contrast to its East Side is symbolic of the social hierarchies in America of the 1920's. T...

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... that the American Dream is upside down and society very corrupt for encouraging this type of lifestyle. Jay Gatsby, a young and reserved upstart, lives on the "West Egg" of Long Island. He is not a beneficiary of family wealth and has therefore made his fortune independently. When he was growing up a common man ... this social status that he becomes completely obsessed with it and refuses the return to normalcy. Nick ponders: The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen-y...

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... novel "with its dynamic cast of characters, rich symbolism, portrayal of the speakeasy life, and a catastrophic love triangle. It is set in the east coast near New York in the 1920s. Gatsby is a mysterious man from the Midwest who creates himself an image of wealth and prosperity and eventually reaches his ... , however, is oblivious to Daisy's motives for caring about him again. Their residences on the two adjacent peninsulas (East Egg and West Egg) predicted the clash between the two. East Eggers represented the old money or money passed on from at least one generation ... . West Egger...

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... . Nick moves to the suburbs of New York in the summer of 1922 to pursue a career in the bond business. He rents a house in the West Egg district of Long Island, just across the bay from his cousin Daisy and her husband Tom. Throughout the movie, Nick visits Tom and Daisy periodically, and ... Nick that Tom is having an affair with a woman named Myrtle Wilson. Myrtle (and her husband) live in the valley of ashes, a dumping ground between West Egg and New York City. As both the story and the summer progress, Nick finally accepts an invitation to one of Gatsby's parties. While there he ... ...

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... . We first learn about Gatsby in the first chapter. We briefly get a description of Gatsby. We learn that he lives in the same place as Nick. They both live in West Egg, which is the place for the "new rich". That is simply a term that means the people that live there have acquired their money recently, or it was not inherited ... , who now called himself Jay Gatsby, that he took him on as his steward, mate, and later as skipper and personal secretary. He sails with Cody to the West Indies and the Barbary Coast. He learns to avoid alcohol and learns to follow his dreams and devote his lif...

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... to truly recognize Gatsby's greatness. Jay Gatsby: He is the title character and the protagonist of the novel, Gatsby is an extremely wealthy young man living in a Gothic mansion in West Egg. He is well-known for the generous parties he throws every Saturday night, but none knows where he comes from, what he does, or how he made his fortune ... . Nick also learns a bit about Daisy and Tom's marriage: Jordan tells him that Tom has a lover, Myrtle Wilson, who lives in the valley of ashes, a gray industrial dumping ground between West Egg and New York City. Not long after this revelation, N...

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... self-centered. Jordan is presented as a dishonest person who will do anything to win, including alleged cheating in a professional golf tournament. Her amorality is a bit more cynical than the other West Eggers"; she adopts whatever morals seem to fit her current situation. The shallowness and carelessness she possesses are apparent throughout the course of the novel. In the first two chapters ... house next door to Gatsby's. After witnessing the destruction of Gatsby's dream and presiding over the harrowing spectacle of Gatsby's funeral, Nick realizes that the fast life on the East Coa...

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... separated only by a courtesy of bay, just out into the most domesticated body of salt water in the Western Hemisphere, the great barnyard of Long Island Sound" (Fitzgerald 9). By writing from Nick's point of view, Fitzgerald is able to make Gatsby more realistic than he could have by presenting Gatsby through the ... she is working hard to earn money or in this case, traditionally inheriting from the past. Tom and Daisy Buchanan lives in a colonial mansion in the West Egg representing established wealth, meanwhile Gatsby purchases an imitation of a European mansion in the East Egg. Gatsby...

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... images throughout the novel support this idea. The corruptive effect of wealth is shown by the conflict between the established rich and the newly rich, represented by the people in West Egg versus the people of East Egg. The people of East Egg see themselves as the elite setting trends and that the people of ... West Egg are imitating them, the East Eggers see the people of West Egg as lower than they in the social hierarchy. However, when viewed from a distance they appear the same "a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour-. This ... rich and upper class that contains a moral va...

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... Jay Gatsby took his place. Cody asked him a few questions and found Gatsby to be quick and extraordinarily ambitious. A few days later when the Tuolomee departed for the West Indies and the Barbary Coast, Gatsby left with her. Gatsby was under Cody's employment for five years. Once Gatsby tasted riches, there was no going back. He knew that someday, he must obtain ... ...

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... Zelda from Jozan" (Meyers, 126). Fitzgerald had now managed to weave Ginevra King's beauty as well as Zelda's corruption into his deceiving portrait of Daisy Buchanan. Great Neck, along the coast of Long Island, where Fitzgerald lived between 1922-24, inspired the setting of The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald's biographer, Andrew Turnbull, noted that while Fitzgerald was living there, his magic word ... ." Fitzgerald's favourite slang expressions were converted in the novel into the more well-to-do East Egg (based on Manhasset) where Tom and Daisy lived, and the generally more simple West Egg ...

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... of the book is brought to life. A film maker has, at there disposal a variety of tools that a novelist cannot use.Some of the things a novelist cant use are camera angles, sound effects, musical score, make up, casting decisions, film location.I read the novel and watched the film and i think the film ran preety close to the book.The dialogues for the ... film was made,but if you compare it to films that have come out recently the colors wouldnt be so great because of the fact that technology had evolutionized.The sound effects that were used in the film were very realistic such as the ...

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... of the universe". Nick's dream is to get away from the small town Midwest and make lots of money by going East and learning the bond business. Nick moves to West Egg, Long Island, home of the newly rich and their fast paced lifestyle. Nick's dream goes according to plan until he befriends his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Despite Gatsby's mysterious background ... from the war he makes it his goal to win back Daisy. Some examples of how Gatsby goes about accomplishing this goal include buying an impressive mansion in West Egg, directly across the sound from Daisy's house, and throwing lavish pa...

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... exaggerated parties every weekend. In essence, this is exactly what Veblen talks about. The need to consume to extravagant amounts was very present in the West Egg community, and was mostly to show off new-found wealth. Gatsby used his great parties to demonstrate his wealth in attempts to reach his ultimate ... goal; having Daisy. However, there are two sides to the West and East Egg lifestyles. While wealth is the common factor, the tastefulness of wealth is different. For example, when Gatsby shows Daisy his riches, she ... from the East Egg and is used to a much higher culture of ma...

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... he makes during the year that the novel takes place. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald describes and contrasts the difference between east and west egg, shows the separation of the upper class and provides some insight with the use of symbolism of color. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, ... East egg and the old establishment are very traditional. Everything has been past on through generations. Morale and tradition are key aspects of this society. The west egg is not quite a place of tradition. These people are of new wealth, are tacky, like to party and live life lavishly. Throug...

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... this novel. Each character from the novel helps support the differences of social class and the four main locations used by Fitzgerald; The East Egg, The West Egg, The Valley of Ashes, and New York City. In The Great Gatsby "geographical locations separate social classes" (Hoggart 204). Hoggart explains ... and partially on their own. Nick Carroway is educated at Yale and is beginning to start his career in bonds when he first moves to West Egg. He is an honest and helpful man with good moral qualities. He helps his girlfriend Jordan Baker with her problems revolving around cheating. .....

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... Buchanan's to have dinner he describes his drive "Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water ." (10) The West Egg is home to the "new rich," the people who having made their fortunes recently, have neither the social connections nor the improvement to move among ... the East Egg set. West Egg is characterized by generous displays of wealth and dull poor taste. West Egg represents showiness, tastelessly, and the flashy manners of the new rich. Nick describes the West Egg as the " . The less fashionable of the two, though this is ... a most...

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... had to offer, so he leaves North Dakota in search of thrills and material power. One day while relaxing on the beach, Gatsby spies a beautiful yacht, docked off of the coast and borrows a boat so that he can row out to it and introduce himself to the owner of the boat. The young Gatsby meets the owner, Dan Cody, who is ... that Jay Gatsby first learns the lifestyles of the rich and then that he realizes that it is the lifestyle that he wants for himself. Gatsby moves to the East Coast and makes a great deal of money, possibly bootlegging or other shady business operations. Gatsby is inv...

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... two of: theme, structure, setting, symbolism or any other appropriate feature. Set in 1920's America - pre stock market crash - in the rich suburbs of New York known as East and West Egg, "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald explores the positive and negative aspects of dreams. By analysing Fitzgerald's characterisation, setting and actions in the novel and determining how effectively applied ... extravagance for a man who was once content, and to an extent still is, with the simplest of possessions. All is explained however when Fitzgerald informs the reader that across the sound ...

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... acquainted, Gatsby tries to hide his real identity from Nick by lying to him and making him believe that he is, "the son of some wealthy people in the Middle West- all dead now. I was brought up in America but educated in Oxford" (Fitzgerald 60). Although Jay Gatsby is very wealthy he is also a liar and a criminal, having accumulated all his ... sprang from the swamps of Louisiana or from the lower East side of New York. I believe they did not drift coolly out of nowhere and buy a palace on Long Island Sound" (Fitzgerald 54). Gatsby tries to defend himself by telling Nick about his life...

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... of whom werent invited. People would just leave and return without notice. The newspapers published public notices on these parties, informing the whole community of both West and East Egg. "In his blue garden people came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne." At these parties, Gatsby would show off ... within another aspect of the American Dream; Rich vs. Poor. Or, to be more specific; West Egg vs. East Egg. East Egg is classed as the "fashionable" side of town with expensive, white palaces while the West Egg is classed as the "less fashionable" side of town with ...

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... "already behind him, somewhere back in the vast obscurity beyond the city"(189). Fitzgerald doesn't provide any morally effective solution after he presents us Gatsby's tragedy. Nick's return to the west is a disheartening choice. But, according to John Gardener, an "essentially moral artist may ignore this end, (while) limiting his art to a search for information"(106, John Gardener). The indirect moral ... explicitly what the life would be like if one still cherishes the innocent but impractical dreams. The process of Gatsby's playing shows how the tragic defect blinds one from making...

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