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The Great Gatsby



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Title: The Great Gatsby (1925)
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Setting: New York / 1920’s
Theme: A certain goal in life can sometimes blind the person from facing reality
Plot Synopsis: The story is told through Nick Carraway and he goes on to show us the people that live in Long Island. Nick introduces the reader to the Buchanans a family who has been wealthy way before they were born, called old money and then the reader meets Jay Gatsby. Gatsby is new money for, as the reader learns later on was acquired through illegal means. Gatsby goal throughout the whole novel is to get as much wealth as he can acquire to lure Daisy Buchanan, his love of his life to him. In the end of the novel we see that Gatsby for taking the blame of something Daisy did ends up getting killed.   
Characters:
Jay Gatsby – He has been amounting wealth just to lure Daisy in by throwing extravagant parties and always wearing something flashy to be noticed by her.
Nick Carraway- The reader sees the story mostly through him and he tries to be a nonjudgmental person but at times he fails.
Symbols, Allusions, Distinguishing characteristics:
The Valley of Gray Ashes - a barren land representing how people really were in the inside and the state of mind society had
Quotation:”He must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass. A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about...like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees.” (Chapter 8)



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