Essays 31 - 60
In five pages The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Trial by Franz Kafka are compared in terms of European and American ...
5 pages and 2 sources used. This paper provides an overview and a comparison of the lives and characteristics of two central fema...
This paper analyzes F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel, The Great Gatsby. The author argues that the work qualifies as an excell...
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...
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 6 pages this paper analyzes the male and female heroines in the texts The Ice Palace, Winter Dreams, The Last Tycoon, This Side...
example, how he constantly throws huge parties that are very elaborate and clearly of wealth. Yet he never really attends them. He...
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 ...
so pervades The Great Gatsby that Fitzgeralds true achievement was to appropriate American legend."1 The book gives us both romanc...
no face, instead, the eyes are behind an enormous pair of glasses which are sitting on a non-existent nose (Fitzgerald). Nick, who...
move comfortably in the social circle of people like the Buchanans. Fitzgerald shows us all the trappings of wealth: the gorgeous...
no success at all; that belongs to the people who employ the hard workers. But the dream persists, and Gatsby seems to achieve it,...
intelligence and talent to work in ways that are less than reputable in order to pursue an illusion of beauty. Making his fortune ...
important to remember that at the time Fitzgerald wrote, "immigrants were coming to the United States by the millions because they...
same time he undercuts Gatsby by telling readers that he made his money illegally; he was a bootlegger (he sold illegal whiskey du...
not abhor, which is very important in setting up the story: "Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from...
the four most important symbols are the characters names, especially the women; the green light on Daisys dock, the so-called "val...
of Gatsby himself, at least in part. Gatsby is far from a worthless fool like Trimalchio, but he is surrounded by sycophants and o...
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,...
book, Benjamin Schreier claims that Gatsby, if not actually black-an unusual interpretation to be sure-is someone of color; he bas...
America in the 1920s" (Gibb 96). Gatsby is, in many ways, the epitome of new growth and renewal and thus of a metaphorical landsca...
ever written. F. Scott Fitzgeralds portrait of Jay Gatsby resonates with almost every reader because he is so human in his hopes a...
with the wealth he possesses, and likely also very taken with his obvious infatuation with her. She does not stop his adoration of...
"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...
about, while assessing the characters he meets. In this respect both narrators must take into consideration the past lives of the ...
calls friends. In particular, is his pursuit of Daisy. Why Daisy, one might ask? Simple. She was the symbol of landed wealth, of t...