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The American Dream

they wonder why they must live less well than they did when they were young. Baby boomers find that they can no longer get jobs, t...

Income Inequality and the American Dream: A Loss of Opportunities

This 3 page paper provides an overview of Howard Brick's critique of the American Dream and its inaccessibility in the 21st centur...

2 Poems by Langston Hughes

In five pages 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers' and 'Dream Deferred' poems of Langston Hughes are compared in a discussion of brutal re...

Is the California Dream Over?

place he established were treated as little better than slaves, and lost their autonomy. So the cost of bringing the "white mans" ...

W.B. Yeats/An Irish Airman Foresees His Death

people of Kiltaran, there is not likely end to the war that will affect them deeply one way or the other. Furthermore, it was not ...

Visions of Death in Emily Dickinson's Works

traumatic experience that the narrator has been through could very well be death. It is interesting to not the way that Dickinson ...

American Dream's Differing Conceptual Views

In five pages this paper examines how the American Dream is viewed from differing perspectives. Seven sources are cited in the bi...

A Character Study of Fitzgerald's, The Great Gatsby

This paper analyzes characterization and the theme of abandoned ethics seen in Fitzgerald's classic novel, The Great Gatsby. The a...

Partying and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

In 5 pages this paper examines the 1920s' significance of the party as represented in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Th...

Jay Gatsby and the Cult of Celebrity

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

The Great Gatsby

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 Great Gatsby or Trimalchio or The Gold-hatted Gatsby or On the Road to West Egg

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

Life and Writings of F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Bernice Bobs her Hair," "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," "The Debutante," "Absolution," and "Winter Dreams." (http://www.sc.edu/...

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Working Class

In 5 pages this paper discusses the contrasts between the affluent and the working class drawn by F. Scott Fitzgerald in his novel...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's Respected Literary Reputation

In five pages this paper examines F. Scott Fitzgerald's work in a consideration of how despite his lone critical success The Great...

“The Great Gatsby” in Its Historical Context

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

The Eyes of Dr. Eckleburg

no face, instead, the eyes are behind an enormous pair of glasses which are sitting on a non-existent nose (Fitzgerald). Nick, who...

Novel and Cinematic Comparisons of The Great Gatsby

two depictions. Within the theme of The Great Gatsby, Daisy, as weak and dependent as she may be, knows the power she has over me...

Confrontation in 2 Twentieth Century Novels

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

Fitzgerald and Hemingway

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

The Not-So-Great Gatsby?

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

The Great Gatsby, the Novel and the Film

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

Fitzgerald’s Novels and Landscape

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

Jay Gatsby, an American Dreamer

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

The Great Gatsby and The Sheltering Sky

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

Love and Power: The Great Gatsby and The Tempest

example, how he constantly throws huge parties that are very elaborate and clearly of wealth. Yet he never really attends them. He...

Symbolism in "The Great Gatsby"

so pervades The Great Gatsby that Fitzgeralds true achievement was to appropriate American legend."1 The book gives us both romanc...

Research Proposal: Nick in "The Great Gatsby"

his personal life, and physically; hes a bigot, hes a racist, and he has a mistress who he makes little effort to hide from his wi...

Alcohol and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

different than those who attend his party and do little more than drink and let loose. With such a setting, as one of the most ...

Waste Land in the Works of Mason and Fitzgerald

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