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Jay Gatsby, Monroe Stahr, Amory Blaine, and F. Scott Fitzgerald

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...

Nick Carraway and Fitzgerald's Novel, The Great Gatsby

few minutes I was going to enter into their lives, and no one would ever know or disapprove" (Fitzgerald 61). He soon finds that...

Heroes and Heroines in the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway

gained on the Italian front. Although Hemingway delicately avoids telling us precisely where the wound is, we know it is around hi...

Characters of Amory Blaine, Jay Gatsby, and Monroe Stahr as Reflections of F. Scott Fitzgerald

feel of the American youth culture, because he, and through his writing, Amory Blaine, as well, were young men of the time in whic...

The Great Gatsby: Gatsby and Daisy

example, Gatsby is showing her through his house and he shows her his silk shirts: "Theyre such beautiful shirts, she sobbed, her ...

"The Great Gatsby" and the Pursuit of Hollow Dreams

value into ultimately empty goals; this is indicated by the comparison of Gatsbys quest for Daisy with the "American dream" itself...

Dreamers: Gatsby and Heathcliff

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...

Gatsby and Heathcliff

far more refined individual, even if he still slung to some of his impoverished perspectives. For example, he shows his need to sh...

Capital Punishment: How Americans See It

DNA testing and the overturn of convictions, two thirds of Americans still support capital punishment ("The Death Penalty - Americ...

Jay Gatsby, The American Dream and His Failure to Grasp It

as the finest American novel ever written. It retains its power because it is a sort of dual effort: it praises the American Dream...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and the Character of Jay Gatsby

and honor were really worth possessing. The Great Gatsby In first discussing Fitzgeralds story we look at the man who is Gats...

The Business World from a Literary Viewpoint

pictured as giving them a chance to live as equals with everyone-no upper classes-everyone doing as he or she pleased. Sinclair...

Desires and Dreams in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

In a paper consisting of 5 pages the unfulfilled expectations and how they are presented in the ideas and themes of Miller's socia...

Connectivity, External and Internal Drive Bays

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

Society and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

is lives in the swanky neighborhood of town while Myrtle lives in closer proximity to the billboard noted above. Gatsby is acknow...

Symbols in Gatsby, the Fading American Dream

the four most important symbols are the characters names, especially the women; the green light on Daisys dock, the so-called "val...

The Great Gatsby and American Greed

intelligence and talent to work in ways that are less than reputable in order to pursue an illusion of beauty. Making his fortune ...

Arthur Miller's Influences for Death of a Salesman

In a paper consisting of six pages the influential factors that resulted in Arthur Miller's composition of the Pulitzer prize winn...

Literary Modernism

In five pages The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Trial by Franz Kafka are compared in terms of European and American ...

Two Female Characters in U.S. Fiction

5 pages and 2 sources used. This paper provides an overview and a comparison of the lives and characteristics of two central fema...

An Analysis of Fitzgerald's Novel, The Great Gatsby

This paper analyzes F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel, The Great Gatsby. The author argues that the work qualifies as an excell...

Two Playwrights Look at Death

so gifted and so special that the world will fall at their feet simply because they exist (Miller). As a result, Biff and Happy (p...

Analysis of a Modern Classic: "The Great Gatsby"

about the characters thoughts and motivations. So we are going to read the story and see what happened through Nicks eyes, which m...

Black American Perspectives on Death and Dying from a Religious View

traditions carried down through the generations (Ruark, 2003). Dr. Ronald K. Barrett has spent many years studying how African Am...

Characters of Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

for traditional values and is attracted to the fast-life epitomized by Jay. Nick comes to understand that Gatsby, rather than the...

Questions on Death of a Salesman Answered

His fathers expectations of him are something that Biff knows he can never fulfill, therefore, he becomes critical of himself when...

Charles Dickens' Estella and F. Scott Fitzgerald's Daisy

none of the women in Gatsby are particularly likeable, but even so, the book retains its power. Daisy Buchanan Lets start with Da...

The American Dream

and then sued the "bad" trusts that essentially took advantage of small businesses and the people (Jensen, 2007). One of these "ba...

Social Security Versus The American Dream

public transportation or carpooling with friends. To fill up the tank of this older model, low mileage car costs $75. Moreover, ...

Death of a Salesman's Willy Loman as a Poor Role Model for Biff and Happy

model to his boys of what a successful and well-respected man should be; however, the legacy he left as a father was a model of ho...