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value into ultimately empty goals; this is indicated by the comparison of Gatsbys quest for Daisy with the "American dream" itself...

who does not exhibit the same or nearly the same amount of wealth and material possessions. The lost generation of America is ext...

so pervades The Great Gatsby that Fitzgeralds true achievement was to appropriate American legend."1 The book gives us both romanc...

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

the modern world was a study in contrasts between interior and exterior, so too was modernist literature. There was often the con...

as "the best of times and the worst of times" -- those of hope and optimism, but also of disillusionment and despair. It was extr...

his personality. He then discusses how he in the present, and why, then shifts to discussing the people who are Daisy and Tom. He ...

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...

the major theme is far from romantic in nature. This story is all about the disintegration of the once proud American Dream. And, ...

In 6 pages this paper discusses how the narrators of these respective texts managed to develop their own individuality through the...

In five pages this paper compares and contrasts these two supporting characters and also considers the symbolism represented by th...

In five pages the protagonist and narrator of Fitzgerald's 1925 classic novel is presented in this character sketch. One source i...

on The Great Gatsby, "As Puritan values gave way to an unrestrained craving for money, power, and other forms of gratification, th...

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

In four pages this paper examines how the theme of corruption is represented within the context of Fitzgerald's 1925 novel masterp...

In five pages this research paper examines the changing of American values as represented in Fitzgerald's novel with Tom Buchanan ...

In three pages the ways in which Fitzgerald employs settings and how they influence characterizations and affect the overall novel...

suitors. Interestingly enough, this particular strategy has not altered since the 1920s. Daisy is about money and the corruption...

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

she could display for all to see. She possessed all the "shallowness" (Fitzgerald PG) of a person who knew not how to love yet kn...

In eight pages this paper examines how Fitzgerald employs symbolism and imagery in his novel much as a lyric poem would in terms o...

In eight pages this paper analyzes this classic American novel and its confrontation of post First World War truths about the Amer...

illustrated in the frequent comparisons between the Long Island sections of East Egg and West Egg. As narrator Nick Carraway, a W...

In five pages this paper discusses how the novel portrays a post First World War I America and declining values. There are no oth...

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

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

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

and actually wrote several novels and short stories during the period ("F. Scott Fitzgerald"). Interestingly, his novels were neve...

each other often about literary topics as well as the war (Tender is the Night). It was during this time in France that Fitzger...

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