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as "the best of times and the worst of times" -- those of hope and optimism, but also of disillusionment and despair. It was extr...
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...
This paper analyzes F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel, The Great Gatsby. The author argues that the work qualifies as an excell...
hit-and-run death of Toms mistress, the married Myrtle Wilson. Her widower is deceived into thinking Gatsby caused the accident, ...
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...
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 ...
character: Gekko cannot perceive of any moral way of doing things and instead relates his job, his life, and his pursuits to his ...
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...
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...
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...
not exist as it does in The Great Gatsby, leaves the reader without reason to involve himself in the realistic aspects of the stor...
and a truly brazen attitude - were in vogue, as was drinking. Although Prohibition was in force to try to prevent people from imbi...
role in this respect. Plato held that the key agent in any sort of behavior but especially ethical or moral behavior (or lack of t...
In five pages this paper discusses the various themes and symbolism that are featured in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. ...
Gatsby, and in Truman Capotes Breakfast at Tiffanys, first published in 1958. Both define the American Dream as the exclusive pro...
personal look at the 1920s and the liberal changes taking place. A Decade of Change "The changes wrought in the United States ...
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 ...
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 ...
is lives in the swanky neighborhood of town while Myrtle lives in closer proximity to the billboard noted above. Gatsby is acknow...
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 ...
so pervades The Great Gatsby that Fitzgeralds true achievement was to appropriate American legend."1 The book gives us both romanc...
example, how he constantly throws huge parties that are very elaborate and clearly of wealth. Yet he never really attends them. He...