"The Great Gatsby"

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This paper examines how F. Scott Fitzgerald's poor boy meets rich girl story became a classic and how, although the story seems simple enough, by peeling off the top layer and examining the underlying aspects of the story one can read into F. Scott Fitzgerald's motivation for writing the book by comparing the plot to his real life story.

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"As the story unfolds it becomes evident that Daisy is extremely self absorbed and will stop at nothing to make herself feel loved and desirable. She uses people for her own end with little regard as to how she is affecting their lives and emotions. In a fit of rage she ends up killing the woman her husband is having the affair with by hitting her with a car. She lets Gatsby take the fall for it because it was his car that she was driving. The dead woman's husband comes to Gatsby's home and kills him while he is out by the pool because he believes Gatsby killed his wife."

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