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American Literature and Major Common Themes

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

An American Dream Tragedy, The Great Gatsby

This essay describes the thematic function of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Six pages in length, ...

Waste Land in the Works of Mason and Fitzgerald

to him. He merely knows that without his job he is lost, but he doesnt have the insight to look inward for the answers....

Symbols in Gatsby, the Fading American Dream

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

Jay Gatsby and the Cult of Celebrity

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

Life and Morality

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...

Various Themes in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

In five pages this paper discusses the various themes and symbolism that are featured in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and the Character Nick Carraway

In five pages this paper presents a character analysis of Nick Carraway as featured in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. T...

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Truman Capote and the American Dream, a Critique of the American Dream in F. Scott Fitzgerald's “The Great Gatsby” and Truman Capote's “Breakfast at Tiffany's”

Gatsby, and in Truman Capotes Breakfast at Tiffanys, first published in 1958. Both define the American Dream as the exclusive pro...

A Conservative or Liberal 1920s?

personal look at the 1920s and the liberal changes taking place. A Decade of Change "The changes wrought in the United States ...

Society's Influence on Fitzgerald and Williams

and a truly brazen attitude - were in vogue, as was drinking. Although Prohibition was in force to try to prevent people from imbi...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Reality

not exist as it does in The Great Gatsby, leaves the reader without reason to involve himself in the realistic aspects of the stor...

Nick Carraway's Narrative in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In seven pages this paper argues that the shattered illusion of the American Dream and its impact are embodied in Nick Carraway's ...

An Analysis of Fitzgerald's Novel, The Great Gatsby

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

Benjamin Franklin and F. Scott Fitzgerald on the American Dream and Morality

In 5 pages this paper discusses how Franklin and Fitzgerald presented morality and the American Dream in a comparative analysis of...

Male and Female Protagonists in the Writings of F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

A Character Study of Fitzgerald's, The Great Gatsby

This paper analyzes characterization and the theme of abandoned ethics seen in Fitzgerald's classic novel, The Great Gatsby. The a...

Partying and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

In 5 pages this paper examines the 1920s' significance of the party as represented in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Th...

American Dream and Materialism in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

society . . . profoundly agrees with Marxs great discovery that it is social rather than individual consciousness that determines ...

Literary Modernism

In five pages The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Trial by Franz Kafka are compared in terms of European and American ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's Respected Literary Reputation

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

Two Female Characters in U.S. Fiction

5 pages and 2 sources used. This paper provides an overview and a comparison of the lives and characteristics of two central fema...

F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway on the American Dream

done in their lives as they see no hope in the future. Their American Dream is one that came smashing down with the pessimistic re...

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Water Imagery

pursues a materialistic dream that is draped in romantic expectation. Nick comes to feel that Gatsbys misplaced idealism and roman...

Nick Carraway, the American Dream, and The Great Gatsby

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

An Idealistic Literary Vision of America

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...

Bernice Bobs Her Hair and The Great Gatsby

certain light. The narrator to tells us that, "Ive heard it said that Daisys murmur was only to make people lean toward her; an ir...

Symbolism and Characterization in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

As such he makes a very good narrator. He also cares about people, which also makes him a reliable narrator. This is good because ...

Student Essay Rewrite on F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

beautiful Daisy Buchanan. His enigmatic behavior and opulent lifestyle are designed to impress Daisy and bring her back into his l...

Life and Writings of F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Bernice Bobs her Hair," "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," "The Debutante," "Absolution," and "Winter Dreams." (http://www.sc.edu/...