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This paper consists of five pages and examines how Gatsby in The Great Gatsby, Stahr in The Love of the Last Tycoon, and Blaine in...

feel of the American youth culture, because he, and through his writing, Amory Blaine, as well, were young men of the time in whic...

adapt to social hierarchies" (Sparknotes [1]). In this we could perhaps argue that one thing he knows about himself is that he wan...

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...

poverty to a position of wealth. While many people who wanted this particular American Dream of wealth and material possessions ...

he comes back to try and win Jonquil again, and by then he is a success; in addition, he has made his fortune in civil engineering...

gained on the Italian front. Although Hemingway delicately avoids telling us precisely where the wound is, we know it is around hi...

and honor were really worth possessing. The Great Gatsby In first discussing Fitzgeralds story we look at the man who is Gats...

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 ...

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

In seven pages this paper examines the excesses of the American Dream and its criticisms signified by the characterization of Jay ...

In five pages The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is examined with the focus being upon the obsessive love Jay Gatsby had for ...

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

expensive roadster, and momentarily loses control of the car, striking and killing a woman, Myrtle Wilson, whom readers later lear...

In five pages a character analysis of Jay Gatsby and some insights into his true identity are presented. There are no other sourc...

In seven pages this essay analyzes the motivation behind the title character's obsession with Daisy Buchanan and what she represen...

through Nicks eyes Nick provides the voice by which the other characters are heard. As such, he serves as a "translator of the dr...

the age of about thirteen and well-brought-up boy children from about eight years old on...I forgot to add that I liked old men --...

for traditional values and is attracted to the fast-life epitomized by Jay. Nick comes to understand that Gatsby, rather than the...

together, ties up all loose plot ends, and eventually takes the story full circle. The participating narrator/protagonist appeale...

example, Gatsby is showing her through his house and he shows her his silk shirts: "Theyre such beautiful shirts, she sobbed, her ...

is when Gatsby holds out his arms toward a small green light in the distance, which the reader learns later is the green light on ...

Fitzgerald was seeking in his style and the forms that were emerging in relationship to the 20s. Berman notes how many of his stor...

An elderly pianist, Mademoiselles music arouses Ednas artistic temperament. Additionally, Edna becomes infatuated with a young man...

Ambition and a self-made determination, and the freedom to achieve anything that one sets his or her mind to were the basic concep...

went to work on the street early in life, and fell in with a teenage gang from the Lower East Side. Taking advantage of Prohibitio...

her well-loved eyes" (Fitzgerald 111). As this suggests, Gatsbys many possessions and signs of extreme wealth are not important ...

example, how he constantly throws huge parties that are very elaborate and clearly of wealth. Yet he never really attends them. He...

less than legal involvement. But, for the most part that did not matter, for the premise of the book, in relationship to acceptabl...

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...