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Student Essays on The Great Gatsby
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Essay Grade: 86%
The Great Gatsby: Analysis by Chapter
3,619 words, approx. 12 pages
Analyzes The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Provides a chapter summary and includes a selected quote from each chapter. Provides an analysis of major characters.
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Essay Grade: 92%
A Comparison of the Ways in Which Fitzgerald and Bronte Present Their Heroes. (2742 Words)
2,700 words, approx. 9 pages
In both "Wuthering Heights" and "The Great Gatsby", the authors have put the central focus for the readers on the romantic heroes of the text. The romantic heroes in the two texts are Gatsby and Heathcliff. These two characters are both very similar and very different and the following is a comparison of how each of them is presented in the novels.
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Essay Grade: 75%
Jake Barnes and Jay Gatsby
2,548 words, approx. 9 pages
In The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest hemingway, we have Jake Barnes, a young man running after Brett. Although he didn't become anything from this love he was happy that every time she did a mess she asked him to help her. For me he was just a tool that she used very well. We can see it when she asks him to introduce her to Romero and then leaves Jake without telling him something. The same thing was with The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitsgerald. He loved Daisy all his life. His greatest dream was to become her again. When she didn't respond him the way he wanted, he didn't even feel offended. He continues to protect her.
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Essay Grade: 96%
Is "The Great Gatsby" purely an éxpose of America in the 1920's?
2,545 words, approx. 9 pages
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby. Deals with morality and the drinking culture in 1920's America.
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Essay Grade: 92%
Their Eyes Were Watching God and the Great Gatsby
2,278 words, approx. 8 pages
Compares and contrasts the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston, and The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Considers how both main characters, Janie and Gatsby, have elements from their pasts which add to their mindsets of wanting to change the way their lives are progressing and form them into something they will benefit from.
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Essay Grade: 78%
Journal and Analysis of 'the Great Gatsby' (film)
2,147 words, approx. 7 pages
The author of `The Great Gatsby', F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American man who lived in the 1900s. He wrote `The Great Gatsby' in 1924. Fitzgerald was married but in the very same year that he began to write `The Great Gatsby' his wife had an affair with a French naval aviator. This could have influenced his writing of `The Great Gatsby'.
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Essay Grade: 92%
The Great Gatsby: Historical Accuracy
2,100 words, approx. 7 pages
Essay discusses how F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" is very accurate historically.
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Essay Grade: 88%
Innocence! Lost or Not?
2,093 words, approx. 7 pages
Innocence as a prominent theme is found in three American novels: Daisy Miller by Henry James, My Antonia by Willa Cather, and the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. These three novels help the reader to see the ambiguous, double-sided nature of innocence, and they suggest that our prejudices and cultural differences actually shape our view of others.
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Essay Grade: 88%
The Function of Gatsby in Fitzgerald's 'the Great Gatsby'
2,070 words, approx. 7 pages
Explores the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, The Great Gatsby. Highlights the function and role of the character of Gatsby. Evaluates to what extent it is Fitzgerald's intention to elevate Gatsby above the society of which he is a part.
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Essay Grade: 83%
Sacrifice
2,058 words, approx. 7 pages
The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald and the `American Beauty' directed by Sam Mendes explores the concept of sacrifice as in many ways. The texts deal with sacrifice as not simply the destruction of something valued, but for a specific purpose and higher claim, where the gesture is carefully planned out, demonstrating a deep personal understanding by a character.
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Essay Grade: 88%
The Great Gatsby
2,054 words, approx. 7 pages
This essay is about F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby."
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Essay Grade: 92%
The American Fantasy
1,939 words, approx. 7 pages
The american dream exists of only as a fantasy due to unrealistic goals, loss of innocence, and corruption in society in "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Essay Grade: 86%
Examining the Theme of Sacrifice
1,845 words, approx. 6 pages
Examines the theme of sacrifice as portrayed in the novel The Great Gatsby, by F.Scott Fitzgerald and the play Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. Explores how main characters personify the theme. Reveals how each character's relationship with society influences his sacrifice.
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Essay Grade: 86%
The Great Gatsby & The Crucible
1,783 words, approx. 6 pages
Two perfect examples of this "wounded male" are John Procter, from the Crucible by Arthur Miller, and Jay Gatsby, from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. These innocent men were both plagued with problems from women and resulted in the death of both men.
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Essay Grade: 88%
Evaluation of the Great Gatsby
1,768 words, approx. 6 pages
Reviews the novel, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Provides a biography of Fitzgerald. Compares his life to that of his character's.
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Essay Grade: 88%
Double Vision in The Great Gatsby
1,692 words, approx. 6 pages
Evaluates the F.Scott Fitzgerald classic novel, The Great Gatsby. Describes the concept of double vision and how it can be applied to many aspects of The Great Gatsby. In this essay it is applied to just a few such as the character of Gatsby himself.
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Essay Grade: 89%
The Great Gatsby--Millionaires Pile of Ashes
1,662 words, approx. 6 pages
The growth of Nick in The Great Gatsby
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Essay Grade: 92%
Boats Against the Current
1,653 words, approx. 6 pages
Essay is about central themes of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby. Provides a detailed analysis of Gatsby. Describes how he acts on his driving will and in this respect he is far more courageous than the most creative and idealistic of dreamers.
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Essay Grade: 78%
The Jazz Age and the Theme of Innocence in "The Great Gatsby"
1,649 words, approx. 6 pages
F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" is essentially a book about the end of innocence. An essay examining whether the book the Great Gatsby is a story about the end of innocence in 1920s America. The elite's lifestyle of decadance is ended by the harsh economic realities that followed.
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Essay Grade: 86%
Gatsby's Lifestyle
1,623 words, approx. 5 pages
A paragraph on each of the following items, his parties, his guest list, his car, and his mansion.
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Essay Grade: 83%
The Great Gatsby Character Comparision
1,584 words, approx. 5 pages
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald expounds on the social classes and mentality of people during the Jazz age of the 1920s. Focusing on similarities and variations in the individuals' circumstances, Fitzgerald shows that behaviors and morals can be drastically altered within a decade. The individual personalities, values, and lifestyles of the characters are significantly unique and exhibited as the characters respond to the incidences of life during that time.
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Essay Grade: 83%
Gatsby Destroys the American Dream
1,541 words, approx. 5 pages
The essay argues that the central theme of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is that the American dream has been destroyed by crass materialism. Plot points and scenes from the book are cited as examples. Gatsby is explored as a tragic figure.
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Essay Grade: 92%
The Role of Location in Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1,529 words, approx. 5 pages
This essay examines the use of locations and their significance in The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald's use of locations established both moral and behavorial trends within the characters and their social groups.
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Essay Grade: 96%
"The Great Gatsby" and the Fall of the American Dream
1,508 words, approx. 5 pages
In "The Great Gatsby," F. Scott Fitzgerald explores the myth and the reality of the "American Dream" and how it has been distorted by wealth, poverty, power, class and racism. Jay Gatsby fails in his diluded attempt to live the "America Dream."
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Essay Grade: 92%
Great Gatsby
1,506 words, approx. 5 pages
the American dream in Gatsby
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Essay Grade: 88%
The Great Gatsby - Loss of the American Dream
1,482 words, approx. 5 pages
This essay is about how Fitzgerald attempts to use Gatsby as a tool to say that the American Dream with its associated positive connotations and values is unrecoverably loss.
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Essay Grade: 93%
Analysis of the Antagonists
1,478 words, approx. 5 pages
Essay provides an analysis of the Antagonists in "The Great Gatsby."
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Essay Grade: 86%
Goal Orientation in The Great Gatsby
1,461 words, approx. 5 pages
In F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby, Gatsby only has one goal in life, to reunite with his love Daisy, and he focuses all his energies towards that goal. When it seems impossible for him to achieve that goal, his world falls apart, leading to the ultimate tragedy of his own death.
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Essay Grade: 86%
Disconcerting Decadence in The Great Gatsby
1,456 words, approx. 5 pages
An analysis of the famous party scene from F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby, in which the narrator Nick first meets the man who gives his namesake to the book and who is known for his extravagant wealth.
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Essay Grade: 91%
Illusions in "The Great Gatsby"
1,455 words, approx. 5 pages
The essay focuses on Fitzgerald's use of illusions throughout the book "The Great Gatsby." Also discusses how reality appeared to have been replaced with unrealistic dreams, ignorant people, corrupt morals, and false perceptions.
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Essay Grade: 96%
The Dream Girl Daisy Buchanan in "The Great Gatsby"
1,431 words, approx. 5 pages
Daisy Buchanan's relationship to the Main Themes of the classic novel, "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Essay Grade: 83%
The Art of Sacrifice in The Great Gatsby
1,424 words, approx. 5 pages
The art of sacrifice is explored with much detail in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby. There are many examples of sacrifice, as Nick sacrifices his principles, Gatsby sacrifices his life for Daisy, Daisy sacrifices Gatsby for her marriage and protection by Tom, and Myrtle sacrifices her marriage for material wealth and status.
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Essay Grade: 92%
People's Lives in "The Great Gatsby" Are Controlled by Money, and Being Wealthy
1,392 words, approx. 5 pages
Essay shows how the lives of people in "The Great Gatsby" are controlled by money.
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Essay Grade: 89%
The Great Gatsby
1,386 words, approx. 5 pages
Shows how "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald is depictive of life in the 1920's.
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Essay Grade: 86%
Art of Sacrifice and the Corruption of the American Dream in 'the Great Gatsby'
1,371 words, approx. 5 pages
`The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald explores the concept of sacrifice as an art in many ways. The novel deals with sacrifice as not simply the destruction of something valued, but for a specific purpose and higher claim, where the gesture is carefully planned out, demonstrating a deep personal understanding by a character. The characters Daisy, Gatsby and Myrtle all show this art of sacrifice and how their actions portray the corruption of the American Dream.
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Essay Grade: 92%
The Great Gatsby: For the Love of Money
1,363 words, approx. 5 pages
Essay discusses the symbols of people and objects in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby."
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Essay Grade: 83%
The Art of Sacrifice in the Great Gatsby
1,362 words, approx. 5 pages
Through the use of techniques such as juxtaposition, imagery and symbolism, Fitzgerald has successfully portrayed the art of sacrifice by showing the various characters' crafted and planned out sacrifices.
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Essay Grade: 96%
Bleakness and Futility in Chapter 2 of "The Great Gatsby"
1,350 words, approx. 5 pages
Imagery, form and structure in the second chapter of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel about the 1920's Jazz Age, "The Great Gatsby."
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Essay Grade: 86%
How the Jazz Age and 1920s America are Portrayed in The Great Gatsby
1,336 words, approx. 5 pages
Explores The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Maintains that it is a bitter, savage satire on the moral failure of the jazz age, which is placed within a perspective of American images of success and American history. Explores Fitzgerald's modernist approach to the novel.
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Essay Grade: 88%
The Great Gatsby - Not A Great American Love Story
1,332 words, approx. 4 pages
Many argue that F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is an example of this "great American love story", but it is not. The Great Gatsby is not a tale about perfect love; it is a tale of love and lust corrupting individuals in their lives, and of an American dream that is never fulfilled. Throughout the story, we follow multiple relationships, but focus is on the single relationship between Gatsby and Daisy. This relationship, however, fails to fulfill many requirements that would make it a true love story, and thus, while some hardship is to be expected, this relationship encounters an excessive amount. To determine if The Great Gatsby is a "great American love story", it is necessary to examine what this ideal actually is, as well as how Gatsby and Daisy fit into the mold, and it quickly becomes apparent that they do not.
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Essay Grade: 90%
The Symbolism of Color in The Great Gatsby
1,331 words, approx. 4 pages
This essay discusses the symbolism of the colors green and gold in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Essay Grade: 86%
The Great Gatsby: Jay's Firm Grip on His Reality
1,321 words, approx. 4 pages
This essay examines F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. It takes two choices of the title character, Jay Gatsby, and examines not only what motivates his choices, but what Nick Carraway thinks of Gatsby's choices.
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Essay Grade: 92%
Analysis of the American Dream and The Great Gatsby
1,315 words, approx. 4 pages
In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, social commentary is presented not only on society of the 1920s, but on civilization as we have come to accept it in America.
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Essay Grade: 88%
The Repetitive Use of Color in the Great Gatsby
1,311 words, approx. 4 pages
Analyzes the Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Discusses the author's use of the color yellow and color in general to make his work flow and connect. Explores how each character in the novel is associated with a color.
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Essay Grade: 88%
The Real James Gatz
1,302 words, approx. 4 pages
A character analysis of Jay Gatsby from the novel "The Great Gatsby" written by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Essay Grade: 83%
Gatsby and Macbeth Parallels
1,301 words, approx. 4 pages
The main characters in both F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and William Shakespeare's Macbeth appear stable and successful on the outside, but inside they are engaged in a constant struggle with their dreams. Gatsby tries to win back the girl of his dreams by becoming something he's not, a member of high society; while Macbeth believes the prediction of the witches that he will be king and spends his life trying to make it come true. Both characters are willing to risk everything in pursuit of their respective dreams, including committing crimes. Both are motivated to take these risks by a woman. And both inevitably suffer premature demises.
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Essay Grade: 75%
Is Gatsby Better?
1,293 words, approx. 4 pages
In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald there is an interesting decision made by a Daisy Buchanan that raises a few concerns. The decision she makes is choosing Tom Buchanan over Jay Gatsby.
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Essay Grade: 92%
The Great Gatsby- What Lies beneath the Conflict between New and Old Money
1,279 words, approx. 4 pages
This essay is on "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott. Fitzgerald and talks about the conflict with old and new money.
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Essay Grade: 86%
Gatsby and the Fall of the American Dream
1,276 words, approx. 4 pages
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby portrays the American dream as a hoax. Protagonist Jay Gatsby's beliefs that money can buy happiness and that he can relive the past inevitably to his downfall.
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Essay Grade: 86%
The Importance of a Wonderland Wasteland to the Great Gatsby
1,269 words, approx. 4 pages
Discusses The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Analyzes the quote "Of what might have been a wonderland we have made a wasteland." Describes how important this idea is to understanding the novel. Also relates the quote to the immorality displayed by characters in the novel.
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Essay Grade: 92%
The Great Gatsby: Old Money Versus New Money
1,264 words, approx. 4 pages
Essay discusses the issue of old versus new money in "The Great Gatsby."
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Essay Grade: 83%
He Told Me (a Father's Word): Authoritative Discourse in the Great Gatsby
1,260 words, approx. 4 pages
Mikhail Bakhtin, in his essay "Discourse in the Novel," characterizes his theory of authoritative discourse as "the word of the fathers," in which previous external knowledge demands a "simultaneously internally persuasive" acknowledgement. In a novel that uses language as a device for uncovering the perceived identity of its protagonist, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby also shows evidence of this same external narration that attempts to achieve discrimination between classes and control the behavior that governs social conduct.
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Essay Grade: 96%
Greed and Materialism in "The Great Gatsby"
1,259 words, approx. 4 pages
the human hubris of greed and materialism riched its height as the U.S. economy roared in the 1920s. The emptiness of this ideology is seen in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby." Nick's idealized perspective of Eastern and Western culture in the United States is a theme that underscores the vacuousness of materialistic culture.
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Essay Grade: 81%
Great Gatsby Film Review
1,251 words, approx. 4 pages
F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel bounds to life on the big screen in Jack Clayton's critically acclaimed 1974 film rendition of The Great Gatsby. However, the majority of the complex themes and character development fail to cross over in the same intensity from the novel to the film. In the novel, the characters are more mysterious and the readers opinions of them change as the plot develops.
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Essay Grade: 91%
The American Dream in the Gatsby
1,244 words, approx. 4 pages
F Scott Fitzgerald's idea of the American Dream and how it is used in his works, particularly, Great Gatsby.
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Essay Grade: 88%
The Great Gatsby: Comparing Gatsby and Tom
1,212 words, approx. 4 pages
Analyzes F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby." Compares the paradoxical characters Jay Gatsby and Tom Buchanan. Examines the conflict between the characters and describes how it affects the plot.
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Essay Grade: 88%
The Great Gatsby
1,211 words, approx. 4 pages
Discusses the novel, "The Great Gatsby," written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. This essay is about Gatsby and his pursuit, since a teenager, of the American dream and of attaining a good name, like that of of Buchanan or Rothschild.
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Essay Grade: 86%
The Great Gatsby and the American Dream
1,204 words, approx. 4 pages
Examines how the American Dream is portrayed in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby.
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Essay Grade: 86%
The Effectiveness of Nick's Narration in The Great Gatsby
1,177 words, approx. 4 pages
Explores the novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Debates the effectiveness of character Nick Carraway's narration of the text. Describes his honesty with himself and towards others. Reveals how it is the maturity he gains throughout the novel that makes him an effective narrator for the book.
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Essay Grade: 86%
Female Characters in the Great Gatsby
1,174 words, approx. 4 pages
Discusses 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Examines why Fitzgerald chooses to filter his female characters through a male perspective. Analyzes Fitzgerald's portrayal of women in the novel, focusing on the character of Daisy.
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Essay Grade: 93%
Great Gatsby and the American Dream
1,172 words, approx. 4 pages
A discussion of F. Scott Fitzgerald and his use of The Great Gatsby to expose the corruption of the American Dream.
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Essay Grade: 81%
The Great Gatsby: Materialism and Excess Leads to Emptiness
1,171 words, approx. 4 pages
In the novel The Great Gatsby, author F. Scott FItzgerald uses symbolism and characterization to portray that through the pursuit of materialism and excess, man will become empty. Both Tom Buchanan and Jay Gatsby misuse their materialism in attempting to provide themselves with the feelings of love.
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Essay Grade: 86%
The Loss of Innocence
1,168 words, approx. 4 pages
Analyzes F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel, The Great Gatsby. Discusses the theme of the loss of innocence. Provides samples from the story to support the theme.
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Essay Grade: 90%
Fake Vs. Real
1,166 words, approx. 4 pages
Literary analysis of "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald and the movie "The Talented Mr. Riply" and the way that they speak to being a fake somebody or a real nobody.
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Essay Grade: 92%
Great Gatsby Commentary on Pages 100-103
1,154 words, approx. 4 pages
Comments on on pages 100-103 of The Great Gatsby, a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Closely explores the details and smaller meanings between pages 100-103 of the book and analyzes the characters and significance of color.
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Essay Grade: 92%
Relationships Between Men and Women in "The Great Gatsby"
1,148 words, approx. 4 pages
The relationships between men and women in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" are destroyed by outside factors such as money and social status. In the setting of the novel, love does not conquer all.
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Essay Grade: 96%
The Great Gatsby- Corruption Due to Weath
1,147 words, approx. 4 pages
In chapter three of The Great Gatsby, details of the parties and details of the people that attend the parties thrown by Jay Gatsby are used to create the illusion of allure and glamour as well as destructiveness and chaos caused by the abundance of wealth.

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Essay Grade: 96%
A Critical Anaalysis of the Great Gatsby
1,146 words, approx. 4 pages
F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" explores profound, timeless themes. They include the discrepancy between Gatsby's dreams and his reality, his futile obsession with wealth to win the love of Daisy, and his quest for the American dream.
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Essay Grade: 88%
Water Imagery in The Great Gatsby
1,127 words, approx. 4 pages
Although not commonly found, water imagery is a significant aspect of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby. The water imagery emphasizes the hopelessness and sadness of the events encompassing Jay Gatsby's life and death, specifically the rain that falls on both his tea party with Daisy and his poorly attended funeral.
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Essay Grade: 90%
The Great Gatsby: the American Dream
1,126 words, approx. 4 pages
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby. The American dream in the novel.
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Essay Grade: 96%
Immortality in "The Great Gatsby"
1,126 words, approx. 4 pages
Essay describes the aspect of immorality in "The Great Gatsby."
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Essay Grade: 92%
Truth and Lies in the Great Gatsby
1,119 words, approx. 4 pages
Discusses The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Examines the lies and corruption which pepper the novel as well as the hidden truths and secrets of major characters.
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Essay Grade: 86%
The Great Gatsby and Pleasantville, A Comparison
1,111 words, approx. 4 pages
Compares the novel 'The Great Gatsby' by F.Scott Fitzgerald with the book 'Pleasantville.' Describes how each work represents the contexts in which they were written and the elective from which they represent. Explores how both highlight the eventual destructive impact having a belief in a `perfect world' has on oneself.
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Essay Grade: 88%
The Great Gatsby - Destructiveness and Decadence in the Party Scene
1,099 words, approx. 4 pages
Discusses the novel, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Examines Fitzgerald's portrayal of the destructiveness and decadence shown throughout the party scene. Provides supporting evidence from the text.
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Essay Grade: 96%
Unconditional Love in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1,090 words, approx. 4 pages
This is an essay that attempts to define love using Jay Gatsby as an example. It also outlines the theme of human relationships in the novel.
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Essay Grade: 87%
Nick Carraway
1,087 words, approx. 4 pages
Provides a character analysis of Nick Carraway from "The Great Gatsby."
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Essay Grade: 78%
The Consequences of Obsession over Money in The Great Gatsby
1,086 words, approx. 4 pages
Values are lost as easily as money is gained. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the characters' deep obsession over money and power leads them to corruption, loss of values, and unhappiness. This is exemplified with the characters Daisy and Gatsby, as well as with Tom and Myrtle.
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Essay Grade: 93%
Time in "The Great Gatsby"
1,081 words, approx. 4 pages
Essay discusses the topic of "time" in Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby."
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Essay Grade: 83%
Contrast of Jay and Tom in The Great Gatsby
1,073 words, approx. 4 pages
Jay Gatsby and Tom Buchanan share many similarities in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby, However, the differences between them determined the outcome of their battle for Daisy's heart. Tom won Daisy in the end because he was more financially stable and he and Daisy were already married to each other.
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Essay Grade: 96%
Colour Imagery in The Great Gatsby
1,070 words, approx. 4 pages
F. Scott Fitzgerald uses color imagery in his novel The Great Gatsby to illuminate his themes, especially character development. Examples include green respresenting youth and hope, white suggesting innocence, and grey representing hopelessness.
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Essay Grade: 93%
Evils and Symbolism in The Great Gatsby
1,070 words, approx. 4 pages
This is a symbolism essay about The Great Gatsby. There are forms of symbolism in this novel that portray the desperation, impurity, and sin that fill the lives of many characters in this novel
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Essay Grade: 92%
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby: the Negative Affect of Obsessions
1,069 words, approx. 4 pages
An essay examining how obession can eventually lead to a characters downfall as in "The Great Gatsby."
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Essay Grade: 90%
The Lost Dream of the "Lost Generation"
1,067 words, approx. 4 pages
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald & The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock by T.S. Eliot.
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Essay Grade: 83%
The 1920s from F. Scott Fitzgerald's Perspective
1,050 words, approx. 4 pages
Discusses how American author F. Scott Fitzgerald depicted the 1920s culture through his novel, The Great Gatsby. Summarizes the novel and analyzes Fitzgerald's portrayal of women during the 1920s.
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Essay Grade: 92%
Love's Demeaning Power
1,039 words, approx. 4 pages
It is about the character of Jay Gatsby and how his dream corrupts him. It is a character analysis.
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Essay Grade: 92%
Unchanging Values in Changing Society
1,037 words, approx. 4 pages
Essay shows how there are unchanging values in a changing society in the novel "The Great Gatsby."
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Essay Grade: 88%
The Great Gatsby: Gatsby's Dream
1,037 words, approx. 4 pages
Analyzes the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Explains the importance of Gatsby's dream and describes what he did to try to achieve it. Discusses the character of Daisy.
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Essay Grade: 78%
Daisy's Rejection of Gatsby
1,035 words, approx. 4 pages
In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, the title character blindly follows his desire for Daisy Buchanan, never realizing that he will never attain the transcendental love he seeks. Throughout the novel, Fitzgerald uses foreshadowing to prepare the reader for Daisy's complete rejection of Gatsby, which culminates with her failure to attend his funeral.
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Essay Grade: 96%
The Great Gatsby: Discovery of Imagination
1,017 words, approx. 3 pages
The title character of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" is a man of nearly limitless joy produced by his imagination. Even his obsessive love for Daisy can quash his dreams, no matter how unobtainable.
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Essay Grade: 92%
Symbols of Corruption in "The Great Gatsby"
1,016 words, approx. 3 pages
The green light, Daisy's pearls, the eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg, and death represent the corruption of the American Dream through social inequalities and greed in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby."
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Essay Grade: 86%
Corruption Ultimately Leads in Destruction
1,010 words, approx. 3 pages
Fitzgerald has used The Great Gatsby to show that possession of immoral goals, only leads to misfortune. In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby's immense love of wealth causes more hardship for him, than good.
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Essay Grade: 96%
Meyer Wolfsheim in "The Great Gatsby"
1,007 words, approx. 3 pages
In F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," Meyer Wolfshiem is a minor character, but an important one. He stands as a symbol of all that was wrong with the corruption and greed of the 1920s and served as Jay Gatsby's father figure.
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Essay Grade: 95%
The Great Gatsby
1,005 words, approx. 3 pages
This essay deals with different characters in the novel, "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, who are careless. It shows how their wealth in society affects their lives and others.
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Essay Grade: 90%
Use of Money in Great Gatsby
993 words, approx. 3 pages
Essay discusses the use of money in "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Essay Grade: 86%
Science and Essentialism
990 words, approx. 3 pages
Examines Science and Essentialism. Defines what it is and how it relates to the books The Great Gatsby and Pudd'n Head Wislon.
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Essay Grade: 88%
Gatsby's Dream
990 words, approx. 3 pages
Explores themes from the F. Scott Fitzgerald classic novel, "The Great Gatsby." This critical essay examines how Jay Gatsby's naive and unwavering dream - to recreate his past with Daisy - shapes the plot and final outcome of the story.
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Essay Grade: 87%
Great Gatsby Vs. Searching for the Good Life
988 words, approx. 3 pages
Essay is about the main character Jay Gatsby in "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Essay Grade: 86%
Ghastly Gatsby
981 words, approx. 3 pages
Discusses F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby." Provides a character analysis of Jay Gatsby, weighing the question of whether he is good or evil.
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Essay Grade: 91%
Symbolic Representation in The Great Gatsby
979 words, approx. 3 pages
The assignment was to choose a novel that I have read in high school and discuss a literary device that is used in the novel.  I chose The Great Gatsby.  It was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald.  I chose to do symbolism and talk about what each character in the novel represents.  I was hoping to get some feedback about where in my paper I should add more references to the book, and what parts of my essay need the most work.
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Essay Grade: 88%
Symbolism in "The Great Gatsby"
975 words, approx. 3 pages
Essay discusses the symbolism in "The Great Gatsby."
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Essay Grade: 85%
Nothing Has Changed
970 words, approx. 3 pages
An essay about the American culture in the Great Gatsby compared to today.
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Essay Grade: 86%
The Great Gatsby, Comparing the Film and Text
968 words, approx. 3 pages
Compares and contrasts the film and text versions of F.Scott Fitzgerald's classic, The Great Gatsby. Describes how although the two works are similar; there are subtle differences that detract from the reader's interpretation of the novel and its characters. Focuses on differences in color symbolism as well as the addition and deletion of scenes.
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Essay Grade: 92%
The Glorious Life of the Great Gatsby
948 words, approx. 3 pages
Discusses the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, The Great Gatsby. Analyzes a quote by Fitzgerald concerning the loss of illusion his characters face in the story. Describes how the main characters are faced with intense realizations when they finally recognize that their illusions were false.
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Essay Grade: 86%
Homosexuality in the Great Gatsby
936 words, approx. 3 pages
This essay explores evidence in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby pointing toward character Nick Carraway's homosexuality. Concludes that narrator Nick Carraway is a closeted homosexual by Nick's description of and attraction to Jordan Baker, his evening with Mr. McKee, and his slight obsession with Gatsby.
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Essay Grade: 92%
Symbolism in "The Great Gatsby"
923 words, approx. 3 pages
The powerful symbolism in "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald adds power and depth to the narrative. Key symbolic meanings lie in the differences between West Egg and East Egg, the Valley of Ashes, the dock's green light, and Doctor Eckleburg's huge blue eyes.
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Essay Grade: 98%
Dishonest Relationships in "The Great Gatsby"
913 words, approx. 3 pages
Relationships based upon dishonesty and appearances abound in F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel, "The Great Gatsby." The author presents the dark side of the 1920's "Jazz Age."
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Essay Grade: 87%
The Great Gatsby Character Analysis
907 words, approx. 3 pages
A character analysis of the book "The Great Gatsby" By F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Essay Grade: 88%
Major Themes in The Great Gatsby
904 words, approx. 3 pages
Explores major themes from the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, The Great Gatsby. Summarizes the story. Analyzes the characters of Daisy and Tom.
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Essay Grade: 88%
Causes of Gatsby's Death in "The Great Gatsby"
903 words, approx. 3 pages
The death of Jay Gatz in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" was caused by Gatz himself through his lies, his pretentious lifestyle, and his obsessive love for Daisy Buchanan.
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Essay Grade: 86%
The Great Gatsby from Nick's Viewpoint
898 words, approx. 3 pages
An overview of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby from the point of view of the charecter Nick Carraway. Nick is trustworthy as the narrator of the story because of his tolerance, openmindedness, and ability to listen.
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Essay Grade: 81%
Upper-Class Corruption in "The Great Gatsby"
897 words, approx. 3 pages
F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" explores the corruption and decadence of the upper class in 1920's American society. The upper class is portrayed as shallow, materialistic and violent.
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Essay Grade: 83%
How Is Gatsby Great
891 words, approx. 3 pages
The Great Gatsby, by F Scott Fitzgerald. Explores the idea of how gatsby is great and the limitations of that greatness.
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Essay Grade: 88%
A Clock, a Shirt, and a Light: Important Symbols in The Great Gatsby
888 words, approx. 3 pages
In Chapter Five of his classic novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald intricately weaves clocks, shirts, and peculiar green lights into his description of the first reunion between Daisy and Gatsby. Although these items have little true connection with one another, all three symbolize the impossibility of a romance between Daisy and Gatsby, and all essentially seal the fate between the star-crossed lovers. Fitzgerald is able through these symbols to provide a far deeper interpretation of this grim situation.
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Essay Grade: 86%
The Great Gatsby: The Horrors of His Society
886 words, approx. 3 pages
Analyzes a passage from 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Explores how through this passage Fitzgerald conveys the horrors of his society. Discusses his use of corrupt images, brutal reality and the detailed use of language and syntax.
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Essay Grade: 92%
The Great Gatsby
875 words, approx. 3 pages
An analysis of the characters in the Great Gatsby and if they have pure intentions.
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Essay Grade: 94%
The Failure of the American Dream
864 words, approx. 3 pages
Essay shows how F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" and Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" portray the fall of the "American Dream."
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Essay Grade: 86%
Great Gatsby
863 words, approx. 3 pages
In his book, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald brings together a life of ambition and dreams with a life of jealousy and arrogance. Each of the main characters face many external and internal battles throughout the story which lead to their immoral behavior.
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Essay Grade: 92%
The Inequity of the Relationship between Gatsby and Daisy
862 words, approx. 3 pages
In F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," his life turned tragic in his pursuit of Daisy because his dreams of romantic love were not share by her.
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Essay Grade: 86%
The Great Gatsby: Nick and Daisy's First Meeting
858 words, approx. 3 pages
Analyzes The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Discusses specifically the first meeting between Nick and Daisy. Explores the character of Nick and reveals why he finds Daisy's world deeply disturbing. Explains how their first meeting reveals this.
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Essay Grade: 83%
For Love or for Money
858 words, approx. 3 pages
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is about Daisy's love fore the things in her life and how the only thing she can love is money.
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Essay Grade: 86%
East and West: Eggs from Separate Baskets
850 words, approx. 3 pages
In a world without morality and where one's drive for wealth may take them over dishonest roads, social standing is something that, surprisingly, cannot be bought with money. The 1920's novel ¬The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, does a spectacular job of showing many issues of the "Roaring Twenties."
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Essay Grade: 78%
The Great Gatsby
849 words, approx. 3 pages
In the great Gatsby, the American dream at this point in time was to have love, power and money. Gatsby didn't see that the dream had been corrupt.
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Essay Grade: 86%
Nick's Alienation in The Great Gatsby
847 words, approx. 3 pages
In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nick Carraway is alienated by class, creed, and gender. This essay explores how society creates its own rules and boundaries to define its citizens.
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Essay Grade: 93%
The Great Gatsby
846 words, approx. 3 pages
George Wilson is the delineation of the true American Dream
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Essay Grade: 92%
Pandemonium in "The Great Gatsby"
838 words, approx. 3 pages
A cause and effect essay that portrays the roaring twenties in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby."
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Essay Grade: 83%
The Great Gatsby
838 words, approx. 3 pages
In The Great Gatsby, Daisy uses money to show arrogance and perfection, but Gatsby uses money to win nothing more than Daisy's heart. Above all, what Gatsby lacks to understand is that Daisy is no more willing to sacrifice her belief than her life to make Gatsby's dream successful. In The Great Gatsby, by Fitzgerald, Gatsby has a hard time socializing with Daisy due to her strange personality, which shatters Gatsby's dream.
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Essay Grade: 96%
The Equality Myth
832 words, approx. 3 pages
The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald is as much a novel about social hierarchy as it is about class-consciousness. Throughout the novel we are bombarded with images of extravagant wealth and shuddering pauperism with the elite upper class using those around them as stepping-stones to their own selfish happiness.
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Essay Grade: 88%
The Great Gatsby: What Drives Miss Daisy?
827 words, approx. 3 pages
Explores the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Analyzes the character Daisy Buchanan. Explains her rejection of Gatsby.
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Essay Grade: 91%
Symbolism in The Great Gatsby
825 words, approx. 3 pages
Discusses how Fitzgerald uses his characters to help prove that the american dream is corrupt. Also evaluates Symbolism in The Great Gatsby.
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Essay Grade: 88%
Materialism in "The Great Gatsby"
825 words, approx. 3 pages
The emptiness of materialism is express through the main characters in "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tom and Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby all place their desires into material possessions.
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Essay Grade: 86%
The Great Gatsby
821 words, approx. 3 pages
Examines F. Scott Fitzgerald's use of literary devices in his novel, 'The Great Gatsby'. Analyzes the significance of the green light in Gatsby's dream.
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Essay Grade: 86%
Fitzgerald and Gatsby
817 words, approx. 3 pages
Analyzes The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Examines Nick's comment in Myrtle's flat, `I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.' Explains how the quote could equally well apply to Fitzgerald.
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Essay Grade: 96%
Importance of Money in "The Great Gatsby"
812 words, approx. 3 pages
This essay describes the importance of money in Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby."
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Essay Grade: 90%
Houses in "The Great Gatsby"
806 words, approx. 3 pages
F. Scott Fitzgerald uses houses to depict the lives of characters in his book "The Great Gatsby."
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Essay Grade: 96%
Pure Examples of the Great Gatsby's American Dream
796 words, approx. 3 pages
Essay gives a portrayal of the "American Dream" in "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Essay Grade: 86%
Characterization in The Great Gatsby
787 words, approx. 3 pages
Discusses the novel The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Describes Fitzgerald's characterization of Myrtle and Nick.
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Essay Grade: 92%
Significance of the Setting in Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby"
786 words, approx. 3 pages
This essay investigates both the physical and symbolic values of the setting in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby."
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Essay Grade: 88%
The True Hero
784 words, approx. 3 pages
Essay provides an analysis of "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Essay Grade: 86%
The Great Gatsby
779 words, approx. 3 pages
What makes F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby such a distinctive story? Fitzgerald successfully satirized the corrupt nature of and lack of spirituality in American society following World War I; captured the failure of the American dream, as Jay Gatsby's hard work and determination failed to earn him the prosperity he desired, which was the love of Daisy; and displayed Gatsby's incapability of distinguishing between illusion and reality.
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Essay Grade: 88%
Death and Destruction in the Great Gatsby
778 words, approx. 3 pages
Discusses The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Examines the theme death and destrustion. Describes how much of the conflict in the novel is caused by Gatsby himself.
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Essay Grade: 90%
A Literature Analysis of "The Great Gatsby"
774 words, approx. 3 pages
Essay provides a literature analysis of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby."
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Essay Grade: 89%
The American Scheme
773 words, approx. 3 pages
Analyzes the American Dream, as a reality or a fictitious daydream, as described in "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Essay Grade: 86%
The Great Gatsby Essay
769 words, approx. 3 pages
Analyzes The Great Gatsby, a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Explores how Fitzgerald caricatures the American dream and many aspects of modern life. Examines the theme that wealth can have a corrupting effect.
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Essay Grade: 93%
"The Great Gatsby Bliss"
767 words, approx. 3 pages
"The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald: Discussion on the statement, "Ignorance is bliss."
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Essay Grade: 83%
American Society as Portrayed in The Great Gatsby
761 words, approx. 3 pages
Critics say that through his novel The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald both criticizes and praises American society as it was lived during the Jazz Age. He uses the examples of people's greed and artificial personality, excessive drinking, and Gatsby's lengthy parties to condemn American society. He also uses Gatsby's dream of being successful, Nick's withholding of judgment, and Gatsby's love for Daisy to praise American society.
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Essay Grade: 88%
Ambivalence in the Great Gatsby
745 words, approx. 3 pages
Essay talks about the ambivalence inspired by Jay Gatsby in "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Essay Grade: 81%
Relationships in The Great Gatsby
745 words, approx. 3 pages
The various relationships that F. Scott Fitzgerald depicted in his novel The Great Gatsby symbolize the materialism and hedonism prevalent in 1920s American society. The relationships are marked by trouble, infidelity, and eventually sorrow among all the individuals involved.
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Essay Grade: 92%
Identities Shaped by Materialism
745 words, approx. 3 pages
About how materialism affects the 3 of the main characters in the book "The Great Gatsby"
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Essay Grade: 92%
F. Scott Fitzgerald and His Complex, Descriptive Writing Style
740 words, approx. 3 pages
One of the most well-known authors of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgerald based his fictitious writings on his own wild, tragic life experiences and struggles. His most renowned work, The Great Gatsby, reveals more than what appears on the surface; in it, Fitzgerald exposed what he saw as the flaws of the "American Dream" and how it led to self-indulgence, greed, and ultimately disillusionment and self-destruction.
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Essay Grade: 86%
How the Reader Assess the Person of Jay Gatsby
740 words, approx. 3 pages
F. Scott Fitzgerald makes a profound statement about "the American dream" through Gatsby's inability to reach a further, higher social status. Jay Gatsby is a man on the path of success and this path should lead him to the top of society, in other words, "the American dream."
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Essay Grade: 83%
Tom's Women
740 words, approx. 3 pages
In the Great Gatsby, Tom Buchanan has two women. He is married to Daisy but has a prolonging affair with Myrtle. Myrtle is also married. Her husband is George Wilson. After just reading the book, one would think that Daisy and Myrtle have no similarities, but if they look further and analyze the symbolism and motives of the two they will see the underling similarities.
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Essay Grade: 86%
The Dream of Jay Gatsby
738 words, approx. 3 pages
Essay provides a discussion regarding the dream of Jay Gatsby.
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Essay Grade: 86%
The Great Gatsby Literary Criticism
733 words, approx. 2 pages
Provides literary criticism of the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, The Great Gatsby. Discusses key themes, including materialism and shallowness in the characters, all to achieve "The American Dream."
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Essay Grade: 86%
The Contrast Between East Egg and West Egg in "The Great Gatsby"
722 words, approx. 2 pages
In "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the differences between the towns of East Egg and West Egg are about social standing and money. This becomes symbolic for how the characters in each town behave.
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Essay Grade: 86%
The Great Gatsby and Pleasantville: Compare and Contrast
720 words, approx. 2 pages
Compares and contrasts F. Scott Fitzgerald's book The Great Gatsby and Gary Ross's movie Pleasantville . Describes how both works illustrate that when people become obsessed on a certain object, or dream in this instance, it can become a blinding fixation that does not always have a positive outcome.
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Essay Grade: 86%
Great Gatsby - the Corruption of the American Dream
719 words, approx. 2 pages
Examines F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby. Discusses its major theme, the corruption of the American Dream. Describes how the characters' failure to realize that wealth does not bring happiness brings about self-destruction.
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Essay Grade: 87%
Similarities between Fitzgerald and His Character, Jay Gatsby.
714 words, approx. 2 pages
Explores similarities between author, Fitzgerald, and his character, Gatsby, in The Great Gatsby.
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Essay Grade: 86%
Great Gatsby Analysis
710 words, approx. 2 pages
Discusses the F. Scott Fitzgerald classic novel, The Great Gatsby. Explores the significance of the novel's title details why the title should not be called that for three main reasons.
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Essay Grade: 86%
The Great Gatsby and Catcher in the Rye: Incorruptible Dreams
697 words, approx. 2 pages
Analyzes the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, The Great Gatsby. Compares similar romantic ideals found in characters Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby to those found in Holden Caulfield in the novel The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger.
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Essay Grade: 86%
The Material World of Gatsby
696 words, approx. 2 pages
Discusses the novel The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Describes how in the novel a fine line is drawn between the corrupting influence of wealth and the purity of a dream. Concludes that human qualities such as love and kindness have been overridden by the desire of materialism.
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Essay Grade: 96%
Daisy as Symbolic of the "American Dream" in "The Great Gatsby"
695 words, approx. 2 pages
In "The Great Gatsby," F. Scott Fitzgerald depicts the "American Dream" as a myth that people use to escape their status quo realities. For Jay Gatsby, the obsessive pursuit of Daisy Buchanan was his "American Dream."
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Essay Grade: 86%
"Love of Money is the Root of All Evil"
695 words, approx. 2 pages
Its basically relating greed to the novel "The Great Gatsby" F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Essay Grade: 88%
Fitzgerald's American Dream
692 words, approx. 2 pages
Analyzes F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby. Describes the symbolism Fitzgerald uses in his characters to refer to the American Dream.
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Essay Grade: 90%
Gossip and Rumors
686 words, approx. 2 pages
This essay provides information on the hidden qualities of Jay Gatsby in "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Essay Grade: 86%
A Comparison of "the Great Gastby" Film and Novel
683 words, approx. 2 pages
Compares The Great Gatsby's film and literary versions. Discusses the significant events added to the film version that were absent from the novel. Explores how those events created a different story from the novel.
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Essay Grade: 78%
The Great Gatsby Key Passage Analysis
683 words, approx. 2 pages
Fitzgerald idolizes Gatsby yn a particular passage with god-like references and heroic references to portray his tone, through his diction demonstrates a longing for the past, and establishes Gatsby's destiny as undeserving, which sets the reader up for the rest of the novel.
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Essay Grade: 83%
Materialism in "The Great Gatsby"
682 words, approx. 2 pages
In F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," Daisy Buchanan chooses to live a safe and secure life with Tom instead of with her true love, Jay Gatsby. In the end, this greed corrupts Tom and Daisy's souls.
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Essay Grade: 88%
The Eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleberg in The Great Gatsby
680 words, approx. 2 pages
The eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleberg in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby are revealed throughout several parts of the novel, performing different actions each time. The eyes are seen in different places, symbolize different meanings, and show us that somebody is always looking down on you no matter what happens.
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Essay Grade: 78%
The Dream Essay
678 words, approx. 2 pages
F. Scott Fitzgerald refers to many dreams of wealth and social status of Jay Gatsby, the protagonist in this work of fiction, during his writing of The Great Gatsby
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Essay Grade: 88%
The American Illusion
673 words, approx. 2 pages
Both F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby and the movie Pleasantville address the glorification of the American dream and the quest for a perfect life. Jay Gatsby and David share a desire for what they perceive as the perfect world; for Gatsby, it is wealth, status, and love while for David, it is happiness, stability, and wholesomeness. While both characters encounter different fates, they nevertheless show how the need for perfection can pervert one's dreams.
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Essay Grade: 86%
The Reality of the American Dream
668 words, approx. 2 pages
Considers how many young Americans relate the combination of wealth, success, and love to the American Dream. References the Great Gatsby. Promotes a different type of American dream.
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Essay Grade: 88%
The 1920's in the Great Gatsby
668 words, approx. 2 pages
The symbolism in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby reflects the lifestyle of upper class American society during the 1920s. Through this symbolism, Fitzgerald described what he saw as the fading away of the American dream, as social and moral values decay, individuals engage in an empty pursuit of pleasure and money, and carelessness and ultimately self-destruction ensue.
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Essay Grade: 92%
American Materalism in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Te
663 words, approx. 2 pages
The Iranian Revolution was a dream of the Iranian people to break the growing class barrier between the rich and poor and to replace a decadent pro-western culture with a purer Islamic state that dedicates "man to a holy life." When the revolution began, the dream of a much freer and better Iran began, but this dream was an obsession by the majority of the people that would not be actualized. This is very similar to the dream as represented in Gatsby, in the book The Great Gatsby, where he is obsessed with the similarly impossible dream of acquiring Daisy. In the book, Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi shows the similarities of the Iranian dream and Gatsby's dream in relation to their obsession and equal consequence.
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Essay Grade: 96%
The Moral Decay of the American Dream in "The Great Gatsby"
657 words, approx. 2 pages
F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" is a commentary on the disintegration of the American Dream in the 1920s. Many Americans became materialistic and careless in post-World War I America. Fitzgerald symbolizes this with his description of the "Valley of Ashes."
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Essay Grade: 92%
Silence Is Golden, or Is It?
654 words, approx. 2 pages
This is a research essay on The Great Gatsby with the topic "Silence is Golden."
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Essay Grade: 86%
Shipping News and the Great Gatsby: An Analysis
651 words, approx. 2 pages
Compares and contrasts Nutbeem's party in "The Shipping News" with an excerpt about a party in the novel "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Details how in both cases, nothing goes as planned.
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Essay Grade: 88%
The Great Gatsby Summary
646 words, approx. 2 pages
Essay provides a summary of "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Essay Grade: 86%
Moral Carelessness
642 words, approx. 2 pages
The novel "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald supports the quote "The quest for materialism/wealth often makes people morally careless." Through the use of many different literary devices and techniques, Fitzgerald proves the above thesis to be true. Out of all of these literary devices that support the quote, the one that most endorses the quote is symbolism. Also close behind symbolism is characterization and setting.
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Essay Grade: 75%
F. Scott Fitzgerald Seen in His Charcter Jay Gatsby
626 words, approx. 2 pages
The distinct similarities between F. Scott Fitzgerald and Jay Gatsby are very easy to see throughout the novel The Great Gatsby. F. Scott is widely known for putting his everyday life into his novels.
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Essay Grade: 86%
Corruption of the American Dream
623 words, approx. 2 pages
The Great Gatsby, depicts the corruption of the American society in the 1920's and reveals that Gatsby is not free from the bindings of social classes. Gatsby is discriminated against by many of the "old money".
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Essay Grade: 92%
Great Gatsby Themes
619 words, approx. 2 pages
The many hidden themes in the book The Great Gatsby
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Essay Grade: 75%
Diction and Detail in the Great Gatsby
616 words, approx. 2 pages
During a defining moment between two lovers in The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses one of Gatsby's memories of Daisy to display the bitter sweetness of Gatsby's feelings and to emphasize how a person's dreams mold that person into what they will become and strive for in the future.
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Essay Grade: 93%
The Great Gatsby Analysis
610 words, approx. 2 pages
This essay is a brief analysis of the literary devices used throughout the novel.
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Essay Grade: 86%
Symbolism in "The Great Gatsby"
607 words, approx. 2 pages
Discusses the use of symbolism in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby".
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Essay Grade: 86%
The Emptyness of Wealth in "The Great Gatsby"
602 words, approx. 2 pages
Despite their wealth, money does not bring happiness to certain characters, such as Gatsby, Daisy and Tom, in F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel, "The Great Gatsby."
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Essay Grade: 92%
The Great Gatsby
594 words, approx. 2 pages
Essay provides an analysis of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby."
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Essay Grade: 86%
The Great Gatsby: Comparing Tom and Daisy
579 words, approx. 2 pages
Reviews The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Examines shared characteristics between characters Tom and Daisy. Details how the characters reflect modernist theory.
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Essay Grade: 75%
The American Dream as Thematic Material for "The Great Gatsby"
571 words, approx. 2 pages
How the "American Dream" is prevalent in the classic novel, "The Great Gatsby," by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Essay Grade: 83%
The Great Gatsby Essay
570 words, approx. 2 pages
Analyzes the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, The Great Gatsby. Discusses Fitzgerald's use of water as a symbol to represent the reality which interferes with Gatsby's stubborn pursuit of his dream.
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Essay Grade: 92%
Happiness in "The Great Gatsby"
568 words, approx. 2 pages
Discusses the theme of happiness and how different characters of "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald obtain it.
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Essay Grade: 90%
Jay Gatsby
561 words, approx. 2 pages
About the main character Jay Gatsby, of The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Essay Grade: 92%
Materialism is the Ruin of the American Dream in "The Great Gatsby"
552 words, approx. 2 pages
Explains how materialism ruins the "American Dream" in "The Great Gatsby."
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Essay Grade: 92%
The Great Gatsby
552 words, approx. 2 pages
When F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby, his thoughts and ideas originated from the problems in his own society and even in his own life. Each character's life, actions, and ideals issue forth from the many flaws that Fitzgerald saw in his own life and time.
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Essay Grade: 81%
The Great Gatsby
552 words, approx. 2 pages
A summary and short review of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby. Thiw novel conveys the human tendency to be self-conscious and to hide emotions by putting up a good front. Except for Nick Carraway, however, the characters possess challenging emotional problems that reveal themselves during the course of the story.
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Essay Grade: 81%
Similarities between Daisy and Judy in The Great Gatsby and Winter Dreams
544 words, approx. 2 pages
In Winter Dreams and The Great Gatsby, heroines Daisy Buchanan and Judy Jones have many similarities. Beauty, wealth and shallowness are some traits they share. This essay compares and contracts the two characters.
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Essay Grade: 96%
A Hypothetical Dream Sequence in "The Great Gatsby"
530 words, approx. 2 pages
The author's idea of a dream sequence involving F. Scott Fitzgerald's characters Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby in "The Great Gatsby." The dream illustrates that Daisy is fickle and superficial.
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Essay Grade: 86%
Gatsby Unclothed
524 words, approx. 2 pages
Essay explains why "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays American romanticism.
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Essay Grade: 83%
Richard Corey and The Great Gatsby, a Comparison
521 words, approx. 2 pages
Compares the Poem Richard Cory written by Edwin Arlington Robinson to the novel, The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgreald. Describes similar themes in each work, including the chasing of the elusive American Dream.
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Essay Grade: 81%
The Great Gatsby and Turn of the Screw: A Comparison
501 words, approx. 2 pages
Compares and contrasts Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" and James's "The Turn of the Screw." Examines common themes and symbolism. Observes how major characters reflect their surroundings.
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Essay Grade: 83%
The Great Gatsby: The Arrogance of Tom Buchanan
500 words, approx. 2 pages
Discusses the F. Scott Fitzgerald classic, The Great Gatsby. Provides a character analysis of Tom Buchanan. Describes how his arrogance is revealed though his interactions with characters, the attitudes he demonstrates, his statements regarding supremacy, his infidelity, and his controlling persona.
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Essay Grade: 83%
The Great Gatsby: New York as an American Dream
499 words, approx. 2 pages
Examines the F. Scott Fitgerald novel, The Great Gatsby. Discusses how the setting of New York is personified as the American Dream.
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Essay Grade: 85%
Symbolism Within The Great Gatsby
496 words, approx. 2 pages
Symbolism within the Great Gatsby, with emphasis on the color scheme used by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Essay Grade: 83%
A Character Analysis of Gatsby
496 words, approx. 2 pages
In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby is driven, deceitful, driven, concealing, and untruthful. His version of the American Dream is distorted. Specific scenes are analyzed to exemplify these points.
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Essay Grade: 89%
Hallow Wealth
489 words, approx. 2 pages
Essay discusses the wealth described in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby."
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Essay Grade: 83%
False Illusion of Greatness in the Great Gatsby
485 words, approx. 2 pages
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, illustrates a wealthy gentleman by the name of Gatsby who achieves greatness through his desire and determination to win over the love of his life, Daisy. Everything from Gatsby's wealth to his background was an illusion of significance. His desire for Daisy led him to create a character who supposedly possessed greatness. He lived under the false pretenses of being wealthy.
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Essay Grade: 83%
Nick in "The Great Gatsby": The Curse of Knowing
484 words, approx. 2 pages
In F. Scott Fizgerald's "The Great Gatsby," the character of Nick is important, because he can clearly see human nature and its foibles, unlike the other characters. Fitzgerald describes him as "... privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men."
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Essay Grade: 92%
The Great Gatsby
483 words, approx. 2 pages
Essay discusses how social classes are represented in "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Essay Grade: 83%
Symbolism in The Great Gatsby
483 words, approx. 2 pages
Discusses F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel, The Great Gatsby. Explains symbolism in The Great Gatsby. Describes how the use of symbolism helps enhance the readers understanding in the novel.
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Essay Grade: 89%
Gatsby Vs. Pechorin Essay
478 words, approx. 2 pages
Essay compares Gatsby of "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Pechorin of "Hero of Our Time" by Mikail Lemantov.
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Essay Grade: 92%
The Superficial Wealth Motif in "The Great Gatsby"
472 words, approx. 2 pages
This essay examines superficial social classes in "The Great Gatsby."
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Essay Grade: 78%
Great Gatsby, East Egg Vs. West Egg
468 words, approx. 2 pages
In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerarld the division between the "newly" rich and the "old" rich can be described as East Eggers vs West Eggers.
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Essay Grade: 75%
The Great Gatsby
467 words, approx. 2 pages
Gatsby and Nick Carraway have very few similarities they are pretty much opposite. Gatsby is flashy and extravagant as Nick is quiet and down to earth.
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Essay Grade: 92%
Decline of the American Dream in "The Great Gatsby"
466 words, approx. 2 pages
F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" focuses on the 1920's and the decline of the American dream in "The Great Gatsby."
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Essay Grade: 88%
Character Evaluations in the Beginning Chapters of "The Great Gatsby"
460 words, approx. 2 pages
Essay provides character evaluations in the beginning chapters of "The Great Gatsby."
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Essay Grade: 83%
Aspects of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Life Found in The Great Gatsby
457 words, approx. 2 pages
F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby includes certain events and characters that are similar to those Fitzgerald encountered in his own life experience.
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Essay Grade: 86%
Nick Carraway
453 words, approx. 2 pages
Nick Carraway as a objective narrator
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Essay Grade: 92%
The Great Gatsby
431 words, approx. 1 pages
Essay discusses the meaning of life, as represented in "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Essay Grade: 92%
Three Principles of Existentialism in The Great Gatsby
426 words, approx. 1 pages
While it is argued that F. Scott Fitzgerald emulated Shakespeare in his novel The Great Gatsby through his incorporation of tragic character flaws, his incorporation of existentialist ideas is much more apparent. The character Jay Gatsby embodies three main principles of existentialism: Gatsby is the brave, nonconformist individual combatting absurdity and inhumanity; he created a second life for himself in order to win Daisy's love; and he preserved his separateness as an emblem of his independence.
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Essay Grade: 83%
Party People: The Great Gatsby
410 words, approx. 1 pages
Explores the novel, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Focuses on Nick's description of Gatsby's parties. Considers the symbolism of the parties and the people who attend them.
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Essay Grade: 88%
The Withering of the American Dream in "The Great Gatsby"
404 words, approx. 1 pages
Analysis of how the American Dream is shown fading away in the book "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Essay Grade: 88%
Color in "The Great Gatsby"
402 words, approx. 1 pages
Essay describes the weather and mood in "The Great Gatsby."
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Essay Grade: 81%
A Relationship between Jay Gatsby and His Promises
402 words, approx. 1 pages
One of the themes, a promise that produces nothing, is used throughout the whole novel. The theme is illustrated by Jay Gatsby's character as well as the idea of friends without friendship.
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Essay Grade: 90%
The American Dream as Symbolized in "The Great Gatsby"
400 words, approx. 1 pages
Essay provides a discussion of the novel "The Great Gatsby" by Scott F. Fitzgerald.
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Essay Grade: 86%
The Eyes of Dr. Eckleburg
394 words, approx. 1 pages
Essay is about the eyes of Dr. Eckleburg in "The Great Gatsby" and why it was so significant in the novel.
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Essay Grade: 83%
American Adam in Huck Finn and Great Gatsby
381 words, approx. 1 pages
Describes how the archetype of the American Adam is displayed through the characters and other symbols in the novels Huckleberry Finn and the Great Gatsby.
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Essay Grade: 83%
Great Gatsby Exegesis
381 words, approx. 1 pages
Exegesis on the Great Gatsby
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Essay Grade: 88%
Explication of the Passage from "The Great Gatsby"
380 words, approx. 1 pages
Explication of last two paragraphs in the book "The Great Gatsby" and their relation to the entire book.
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Essay Grade: 88%
The Lost Fitzgerald
380 words, approx. 1 pages
Many similarities exist between F. Scott Fitzgerald and his character Jay Gatsby in Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby. Both Fitzgerald and Gatsby were lonely men living the romantic, party-filled life of "The Lost Generation," and their irresponsibility led to the premature downfalls of both.
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Essay Grade: 83%
Class and Dreams: The Great Gatsby
379 words, approx. 1 pages
Explores the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, "The Great Gatsby." Analyzes Fitzgerald's portrayal of class differences in America as well as the pursuit of the American Dream.
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Essay Grade: 79%
"The Great Gatsby"
370 words, approx. 1 pages
Essay analyzes the novel "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Essay Grade: 82%
The Great Gatsby - "Dishonesty in a Woman Is a Thing You Never Blame Deeply"
361 words, approx. 1 pages
Deals with the novel "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and evaluates a comment from the narrator of the story.
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Essay Grade: 81%
The Great Gatsby
353 words, approx. 1 pages
Essay discusses the presence of foreshadowing in "The Great Gatsby." Essay also shows how Fitzgerald uses the weather in the novel to describe things that are happening and to foreshadow things.
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Essay Grade: 80%
Color and Light in "The Great Gatsby"
338 words, approx. 1 pages
A simple look at the use of color and light in "The Great Gatsby."
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Essay Grade: 86%
Daisy Miller, A Character Profile
333 words, approx. 1 pages
Examines the character of Daisy Miller, from Henry James' novel of the same title. Explores her struggle for acceptance between the vastly different cultures of America and Europe. Describes how the inability to adapt destroys her.
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Essay Grade: 92%
The Great Gatsby
321 words, approx. 1 pages
Essay discusses how economic status and materialism is represented in "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Essay Grade: 82%
The Great Gatsby
319 words, approx. 1 pages
The Great Gatsby: The importance of time and the past.
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Essay Grade: 81%
A Party of Differences
302 words, approx. 1 pages
The different styles of parties thrown by Jay Gatsby and Myrtle in "The Great Gatsby" written by F. Scotts Fitzgareld.
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Essay Grade: 75%
Great Gatsby : Summary
297 words, approx. 1 pages
The Great Gatsby By: F. Scott Fitzgerald is summarized in précis form.The synopsis deals only whith the plot.
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Essay Grade: 87%
Daisy Buchanan's Immoral Character from "The Great Gatsby "
287 words, approx. 1 pages
About the immoral character of Daisy Buchanan from F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" and why she should be seen that way.
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Essay Grade: 83%
Great Gatsby : An Unfavorable Review
272 words, approx. 1 pages
One reader finds "The Great Gatsby", by F. Scott Fitzgerald, a boring and uninteresting read. This is due primarily to what this reader sees as shallow characters that are poorly developed by the author.
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Essay Grade: 83%
The Great Gatsby
269 words, approx. 1 pages
Jay Gatsby tries to lives life to the fullest. He lived in a area from rural North Dakota where he grew up in poverty and changed to become incredibly wealthy. He achieved his goal of wealth by being involved in organized crime, including distributing illegal alcohol and trading in stolen securities.
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Essay Grade: 78%
The Children of the Great Gatsby
261 words, approx. 1 pages
This is just the introductory paragraph for an essay over The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Essay Grade: 88%
Symbolism and Nick
259 words, approx. 1 pages
This essay explains how the craft of symbolism is used to describe the character of Nick in "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Essay Grade: 80%
"The Great Gatsby" Vs. "The Scarlet Letter"
229 words, approx. 1 pages
Essay explores the differences between "The Great Gatsby" and "The Scarlet Letter."

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