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In five pages this character analysis compares Hamlet to Nick Carraway and Claudius to Tom Buchanan with themes also compared. Th...

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...

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 --...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

hit-and-run death of Toms mistress, the married Myrtle Wilson. Her widower is deceived into thinking Gatsby caused the accident, ...

expensive roadster, and momentarily loses control of the car, striking and killing a woman, Myrtle Wilson, whom readers later lear...

In five pages a character analysis of Jay Gatsby and some insights into his true identity are presented. There are no other sourc...

In seven pages this essay analyzes the motivation behind the title character's obsession with Daisy Buchanan and what she represen...

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

and a truly brazen attitude - were in vogue, as was drinking. Although Prohibition was in force to try to prevent people from imbi...

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 ...

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

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

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

America in the 1920s" (Gibb 96). Gatsby is, in many ways, the epitome of new growth and renewal and thus of a metaphorical landsca...

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...

As such he makes a very good narrator. He also cares about people, which also makes him a reliable narrator. This is good because ...

move comfortably in the social circle of people like the Buchanans. Fitzgerald shows us all the trappings of wealth: the gorgeous...

less than legal involvement. But, for the most part that did not matter, for the premise of the book, in relationship to acceptabl...

example, how he constantly throws huge parties that are very elaborate and clearly of wealth. Yet he never really attends them. He...

shirts and strolls her through his kitchen. There, we see Daisys hand trailing along a large work table...the elegant chandeliers ...

basis for Nicks disillusionment with the decadence of east coast American society (Fitzgerald 3). Gatsbys pursuit of the American ...