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so much as for the enjoyment of others, for the pride he could have when looking at what he achieved through the eyes of others. T...

psyche which he has not yet lost. The book did not reach as high a level of commercial success as further books such as Farewell t...

the foundation of the past that Jay will always try to defy. In essence, as he grows he tries to make money, become powerful, and ...

about, while assessing the characters he meets. In this respect both narrators must take into consideration the past lives of the ...

we are offered the changing nature of that American Dream as it turned to something far more materialistic and powerful in a capit...

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

letters and "The letters cover everything from the emptiness Hemingway felt upon completing a novel to their shared loneliness" (P...

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

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...

has died. Beginning in the third stanza, the poet discusses the death and again addresses the deceased directly. He says the youn...

this relationship, which is entails infidelity and, therefore, mistrust and lies. Similarly, miscommunication and infidelity pla...

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

great deal around the fiesta, or the action of partying and escaping reality. But, with each step or each sense of hope the charac...

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

many argue saw the true beginning of a consumeristic culture as the American Dream turned to one of material wealth as a sign of s...

to salvage their relationship. When a scratch on his leg goes untreated with iodine, it becomes gangrenous, and as he lay dying, ...

wives, women always seemed to entice Hemingway and then he would somehow lose interest in them and move on. In better understandin...

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

- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...

is often overlooked as a Hemingway story because it addresses a very different sort of theme. But, it is a timeless theme and it i...

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

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

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...

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

affair. If the story were told by Gatsby, we would get the story of a poor but ruthlessly ambitious youth on the make. We would l...

far more refined individual, even if he still slung to some of his impoverished perspectives. For example, he shows his need to sh...

Jazz Age"). Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda were a sort of American "royalty," known as much for their "madcap antics as for his wri...

about the characters thoughts and motivations. So we are going to read the story and see what happened through Nicks eyes, which m...

Uncle Sam finally entered the First World War in 1917, Hemingway tried to enlist, but was constantly rejected because of his poor ...

of Gatsby himself, at least in part. Gatsby is far from a worthless fool like Trimalchio, but he is surrounded by sycophants and o...