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The Great Gatsby - Online Term Paper

The Great Gatsby

Doesn�t it always seem as though rich and famous people, such as actors and actresses, are larger-than-life and virtually impossible to touch, almost as if they were a fantasy? In , set in two tremendously wealthy communities, East Egg and West Egg, F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays Jay Gatsby as a Romantic, larger-than-life, figure by setting him apart from the common person.
Fitzgerald sets Gatsby in a fantasy world that, based on illusion, is of his own making. Gatsby�s possessions start to this illusion. He lives in an extremely lavish mansion. �It is a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a ...

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seen. It is a rich cream color with nickel and has a three-noted horn.� (64) It has a �monstrous length with triumphant hat-boxes, supper-boxes, tool-boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of windshields and a green leather conservatory.� (64)
Amidst Gatsby�s possessions, he develops his personal self. His physical self appearance sets him apart form the other characters. His smile is the type �that comes across four or five times in life. One of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it.� (48) He has a collection of tailored shirts from England. They are described as �shirts of sheer linen and thick silk and fine flannel.� He has shirts with stripes and scrolls and plaids in coral and apple-green and lavender and faint orange, with monograms of Indian blue.� (93) Gatsby wears a unique �gorgeous pink rag of a suit� that sets him apart as a �bright spot.� (154) Gatsby�s mannerisms are different too. He gives the �strong impression that he picks his ...

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Added: 11/7/2008 09:25:42 AM
Category: Book Reports
Type: Free Paper
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