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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...

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

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

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

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

about the characters thoughts and motivations. So we are going to read the story and see what happened through Nicks eyes, which m...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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 --...

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

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

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 ...

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

This paper analyzes F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel, The Great Gatsby. The author argues that the work qualifies as an excell...

In twelve pages this paper examines confrontation in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and in Toni Morrison's Jazz. One othe...

two depictions. Within the theme of The Great Gatsby, Daisy, as weak and dependent as she may be, knows the power she has over me...

In five pages this paper examines F. Scott Fitzgerald's work in a consideration of how despite his lone critical success The Great...

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...

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

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 ...

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