Essays 121 - 150
In five pages this paper discusses the sexual orientation themes in each novels with a contrast and comparison of characterization...
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...
together, ties up all loose plot ends, and eventually takes the story full circle. The participating narrator/protagonist appeale...
can have genuine depth. Both while their relationship is still comparatively superficial, and later when it becomes truly meaningf...
means just that-and he must be about His Fathers business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented ...
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, ...
with money, as the underlying theme is that which revolves around Gatsby using the pursuit of money, and the acquisition of money,...
who does not exhibit the same or nearly the same amount of wealth and material possessions. The lost generation of America is ext...
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...
flower, hence the name chosen for her by the author; however, a brightly appealing as she might be on the outside, she harbors the...
quicksand. Daisy hide a deeper meaning to her character, and that character is evil due to the unthinking nature of her superficia...
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 paper discusses how the novel portrays a post First World War I America and declining values. There are no oth...
In 6 pages this paper compares these novels in a consideration of how each author employed symbolism and metaphor in their respect...
as "The Jazz Age." When not numbing themselves with superficial pleasures, young people were pursuing the American Dream, as tran...
his personality. He then discusses how he in the present, and why, then shifts to discussing the people who are Daisy and Tom. He ...
In 6 pages this paper discusses how the narrators of these respective texts managed to develop their own individuality through the...
In five pages this character analysis compares Hamlet to Nick Carraway and Claudius to Tom Buchanan with themes also compared. Th...
In eight pages this paper analyzes this classic American novel and its confrontation of post First World War truths about the Amer...
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 examines how Fitzgerald employs symbolism and imagery in his novel much as a lyric poem would in terms o...
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...
as "the best of times and the worst of times" -- those of hope and optimism, but also of disillusionment and despair. It was extr...
In five pages this report argues that the literary views of longing and love have long shaped conventional attitudes and examine t...
the modern world was a study in contrasts between interior and exterior, so too was modernist literature. There was often the con...
In a paper containing seven pages the American Dream is compared and contrasted in these works. There are three bibliographic sou...
that sometimes money will create more problems than it solves. Such is the case with Jay Gatsby, and this essay will examine Fitzg...
The modern student must be able to effectively examine critical essays to determine their validity. This paper examines such an es...
in his review of Maggie, vented his "frustration at realism," as he complained that realism "seemed written from the outside" (Gol...