Essays 31 - 60
Buying a used car is a transaction which is covered by the Sale...
on an original motor-related project of their own. Cut: The White House. By 1991, the idea for a V-14 engine was ...
Matilda. At that time in my life I was 18 and had just met my soon to be husband. We did not...
are looking for. In truth, people do think about their monthly payment as that is how they budget. Yet, according to Breitner, the...
As a young woman Catherine was apparently already determined to be a very powerful and effective leader. She "was ambitious as wel...
no success at all; that belongs to the people who employ the hard workers. But the dream persists, and Gatsby seems to achieve it,...
move comfortably in the social circle of people like the Buchanans. Fitzgerald shows us all the trappings of wealth: the gorgeous...
important to remember that at the time Fitzgerald wrote, "immigrants were coming to the United States by the millions because they...
car, and unsuspecting buyers did not know to ask. Clark & Smiths treatise on The Law of Product Warranties sums up the problem by...
intelligence and talent to work in ways that are less than reputable in order to pursue an illusion of beauty. Making his fortune ...
same time he undercuts Gatsby by telling readers that he made his money illegally; he was a bootlegger (he sold illegal whiskey du...
not abhor, which is very important in setting up the story: "Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from...
of Gatsby himself, at least in part. Gatsby is far from a worthless fool like Trimalchio, but he is surrounded by sycophants and o...
Fitzgerald was seeking in his style and the forms that were emerging in relationship to the 20s. Berman notes how many of his stor...
no face, instead, the eyes are behind an enormous pair of glasses which are sitting on a non-existent nose (Fitzgerald). Nick, who...
retinas are one yard high" (Fitzgerald 15). The student researching this topic will note that there are divergences from the stu...
less than legal involvement. But, for the most part that did not matter, for the premise of the book, in relationship to acceptabl...
is when Gatsby holds out his arms toward a small green light in the distance, which the reader learns later is the green light on ...
so pervades The Great Gatsby that Fitzgeralds true achievement was to appropriate American legend."1 The book gives us both romanc...
example, how he constantly throws huge parties that are very elaborate and clearly of wealth. Yet he never really attends them. He...
his personal life, and physically; hes a bigot, hes a racist, and he has a mistress who he makes little effort to hide from his wi...
value into ultimately empty goals; this is indicated by the comparison of Gatsbys quest for Daisy with the "American dream" itself...
shaped by trying to achieve the American dream, but by experiencing what occurs when others achieve and pass on the values of weal...
In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at use of symbolism in Great Expectations. The use of London itself as a symbol of corr...
for that reason its possible that he colors the accounts he gives. However, he is the closest thing we have to a neutral observer,...
book, Benjamin Schreier claims that Gatsby, if not actually black-an unusual interpretation to be sure-is someone of color; he bas...
America in the 1920s" (Gibb 96). Gatsby is, in many ways, the epitome of new growth and renewal and thus of a metaphorical landsca...
with the wealth he possesses, and likely also very taken with his obvious infatuation with her. She does not stop his adoration of...
ever written. F. Scott Fitzgeralds portrait of Jay Gatsby resonates with almost every reader because he is so human in his hopes a...
This essay describes the thematic function of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Six pages in length, ...