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Plot: This novel is not just about drinking, dancing, romancing and getting rich but the death of the American Dream during the hedonistic twenties.

Characters:This is where we could do a character part and have a bunch of names possibly pictures of these people...

Geography:

It was lonely for a day or so until one morning some man, more recently arrived than I, stopped me on the road.
“How do you get to West Egg village?” he asked helplessly.

Theme:

*Noble goals such as integrity, honesty, individualism, and determination replaced by obsession with wealth, pleasure, youth, and beauty.

* Clash of social standing and value systems between “old money” and “new money” symbolized by the geography of East and West Egg.

Sybolism:

The Green Light –From his West Egg lawn, Gatsby gazes upon a green light cast from a lamp at the end of Daisy's East Egg dock. The green light is initially representative of Gatsby's hope that Daisy will be one day be his. Since Daisy symbolizes that which only superficially appears perfect, the green light, cast from Daisy’s world, becomes a symbol for the decay of the idealism once associated with the American dream.

Other Works:

Bio:

Name: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Born: St.Paul,Minnesota on September 24, 1896

*Enrolled at Princeton Univeristy in 1913

*Enlisted in Army without finishing college in 1917

*He met Zelda Sayre while staioned in Alabama, they were married in 1920

*Zelda Sayre was the true love of F. Scott Fitzgerald. She was a ballet dancer, painter, and writer. She was the inspiration for many of Scott’s female characters.

*Zelda also wrote and was an artist as well, as shown in her works below....