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In the novel The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzerald. Materialism plays a major role for one’s life in this novel. Jay Gastsby a very wealthy man lives a life of materialism just to prove to people that he is wealthy and important. Doing so he tries to impress a ....

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.... friends. Gatsby also brags and over exaggerates when a person asks him where he got his education from and his money. From this he gives a person a length full excuse just to impress who ever it is. Here is an example of Gatsby over talking a subject. “I am the son of some wealthy people in the middle-west--- all dead now. I was brought up in America but educated at Oxford because all my ancestors have been educated there for many years. It ‘s been a family tradition”(pg.69). After he says this to Nick. Nick saw and knew he was lying just by his actions. “he hurried the phrase “educated at Oxford”, or swallowed it or choked on it as thoug ....