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the 1920s turned to the American Dream we know today, which involves the assumption that if we work hard we can have wealth, and w...

his aristocratic persona was largely manufactured, because although Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald had some illustrious ancestors, i...

very influential in his work for he and Zelda essentially lived the exciting lives of the flapper generation of the 1920s. They dr...

just get the story out. In fact, many novelists and short story writers are storytellers. They simply tell a story. That is all th...

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

own death and running away. Along the way, he meets Jim, a runaway slave who is traveling north in hopes of freeing his family. ...

recognized and encouraged Fitzs literary talents, anything outside that parameter was not worth his time, attention or study, unle...

humanity. The action is the medium by which the man learns, but it is the learning that makes the story fundamentally interesting....

each other often about literary topics as well as the war (Tender is the Night). It was during this time in France that Fitzger...

In five pages this paper discusses how the past is revived in 'Babylon Revisited' by F. Scott Fitzgerald and in 'A Rose for Emily'...

indescribable evil. Symbols always present another layer to a story, as well as another realm for questioning. Hawthornes repea...

In six pages the stories 'Crazy Sunday' by F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'The Resemblance Between a Violin Case and a Coffin' by Tenness...

Robert ‘‘Yank'' Smith in The Hairy Ape by Eugene O'Neill and Charlie Wales in Babylon Revisited by F. Scott Fitzgerald...

flower, hence the name chosen for her by the author; however, a brightly appealing as she might be on the outside, she harbors the...

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

This 5 page paper argues that true love is a rare, idealised type of love that is truly found only in a parent's love for a child....

in his disguise as the Black Knight, praises Locksley/Robin Hood, as he says that a man who "does good, having the unlimited power...

As a young woman Catherine was apparently already determined to be a very powerful and effective leader. She "was ambitious as wel...

imagine a more severe disparity of power than the one that exists in present-day Iran since its revolution and the institution of ...

This paper reviews author Scott Shackford's defense of violent video games as published in the article Imaginary Guns Don't Kill P...

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

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...

pavilions from all different nations, and its possible to buy food and authentic merchandise from the country youre visiting. The...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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