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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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

moralism in the United States, and struggling to find worth in either of them. For this "Lost Generation", as they are commonly ca...

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

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...

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

only for you!" (Bronte Chapter X). But, he also begins to realize that he will never have her and his dreams seem to end. He marri...

of his mother during her long illness, however, he primarily, marries her because he does not want to be alone during the long New...

few minutes I was going to enter into their lives, and no one would ever know or disapprove" (Fitzgerald 61). He soon finds that...

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...

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

for that reason its possible that he colors the accounts he gives. However, he is the closest thing we have to a neutral observer,...

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

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

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...

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

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

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