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The Great Gatsby was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and would fall into a mystery category for its genre. The Great Gatsby explains the life of a man named Nick Carraway who moves away from his home to start a new life in New York selling Bonds. The setting takes place in Long Island New York in 1920. Throughout this book you will find many different characters and their own personalities. This story has more than one theme in my opinion such as love, society/class and mortality. Lastly look out because there is symbolism. The Great Gatsby takes place in Long Island New York in 1920. These places were also known as East and West Egg. In a way the setting effects the personalities for the people in the book. For example most of the people in the book live in a wealthy …show more content…

Before Nick had moved to New York he had previously fought in World War 1 and went to school at Yale. The story is narrated in the eyes of Nick. I would definitely say that Nick Carraway is gentle and not obnoxious because throughout the book he is very respectful to everyone he meets. He is definitely a protagonist. Next is the man himself Jay Gatsby also referred to as Gatsby. Mr. Gatsby is a wealthy man who is neighbors with Nick and lives in a somewhat gothic mansion by himself. Gatsby is definitely a odd man who only seems to be active on Saturday when he throws very lavish parties. Nick later realizes that Gatsby got all his wealth from taking part in criminal activities. Gatsby is also a protagonist. Tom Buchanan is the wealthy husband to a woman named Daisy Carraway who is the sister of Nick Carraway. The book describes Tom to have a hulking figure. Tom is a short tempered man who treats his wife poorly and does nothing for her. The reason I chose Tom as the antagonist was that he treats daisy poorly and when she wanted to leave him for Gatsby he flipped out. In my opinion I believe that Tom is the

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Nick is Gatsby’s neighbor and Daisy’s cousin, and cautiously assists their relationship. Nick and Gatsby live in the West Egg area of Long Island, while Daisy lives across the way in East Egg. Fitzgerald uses these neighborhoods to symbolize the differences between the newly and old rich. In the novel, Nick and Gatsby are both newly parevenus individuals who do not come from a rich family. Carraway is earning his way to wealth in the banking industry, while Gatsby received his wealth predominantly from bootlegging.

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Before I introduce some main themes, I’ll briefly describe how the story and characters suggest the major Great Gatsby themes. Remember that the story is set in the 1920s, a period when America’s economy was booming, and takes place in New York: specifically the wealthy Long Island towns of West Egg and East Egg, as well as Manhattan and Queens. The theme  In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald chronicles the death of the American dream. His main character,

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The Great Gatsby is a well known, classic book written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It is set in the 1920s, the jazz age, which is the time period where social and economic changes occured and allowed people to go away from old traditions and embrace new ideas (Alchin, Linda). The book is narrated by a man, Nick Carraway, who is seeking the american dream. He moves in next door to a millionaire, Jay Gatsby, who has a love affair with an already married women, Daisy Buchanan. Daisy Buchanan a beautiful woman that is married to a man named Tom, but has a love affair with a guy she previously loved, and has to decide who she actually loves.

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Daisy and Tom have problems within their relationship that they do not want to confront, as they never talk about them, until Gatsby makes them. Gatsby wants Daisy to tell Tom that she never loved him but, she eventually breaks down and tells both men she has loved them. Daisy and Tom are then reminded of happy memories in their marriage. “ This is a key moment because it shows despite the dysfunction of their marriage, Tom and Daisy seem to both seek solace in happy early memories” (Wulick). Tom is seen as vulgar, dishonest, and crude.

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Where he meets his neighbor, an aloof man of the name Jay Gatsby. With the meeting of his neighbor followed many events in which impacted the characters of this novel, Nick Carraway being the most affected, in fact it changed his views not only of people, of the world, but also of long sought out American Dream. Nick Carraway is forced to change his views of people as the events move the story along. For example, his first opinion of Daisy was more of a sanguine outlook, “...- then she laughed, an absurd, charming little laugh, and I laughed too…” (Fitzgerald, 8).

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