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none of the women in Gatsby are particularly likeable, but even so, the book retains its power. Daisy Buchanan Lets start with Da...
her well-loved eyes" (Fitzgerald 111). As this suggests, Gatsbys many possessions and signs of extreme wealth are not important ...
for traditional values and is attracted to the fast-life epitomized by Jay. Nick comes to understand that Gatsby, rather than the...
and honor were really worth possessing. The Great Gatsby In first discussing Fitzgeralds story we look at the man who is Gats...
As a young woman Catherine was apparently already determined to be a very powerful and effective leader. She "was ambitious as wel...
beautiful Daisy Buchanan. His enigmatic behavior and opulent lifestyle are designed to impress Daisy and bring her back into his l...
two people who hold true to the notion that determination and hard work can get you ahead in the world of the American ideal. Gats...
no success at all; that belongs to the people who employ the hard workers. But the dream persists, and Gatsby seems to achieve it,...
move comfortably in the social circle of people like the Buchanans. Fitzgerald shows us all the trappings of wealth: the gorgeous...
is lives in the swanky neighborhood of town while Myrtle lives in closer proximity to the billboard noted above. Gatsby is acknow...
on the world scene. And, we know that the one individual who could perhaps sway him from his innocent and noble ways is Gatsby him...
important to remember that at the time Fitzgerald wrote, "immigrants were coming to the United States by the millions because they...
no face, instead, the eyes are behind an enormous pair of glasses which are sitting on a non-existent nose (Fitzgerald). Nick, who...
family that was better off than his own. In order to make something of himself he began to write articles for various magazines. H...
certain light. The narrator to tells us that, "Ive heard it said that Daisys murmur was only to make people lean toward her; an ir...
his personal life, and physically; hes a bigot, hes a racist, and he has a mistress who he makes little effort to hide from his wi...
so pervades The Great Gatsby that Fitzgeralds true achievement was to appropriate American legend."1 The book gives us both romanc...
example, how he constantly throws huge parties that are very elaborate and clearly of wealth. Yet he never really attends them. He...
is when Gatsby holds out his arms toward a small green light in the distance, which the reader learns later is the green light on ...
retinas are one yard high" (Fitzgerald 15). The student researching this topic will note that there are divergences from the stu...
less than legal involvement. But, for the most part that did not matter, for the premise of the book, in relationship to acceptabl...
different than those who attend his party and do little more than drink and let loose. With such a setting, as one of the most ...
the city may appear attractive and it certainly attracted Nick, it is hollow. He expresses this by returning home to the midwest. ...
basis for Nicks disillusionment with the decadence of east coast American society (Fitzgerald 3). Gatsbys pursuit of the American ...
done in their lives as they see no hope in the future. Their American Dream is one that came smashing down with the pessimistic re...
pursues a materialistic dream that is draped in romantic expectation. Nick comes to feel that Gatsbys misplaced idealism and roman...
in the promised land did so through the exploitation of the land, its resources, and its natives" as is the case with Jay Gatsby (...
to him. He merely knows that without his job he is lost, but he doesnt have the insight to look inward for the answers....
about, while assessing the characters he meets. In this respect both narrators must take into consideration the past lives of the ...
so much as for the enjoyment of others, for the pride he could have when looking at what he achieved through the eyes of others. T...