The Great Gatsby: America's Era Of Disdain
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Characters in literature reflect thoughts conceived from personaters endeavoring the portrayal of an actual human existence. Though these have their individual assets they also depict the portrait of an era. Jay Gatz, the character in which The Great Gatsby is focused on, is used by Scott Fitzge ....
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.... Unlike others Gatsby felt condemned not to be a fradulent dog. “The Truth was that Jay Gatsby, of west Egg, Long Island, sprang from his platonic conception of himself.”(pages 104, 15-16)
Distorting his name, inventing a seventeen-year-old self-conception, he masked his counterfeit wealth from bootlegging with an image he wore with the help of Dan Cody. He was the man that gave Gatsby the opportunity. After Cody’s death Gatsby “was left with his singularly appropriate education; t ....
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