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Matter How Hard American Dream
667 wordsThe primary focus of the American dream is that hard work will lead to success, respect, and social status. In Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby the characters show the deterioration of the American dream. Each character in The Great Gatsby shows the withering away of the American dream. George Wilson works hard at fixing cars but never is successful in life. He gains no social status, respect, power, or wealth. Wilson works hard but no matter how hard he works he can never be accepted i...
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Tom And Daisy Eyes Of Dr
694 wordsGreat Gatsby and its Themes A good novel has a number of themes. The following are important themes of The Great Gatsby. The corruption of the American dream, sight and insight, the meaning of the past, and the education of a young man. The American Dream was based on the assumption that each person, no matter what his origins, could succeed in life on the sole basis of his or her own skill and effort. The dream was embodied in the ideal of the self-made man, just as it was embodied in Fitzgeral...
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Jay Gatsby Beautiful Shirts
889 wordsThen wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce high for her too, Till she cry Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, From the beginning of time, men have attempted to solve a mystery of which the answer always seems to be just out of their grasp: The Woman. From working, to playing even in simply trying to communicate, the workings of the womans mind have always seemed to befuddle the most intelligent of men. While hunting the ever- elusive scent of a woman as a ...
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Francis Scott Key F Scott Fitzgerald
1,285 wordsMany authors in American have worked to shape the history that is America through their portrayal of their age. F. Scott Fitzgerald used his writing to shape America during the post-Great War America and into the Great Depression. Through his influential works, Fitzgerald defined the turbulent 1920 s as the Jazz Age, reflecting his life into those works that are still today seen as defining pieces of American history. Fitzgeralds life was reflected in his work, making his name synonymous with th...
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Failure Of The American Dream Daisy Buchanan
885 wordsIn Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, all the characters are, in one way or another, attempting to achieve a state of happiness in their lives. The main characters are divided into two groups: the rich upper class and the poorer lower class, which struggles to attain a higher position. Though the major players seek only to change their lives for the better, the American Dream is inevitably crushed beneath the harsh reality of life, leaving their lives without meaning or purpose. Tom and Daisy Buchan...
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Failure Of The American Dream Myrtle Wilson
726 wordsIn Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, all the characters are, in one way or another, attempting to become happier with their lives. The characters in the novel are divided into two groups: the rich upper class and the poorer lower class (West egg and East egg) or otherwise known as old money and new money, though the main characters only try to make their lives better, the American dream they are all trying to achieve is eventually ruined by the harsh reality or life. Tom and Daisy Buchanan, the ric...
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The American Dream Turned Nightmare In Great Gatsby
692 wordsThere are many characters in The Great Gatsby whose human values have been corrupted due to corrupting influence of money. The attraction of the American dream influenced the pursuit of wealth, which corrupts the character morality. The characters believe the American dream is nothing else than glamorous material wealth, which in essence will set them apart from the rest of lower class society. The pursuit of this American dream produced nothing but problems for the characters. The American drea...
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Significance Of Social Status In The Great Gatsby
1,455 wordsF. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby may appear to be a simple tragic romance; however, within the text, Fitzgerald identifies and defines social gaps and importance of wealth. He also presents women within a very separate space as the men. The Great Gatsby allows the reader to enter into the world of wealth and experience the joys and tragedies of being within this certain class. In the novel, Fitzgerald criticizes American society in the 1920 's for its emphasis on money, superficial ...
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Fell In Love Jay Gatsby
307 wordsNick Carraway The books narrator, Nick is a young man from Minnesota who, after being educated at Yale and fighting in World War I, goes to New York City to learn the bond business. Honest, tolerant, and inclined to reserve judgment, Nick often serves as a close friend for those with troubling secrets. After moving to West Egg, a place home to the newly rich, Nick quickly becomes friends his next-door neighbor, the mysterious Jay Gatsby. The Great Gatsby is told entirely through Nick's eyes; his...
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T J Eckleburg Valley Of Ashes
709 wordsThe Great Gatsby- In the novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, symbolism adds depth to the story, without introducing confusion. Fitzgeralds symbols are large, concrete and obvious. Examples of this symbolism are the valley of ashes, T. J. Eckleburg's huge blue eyes, and the green light on the Buchanan dock which Jay Gatsby idolizes. The valley of ashes is a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and...
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Green Light At The End Valley Of Ashes
952 wordsShavaun Swygert Ms. Goebig English III June 1, 1998 Color-Symbolism in The Great Gatsby The beauty of F. Scott Fitzgeralds writing is probably nowhere more exhibited than in his handling of the color-symbols in The Great Gatsby. The range of the color-symbols and their complex operations at each stage of action is escaped from the readers. As was researched, the colors represent both the dream and the reality. Nick describes Gatsby: like an ecstatic patron of recurrent light. (Piper 145) Nick al...
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Valley Of Ashes Gatsby
569 wordsSearching for Symbolism -HS 1. The valley of ashes represents a modern world, which, like a grotesque hell created by the industry of factories and trains and has polluted America with its waste. The valley symbolizes a world whose inhabitants are so spiritually lost they, like Myrtle, begin to worship money and wealth. The frontier promise has been corrupted by the lies of greed and the emptiness of a dream based on wealth The eyes of Dr. T. J. Eckleburg represent Fitzgerald? s feeling that God...
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F Scott Fitzgerald Winter Dreams
569 wordsA great lecturer once said, |Man is so caught up in his own recklessness that he does not notice the values of life. X The theme proclaimed in the quote reflects literature in the abundance that it is used in throughout the history of writing. Author F. Scott Fitzgerald, spokesman of the Jazz Age, illustrates the shallow emptiness, careless recklessness, and materialistic concerns of the rich in his novel The Great Gatsby. First and foremost of all are the issues of the materialistic concerns of...
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George Wilson Young Greek Gatsby
818 wordsIn the novel The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, there is a character who appears so little, but yet is so influential. He is responsible for so much action on the part of the main characters, but he himself does very little. The name of this character is Michaelis. He is described as the young Greek who ran the coffee joint in the Valley of Ashes, but a careful reader might implicate him as the cause of Gatsby s death and Wilson s in precisely three ways. He failed to determine the right ...
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Valley Of Ashes Great Gatsby
681 wordsCould the color of her clothing tell me about the type of personality that she has? At first, one may think that this is a stereotype, however at times it can be true. A person wearing a neon green shirt and purple preacher pants is probably more likely to be outgoing than someone wearing jeans and a white polo. In literature, colors are often purposefully chosen for different characters to represent the character s personalities. In The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the colors green, ye...
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Tom Buchanan Great Gatsby
388 wordsClean Brooks begins the essay by stating that Americans have believed that we are innocent. He implies that our innocence is depleting. Fitzgerald uses his wide array of characters throughout the novel The Great Gatsby in order to portray the image as he sees it, and perhaps what Americans believed during that time, of the innocent American. Brooks begins with basically a walk-through of the story while still providing details of the characters qualities that suggest their innocence. His first c...
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Gatsby Fitzgerald
1,028 wordsIn December of 1945, General George Patton died in a hospital bed in Germany. At his funeral, his longtime friend Dwight Eisenhower remarked that? He was the genuine article, a man who not only knew who he was, he loved who he was. He fought for what was right, and he fought hard. He was the classic soldier. ? Ike alluded to the classic soldier in his eulogy to illustrate an important point. He wanted everyone to know that Patton was the type of soldier who never faded away; he was that rare bre...
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Charles Foster Kane Richest Man In The World
2,331 wordsThe United States of America is the most powerful, wealthy, and attractive country in the world. The varieties of class, individuality, religion, and race are a few of the enrichment's within the " melting pot" of our society. The blend of these numerous diversities is the crucial ingredient to our modern nation. Even though America has been formed upon these diversities, its inhabitants- the " average American" - have a single thing in common; a single idea; a single goal; t...
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Jay Gatsby American Dream
760 wordsF. Scott Fitzgerald emulates the American Dream as something corrupt, and not easy to achieve. The American Dream is made up of a long social ladder, and it is often impossible to be accepted at the top of this social ladder. In The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald portrays Gatsby as the epitome of the American Dream. However, there is a fine line between what many of us think is the American Dream, and what Fitzgerald thinks is the American Dream. One must be able to differentiate between Gatsby's ideal...
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F Scott Fitzgerald Shows The Reader
926 wordsNicks Reality In the novel, The Great Gatsby, written in 1925 by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the character Nick Carraway has a view of reality like many people in todays society. Nick is the type of person who is both unrealistic and realistic at the same time. The realistic part of Nick shows the reader the character flaws of Jordan, Gatsby, Daisy, and Tom while his unrealistic nature shows how he opinionated himself to be better and more honest then the rest. Nick Carraway's reality is that he thinks...
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