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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...

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

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

and actually wrote several novels and short stories during the period ("F. Scott Fitzgerald"). Interestingly, his novels were neve...

Ambition and a self-made determination, and the freedom to achieve anything that one sets his or her mind to were the basic concep...

In five pages this paper examines society's evils as represented within Mark Twain's classic American novel. One source is listed...

This 16 page paper examines four books that are centered on American society. The books discussed are Joyce Maynard's To Die For; ...

In 5 pages this paper examines how Mark Twain's writings were influenced by the values of the American South in a consideration of...

racist and a whole host of other uncomplimentary terms; however, it has been -- and continues to be -- instrumental in describing ...

In five pages Mark Twain's use of regional dialects in his classic 1884 American novel is examined with its intentions often being...

and wrong the past was, as he also introduces what were still subversive ideas concerning race. For example, take the way that Chr...

what her life has been. This view of Granny life offers a contradiction to every misogynist preconception of womanhood that was ev...

retinas are one yard high" (Fitzgerald 15). The student researching this topic will note that there are divergences from the stu...

alcoholism. That essential plot is one filled with a powerful sense of seeking ones identity and a sense of loneliness. In...

In 6 pages this paper analyzes the male and female heroines in the texts The Ice Palace, Winter Dreams, The Last Tycoon, This Side...

This paper analyzes thematic elements of the short story, The Story of the Bad Little Boy by Mark Twain. The author compares this ...

wisest and smartest of his people, respected by his people. Huck tells us that, "Strange niggers would stand with their mouths ope...

strategic outposts for expanding trade with Latin America and Asia, particularly China" (History of the United States, 1865-1918, ...

there are certain things a person must do, certain things a man must feel and never turn away from. So many men were lost in their...

(Wilson). As such both stories are clearly reflective of the authors but also different in that respect for Doolittles is, althoug...

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

people are happy to work for practically nothing, low-skill labor is relegated to the food and service industries, which offer min...

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

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

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 ...

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...

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

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

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...