YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Past Revived in Works by F Scott Fitzgerald and William Faulkner
Essays 181 - 210
In four pages this paper examines these authors' perceptions of women as they are represented in characterizations of sin and good...
In seven pages this paper analyzes how the 1920s' American Dream is presented in The Great Gatsby by author F. Scott Fitzgerald. ...
in his disguise as the Black Knight, praises Locksley/Robin Hood, as he says that a man who "does good, having the unlimited power...
Robert ‘‘Yank'' Smith in The Hairy Ape by Eugene O'Neill and Charlie Wales in Babylon Revisited by F. Scott Fitzgerald...
In five pages the grotesque is analyzed within the context of Faulkner's short story 'A Rose for Emily' and O'Connor's short story...
In seven pages this paper argues that the shattered illusion of the American Dream and its impact are embodied in Nick Carraway's ...
In five pages this research paper compares Miller's Death of a Salesman and Faulkner's 'Barn Burning' in an examination of relatio...
as "The Jazz Age." When not numbing themselves with superficial pleasures, young people were pursuing the American Dream, as tran...
In 6 pages this paper analyzes the male and female heroines in the texts The Ice Palace, Winter Dreams, The Last Tycoon, This Side...
kills them when hes trying to pet them, not realizing his own strength. His strength, in fact, is his downfall - when he first mee...
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 ...
heritage that he ignored his wifes infidelity and she ultimately committed suicide. In addition, there is Faulkners Lena Grove, t...
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...
humanity. The action is the medium by which the man learns, but it is the learning that makes the story fundamentally interesting....
attended but did not graduate from Princeton University. While at Princeton however, Fitzgerald was first exposed to the exceeding...
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...
they have somehow missed the spiritual dimension which they purport to seek, and have been sidetracked instead into seeing materia...
"exciting, gripping story of crime and bloodshed" (Anonymous PG) leaves the reader with many unanswered questions, which only serv...
fighter due to the story regarding her missing teeth. In that incident she was demanding that an individual pay her for the work s...
the 1920s turned to the American Dream we know today, which involves the assumption that if we work hard we can have wealth, and w...
is lives in the swanky neighborhood of town while Myrtle lives in closer proximity to the billboard noted above. Gatsby is acknow...
South in some way" (William Faulkner). For example, "If he is talking about a child, it is a child in the South. If Faulkner is w...
his aristocratic persona was largely manufactured, because although Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald had some illustrious ancestors, i...
certain light. The narrator to tells us that, "Ive heard it said that Daisys murmur was only to make people lean toward her; an ir...
has died. Beginning in the third stanza, the poet discusses the death and again addresses the deceased directly. He says the youn...
gloried in the proud history of the plantation South that secured a place of honor for the aristocrat, and yet he abhorred the opp...
just get the story out. In fact, many novelists and short story writers are storytellers. They simply tell a story. That is all th...