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family that was better off than his own. In order to make something of himself he began to write articles for various magazines. H...

begins to see herself as somehow less than the rest of humanity, a sub-human at best. This self hatred continues throughout the ...

travel without restrictions throughout the many worlds, sexualities and identities of all of American society. Larsens novel expl...

can have genuine depth. Both while their relationship is still comparatively superficial, and later when it becomes truly meaningf...

with money, as the underlying theme is that which revolves around Gatsby using the pursuit of money, and the acquisition of money,...

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

beautiful Daisy Buchanan. His enigmatic behavior and opulent lifestyle are designed to impress Daisy and bring her back into his l...

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...

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...

different than those who attend his party and do little more than drink and let loose. With such a setting, as one of the most ...

together, ties up all loose plot ends, and eventually takes the story full circle. The participating narrator/protagonist appeale...

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...

In five pages the new criticism of this classic old character is discussed in terms of its patterns of cause and effect, compariso...

In five pages this paper discusses the various themes and symbolism that are featured in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. ...

takes place between Stanley and Jungle Fever in New York The wealthy elite of Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanans world were the peo...

not exist as it does in The Great Gatsby, leaves the reader without reason to involve himself in the realistic aspects of the stor...

In 6 pages this paper compares these novels in a consideration of how each author employed symbolism and metaphor in their respect...

In 5 pages this paper examines the 1920s' significance of the party as represented in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Th...

In five pages this paper discusses the sexual orientation themes in each novels with a contrast and comparison of characterization...

her to school in Nashville when she was 15; finally, when she was 16, her mother told her "to make her own way in the world" (Sull...

illustrated in the frequent comparisons between the Long Island sections of East Egg and West Egg. As narrator Nick Carraway, a W...

as "the best of times and the worst of times" -- those of hope and optimism, but also of disillusionment and despair. It was extr...

the modern world was a study in contrasts between interior and exterior, so too was modernist literature. There was often the con...

moralism in the United States, and struggling to find worth in either of them. For this "Lost Generation", as they are commonly ca...

thinking that pretending to be something she is not will somehow make her life more pleasant and simple. However, she learns that,...

done in their lives as they see no hope in the future. Their American Dream is one that came smashing down with the pessimistic re...

pursues a materialistic dream that is draped in romantic expectation. Nick comes to feel that Gatsbys misplaced idealism and roman...

calls friends. In particular, is his pursuit of Daisy. Why Daisy, one might ask? Simple. She was the symbol of landed wealth, of t...

we are offered the changing nature of that American Dream as it turned to something far more materialistic and powerful in a capit...