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her womanhood, she is one who lives at the mercy of her desires. Not aware -- or at least not caring -- about the havoc she wreak...

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 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...

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

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

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

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...

the age of about thirteen and well-brought-up boy children from about eight years old on...I forgot to add that I liked old men --...

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

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

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 ...

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

Fitzgerald was seeking in his style and the forms that were emerging in relationship to the 20s. Berman notes how many of his stor...

gained on the Italian front. Although Hemingway delicately avoids telling us precisely where the wound is, we know it is around hi...

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 ...

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

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

America in the 1920s" (Gibb 96). Gatsby is, in many ways, the epitome of new growth and renewal and thus of a metaphorical landsca...

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

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

As such he makes a very good narrator. He also cares about people, which also makes him a reliable narrator. This is good because ...

two people who hold true to the notion that determination and hard work can get you ahead in the world of the American ideal. Gats...