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as the finest American novel ever written. It retains its power because it is a sort of dual effort: it praises the American Dream...

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

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

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

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...

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 ...

move comfortably in the social circle of people like the Buchanans. Fitzgerald shows us all the trappings of wealth: the gorgeous...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

people are happy to work for practically nothing, low-skill labor is relegated to the food and service industries, which offer min...

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

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...

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

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

In five pages this report examines how Gatsby depicts a corrupted variation of the American Dream in Fitzgerald's classic 1925 nov...

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

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

Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman is compared and contrasted with F. Scott Fitzgerald's Gatsby character. The Ame...

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