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my opinion, yet I consider our condition but little better than that....After all, methinks there are no chains so galling as thos...

The Second Great Awakening has typically been identified first as a Christian evangelical movement but it also had an impact on al...

shaped by trying to achieve the American dream, but by experiencing what occurs when others achieve and pass on the values of weal...

same time he undercuts Gatsby by telling readers that he made his money illegally; he was a bootlegger (he sold illegal whiskey du...

not abhor, which is very important in setting up the story: "Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from...

for that reason its possible that he colors the accounts he gives. However, he is the closest thing we have to a neutral observer,...

book, Benjamin Schreier claims that Gatsby, if not actually black-an unusual interpretation to be sure-is someone of color; he bas...

intelligence and talent to work in ways that are less than reputable in order to pursue an illusion of beauty. Making his fortune ...

no success at all; that belongs to the people who employ the hard workers. But the dream persists, and Gatsby seems to achieve it,...

no face, instead, the eyes are behind an enormous pair of glasses which are sitting on a non-existent nose (Fitzgerald). Nick, who...

important to remember that at the time Fitzgerald wrote, "immigrants were coming to the United States by the millions because they...

his personal life, and physically; hes a bigot, hes a racist, and he has a mistress who he makes little effort to hide from his wi...

role in this respect. Plato held that the key agent in any sort of behavior but especially ethical or moral behavior (or lack of t...

the city may appear attractive and it certainly attracted Nick, it is hollow. He expresses this by returning home to the midwest. ...

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 five pages these two works are compared in terms of the author's psychological and sociological objectives and how they are exp...

does begin to notice the details of her life that she used to overlook, such as returning home, windblown and sunburned, and disco...

Fitzgerald, had acquired a bad reputation in Paris. When they werent on drinking binges, they were flirting with members of the o...

it hung in dark-brown glory down her back" (Fitzgerald bernice.html). Bernice realizes that she needs to stand out even mor...

she says, but for the first time we suspect she is not going to be able to do that. Here we have to conclude there is a definite...

In seven pages Tender is the Night is considered within the context of the protagonist Dick Diver and his influence upon the other...

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...

In nine pages this paper examines Dick Diver's ethical downfall and the collapse of value systems within the context of the novel....

It is clear in this story that the greed of the Washingtons is out-of-control. Mr. Washington doesnt want anyone to find out abou...

and "chivalrous, heroic knights" rescuing beautiful maidens (Romance, 2006). Not all romances end happily (the poet Byron is a Rom...

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

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

in his conclusions, the "patterns of subjugation, resistance, readjustment and accommodation" that are evident in this period of h...

is being raped, the experience evolves into something that is "sensually stimulating, relaxing, and, of course, spiritually illumi...

women at the time, including women writers such as Chopin (Levy 242). Structure The structure of Chopins short story "The Story o...