... a fool, that's the best thing a girl can be in this world today, a beautiful little fool."" (Pg 17). Daisy's true character was revealed when she rejected Gatsby one final time, but never owned up for the death of Myrtle Wilson, leaving Gatsby as the one responsible. Myrtle Wilson was not the greatest of characters on her own either. While Daisy's character was a balance between nave and cheery ... , Myrtle did not once show any sign of maturity or consideration. When the topic of Mr. Wilson was brought up, who was not a bad person, but unfortunate enough ... as careless as yourself."" ...

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... Island in the 1920's. Jay Gatsby depicts the young man desperate to win the acceptance of the old money, elitist class, and in particular the love of his former partner, Daisy Buchanan. As the story unfolds, it becomes easily apparent that Fitzgerald portrays women in a negative fashion. In particular, Fitzgerald uses Daisy, Jordan Baker and Myrtle Wilson to illustrate the disapproving qualities of ... carelessness, selfishness, dishonesty and hypocrisy. Over the years, Gatsby imagines Daisy as the perfect girl that he once knew before the war. Upon his first meeting with her in five yea...

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... with playing the role of the woman that everyone wanted to be, Daisy is also the role of Jay Gatsby's dream. Daisy is everything that Gatsby lives for and he has addresses his whole life to her. She is responsible for Gatsby's fate when George Wilson murders him. Furthermore, Jordan is a high-middle class woman who analyzes the role of a flapper girl and dishonesty ... a golf tournament. And cheating is not exactly considered a loyal act. In addition to Daisy and Jordan, Myrtle represents the low class and plays the role of trying to be a rich woman who is always in search of improving ...

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... J. Eckleburg. The green light at the end of Daisy Buchanan's dock helps build an understanding of the character of Jay Gatsby. In the beginning of the novel Nick Carraway finds Gatsby standing in his back yard "trembling" and reaching out to the green light. During this time Nick is not aware ... act for their own pleasure and well being. The valley of ashes is first mentioned in Chapter II as Nick is on the way to meet Tom's mistress, Myrtle Wilson. He describes the valley as a ". . . fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens . . .." This ima...

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... rich man who lives in West Egg who is having an affair with a woman named Myrtle, the wife of George Wilson, a Gas Station owner. On this night Nick is introduced to Jordan Baker, a friend of Daisy's and an acquaintance of Gatsby Nick's neighbor in West Egg, who lives in a gigantic mansion and throws extravagant parties ... old life and one from the new life she is living. Nick continues to abide by his many morals, however, shuns them when in contact with Gatsby and the rest of the gang. He quickly realizes his faults and returns to his original morals of honesty, responsibility, and com...

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... many characters. Daisy blew off a life of happiness because she believed that material possessions were more important. Gatsby had low self-esteem because he could never have the belongings that would satisfy his love's wants. Myrtle was given all the love in the world by her husband William, but she wanted what he couldn ... their own. Gatsby may have become rich for the woman he loved, but his illegal acquisition of money made his class of wealth dirt in Tom and Daisy's eyes. He would never be worthy of her love no matter how hard he tried; he could not live without her. Myrtle Wilson ...

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... twenties, and is about the American Dream, and the uprise and downfall of those who attempt to reach its goals. Fizgerald keenly shows us how Jay Gatsby is one of these people. Jay Gatsby, Tom, and Wilson are all characters in the novel that through their controlling ways, strive to define what the "typical" man's American dream was during the 1920's; the notion ... possessions. For example, Tom seems to view the women in his life as mere possessions, a sign of his success and wealth. His attitude and interactions with Daisy, his wife, and Myrtle, his mistress, demonstrate this. Through...

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... others rather than his self. Yet in this novel, Gatsby did absolutely nothing. Even though he is not a tragic hero, the people around him are all partially responsible for his death. It is all like a chain reaction. This begins with the affair of Tom Buchanan and Myrtle and ended with the killing of Gatsby and Wilson's suicide action. Nick Carraway and Jordan Baker, in ... my opinion, is not responsible for the death of Gatsby because the two characters just happened to be present and are dragged, although by choice, to be involved ... and should be given to Daisy Buchanan because she ...

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... often considered to be very feminine and have no part in any mens business. This is displayed with the characters of Daisy Buchanan, Jordan Baker and Myrtle Wilson. Although jordan was considered to be quite masculine in the context of the book she still remains quite feminine even tho she participates in mens activities such ... their hands all the women like to attend a lot of social events whether its one of Gatsby's party's or just lazing with one another at Toms house who is Daisy's wife. The main character of the book, Gatsby had grown up in a less fortunate family and had found his...

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... everything except what he most desires, Daisy. Appearance is another important factor in the American dream. In his quest to win Daisy's heart Gatsby chooses to wear his best outfit. Gatsby is so proud of his clothes that when Daisy visits his mansion, "He took out a pile of shirts and began throwing them, ... Nick and Daisy the grand tour of his house, showing off all of his "worldly" possessions. Room after room, everything was shown and mentioned. Gatsby's ideals were parallel to the typical American dream. He wants to claim Daisy by the use of his assets. He thinks that his money wil...

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... . Tom is very arrogant and hypocritical. When Tom discovers that Daisy and Gatsby may be having an affair, he wants to kill Gatsby. This 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 giant eyes ... us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - tomorrow we will run faster, stretch our arms out farther ." (189). This shows that G...

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... very phrases were worn so threadbare that they evoked no image except that of a . . . "character- leaking sawdust at every pore- (70). It takes Gatsby numerous attempts before he finally tells Nick the truth. Another example of the differences in the moralities of these two characters is in the way they maintained these morals ... . . [he] was in the oil business- and that he had also inherited large amounts of his money, but it is arguable that Gatsby made most of his money through illegal bootlegging. This can be supported by the multiple rumors in the story that suggest this, his conn...

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... its impossible goals. The attempt to capture the American Dream is used in many novels. This dream is different for different people, in The Great Gatsby, for Jay, the dream is that through wealth and power, one can acquire happiness. Fitzgerald wanted to make the reader believe that the American dream ... Daisy, who agrees to set up a meeting. Daisy has a deep need to be loved. As soon as money and power walks in the door she forgets Gatsby. Gatsby's personal dream symbolizes the larger American Dream where everyone has the opportunity to get what they want. Later, in the Plaza Hotel, J...

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... can be tainted as well. Yellow illustrates the downfall of moral standards of the people of West Egg. Green, the most dominant color in the book, symbolizes wealth and Gatsby's impossible dream. To Gatsby, Daisy represents innocence and purity; however, Fitzgerald uses different shades of white to hide her corruption. Daisy is described as "dressed in white", she powders her face white ... win Daisy back with his money - thus he is described as wearing a "caramel-colored suit" when he lies about his past to Nick. The most important symbol, however, is Gatsby's car. The car becomes the m...

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... Fitzgerald is an interesting piece of literature filled with many different plots and characters. But the main character in this novel is a man named James Gatsby. Gatsby, as they call him, has dreams just like everyone else in the world. Things he wants to do and things he just wants. The only ... is she knows but yet doesn't say anything because she is with Gatsby. Also Tom thinks low and bad about him. After one of Gatsby's house parties Tom says, "Who is this Gatsby anyway, some big bootlegger?"(114). With that he probably thinks that Gatsby does wrong things to earn his money. Some ...

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... upon the reader a very specific impression of glamour and allurement in a "perfect," yet shallow, upper class society. Unlike his friends and the people that attended his parties, Jay Gatsby was a very decent person despite most of his acquaintances and his occupation.. He was also a very altruistic person. He analyzed all of the things with regard to accuracy of observation. A ... example of this regard is shown when he has all the parties of his, and he stands from afar to watch and join in all the fun from a distance. Jay Gatsby makes a potent character due to the fact that his char...

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... something more than he was. When James was taken under the wing of Dan Cody, a product of the silver fields, he got that opportunity. Now Jay Gatsby and a young officer at Camp Taylor in 1917, he fell in love with Daisy, then Daisy Fay. He was sent overseas, and she had eventually ... given him up and married Tom Buchanan, and had a daughter. When Gatsby finally returned from Europe he decided to win Daisy back. His first step was to buy a house in West Egg. From here he could look across ... the bay to the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. In an effort to "run into her", Gatsby b...

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... Fitzgerald makes many references to points of time, throughout the story, as told by the narrator Nick Carroway. While Fitzgerald also uses the character Jay Gatsby to portray the effects of trying to turn back time, to the point of never realizing the changes that time has made in the present ... of leaves growing on the trees--just as things grow in fast movies--I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.""(Gatsby, Page 8). "Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water and the history of the summer re...

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... here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand. "I"m going to fix everything just the way it was before""(Fitzgerald 116). Jay Gatsby believes that he can manifest a fantasy life where he is prosperous, and where Daisy is devoted to him. R. W. Stallman in his critical essay states, " ... His devotion to Dan Cody and his vision of his career can be seen when Robert Ornstein writes in his critical essay, "Like his romantic dream Jay Gatsby belongs to a vanished past. His career began when he met Dan Cody"(Ornstein 58). A couple years later he is living up to his big time .....

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... to be extremely wealthy and generally happy with his place in life, and this is how he appears to Nick at the beginning of the novel. Gatsby threw big parties and people were not invited; they just showed up, as explained by Nick on page 45: "I was one of the few guests ... It has consumed his life so much that he spent five years leading an illegal life just because of her. The final thing the reader learns abou! t Gatsby is that no one really cared about him. He had alienated himself so much from the rest of the world because of his love for Daisy, he never ... made friends. In fact...

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... can almost call it a dream world. The quality of living is not an absolute; you can never truly be living since the ultimate destination is death. Gatsby thought that "of course you can" repeat the past. Therefore, he must have been living in some sort of dream world where he thought he can ... crisis Nick was left all alone with no one to share his void. This was the perfect opportunity for Nick to create Gatsby. Gatsby's character had to have been an illusion created by Nick since his personality contradicts itself. The reader learns that after working for Cody ... piece of his child ...

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... a stomach ache due eating so much. That is what Thoreau is also saying in his quote. If one does an action, a reaction will happen. Jay Gatsby is a man who has gone through the cycle of karma continuously. He started to deal in drugs and have an illegal business and gain lots of money. ... gave that up and only the dead dream fought on the afternoon slipped away" (142). The dream the quote refers to is Gatsby's dream of Daisy being with him. Gatsby was beginning to loose Daisy and did not have her at all in his love. She was beginning to become confused and just ... young rajah in all ...

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... work. The novel is an almost perfect artistic creation, which is perhaps the single most American novel of its time. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses The Great Gatsby as the vehicle by which he offers the central concerns of his writing career and much of the United State's life as a nation to the world. ... whether this is a distorted or accurate version of this dream is left up to the reader. (Randall, 2-4) As a romantic, Jay Gatsby does not understand how money actually works in American life. He believes that if he is rich, Daisy can be his. This is displayed most powerfully where ... seen ...

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... still looked down on by the old rich. This time in American history was an era when people were "exploited, maltreated, and discarded," as in Gatsby's case. Achieving the American Dream sometimes became an American Nightmare. In the 1920's throwing lavish parties became a way of life. These parties served as ... a connection between the different classes of the time. Gatsby was one of the people who threw big parties to impress the social elite. No one was personally invited to these parties, but everyone desired to ... respected and encouraged to pursue their dreams of wealth. However...

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... ways that were both illegal and unconstitutional, he still achieved the kind of money one would need to piece together the "American Dream". Even though Gatsby did manage to accumulate the kind of wealth he has through corrupt ways, it didn't seem to effect him the least bit throughout the novel. He ... American Dream". And not only did he have the money to show for it, he also had the power. The kind of power possessed by Jay Gatsby is almost unimaginable for most Americans. He was able to achieve his power through his money and illegal actions. He had the power to anything he ... a cli...

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