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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, £ 28.95
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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, £ 18.95
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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, £ 25.95
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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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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, £ 18.95
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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.
The "Great Gatsby's" connection to the failure of the American Dream.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 2 sources, £ 18.95
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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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"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, £ 44.95
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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, £ 15.95
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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, £ 43.95
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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, £ 30.95
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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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"All the King's Men" and "The Great Gatsby", 2005.
A comparative analysis of Robert Penn Warren's "All the King's Men" and "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 2 sources, £ 37.95
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This paper discusses the books "All the King's Men" and "The Great Gatsby". Using the concept predetermined of a "recipe for life", the paper further discusses the elements and characters of each book that comprise ingredients which determine the writers' statements on existence. The paper is discussed through comparison and contrast, weighing evidence from both novels through discussion.
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" The novel, All the King's Men, is a tale of life that insists the reader question his or her own decisions. This insistence is evident in Robert Penn Warren's characters, which are consistently setting their morals aside in an effort to right the wrongs of the past. While their intentional visions are clear, what they relinquish in their quest for justice is superior to their goals. Manipulation and greed overcome these characters, creating lives that are morally corrupt on the inside, with the world viewing icons of strength from the exterior personae. Therefore, the recipe for life within the novel, All the King's Men, may consist of the sweet flavor of revenge, but it is tainted by the bitter aftertaste of defeat. In The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the mixture of moral decay coated by a pretense of life is also apparent. "
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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, £ 27.95
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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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Ethics in "The Great Gatsby", 2005.
Examines questions of ethics relating to love and money in "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
2,219 words (approx. 8.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 48.95
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Perhaps the most straightforward ethical dilemmas dealt with in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" are those concerning the dealings of money and those regarding love. The paper shows, however, that the underlying code of ethics in question is the interaction between the two and how inextricably and wholly overlapping and connected money and love are in governing American relationships. Also, the characters may be emotionally unable to make ethically sound decisions, as a world without conscience has rendered them devoid of truth. The paper shows that these characters face a series of ethical dilemmas for which they are not held accountable within the narrative, partly because they seem incapable of acting otherwise.
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"Tom subscribes to morals without possessing ideals to which he can adhere. After being confronted with Daisy's affair with Gatsby, he admits, "what's more, I love Daisy too. Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time" (138). This appears to be quite a statement, considering that throughout the rest of the novel Tom is very nearly without the capacity to verbalize feelings or ideas unless appropriated (poorly, at that) from other sources. The fact that he believes he loves her all the time, even as he goes off on "sprees," is suggestive of the same kind of innocence Nick allows Jordan; the language makes it sound as though he is almost incapable of choosing well in the midst of an ethical question, and so it perhaps shouldn't even be expected of him."
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"The Great Gatsby", 2006.
This paper reviews and discusses the classic novel "The Great Gatsby" written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald which focuses on the class system in 1920s America.
837 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 3 sources, MLA, £ 20.95
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This paper analyzes the plot and main characters of Jay and Daisy in Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby." The writer explores the novel's themes of social and economic mobility, often described as the American dream. This paper examines Jay's relentless pursuit of the dream while also vying for the affections of Daisy, a sociable and enticing member of the upper class he longs to be a part of. This paper discusses the manner in which Fitzgerald illustrates America's distorted perception as well as obsession with class and society and the harsh realities that are ultimately exposed.
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"Gatsby's tilted perspective gives rise to naive explanations about Daisy's intentions and behaviors; he consistently rationalizes circumstances to favor his interpretation of her. Gatsby's response towards Daisy's hit-and-run accident is a dramatic illustration of his unswerving commitment towards this ideal. Even after Daisy commits murder, Gatsby remains unmoved in his emotions towards her. What's more, he assumes responsibility for her actions. Or consider the statement: ' Of course she might have loved him, just for a minute, when they were first married--and loved me more even then, do you see?' (Fitzgerald, p. 133). Gatsby clings to this hope despite Daisy's professed loved her husband. Such explanations indicate how an individual's tenacious hold on an ideal can corrupt his rational faculties.
At one point, it appears Gatsby almost grasps this dichotomy when he states, ' Her voice is full of money'."
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Materialism in "The Great Gatsby", 2006.
An analysis of the theme of materialism in "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
2,352 words (approx. 9.4 pages), 6 sources, MLA, £ 51.95
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This paper analyzes the book, "The Great Gatsby", by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Specifically, it discusses how Fitzgerald comments on the ill effects of materialism in the 1920s across multiple socio-economic classes by using the character, Nick Carraway's observations. The paper discusses the paramount themes for Fitzgerald in his classic American novel, of materialism and the American dream.
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"History is also an intriguing part of the novel, as another critic notes. Harold Bloom writes, "Fitzgerald makes this parallel between Gatsby's history and America's history explicit on the last page of the novel" (Bloom 35). Bloom refers to the last line of the novel when Nick remarks, "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past" (Fitzgerald 182). Gatsby has always believed man can repeat the past and sustain a significant moment in time. This constant looking back, instead of looking forward is another way materialism corrupts in the novel. Gatsby is so obsessed with the past, when Daisy might have loved him for an instant, he cannot go forward into the future. He cannot, and that is ultimately the end of him."
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