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Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In five pages the protagonist and narrator of Fitzgerald's 1925 classic novel is presented in this character sketch. One source i...

Materialism in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

suitors. Interestingly enough, this particular strategy has not altered since the 1920s. Daisy is about money and the corruption...

Tender is the Night by F.Scott Fitzgerald

In seven pages Tender is the Night is considered within the context of the protagonist Dick Diver and his influence upon the other...

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

In five pages this paper discusses the various themes of man and family, man and nature, and endurance as they relate to The Grape...

Billy Budd by Herman Melville

In six pages this paper examines the novel's primary characters and analyzes them philosophically and morally in regards to good a...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

biggest fools there is. ...he never plays them alike, two days, and how is a body to know whats coming? He pears to know just how ...

The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara

features suggest, Miss Moore, first of all, does not try to change her appearance to meet white standards, hence, her hair is "nap...

Rebellion of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Ralph Waldo Emerson

In five pages this paper argues that the fictional female character Hester Prynne was 'more of a man' than were either her creator...

Fear as a Recurring Theme in the Works of Edgar Allan Poe

grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...

Cinema and Rebellion

child who is the product of a failed system, this film seems to be saying. This film was a social commentary of sorts, which use...

Willa Cather: “My Antonia”

in the grass and Antonia begins to ask Jim to tell her the English names of things; she is quick and alert and seems very much a p...

The Messages of “Forrest Gump”

is just surplus" (Ebert) But the "surplus" is everything that a "normal" person experiences. While there is a definite charm to t...

Lessons from “The Sopranos”

can be explained by the growing acceptance in our culture of anything that is off color, illegal, or even immoral. The type of gl...

Teddy And Lenny In The Homecoming By Harold Pinter

highly dysfunctional family adopted survival behaviors a long time before the play begins. Instead of getting mired in the chaos f...

Henry Ford as He Appears in Doctorow's Ragtime

to society is well known and many see this as admirable. Yet, there are some critics. Not everyone agrees that capitalism is the b...

Macbeth: Villain or Not?

we see him. At a military camp of King Duncans, a soldier is brought in who tells of the battle in which he was injured, and in wh...

“To Kill a Mockingbird”: Murder in the Deep South

Tom is convicted for only one reason: hes black. Although hes sentenced to death, the sentence is commuted to life in prison; even...

Is Iago the Devil?

Therefore, the conclusion is that he is not the devil, but a man who behaves in a manner that we would call devilish or satanic. H...

McCullers: “Ballad of the Sad Café”

leave together ("The Shy & the Lonely"). Whether or not she is gay, there are certainly the hints are that Amelia is not womanly ...

Realists: Mark Twain and Henry James

and he used to fetch him down town sometimes and lay for a bet" (Twain). Smiley was a character who would trick others and come ou...

The Letter by Somerset Maugham and Characterization

to kiss her, but naturally, Proudlock was convicted of murder (PG). She received a death sentence but the the European community ...

'Everything That Rises Must Converge' by Flannery O'Connor

to look at his own veiled prejudices if only through the eyes of his bigoted mother. Says Mrs. Chestney, in a typical outburst th...

'General Prologue' as an Appropriate Introduction to The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

of Gods creation of the universe (Chance 67). According to De Temporibus Anni (the translation of Aelfric), the worlds first day ...

Love madness in A Midsummer Night's Dream

famine as being the direct manifestation of her conflict with Oberon) and the madness itself is generated by the very human desire...

WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS AS A METAPHOR

and dedication to his single goal, he was able to afford two of them; Old Dan (the "brawn" of the duo) and Little Ann (the "brains...

Choice

of the consequences of ones choices" (What is Choice?). This is a very important aspect of choice for if someone chooses poorly, c...

The Crucible and the Issue of Pride in the Play

to death. Proctor, who places his pride above his life, chooses to die rather than comprise his principles so Abigail, though she ...

MEDIA AND ERIKSON'S STAGES

about how he/she appears to others and later on, the child develops a sense of sexual identity) Young adulthood/intimacy v ...

Wilson’s The Piano Lesson

expects of herself, involves being the keeper of the history of the family. There is likely many elements within her character tha...

The Scarlet Letter

the story the reader discovers that he has branded himself permanently with an "A" to pay for his sins. But, he is not a man who w...