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The Great Gatsby Response

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Have you ever read the novel “The great Gatsby?” If so you probably found so many themes throughout the entire novel. But you also found that things did not go the way you thought they would, but if you haven’t read the novel “The great Gatsby” then let me tell you a little something about it. In “The great Gatsby” the novel takes place on Long Island on two places. One being called “West egg” and the other “East egg.” Takes place just after World War One and in the middle of Prohibition, when alcohol was illegal, but also when the American economy was booming. The west and east egg are places are home to very wealthy people. Throughout the whole novel we encounter various themes. I have chosen three that seem to be more common, love, wealth, and dissatisfaction. …show more content…

After all the time that Gatsby and Daisy have been apart they never seemed to stop loving themselves. Whenever Gatsby would come around daisy would always distance herself from Tom, her husband. He was a very handsome man from old money, making him very wealthy, but nothing could make Daisy love him the way she loves Gatsby. With Gatsby, Daisy, Tom and Myrtle there becomes a problem with the Love situation. There’s cheating involved. As far as we know the ones cheating are Tom and Myrtle. We know this because in the novel, on page a hundred and twenty-five, it states “...as we drove away Tom was feeling the hot whips of panic. His wife and mistress, until an hour ago secure and inviolate were slipping precipitately from his

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