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important to remember that at the time Fitzgerald wrote, "immigrants were coming to the United States by the millions because they...

no face, instead, the eyes are behind an enormous pair of glasses which are sitting on a non-existent nose (Fitzgerald). Nick, who...

example, how he constantly throws huge parties that are very elaborate and clearly of wealth. Yet he never really attends them. He...

and in the end, they will be accepted to prestigious universities that are much less accessible to the poor or middle class. This ...

Ramsay is not really a monster, but he is an autocrat who is cold and so detached from his family that he doesnt seem to realize h...

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...

pursues a materialistic dream that is draped in romantic expectation. Nick comes to feel that Gatsbys misplaced idealism and roman...

in the promised land did so through the exploitation of the land, its resources, and its natives" as is the case with Jay Gatsby (...

beautiful Daisy Buchanan. His enigmatic behavior and opulent lifestyle are designed to impress Daisy and bring her back into his l...

As such he makes a very good narrator. He also cares about people, which also makes him a reliable narrator. This is good because ...

process, Ho Chi Minh claims that more than two million Vietnamese died of starvation, a result not only of French preoccupation wi...

two people who hold true to the notion that determination and hard work can get you ahead in the world of the American ideal. Gats...

certain light. The narrator to tells us that, "Ive heard it said that Daisys murmur was only to make people lean toward her; an ir...

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...

embraced by the church. Although it is true that some denominations do not allow women to run things, many denominations such as t...

is very much an equal reality in a marriage. Men and women are expected to treat each other respectfully, and to care about one an...

retinas are one yard high" (Fitzgerald 15). The student researching this topic will note that there are divergences from the stu...

century and also well into the twentieth, what historian Barbara Welter refers to as the "Cult of True Womanhood" characterized ho...

less than legal involvement. But, for the most part that did not matter, for the premise of the book, in relationship to acceptabl...

role in this respect. Plato held that the key agent in any sort of behavior but especially ethical or moral behavior (or lack of t...

in the play, the audience is shown how "honest merchants...contribute to the safe of their country as they do at all times to its ...

to him. He merely knows that without his job he is lost, but he doesnt have the insight to look inward for the answers....

so much as for the enjoyment of others, for the pride he could have when looking at what he achieved through the eyes of others. T...

about, while assessing the characters he meets. In this respect both narrators must take into consideration the past lives of the ...

we are offered the changing nature of that American Dream as it turned to something far more materialistic and powerful in a capit...

family that was better off than his own. In order to make something of himself he began to write articles for various magazines. H...

the city may appear attractive and it certainly attracted Nick, it is hollow. He expresses this by returning home to the midwest. ...

is lives in the swanky neighborhood of town while Myrtle lives in closer proximity to the billboard noted above. Gatsby is acknow...

on the world scene. And, we know that the one individual who could perhaps sway him from his innocent and noble ways is Gatsby him...