Essays 121 - 150
In five pages this paper discusses how the novel portrays a post First World War I America and declining values. There are no oth...
In five pages this paper examines how life's meaning and purpose are viewed by such great thinkers as Albert Camus, Friedrich Niet...
In eight pages this paper examines how Fitzgerald employs symbolism and imagery in his novel much as a lyric poem would in terms o...
In a paper containing seven pages the American Dream is compared and contrasted in these works. There are three bibliographic sou...
she could display for all to see. She possessed all the "shallowness" (Fitzgerald PG) of a person who knew not how to love yet kn...
In five pages this character analysis compares Hamlet to Nick Carraway and Claudius to Tom Buchanan with themes also compared. Th...
illustrated in the frequent comparisons between the Long Island sections of East Egg and West Egg. As narrator Nick Carraway, a W...
In eight pages this paper analyzes this classic American novel and its confrontation of post First World War truths about the Amer...
hit-and-run death of Toms mistress, the married Myrtle Wilson. Her widower is deceived into thinking Gatsby caused the accident, ...
In five pages the new criticism of this classic old character is discussed in terms of its patterns of cause and effect, compariso...
This paper consists of a 10 page essay that compares and contrast these works by arguing that the two individuals are respectively...
as "the best of times and the worst of times" -- those of hope and optimism, but also of disillusionment and despair. It was extr...
the modern world was a study in contrasts between interior and exterior, so too was modernist literature. There was often the con...
affair. If the story were told by Gatsby, we would get the story of a poor but ruthlessly ambitious youth on the make. We would l...
takes place between Stanley and Jungle Fever in New York The wealthy elite of Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanans world were the peo...
Ambition and a self-made determination, and the freedom to achieve anything that one sets his or her mind to were the basic concep...
with money, as the underlying theme is that which revolves around Gatsby using the pursuit of money, and the acquisition of money,...
is a man of honor and integrity. He represents all that is good in the world of man as he stands to be a man who follows the old r...
can have genuine depth. Both while their relationship is still comparatively superficial, and later when it becomes truly meaningf...
who does not exhibit the same or nearly the same amount of wealth and material possessions. The lost generation of America is ext...
together, ties up all loose plot ends, and eventually takes the story full circle. The participating narrator/protagonist appeale...
many argue saw the true beginning of a consumeristic culture as the American Dream turned to one of material wealth as a sign of s...
his personality. He then discusses how he in the present, and why, then shifts to discussing the people who are Daisy and Tom. He ...
own enjoyment so much as for the enjoyment of others, for the pride he could have when looking at what he achieved through the eye...
the major theme is far from romantic in nature. This story is all about the disintegration of the once proud American Dream. And, ...
means just that-and he must be about His Fathers business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented ...
An elderly pianist, Mademoiselles music arouses Ednas artistic temperament. Additionally, Edna becomes infatuated with a young man...
her well-loved eyes" (Fitzgerald 111). As this suggests, Gatsbys many possessions and signs of extreme wealth are not important ...
of God were those of the Old Testament, then came Jesus, whom they consider to be another divine prophet, and then Mohammad, the l...
nothing makes quite as much of a statement as does a bathing suit, a garment made for the purpose of swimming but something that w...