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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...

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

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

In five pages this paper presents a character analysis of Nick Carraway as featured in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. T...

In seven pages this paper argues that the shattered illusion of the American Dream and its impact are embodied in Nick Carraway's ...

affair. If the story were told by Gatsby, we would get the story of a poor but ruthlessly ambitious youth on the make. We would l...

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

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

through Nicks eyes Nick provides the voice by which the other characters are heard. As such, he serves as a "translator of the dr...

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

Jazz Age"). Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda were a sort of American "royalty," known as much for their "madcap antics as for his wri...

poverty to a position of wealth. While many people who wanted this particular American Dream of wealth and material possessions ...

believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your...

her well-loved eyes" (Fitzgerald 111). As this suggests, Gatsbys many possessions and signs of extreme wealth are not important ...

This essay asserts that Nick Carraway's narration presents Jay Gatsby's story in terms of Freudian psychology and as paralleling ...

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

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

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 ...

he comes back to try and win Jonquil again, and by then he is a success; in addition, he has made his fortune in civil engineering...

Fitzgerald was seeking in his style and the forms that were emerging in relationship to the 20s. Berman notes how many of his stor...

own death and running away. Along the way, he meets Jim, a runaway slave who is traveling north in hopes of freeing his family. ...

of his mother during her long illness, however, he primarily, marries her because he does not want to be alone during the long New...

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

the age of about thirteen and well-brought-up boy children from about eight years old on...I forgot to add that I liked old men --...

has died. Beginning in the third stanza, the poet discusses the death and again addresses the deceased directly. He says the youn...

In five pages The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is examined with the focus being upon the obsessive love Jay Gatsby had for ...

the foundation of the past that Jay will always try to defy. In essence, as he grows he tries to make money, become powerful, and ...

they have somehow missed the spiritual dimension which they purport to seek, and have been sidetracked instead into seeing materia...

certain light. The narrator to tells us that, "Ive heard it said that Daisys murmur was only to make people lean toward her; an ir...

two people who hold true to the notion that determination and hard work can get you ahead in the world of the American ideal. Gats...