Movie: Life, Like The Great Gatsby
Imagine that you live in the nineteen twenties, and that you are a very
wealthy man that lives by himself in a manchine, on a lake and who throws
parties every weekend. This is just the beginning of how to explain the way
Jay Gatsby lived his life. This novel, by F. Scott, Fitzgerald is one that is
very deep in thought. Fitzgerald releases little clues along the way of the
novel that will be crusual to understand the ending. For instance, he makes
the blue coupe a very important clue, as well as the Dr. T. J. Eckleburg eyes on
the billboard that Mr. Wilson (the gas station attendant ) refers to as the eyes
of god. There are also other little things that relate to the reason ...
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story writer and novelist
famous for his depictions of the Jazz Age(the 1920's), his most brilliant novel
work being The Great Gatsby(1925). He was born in St. Paul, Minnesota on sept.
24, 1896 and died in Hollywood, California on December 21, 1940. His private
life, with his wife, Zelda, in both America and France, became almost as
celebrated as his novels. Fitsgerald was the only son of an aristocrat father,
who was the author of the star spangle banner. Fitzgerald spent most of time
with his wife, latter in their relationship they moved to france where he began
to write his most brilliant novel, The Great Gatsby. All of his divided nature
is in this novel, the native midwestener afir with the possibilities of every
Americans dream in it's hero, Jay Gatsby, and the compassionate princeton
gentlemen in it's narrator, Nick Carraway. The Great Gatsby is the most
profoundly American novel of it's time (Houghton).
Fitzgerald had an intensely romantic imagination, what he ...
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was, so she uses Nick to find
out more about him. As the story goes on, there are some odd things that
Fitsgerald relates to the story as important things. These important things
make you really think about what it means to the story. The Automobile in The
Great Gatsby is a very big topic for the conclution of the story. What we have
in The Great Gatsby is a creative manipulation of the automobile as symbol and
image to accomplish a variety of ends (O'Meara, 74). O'Meara goes on to say
that when Fitzgerald accentuates mechanism and minimizes aesthetics, he
depersonalizes vehicles and underscores the behavior of their drivers. The
existing criticism on automobiles in The Great ...
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