Essays 91 - 120
Passages from F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel are featured in this paper consisting of 5 pages that reveals the destructive as...
In five pages this paper discusses the sexual orientation themes in each novels with a contrast and comparison of characterization...
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...
illustrated in the frequent comparisons between the Long Island sections of East Egg and West Egg. As narrator Nick Carraway, a W...
This paper analyzes characterization and the theme of abandoned ethics seen in Fitzgerald's classic novel, The Great Gatsby. The a...
as "The Jazz Age." When not numbing themselves with superficial pleasures, young people were pursuing the American Dream, as tran...
pursues a materialistic dream that is draped in romantic expectation. Nick comes to feel that Gatsbys misplaced idealism and roman...
In 6 pages this paper compares these novels in a consideration of how each author employed symbolism and metaphor in their respect...
Jazz Age"). Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda were a sort of American "royalty," known as much for their "madcap antics as for his wri...
believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your...
only for you!" (Bronte Chapter X). But, he also begins to realize that he will never have her and his dreams seem to end. He marri...
far more refined individual, even if he still slung to some of his impoverished perspectives. For example, he shows his need to sh...
This paper consists of five pages and examines how Gatsby in The Great Gatsby, Stahr in The Love of the Last Tycoon, and Blaine in...
gained on the Italian front. Although Hemingway delicately avoids telling us precisely where the wound is, we know it is around hi...
feel of the American youth culture, because he, and through his writing, Amory Blaine, as well, were young men of the time in whic...
of his mother during her long illness, however, he primarily, marries her because he does not want to be alone during the long New...
the foundation of the past that Jay will always try to defy. In essence, as he grows he tries to make money, become powerful, and ...
has died. Beginning in the third stanza, the poet discusses the death and again addresses the deceased directly. He says the youn...
none of the women in Gatsby are particularly likeable, but even so, the book retains its power. Daisy Buchanan Lets start with Da...
calls friends. In particular, is his pursuit of Daisy. Why Daisy, one might ask? Simple. She was the symbol of landed wealth, of t...
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 ...
This essay asserts that Nick Carraway's narration presents Jay Gatsby's story in terms of Freudian psychology and as paralleling ...
As a young woman Catherine was apparently already determined to be a very powerful and effective leader. She "was ambitious as wel...
her well-loved eyes" (Fitzgerald 111). As this suggests, Gatsbys many possessions and signs of extreme wealth are not important ...
move comfortably in the social circle of people like the Buchanans. Fitzgerald shows us all the trappings of wealth: the gorgeous...
same time he undercuts Gatsby by telling readers that he made his money illegally; he was a bootlegger (he sold illegal whiskey du...
Fitzgerald was seeking in his style and the forms that were emerging in relationship to the 20s. Berman notes how many of his stor...
ever written. F. Scott Fitzgeralds portrait of Jay Gatsby resonates with almost every reader because he is so human in his hopes a...
In twelve pages this paper examines confrontation in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and in Toni Morrison's Jazz. One othe...