Essays Tagged: "human conception"

Analysis of "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald: "It is Gatsby's artificiality and lack of substance which ultimately forces his down fall. One can not live in dreams alone."

eatre, fantasy and ideals throughout the novel reinforce this. Like any ideal, it is flawed through human conception and action.It is Nick who describes Gatsby's transformation from "young Gatz" to "J ... is in this sense that Gatsby has ultimately doomed himself. Plato's beings were perfect, ideals of human aspirations, formed by the infallible sculptor, in contrast, "the vague contour of Jay Gatsby ...

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Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald