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which also includes the tales of the Friar, Summoner, Clerk, Merchant, Squire and Franklin and consist of tales or perceptions rel...

story "Grit" portrays the intense conflict that arises between Glen, the manager of the Black Beauty Minerals Plant located in Mob...

This paper analyzes F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel, The Great Gatsby. The author argues that the work qualifies as an excell...

In five pages this character analysis compares Hamlet to Nick Carraway and Claudius to Tom Buchanan with themes also compared. Th...

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

In a paper containing seven pages the American Dream is compared and contrasted in these works. There are three bibliographic sou...

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...

As a young woman Catherine was apparently already determined to be a very powerful and effective leader. She "was ambitious as wel...

and a man who, as mentioned never had to work for a living. In these two so far we see many differences, the primary one being ...

the end, of her heart and a possible "condition" and so the reader may well dismiss this fact in a first reading. But, at the same...

allows Holden to be dismissive of material concerns. After running away to spend some time in New York City on his own, which is...

character: Gekko cannot perceive of any moral way of doing things and instead relates his job, his life, and his pursuits to his ...

work on a road gang, where his frail health will ultimately doom him, the girl is raised by her aunt and uncle, and it is this aun...

for constant friendship and status both in the group and in the school. The group gives each member protection from being alone an...

her emotions to get the better of her. But, then again, if one looks back in history, at the time this story was written, that hea...

series of flashback scenes, it becomes apparent that Kane, though quite wealthy, does not know who he is anymore. Having risen fro...

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...

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...

calls friends. In particular, is his pursuit of Daisy. Why Daisy, one might ask? Simple. She was the symbol of landed wealth, of t...

to him. He merely knows that without his job he is lost, but he doesnt have the insight to look inward for the answers....

shirts and strolls her through his kitchen. There, we see Daisys hand trailing along a large work table...the elegant chandeliers ...

important to remember that at the time Fitzgerald wrote, "immigrants were coming to the United States by the millions because they...

different than those who attend his party and do little more than drink and let loose. With such a setting, as one of the most ...

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

the city may appear attractive and it certainly attracted Nick, it is hollow. He expresses this by returning home to the midwest. ...

basis for Nicks disillusionment with the decadence of east coast American society (Fitzgerald 3). Gatsbys pursuit of the American ...

intelligence and talent to work in ways that are less than reputable in order to pursue an illusion of beauty. Making his fortune ...

no success at all; that belongs to the people who employ the hard workers. But the dream persists, and Gatsby seems to achieve it,...