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as "The Jazz Age." When not numbing themselves with superficial pleasures, young people were pursuing the American Dream, as tran...
means just that-and he must be about His Fathers business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented ...
In seven pages this paper analyzes how the 1920s' American Dream is presented in The Great Gatsby by author F. Scott Fitzgerald. ...
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 seven pages this paper examines the excesses of the American Dream and its criticisms signified by the characterization of Jay ...
society . . . profoundly agrees with Marxs great discovery that it is social rather than individual consciousness that determines ...
in the promised land did so through the exploitation of the land, its resources, and its natives" as is the case with Jay Gatsby (...
who does not exhibit the same or nearly the same amount of wealth and material possessions. The lost generation of America is ext...
This essay describes the thematic function of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Six pages in length, ...
This paper analyzes F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel, The Great Gatsby. The author argues that the work qualifies as an excell...
In seven pages this essay analyzes the motivation behind the title character's obsession with Daisy Buchanan and what she represen...
In five pages a character analysis of Jay Gatsby and some insights into his true identity are presented. There are no other sourc...
expensive roadster, and momentarily loses control of the car, striking and killing a woman, Myrtle Wilson, whom readers later lear...
retinas are one yard high" (Fitzgerald 15). The student researching this topic will note that there are divergences from the stu...
no success at all; that belongs to the people who employ the hard workers. But the dream persists, and Gatsby seems to achieve it,...
value into ultimately empty goals; this is indicated by the comparison of Gatsbys quest for Daisy with the "American dream" itself...
belief in the "American way," but even at the cost of his sanity he is still unable to succeed. What he has done is to instill the...
her well-loved eyes" (Fitzgerald 111). As this suggests, Gatsbys many possessions and signs of extreme wealth are not important ...
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 ...
Ambition and a self-made determination, and the freedom to achieve anything that one sets his or her mind to were the basic concep...
Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman is compared and contrasted with F. Scott Fitzgerald's Gatsby character. The Ame...
move comfortably in the social circle of people like the Buchanans. Fitzgerald shows us all the trappings of wealth: the gorgeous...
the four most important symbols are the characters names, especially the women; the green light on Daisys dock, the so-called "val...
as the finest American novel ever written. It retains its power because it is a sort of dual effort: it praises the American Dream...
and honor were really worth possessing. The Great Gatsby In first discussing Fitzgeralds story we look at the man who is Gats...
example, Gatsby is showing her through his house and he shows her his silk shirts: "Theyre such beautiful shirts, she sobbed, her ...
for traditional values and is attracted to the fast-life epitomized by Jay. Nick comes to understand that Gatsby, rather than the...
intelligence and talent to work in ways that are less than reputable in order to pursue an illusion of beauty. Making his fortune ...