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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 ...

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

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 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...

This essay offers a summary and discussion of themes and characters in "Winter Dreams," a short story by Fitzgerald. Three pages i...

It was Fitzgerald who is credited with coining the phrase Jazz Age to describe the 1920s. During this time, the spectre of war an...

errors, and so kind to people that I always thought of him as a sort of saint" (Hemingway 88). This is clearly a very high claim t...

decide to go out on his own and catch a fish so that he was not unlucky any longer. He is also a very old man. In these respects o...

is also presented in a manner that makes the reader see what a sad and lonely life she has likely led. This is generally inferred ...

women: "During the early 20th century the term new woman came to be used in the popular press. More young women than ever were goi...

those standards of conduct which generations before World War I appeared to accept as adequate and perfectly satisfactory" (Meyers...

is lives in the swanky neighborhood of town while Myrtle lives in closer proximity to the billboard noted above. Gatsby is acknow...

She has been given the opportunity, or so she thinks, to finally live a life that is solely hers. There is a powerful sense of fre...

desperation or dismay of the narrator whereas Hemingways story leaves us to infer the desperation, but the ending is very similar....

than half an hour from the bridge, if that is possible.... How are you called? I have forgotten. It was a bad sign to him that he ...

choked with it, so that they die and fall early. This of course is an extended metaphor for the men themselves, who will also die ...

to give up, even though he demonstrates clear weaknesses. Santiagos pride pushes him so far that he risks his life, stupid...

conventions of gender as she, or Jake, thinks she is" (The Sun Also Rises (1926) Lecture Notes (Last Day of Discussion)). This fal...

strolled down town, read and went to bed. He was still a hero to his two young sisters" (Hemingway 112). He was a hero because he ...

a sense of belief and stability. However, one is never really sure if the priest is really that devoted due to the general nature ...

three oclock. What kind of hour is that to go to bed?" (Hemingway). His colleague says "He stays up because he likes it" (Hemingwa...

conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...

people. In the United States there is no such thing as a real bullfight, or the bull runs that take place in Spain. It seems, when...

the novelette" (Bruccoli; Hemingway; Baughman 121). This critic was responding to a statement made by Hemingway wherein he claimed...

pictured offering ironic commentaries on sculpture and art, with his conversation peppered with "allusions to Samuel Johnson, Sain...

Frederic and Hemingway both drove ambulances, and were both wounded, and both fell in love with their nurses. But, to take a trivi...

of raucous, unchecked hullabaloo, drinking binges that last from morning to night..." (Scalero 489). Hemingways heroes spend their...

In ten pages men and women as depicted in the characterizations of Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley in Ernest Hemingway's novel T...