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In five pages this paper discusses how the novel portrays a post First World War I America and declining values. There are no oth...

In five pages this research paper examines the changing of American values as represented in Fitzgerald's novel with Tom Buchanan ...

for traditional values and is attracted to the fast-life epitomized by Jay. Nick comes to understand that Gatsby, rather than the...

and honor were really worth possessing. The Great Gatsby In first discussing Fitzgeralds story we look at the man who is Gats...

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

This is a 5 page book review in which the author relates her own upbringing which is in sharp contrast to most members of American...

As a young woman Catherine was apparently already determined to be a very powerful and effective leader. She "was ambitious as wel...

no success at all; that belongs to the people who employ the hard workers. But the dream persists, and Gatsby seems to achieve it,...

intelligence and talent to work in ways that are less than reputable in order to pursue an illusion of beauty. Making his fortune ...

move comfortably in the social circle of people like the Buchanans. Fitzgerald shows us all the trappings of wealth: the gorgeous...

not abhor, which is very important in setting up the story: "Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from...

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

same time he undercuts Gatsby by telling readers that he made his money illegally; he was a bootlegger (he sold illegal whiskey du...

the four most important symbols are the characters names, especially the women; the green light on Daisys dock, the so-called "val...

Fitzgerald was seeking in his style and the forms that were emerging in relationship to the 20s. Berman notes how many of his stor...

for that reason its possible that he colors the accounts he gives. However, he is the closest thing we have to a neutral observer,...

book, Benjamin Schreier claims that Gatsby, if not actually black-an unusual interpretation to be sure-is someone of color; he bas...

America in the 1920s" (Gibb 96). Gatsby is, in many ways, the epitome of new growth and renewal and thus of a metaphorical landsca...

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

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

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

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...

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

different than those who attend his party and do little more than drink and let loose. With such a setting, as one of the most ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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...