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in the promised land did so through the exploitation of the land, its resources, and its natives" as is the case with Jay Gatsby (...
truth about who killed his wifes husband is being uncovered. He shows himself again as noble by insisting that justice be done and...
with the wealth he possesses, and likely also very taken with his obvious infatuation with her. She does not stop his adoration of...
value into ultimately empty goals; this is indicated by the comparison of Gatsbys quest for Daisy with the "American dream" itself...
shaped by trying to achieve the American dream, but by experiencing what occurs when others achieve and pass on the values of weal...
This essay describes the thematic function of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Six pages in length, ...
This essay asserts that Nick Carraway's narration presents Jay Gatsby's story in terms of Freudian psychology and as paralleling ...
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...
lovd me for the dangers I had passd / And I lovd her that she did pity them" (I.iii.167-168). Pity here doesnt mean that she was s...
the "tragic flaw." In Oedipuss case, his tragic flaw is his pride. That flaw has to cause him great suffering, but from that suffe...
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...
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 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...
hit-and-run death of Toms mistress, the married Myrtle Wilson. Her widower is deceived into thinking Gatsby caused the accident, ...
many argue saw the true beginning of a consumeristic culture as the American Dream turned to one of material wealth as a sign of s...
together, ties up all loose plot ends, and eventually takes the story full circle. The participating narrator/protagonist appeale...
the major theme is far from romantic in nature. This story is all about the disintegration of the once proud American Dream. And, ...
means just that-and he must be about His Fathers business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented ...
own enjoyment so much as for the enjoyment of others, for the pride he could have when looking at what he achieved through the eye...
An elderly pianist, Mademoiselles music arouses Ednas artistic temperament. Additionally, Edna becomes infatuated with a young man...
his personality. He then discusses how he in the present, and why, then shifts to discussing the people who are Daisy and Tom. He ...
is a man of honor and integrity. He represents all that is good in the world of man as he stands to be a man who follows the old r...
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 6 pages this paper compares these novels in a consideration of how each author employed symbolism and metaphor in their respect...
the modern world was a study in contrasts between interior and exterior, so too was modernist literature. There was often the con...
as "the best of times and the worst of times" -- those of hope and optimism, but also of disillusionment and despair. It was extr...
illustrated in the frequent comparisons between the Long Island sections of East Egg and West Egg. As narrator Nick Carraway, a W...
In eight pages this paper examines how Fitzgerald employs symbolism and imagery in his novel much as a lyric poem would in terms o...