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the city may appear attractive and it certainly attracted Nick, it is hollow. He expresses this by returning home to the midwest. ...
basis for Nicks disillusionment with the decadence of east coast American society (Fitzgerald 3). Gatsbys pursuit of the American ...
done in their lives as they see no hope in the future. Their American Dream is one that came smashing down with the pessimistic re...
pursues a materialistic dream that is draped in romantic expectation. Nick comes to feel that Gatsbys misplaced idealism and roman...
in the promised land did so through the exploitation of the land, its resources, and its natives" as is the case with Jay Gatsby (...
As such he makes a very good narrator. He also cares about people, which also makes him a reliable narrator. This is good because ...
beautiful Daisy Buchanan. His enigmatic behavior and opulent lifestyle are designed to impress Daisy and bring her back into his l...
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...
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...
mother, Elinor and Marianne (who are both young women) and younger sister Margaret, by beginning with the death of Henry Dashwood,...
he comes back to try and win Jonquil again, and by then he is a success; in addition, he has made his fortune in civil engineering...
This essay asserts that Nick Carraway's narration presents Jay Gatsby's story in terms of Freudian psychology and as paralleling ...
In two pages the film's satire as well as the stand it takes against certain issues are discussed as they reflect America's Great ...
In a paper consisting of five pages viewing audience passivity, activity, and impact of film realism is explored in terms of the p...
and expression than film where the camera is able to capture the most subtle suggestions of emotion through the use of a close -up...
In five pages this report examines how Gatsby depicts a corrupted variation of the American Dream in Fitzgerald's classic 1925 nov...
In seven pages this paper examines the excesses of the American Dream and its criticisms signified by the characterization of Jay ...
Six pages and 5 sources used. This paper provides an overview of Roman Polanski's 1974 film Chinatown. This paper considers the ...
affair. If the story were told by Gatsby, we would get the story of a poor but ruthlessly ambitious youth on the make. We would l...
In five pages the new criticism of this classic old character is discussed in terms of its patterns of cause and effect, compariso...
This paper consists of a 10 page essay that compares and contrast these works by arguing that the two individuals are respectively...
takes place between Stanley and Jungle Fever in New York The wealthy elite of Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanans world were the peo...
In five pages this character analysis compares Hamlet to Nick Carraway and Claudius to Tom Buchanan with themes also compared. Th...
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 eight pages this paper analyzes this classic American novel and its confrontation of post First World War truths about the Amer...
as "the best of times and the worst of times" -- those of hope and optimism, but also of disillusionment and despair. It was extr...
the modern world was a study in contrasts between interior and exterior, so too was modernist literature. There was often the con...
In a paper containing seven pages the American Dream is compared and contrasted in these works. There are three bibliographic sou...
In eight pages this paper examines how Fitzgerald employs symbolism and imagery in his novel much as a lyric poem would in terms o...
illustrated in the frequent comparisons between the Long Island sections of East Egg and West Egg. As narrator Nick Carraway, a W...