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

her well-loved eyes" (Fitzgerald 111). As this suggests, Gatsbys many possessions and signs of extreme wealth are not important ...

This research paper examines Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and how the characterization of this novel's main character denies thi...

In two pages this paper discusses the target audience of a current Time Magazine issue in an overview of such topics as marital st...

This research paper offers an overview of the status of Indonesian women in regards to educational achievement, employment status ...

shaped by trying to achieve the American dream, but by experiencing what occurs when others achieve and pass on the values of weal...

value into ultimately empty goals; this is indicated by the comparison of Gatsbys quest for Daisy with the "American dream" itself...

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...

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

for that reason its possible that he colors the accounts he gives. However, he is the closest thing we have to a neutral observer,...

book, Benjamin Schreier claims that Gatsby, if not actually black-an unusual interpretation to be sure-is someone of color; he bas...

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

ever written. F. Scott Fitzgeralds portrait of Jay Gatsby resonates with almost every reader because he is so human in his hopes a...

with the wealth he possesses, and likely also very taken with his obvious infatuation with her. She does not stop his adoration of...

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...

family that was better off than his own. In order to make something of himself he began to write articles for various magazines. H...

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

on the world scene. And, we know that the one individual who could perhaps sway him from his innocent and noble ways is Gatsby him...

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

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

we are offered the changing nature of that American Dream as it turned to something far more materialistic and powerful in a capit...

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

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 ...

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...

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...