Essays 61 - 90
In five pages this paper examines F. Scott Fitzgerald's work in a consideration of how despite his lone critical success The Great...
In three pages this essay discusses the symbolism of the novel's title and considers how it relates to the human experience. The ...
5 pages and 2 sources used. This paper provides an overview and a comparison of the lives and characteristics of two central fema...
In 5 pages this paper discusses how Franklin and Fitzgerald presented morality and the American Dream in a comparative analysis of...
society . . . profoundly agrees with Marxs great discovery that it is social rather than individual consciousness that determines ...
In five pages The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Trial by Franz Kafka are compared in terms of European and American ...
the city may appear attractive and it certainly attracted Nick, it is hollow. He expresses this by returning home to the midwest. ...
intelligence and talent to work in ways that are less than reputable in order to pursue an illusion of beauty. Making his fortune ...
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...
the four most important symbols are the characters names, especially the women; the green light on Daisys dock, the so-called "val...
America in the 1920s" (Gibb 96). Gatsby is, in many ways, the epitome of new growth and renewal and thus of a metaphorical landsca...
Fitzgerald was seeking in his style and the forms that were emerging in relationship to the 20s. Berman notes how many of his stor...
for that reason its possible that he colors the accounts he gives. However, he is the closest thing we have to a neutral observer,...
In five pages this paper discusses the various themes and symbolism that are featured in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. ...
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...
personal look at the 1920s and the liberal changes taking place. A Decade of Change "The changes wrought in the United States ...
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...
they have somehow missed the spiritual dimension which they purport to seek, and have been sidetracked instead into seeing materia...
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...
about, while assessing the characters he meets. In this respect both narrators must take into consideration the past lives of the ...
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...
to him. He merely knows that without his job he is lost, but he doesnt have the insight to look inward for the answers....
calls friends. In particular, is his pursuit of Daisy. Why Daisy, one might ask? Simple. She was the symbol of landed wealth, of t...
of Jake finding purpose and meaning in life through a love relationship, as Brett makes it clear that she is unwilling to renounce...