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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...

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...

many argue saw the true beginning of a consumeristic culture as the American Dream turned to one of material wealth as a sign of s...

the major theme is far from romantic in nature. This story is all about the disintegration of the once proud American Dream. And, ...

his personality. He then discusses how he in the present, and why, then shifts to discussing the people who are Daisy and Tom. He ...

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...

she could display for all to see. She possessed all the "shallowness" (Fitzgerald PG) of a person who knew not how to love yet kn...

In eight pages this paper analyzes this classic American novel and its confrontation of post First World War truths about the Amer...

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

In eight pages this paper examines how Fitzgerald employs symbolism and imagery in his novel much as a lyric poem would in terms o...

In five pages this paper discusses how the novel portrays a post First World War I America and declining values. There are no oth...

In 6 pages this paper discusses how the narrators of these respective texts managed to develop their own individuality through the...

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

In five pages this paper compares and contrasts these two supporting characters and also considers the symbolism represented by th...

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

In five pages this research paper examines the changing of American values as represented in Fitzgerald's novel with Tom Buchanan ...

In three pages the ways in which Fitzgerald employs settings and how they influence characterizations and affect the overall novel...

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

In five pages this paper examines how short stories depict love in terms of similarities and differences found in Susan Minot's 'L...

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

"Bernice Bobs her Hair," "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," "The Debutante," "Absolution," and "Winter Dreams." (http://www.sc.edu/...

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

so pervades The Great Gatsby that Fitzgeralds true achievement was to appropriate American legend."1 The book gives us both romanc...

as "The Jazz Age." When not numbing themselves with superficial pleasures, young people were pursuing the American Dream, as tran...

In five pages this paper provides a comparative analysis of these two famous American literary works in terms of the acquisition o...

This sense of optimistic euphoria was forever captured in F. Scott Fitzgeralds 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby. Its featured charact...

in the promised land did so through the exploitation of the land, its resources, and its natives" as is the case with Jay Gatsby (...

In nine pages the loss of the American dream as Fitzgerald portrays it in the moral decline and incest themes in his novel is disc...

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