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Throught the character of Jay Gatsby, jealousy leads to death and destruction.
Title: Throught the character of Jay Gatsby, jealousy leads to death and destruction.
Category: Literature
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Throught the character of Jay Gatsby, jealousy leads to death and destruction.
The 1920s were a time when radio was a desired household item, women got the right to vote, no one paid attention to prohibition in the cities, and entertainment created much of the excitement at this time. Someone who stood out during the Jazz Age decade was author, F. Scott Fitzgerald. He wrote many books during this time and is very well known for the 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald's fiction was semiautobiographical and before …showed first 75 words of 775 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 775 total…jealous of Jay Gatsby. His jealously over Gatsby eventually leads to his death and causes an enormous catastrophe. " Self control!" repeated Tom incredulously. "I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. Well, is that's the idea you can count on me...Nowadays people begin by sneering at family institutions and next they'll throw everything overboard and have intermarriage between black and white!" (Fitzgerald 137).
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