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The Great Gatsby Short Story Analysis

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We are urged by a desire to move on and this desire derives from a certain ambition. We don’t know what is it that we want to change and how to move on, but all we feel is the presence of a demanding desire. Being subconsciously faithful to Jean-Luc Marion’s “I am because I am seen” , we realize that we feel the emptiness of time passing by when not doing anything recognisable , mostly, from others. We have a fear that nothing is changing and as we don’t know where to go or what to do, we will end up in being in a void.
This feeling is a natural stage in somebody’s life, often experienced as something trivial and other times as something profound. It is not commonly regarded as a superior feeling. Nonetheless it has …show more content…

By adjusting in my work fundamental philosophical thoughts around our connection with immortality, memorial traces and the infinite space, I am adding value and making my point of view clearer regarding these speculations.
This paper consists of four stories that possess a narrative perspective in them. Each one of them is a separate autonomous story but at the same time they are all inter connected as they are derivatives of my experiences, ideas , fears or observations.
The narratives of the cosmos are infinite. Narrative first and foremost is a prodigious variety of genres distributed themselves amongst different substances – as though any material were fit to receive man’s stories. Able to be carried by articulated language , fixed or moving images , gestures or the ordered mixture of these substances; a narrative is present in myth , legend , fable , fiction ,tragedy , history , drama , paintings , photographs , cinema , films , items , conversations , experiences. Moreover, under this almost infinite diversity of forms, the narrative is present in every age, in every place, in every society; it begins with the very history of mankind and there nowhere is nor has been a person without narrative. All classes, all human groups, have their narratives, no matter what the cultural

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