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Jay Gatsby's Search for Himself in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In five pages a character analysis of Jay Gatsby and some insights into his true identity are presented. There are no other sourc...

Jay Gatsby's Personal Philosophy in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

expensive roadster, and momentarily loses control of the car, striking and killing a woman, Myrtle Wilson, whom readers later lear...

Glass Fragility in Tennessee Williams' Play The Glass Menagerie

"real" (insofar as theater can ever be said to be real) happenings, but a carefully selected group of scenes that illustrate the i...

Daisy Miller by James

that he assumes Mrs. Costello is not that fond of Daisy and her mother and Mrs. Costello states, "They are the sort of Americans t...

Daisy and Nora

hostile public world. Yet, she confesses to a friend that she keeps her business activities a secret from him because it would be ...

'To An Athlete Dying Young' by A.E. Housman

has died. Beginning in the third stanza, the poet discusses the death and again addresses the deceased directly. He says the youn...

Gatsby and Heathcliff

far more refined individual, even if he still slung to some of his impoverished perspectives. For example, he shows his need to sh...

Dreamers: Gatsby and Heathcliff

only for you!" (Bronte Chapter X). But, he also begins to realize that he will never have her and his dreams seem to end. He marri...

Misguided Intentent in Literary Characters

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

Past and Jay Gatsby

the foundation of the past that Jay will always try to defy. In essence, as he grows he tries to make money, become powerful, and ...

Characters of Amory Blaine, Jay Gatsby, and Monroe Stahr as Reflections of F. Scott Fitzgerald

feel of the American youth culture, because he, and through his writing, Amory Blaine, as well, were young men of the time in whic...

Jay Gatsby, Monroe Stahr, Amory Blaine, and F. Scott Fitzgerald

This paper consists of five pages and examines how Gatsby in The Great Gatsby, Stahr in The Love of the Last Tycoon, and Blaine in...

Nick Carraway and Fitzgerald's Novel, The Great Gatsby

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

Gatsby & The American Dream

her well-loved eyes" (Fitzgerald 111). As this suggests, Gatsbys many possessions and signs of extreme wealth are not important ...

FINANCIAL ANALYSIS FOR GREAT NORTHERN IRON AND A BANK CD

This 3-page paper compares and contrasts Great Northern Iron stock as an investment with a Wells Fargo certificate of deposit....

Character of Laura in The Glass Menagerie

This essay deal specifically with the character of Laura from The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams. The writer discusses her ...

Relationships Between Sons and Their Mothers in "The Glass Menagerie" and "Hamlet"

Young Prince Hamlet of Denmark has been dealt two blows in rapid succession. First, while away at college, he learns his father h...

The Glass Menagerie and Tom’s Many Roles in the Play

be an enduringly popular play. Not as sensational as A Streetcar Named Desire, it offers just as bleak a portrait of a family stru...

American Values in The Glass Menagerie and The Harry Hastings Method

tries to tell the girl that her physical problems are minor and not noticeable-when the girl has her leg in a brace (Williams). Th...

Film Adaptation of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie and the Mood Function of Music

scene begins Laura Wingfield (Karen Allen) and her gentleman caller Jim OConnor (James Naughton) are looking at Lauras "glass mena...

Williams, Melville, and Jackson

offers a very powerful image of the lives these people live trapped in a tiny apartment and in their individual lives. Melville...

Analysis of Tom in "The Glass Menagerie"

her thumb. The character description of Tom tells us that is "A poet with a job in a warehouse. His nature is not remorseless, but...

Depiction of Tom Wingfield in the 1987 Film Adaptation of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

Tom, then, is the central male figure in the family. Their father has abandoned them some many years before, and so it has fallen...

Symbolism and Imagery in The Glass Menagerie

hopefully connect with the real world enough so that he is not mired in the dysfunctional and fantasy world that his mother and li...

Deconstructing “The Glass Menagerie”

Lye, Derrida and others, then The Glass Menagerie is a perfect play to apply this technique to, because it is full of silences, me...

Levy on "The Glass Menagerie"

Levy believes that Laura is solely focused on her vulnerability, which is symbolized by the fragility of the glass (Levy). He writ...

Fathers: Death of a Salesman and The Glass Menagerie

In the beginning of the play one sees how Willy has no respect for his son Biff. He argues with his wife saying "Biff is a lazy bu...

Common Theme: Identifying with the Character

be "good" persons. But what does it mean to be "good"? I understand that to be good means to follow "their" rules, the churchs rul...

Tragedy in The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

have so much to offer is a sad state of affairs. Laura is Amandas daughter. Laura also is forced to...

Symbolism and The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

the stage flooring(Escape http://home.powertech) . The setting of the Wingfield apartment sets the tone for the understanding of t...