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Imagery is a vital component to any successful and popular literary work. By using his imagistic style, Fitzgerald brought the setting of The Great Gatsby to life. This descriptive language not only brought the novel to life, but also helped establish certain motifs in key points of the story. The diction that Fitzgerald applies allows the reader to mentally reach a new level of understanding of The Great Gatsby. When combined, these techniques allow Fitzgerald to explore and convey different atmospheres, different societies, and different worlds. At the beginning of the novel, Nick is exposed to a sense of wonder when he visits the Buchanan’s palace for the first time. It is otherworldly, alluring, and sensual. The front of the house is described as cheerful and inviting. Even though Nick has yet to step foot inside, the palace screams of beautiful arrogance and old money. The curtains fluttering around the room when Nick sees Daisy and Jordan makes it seem as if Nick has just landed on a different universe. His reaction to the house further shows how fantastical it must be. A house so beautiful implies sweet innocence, but the Buchanan palace secretly holds scandalous secrets, even if they have yet to be exposed. During dinner, the mood changes from cheerful to tense. The house seems to close in tighter as the evening progresses, as if it is dying to showcase its secrets. The bright lighting slowly diminishes, leaving candles to light their evening. These candles also…

The Great Gatsby written by Fitzgerald narrates the story that a rich and handsome man tried hard to achieve his dream and the woman he loved, but ended with death. The novel represents a materialist, corrupt and depraved society where people degenerated both materially and spiritually. This society was generally going down rather than went "from nothing to nothing" (p. 103). In this essay, why people of all classes would ended the same and how people lost morality will be stated. It will also…

The 'American Dream ' is making a living through hard work, dedication and determination. Using hard work and ethics one can make millions of dollars and all the material happiness that comes along with that. However, all that money cannot buy some of the most valuable things. Money will never buy happiness like friends and family. A good example of this is in the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby. He pokes fun at the typical American dream by using the main character Jay Gatsby.…

Achieving the American dream was the main goal in the 1920’s, and still is today. The American dream is the ideal life of freedom consisting of opportunity. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, it shows how this idea had been distorted. The concept of having opportunity had been changed into the concept of obtaining wealth. By focusing too much on materialistic values, Myrtle and Gatsby had a corrupt understanding of the American dream therefore, never achieving it and making it hopeless.…

A man stuck in the past, desperately reaching out to a dream that is already behind him. He desperately builds himself up from poverty to riches, however his dream is still behind him. Just spreaded by a body of water, he was so close to reaching it but then his dreams were shattered with the simple pull of a trigger. F. Scott Fitzgerald, an American novelist and short story writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, the West versus East egg…

Many people see me as one of the greatest American authors of all time because of my novel; The Great Gatsby. It wasn’t until when I attended Princeton University that I was exposed to the social scene, and when I first discovered my passion for creative writing. Here is when I first started writing musicals for the school, humorous articles in my University’s newspaper, and stories for the Nassau Literary Magazine. Although, my passion came to a halt when I decided to end my schooling in…

In Great Gatsby, all of the characters are left to contend with the past especially Mr. Gatsby himself who has a particularly intriguing past. In terms of Gatsby’s past, all remains a mystery but one simple fact : Gatsby may be filthy rich now, but has not always been. Gatsby's so-called overnight success leads the aristocrats of East Egg to believe Mr. Gatsby was involved in crimes like “bootlegging” in order to attain such money. Whether or not Gatsby was explicitly involved in crime, the…

Many people in the world see the American Dream as something unrealistic. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald all the characters fail to accomplish what they perceive as the American Dream. The novel takes place during the 1920s in New York and is narrated by the character Nick, who is moving from the Midwest to a place called West Egg. He lives across from East Egg, which is where his cousin Daisy and her husband Tom live. When Nick goes over there for dinner one night, we learn that Tom…

American dream refers to a dream of someone who starting low in the social and economic level, then he or she working hard towards wealth, fame and success. This dream can be described as a materialism pursuit of pleasure as it is only achieved when a person successfully having a fancy car, a lot of money, luxurious house, happy wealthy family, fame and nice clothes. However, in order to achieve this dream, most of the character in The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald has turns to be someone…

What is the plot of this story? Use your own words to summarize the plot in one thorough paragraph: The plot of the story is about a prince named Prince Prospero. Prince Prospero was a very rich man. There was a illness spreading rapidly throughout their town killing everyone. The illness was called the red death and was described as fatal and hideous. The Prince thought the only escape from the red death was to lock himself away in his castle with many of his friends. To pass time they drank…