Essays 91 - 120
In five pages this paper presents a character analysis of Nick Carraway as featured in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. T...
Gatsby, and in Truman Capotes Breakfast at Tiffanys, first published in 1958. Both define the American Dream as the exclusive pro...
went to work on the street early in life, and fell in with a teenage gang from the Lower East Side. Taking advantage of Prohibitio...
personal look at the 1920s and the liberal changes taking place. A Decade of Change "The changes wrought in the United States ...
not exist as it does in The Great Gatsby, leaves the reader without reason to involve himself in the realistic aspects of the stor...
and a truly brazen attitude - were in vogue, as was drinking. Although Prohibition was in force to try to prevent people from imbi...
Ambition and a self-made determination, and the freedom to achieve anything that one sets his or her mind to were the basic concep...
they have somehow missed the spiritual dimension which they purport to seek, and have been sidetracked instead into seeing materia...
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...
the city may appear attractive and it certainly attracted Nick, it is hollow. He expresses this by returning home to the midwest. ...
I must master the processes associated involved in writing clearly as my ultimate goal is to teach middle school, and I must, ther...
example, the author describes how her mother always shopped for fresh ingredients, and prepared fresh herbs, such as "parsley, cil...
those who enforce religious laws" (Mernissi). In other words, by being larger than a size six, Mernissi, in the salesladys opinion...
This writer/tutor does not, of course, have any idea how the student feels on this topic, or, for that matter, the specific course...
that are beyond their control. In other words, there are factors that affect the way in which an event is evaluated morally that a...
insanity, which becomes her only way she can avoid the domination that threatens to totally suffocate her individuality. In his di...
now wealthy and has achieved all he set out to do. In this chapter we see many different things which tell us that Jay is nothing ...
hostile public world. Yet, she confesses to a friend that she keeps her business activities a secret from him because it would be ...
the modern world was a study in contrasts between interior and exterior, so too was modernist literature. There was often the con...
that sometimes money will create more problems than it solves. Such is the case with Jay Gatsby, and this essay will examine Fitzg...
as "the best of times and the worst of times" -- those of hope and optimism, but also of disillusionment and despair. It was extr...
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...
his personality. He then discusses how he in the present, and why, then shifts to discussing the people who are Daisy and Tom. He ...
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...
In five pages this report argues that the literary views of longing and love have long shaped conventional attitudes and examine t...
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 a paper containing seven pages the American Dream is compared and contrasted in these works. There are three bibliographic sou...
In eight pages this paper analyzes this classic American novel and its confrontation of post First World War truths about the Amer...
In eight pages this paper examines how Fitzgerald employs symbolism and imagery in his novel much as a lyric poem would in terms o...