... are made of, It was regarded as one of the masterpieces of American literature. The plot centres on a fictional World War I army veteran named Nick Carraway. After his involvement in the war on the allied side with a machine gun battalion, he returned to his home in Chicago. With no clear direction of ... relatively well. It was at their residence that he met a woman, Jordan Baker, who was to become his good friend and later his girl friend. Carraway soon became a good friend with his rich neighbour next door, Gatsby, and soon was exposed to many rumours about this man which caused him to...

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... , Fitzgerald uses many different characters to give his incredible novel what it needed to be considered a classic. The four main characters of the story were Nick Carraway, Jay Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan, and Tom Buchanan. Nick Carraway is the narrator of this story. As you can see on the first page Nick holds himself in higher esteem than the other characters in the ... ...

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... their partnership, and concludes with an inescapable fate. When the light is first introduced, Fitzgerald clues the reader into the fact that this green light seems distant and unattainable. Nick Carraway, the novel's narrator, presents the green light when he says, "Involuntarily I glanced seaward- and distinguished nothing but a single green light, minute and faraway, that might have been at the end ... ...

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... hero a. Although he is the hero of the novel, he has no heroic characteristics; in fact nothing he does comes close to heroic. 5. Characteristics a. Dedicated b. Loyal c. Determined ` d. Good hearted B. Nick Carraway 1. Narrator 2. Represents Fitzgerald's voice in the novel 3. Gives the audience the realization of moral depletion in this era 4. Characteristics a. Tolerant b. Open-minded c. Quiet d. Good listener C. Daisy 1. Object of Gatsby's pursue ... ...

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Gatsby's Revelation When F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the novel The Great Gatsby, he used a unique writing technique. It used a first-person point of view in the form of a narrator, Nick Carraway, who was also involved in the story. This style allowed the author to withhold any information that he did not present to the narrator in the story, causing the reader ... ...

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... longing for Daisy, as well as what she represents "the past. Gatsby firmly believes that with enough money anything is possible, as shown in a conversation with the narrator, Nick Carraway. When Nick tells Gatsby that one cannot repeat the past, Gatsby incredulously replies "Why of course you can!- (Fitzgerald). As the novel nears its conclusion, a series of events takes place ... ...

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... that was not his true self and it ended up resulting in his downfall. One specific scene during the course of the novel was the first party to which Nick Carraway, Jay's neighbor was invited. The scene was elaborate and glitzy with the host remaining secluded and hidden as usual. It was the reader's first view of the mysterious Gatsby and ... ...

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... something of the director's predilection. The shattering glass predicts Myrtle's life breaking into pieces and the blood foretells her upcoming death. In the novel, when, for the first time, Nick Carraway attends Gatsby's party, he comes face to face with a character called "Owl Eyes- in the library. In here, Owl Eyes tells Nick and Jordan, who was also in the library ... ...

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... of Gatsby's and Daisy's relationship. At the beginning of their affair everything was great, but their relationship was soon corrupted by money and dishonesty. Viewed in the eyes of Nick Carraway Gatsby's and Daisy's relationship represented the American dream of happiness and individualism, and the fall to a forget about the meaning of life and just pursuit money and wealth. All these ... ...

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