Essays 31 - 60
As a young woman Catherine was apparently already determined to be a very powerful and effective leader. She "was ambitious as wel...
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...
no success at all; that belongs to the people who employ the hard workers. But the dream persists, and Gatsby seems to achieve it,...
society . . . profoundly agrees with Marxs great discovery that it is social rather than individual consciousness that determines ...
In 5 pages this paper discusses how Franklin and Fitzgerald presented morality and the American Dream in a comparative analysis of...
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...
her well-loved eyes" (Fitzgerald 111). As this suggests, Gatsbys many possessions and signs of extreme wealth are not important ...
In 6 pages this paper analyzes the male and female heroines in the texts The Ice Palace, Winter Dreams, The Last Tycoon, This Side...
This paper analyzes characterization and the theme of abandoned ethics seen in Fitzgerald's classic novel, The Great Gatsby. The a...
In 5 pages this paper examines the 1920s' significance of the party as represented in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Th...
This paper analyzes F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel, The Great Gatsby. The author argues that the work qualifies as an excell...
"Bernice Bobs her Hair," "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," "The Debutante," "Absolution," and "Winter Dreams." (http://www.sc.edu/...
In 5 pages this paper discusses the contrasts between the affluent and the working class drawn by F. Scott Fitzgerald in his novel...
different than those who attend his party and do little more than drink and let loose. With such a setting, as one of the most ...
the city may appear attractive and it certainly attracted Nick, it is hollow. He expresses this by returning home to the midwest. ...
basis for Nicks disillusionment with the decadence of east coast American society (Fitzgerald 3). Gatsbys pursuit of the American ...
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...
less than legal involvement. But, for the most part that did not matter, for the premise of the book, in relationship to acceptabl...
no face, instead, the eyes are behind an enormous pair of glasses which are sitting on a non-existent nose (Fitzgerald). Nick, who...
we are offered the changing nature of that American Dream as it turned to something far more materialistic and powerful in a capit...
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 ...
to him. He merely knows that without his job he is lost, but he doesnt have the insight to look inward for the answers....
shirts and strolls her through his kitchen. There, we see Daisys hand trailing along a large work table...the elegant chandeliers ...
family that was better off than his own. In order to make something of himself he began to write articles for various magazines. H...
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...
In five pages this paper presents a character analysis of Nick Carraway as featured in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. T...