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An American Dream Tragedy, The Great Gatsby

This essay describes the thematic function of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Six pages in length, ...

"The Great Gatsby" and the Pursuit of Hollow Dreams

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

Life and Morality

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...

Social Perspectives on The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

they have somehow missed the spiritual dimension which they purport to seek, and have been sidetracked instead into seeing materia...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Reality

not exist as it does in The Great Gatsby, leaves the reader without reason to involve himself in the realistic aspects of the stor...

Society's Influence on Fitzgerald and Williams

and a truly brazen attitude - were in vogue, as was drinking. Although Prohibition was in force to try to prevent people from imbi...

A Conservative or Liberal 1920s?

personal look at the 1920s and the liberal changes taking place. A Decade of Change "The changes wrought in the United States ...

Nick Carraway's Narrative in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In seven pages this paper argues that the shattered illusion of the American Dream and its impact are embodied in Nick Carraway's ...

Various Themes in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

In five pages this paper discusses the various themes and symbolism that are featured in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and the Character Nick Carraway

In five pages this paper presents a character analysis of Nick Carraway as featured in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. T...

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Truman Capote and the American Dream, a Critique of the American Dream in F. Scott Fitzgerald's “The Great Gatsby” and Truman Capote's “Breakfast at Tiffany's”

Gatsby, and in Truman Capotes Breakfast at Tiffanys, first published in 1958. Both define the American Dream as the exclusive pro...

Emily Bronte and F. Scott Fitzgerald

about, while assessing the characters he meets. In this respect both narrators must take into consideration the past lives of the ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mark Twain, and the American Dream

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

Societal Masks

calls friends. In particular, is his pursuit of Daisy. Why Daisy, one might ask? Simple. She was the symbol of landed wealth, of t...

Continued Relevance of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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...

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....

1974 Film Version of The Great Gatsby

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

Society and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Character Development of Nick Carraway in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

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...

Fiction of the 20th Century and the City

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

Cyril Connelley on F. Scott Fitzgerald's Fiction

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

An Analysis of Fitzgerald's Gatsby and Larsen's Passing

basis for Nicks disillusionment with the decadence of east coast American society (Fitzgerald 3). Gatsbys pursuit of the American ...

Literary Modernism

In five pages The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Trial by Franz Kafka are compared in terms of European and American ...

Two Female Characters in U.S. Fiction

5 pages and 2 sources used. This paper provides an overview and a comparison of the lives and characteristics of two central fema...

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...

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...

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...

1920' American Dream in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In seven pages this paper analyzes how the 1920s' American Dream is presented in The Great Gatsby by author F. Scott Fitzgerald. ...

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...

American Dream and Materialism in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

society . . . profoundly agrees with Marxs great discovery that it is social rather than individual consciousness that determines ...