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few minutes I was going to enter into their lives, and no one would ever know or disapprove" (Fitzgerald 61). He soon finds that...

of his mother during her long illness, however, he primarily, marries her because he does not want to be alone during the long New...

illustrated in the frequent comparisons between the Long Island sections of East Egg and West Egg. As narrator Nick Carraway, a W...

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...

In 5 pages this paper discusses how Franklin and Fitzgerald presented morality and the American Dream in a comparative analysis of...

is affected by parental behavior. Sometimes, there is no reason other than the childs own psychological makeup. It does not seem t...

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

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

In 6 pages this paper analyzes the male and female heroines in the texts The Ice Palace, Winter Dreams, The Last Tycoon, This Side...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

retinas are one yard high" (Fitzgerald 15). The student researching this topic will note that there are divergences from the stu...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This paper considers the similar falls of each family in a comparative analysis of these novels by Nathaniel Hawthorne and William...

Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman is compared and contrasted with F. Scott Fitzgerald's Gatsby character. The Ame...