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T J Eckleburg Stock Market Crash
9,827 words
Have you ever felt that there were two of you
battling for control of the person you call
yourself? Have you ever felt that you werent quite
sure which one you wanted to be in charge? All of
us have at least two selves: one who wants to work
hard, get good grades, and be successful; and one
who would rather lie in the sun and listen to
music and daydream. To understand F. Scott
Fitzgerald, the man and the writer, you must begin
with the idea of doubleness, or tones. Fitzgerald
himself said in a ...
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Green Light At The End Love For Daisy
2,846 words
In Fitzgerald s Gatsby, Gatsby is not great and
not Gatsby (his real name is Get). He is a
criminal who has involved himself with Wolfsheim.
He has committed crimes in order to buy the
possessions he feels he needs to win the woman he
loves, who is another mans wife. Thus a central
question for us, as the reader is, why is Gatsby a
hero? Why, does Fitzgerald invite us to cry out
with Nick, Theyre a rotten crowd. Youre worth the
whole damn bunch put together. In Gatsby, Gatsby
is a hero because o...
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Francis Scott Key Zelda Sayre
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The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby was the crowning
achievement of Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald. He
was born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1896. He
received his education by attending St. Paul
Academy, the Newman School, and Princeton
University. In 1923 he married Zelda Sayre and
they divided their time among New York, Paris, the
Rivera, and Rome, becoming a part of the American
expatriate circle, which included Ernest Hemingway
and Thomas Wolfe. After his achievement with his
novel The Great Gatsby...
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F Scott Fitzgerald Writing This Book
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Summary At the onset of this book, the reader is
introduced to the narrator, Nick Carraway, who
relates the past happenings that construct the
story of Jay Gatsby and Nick during the summer of
1922. After fighting in World War I, or the Great
War as Nick called it, Nick left his prominent
family in the West of America for the North where
he intended to learn the bond business. Nick was
originally supposed to share a house in West Egg
near New York City with an associate of his, but
the man backe...
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