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The Greatness of Jay Gatsby, 2007.
An analysis of the source of Jay Gatsby's greatness in "The Great Gatsby," written by Scott Fitzgerald.
1,138 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 39.95
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This paper discusses the greatness of the character, Jay Gatsby, in the novel, "The Great Gatsby," written by Scott Fitzgerald. The paper looks at Gatsby's relationships with other characters in the novel. It suggests that Gatsby is great, but not in terms of integrity and concern for others. Rather, the source of Gatsby's greatness is his drive or ambition.
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"When Tom's lover, Myrtle Wilson, is killed in a hit and run accident, everything that occurs is ironic. Gatsby is shot and killed by Mr. Wilson because the car is his. In addition, Tom believes that Gatsby was responsible for the death because Daisy continues to let Tom believe that Gatsby was at the wheel. Not one of the many guests who had attended Gatsby's parties bothered to attend his funeral. The only people in attendance are Gatsby's father, Nick, and Gatsby's servants. It is this lack of memory and respect for Gatsby that seems to deny his greatness. At the same time, Nick states that "Gatsby turned out all right at the end" (8). The reader can only be sympathetic to Gatsby if he or she holds capitalist and materialist values."
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"The Great Gatsby", 2002.
A literary analysis of the novel "The Great Gatsby", focusing on the lifestyle evident on the 1920's.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 26.95
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This is a report on the book "The Great Gatsby". In The Great Gatsby it is evident that the book takes place in the 1920s based on some of the character's dress and attitude. The characters are conservative by today's standards, yet they are willing to push the envelope and test boundaries, common in the 1920s. Divorce became more acceptable in the 1920s.
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"The Great Gatsby", 2004.
A review of the classic book "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
1,052 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 36.95
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This paper discusses the storyline of F. Scott Fitzgerald's book "The Great Gatsby". The paper presents an exploration of the relationship between Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby in "The Great Gatsby". The paper also examines the beginning of the relationship and analyzes the way it changes as the story unfolds.
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"Before one can begin to understand the relationship between Nick and Jay one must have an understanding on the plot of the story itself. The Great Gatsby is a story about Jay Gatsby still being in love with Daisy Buchanan. He does everything he can to try and win her back and she is so selfish and absorbed that she allows him to make the effort, knowing she is not going to leave her husband Tom. Tom has an affair and Daisy kills the mistress with Gatsby's car. In the end Gatsby is still doing anything he can for Daisy because he takes the blame for driving the car. The mistress's husband comes to Gatsby's house and kills Gatsby. The entire story is told from the narration of Nick Carraway who has moved to Long Island to become a bonds worker. He is the cousin of Daisy Buchanan."
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"The Great Gatsby", 2002.
The "Great Gatsby's" connection to the failure of the American Dream.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 26.95
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"The Great Gatsby is a devastating analysis of the 'foul dust' that floats in the wake of the American Dream." This is an analysis of the "Great Gatsby" as the representative of the corruption of the American Dream.
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Color Symbolism in "The Great Gatsby", 2003.
An analysis of the symbolism of the color white in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel "The Great Gatsby".
738 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 0 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper reviews the novel "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
It discusses how although the color white is commonly associated with purity and innocence. In "The Great Gatsby", Fitzgerald conversely gives the color white a darker connotation by associating it with morally corrupt characters like Daisy and Jordan. It looks at how to some characters in the novel, especially the West Eggers, objects or people connected with the color white still represent moral perfection and social superiority. It shows how the color white, in reality, is only an outward representation of beauty, wealth and perfection, void of any intrinsic goodness, although some characters may believe it has deeper value.
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"Jordan and Daisy, who throughout the novel are often wearing white dresses, seem to be as righteous as they are beautiful when Nick, our narrator, first sees them. Jordan and Daisy are the objects of Nick and Gatsby?s desire, respectively, but in the end, class differences and moral standards prove stronger. As the novel progresses, Nick?s opinions of both women deteriorate as he uncovers their immorality and irresponsibility which leads to the failure of Nick and Jordan?s relationship. Gatsby also fails in winning Daisy?s affection, even though he has seemingly risen in social standing and has accumulated enough wealth to support both of them. Daisy and Jordan are both careless and insensitive people, unlike the thoughtful Nick and romantic Gatsby."
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"The Great Gatsby", 2002.
Discusses the message contained in "The Great Gatsby" about the pursuit of wealth and materialism and self-destruction.
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 62.95
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This essay discusses "The Great Gatsby" in the context of the economic realities of the 1920s. The novel reflected the pursuit of greed and ambition in America in the 1920s. While the period represented wealth and prosperity for many Americans, for others it entailed only poverty and misery. The pursuit of wealth itself led to self-destruction. The characters in "The Great Gatsby" very much reflect the values and energies of the 1920s, as well as the emptiness that superficiality and materialism spawn.
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"The Great Gatsby", 2002.
Echoes of the sermon on the mount in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby".
525 words (approx. 2.1 pages), 1 source, $ 21.95
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This paper examines F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby. In The Great Gatsby, we find Fitzgerald examining the moral emptiness of life in East Egg, Long Island and, by implication, modern society. Fitzgerald was a Catholic and although the novel is not overtly religious in tone, the reader may detect echoes of the Sermon on The Mount in its subtle condemnation of the materialistic, spiritually bankrupt world that Tom and Daisy Buchanan inhabit and which the likes of Myrtle Wilson and Jay Gatsby aspire to.
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"The Great Gatsby" and the Fall of The American Dream, 2002.
A analysis, from today's viewpoint, of the classical American novel "The Great Gatsby " by F. Scott Fitzgerald from the perspective of the corrupt American Dream.
1,890 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 60.95
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This paper describes ?The Great Gatsby? as Fitzgerald?s signature novel of the American dream gone awry. It compares American society in the 1920s to American today. The author writes that immigrants, like Gatsby, come to escape their own problems for our empty promises of unlimited advancement. On the surface, ?The Great Gatsby? is a novel about confused and unhappy relationships that drank and socialized their way through the 1920s. Yet, when investigating further, it speaks of the bankrupt American Dream, which no longer stands for progress and hard work, as it has become materialistic and corrupt.
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"For years immigrants poured into Ellis Island looking for freedom of religious persecution, to escape poverty and hunger and numerous other reasons. Today over 50,000 immigrants come to the shores of America clutching Green Cards hoping for a piece of the American Dream."
It is in this setting, that F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays ?The Great Gatsby.? Jay Gatsby, himself, the title character, was a major culprit of this corruption.
Nick Carraway surmises that Gatsby made his wealth from bootlegging and involvement with organized crime. Gatsby has focused his adult life to being wealthy enough and having enough to impress Daisy."
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?The Great Gatsby?, 2006.
This paper reviews and examines F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel "The Great Gatsby," which takes place during the era of American prohibition.
1,294 words (approx. 5.2 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 43.95
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This paper presents a concise analysis of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel "The Great Gatsby." The writer of this paper details the plot as well as the main characters of Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby, set against the backdrop of the prohibition era in America. The writer of this paper contends that "The Great Gatsby" is both a comedy of manners and a tragic unfolding of events that is both romantic and realistic. This novel is the story of Nick Caraway's heroic attempt to make intelligible the events of a summer.
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"Fitzgerald drew an apparent picture of the longing and the distrust for the rich, the injustice that poor boys should not dream of marrying rich girls, the trauma of having been rejected by Zelda once, the hero follow the American Dream, and his tragedy. His "double vision" and his irony can be recognized in the title but the thought of the book with the striking central character allows Fitzgerald to call Gatsby "great" without a feeling that something is wrong. Jay Gatsby is clearly the hero of The Great Gatsby, but Nick Caraway is the narrator and central figure, bringing to Long Island the fresh suspicious eye of a Midwesterner, this is where the double vision comes in where characters, events and places are viewed through a dual lens. The whole trivial yet impressive world of the so-called "good society" of Long Island and New York is dominated by alcohol and the pursuit of pleasure that runs through these pages. The society is also dual as on one hand it is all sophisticated and flashy and on the other hand the people are as ruthless and cutthroat as others."
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'Winter Dreams' and 'The Great Gatsby', 2006.
A discussion regarding the influence of 'Winter Dreams' on the novel 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper analyzes the idea that the basis of wealth, love and power are the key influences that 'Winter's Dreams' instills on Fitzgerald's latter novel 'The Great Gatsby'. In many ways, the characters, themes and motives seem to revolve around class status and the desire for lower class men to see awe in their unattainable female superiors.
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" In this literature study the basis of The Great Gatsby will be revealed through the earlier short story "Winter Dreams" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. In this manner, the characters, themes, and motives of Fitzgerald will be examined to show how these two literary works are linked. In essence, the earlier focus of "Winter Dreams" on a man that obsesses about a rich girl will be the association that eventually would create the modern classic: The Great Gatsby. The Great Gatsby is closely related to the early short stories of Fitzgerald, especially within the tale: "Winter Dreams." The main character of Dexter Green is often associated with how Jay Gatsby relishes the life of wealthy person's above his economic class in American society. "
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"The Great Gatsby", 2007.
An analysis of "The Great Gatsby", by F.Scott Fitzgerald, and the American Dream.
2,273 words (approx. 9.1 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 70.95
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The paper examines how, in real life and in fiction, the American Dream is elusive and mercurial at best. The paper analyzes how literary works by authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and others, written in the 1920's and beyond, often reflect this fact. The paper shows how F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1926 novel, "The Great Gatsby", demonstrates various poignant falsehoods about the American Dream.
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"I will analyze F. Scott Fitzgerald's The great Gatsby, then, especially in terms of both its truths and the falsehoods about the American Dream, in terms of Jay Gatsby's own actions; myths about himself; nouveau riche lifestyle; long-sought adulterous relationship with Daisy Buchanan, and life as a whole. Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1926) describes, explicitly and implicitly, the potentially lethal dangers of ruthless pursuit of the American Dream (Weinstein; Godden), in terms of Gatsby's own, finally fatal, combinations of material and sexual indulgences within the story."
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"The Great Gatsby", 2005.
A discussion on the narrative conflict in "The Great Gatsby" by Francis Scott Fitzgerald.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, $ 44.95
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The paper analyzes the underlying conflict within Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby". The paper explores the internal conflict of the narrator, Nick, who is both repulsed and attracted to the main character of his story. This aspect of the novel rears itself in the way it is relayed to the audience, and it emphasizes the central moral position motivating the tale.
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"Fitzgerald's fundamental goal throughout "The Great Gatsby" is to demonstrate particularly how the moral qualities that are often believed to be associated with the "American Dream" have died. It is The fundamental difference between the wealth that Gatsby represents and that which Daisy represents is that while the newly rich may be gaudy or unsophisticated socially, the old rich lack something far more important: heart. It is upon these grounds that Fitzgerald makes his sharpest contrasts between the individual successes, in terms of the American Dream, and those who have the Dream handed to them. Whereas Gatsby stays outside of Daisy's window until four in the morning to make sure Tom does not harm her, the Buchanan's make certain to unceremoniously move away, rather than degrade themselves by attending Gatsby's funeral."
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The American Dream in the "Great Gatsby", 2005.
An examination of the validity of the American Dream in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby".
1,380 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 47.95
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This paper looks at F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" and focuses on how Gatsby's love for Daisy symbolizes the American Dream as hollow.
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"F Scott Fitzgerald's famous novel "The Great Gatsby" is often considered one of the quintessential tales of lost love and social climbing. Indeed Jay Gatsby's quest to win the heart of his beloved Daisy Buchanan once again is fueled by the social advancements ..."
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"The Great Gatsby", 2004.
A review of "The Great Gatsby" written by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
4,924 words (approx. 19.7 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 125.95
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This paper presents a detailed review of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel, "The Great Gatsby". The paper introduces the characters and explains the roles they play in the novel. The themes of the book are discussed in the paper, with a focus on the material and social conditions of America in the 1920's. The issue of new wealth and old wealth is covered in the paper.
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" ?The Great Gatsby? by F Scott Fitzgerald is a modernist novel of the jazz age as well as a novel of manners (Spark Notes 2004), written in the US and France and first published in 1925 by charles Scribner?s Sons. The setting is in Long Island and New York in the summer of 1922 with Nick Carraway as a narrator and participant in the fiction itself. The novel relates the life, success, pains and failures of Nick?s friend, Jay Gatsby, and the fall of his American dream, the hypocrisy and materialism of the Roaring 20s and what really lay between social classes in those times. It reveals the great contrast between symbol and reality and the power of the past over the present and the future."
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"The Great Gatsby" and "The Day of the Locusts", 2006.
A comparison of Nathaniel West's "The Day of the Locusts" and Francis Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby".
1,102 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 0 sources, $ 38.95
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This paper compares Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" and West's "The Day of the Locusts". It explains that one of the most interesting similarities concerns the main female character in each novel. Both Daisy and Faye Greener are materialistic and shallow people who are concerned only with outward appearances, and who hence end up living superficial lives that do not provide them with any real satisfaction.
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"Gatsby's love, or perhaps obsession would be a more accurate word, is extremely materialistic, and is interested only in getting money. As a result, she would not look at Gatsby when she had the chance, and instead married Tom, who was very wealthy. However, Tom is not a good person; he cheats on her and treats her abusively. It is Gatsby she really loves, but by the time she realizes this it is too late. So much time has past that it is virtually impossible to be together, and even if it were, when she learns that his wealth comes from less than legitimate enterprises, she cannot overcome her social pretensions."
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