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

not abhor, which is very important in setting up the story: "Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from...

the four most important symbols are the characters names, especially the women; the green light on Daisys dock, the so-called "val...

of Gatsby himself, at least in part. Gatsby is far from a worthless fool like Trimalchio, but he is surrounded by sycophants and o...

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...

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

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

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

same time he undercuts Gatsby by telling readers that he made his money illegally; he was a bootlegger (he sold illegal whiskey du...

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

In seven pages this paper analyzes how the 1920s' American Dream is presented in The Great Gatsby by author F. Scott Fitzgerald. ...

In twelve pages this paper examines confrontation in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and in Toni Morrison's Jazz. One othe...

we see him. At a military camp of King Duncans, a soldier is brought in who tells of the battle in which he was injured, and in wh...

in a most hideous way, Yossarian pleads with Doc Daneeka to ground him on the basis of insanity. Doc Daneeka replies that Yossaria...

illustrating how misery is a product of human actions. This book can be said to have more dark overtones than those of some of h...

is Miss Havisham. He believes that she is funding his education so that he can become educated and then wealthy and then be worthy...

a very well to do family. She attempts to foster a love of beauty and words to the narrator. In order to do this she encourages th...

In many ways the social failure of America as a whole at this time in history is symbolized by the personal failure experienced...

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

hostile public world. Yet, she confesses to a friend that she keeps her business activities a secret from him because it would be ...

In two pages this paper examines how American small town life is unsympathetically portrayed in Main Street by Sinclair Lewis....

This paper considers the similarities and differences between Jane in Jane Eyre, and Antonia in My Antonia by Cather. This eight p...

In five pages this report examines how the primary characters in each of these short stories undergoes different changes. Five so...

way down the social ladder. The Shipman, i.e., the "sailor," is placed between Chaucers description of the Cook and the "Doctor of...

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...

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

now wealthy and has achieved all he set out to do. In this chapter we see many different things which tell us that Jay is nothing ...

an affair. The whole family was corrupt and unforgiving, but most importantly their downfall came at their very own hands because...

feels about herself. Mable, left to pretty much fend for herself after her fathers death, must struggle to maintain the household...

run away, thus setting up the main action of the plot, because the man she loves, Lysander, agrees to run away with her. They end ...