Research Paper Outline For The Great Gatsby

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Thesis:
Why do people have such unattainable dreams? The American Dream is unfortunately most of the time unattainable. This is shown through Gatsby’s character as he tries to relive his past with Daisy. He doesn’t understand the harsh reality that stand before him. Daisy is now married to Tom Buchanan, who’s family is extremely wealthy, and they have a daughter, Pammy. Gatsby doesn’t want to believe that his chances with the only woman he’s ever loved are gone.

Body Paragraph #1 Topic Sentence:
The novel The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald focuses on the lives of Nick Carraway, Daisy and Tom Buchanan, Myrtle and George Wilson, and Jay Gatsby but more specifically their different ideas of the what the American Dream is and what it means to them. …show more content…

One of them was that, after she was free, they were to go back to Louisville and be married from her house-just as if it were five years ago” (109).

“Oh, you want too much!” she cried to Gatsby. “I love you now-isn’t that enough? I can’t help what’s past.” She began to sob helplessly. “I did love him once-but I loved you too” (132).

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Gatsby, throughout the novel is depicted as a “great” guy who has a lot of parties, which sort of makes the title ironic because a lot of the themes throughout the novel show this, and he ends up dying in the end. Therefore the real meaning behind the title The Great Gatsby was that it was actually a “great”