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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, ...

Interpreting the American Dream

in the sense that opportunities for success are not actually equally distributed, but the ideal holds true in some sense in that t...

Nick Carraway's Perspective on Gatsby

This essay asserts that Nick Carraway's narration presents Jay Gatsby's story in terms of Freudian psychology and as paralleling ...

Analysis of The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

in his youth. While Franklin is a firm advocate of hard work, he never advocates work merely for works sake. He disliked his fathe...

Lena, the American Dream, and Willa Cather's My Antonia

seeing her dressed up for she was obviously a young woman who was bare foot and bore unkempt hair. When the conversation progre...

American Dream and Ernest Hemingway's Story 'A Clean Well Lighted Place' and John Ford's Film The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

sometimes the only way to achieve peace. Doniphon admires the idealism of Stoddard and the two form an unlikely bond. The movie cl...

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...

Blood In, Blood Out

applied to the characters at different times, but the two that seem most effective are Merton, and Shaw and MacKay. The term "Amer...

Homer Hickam/October Sky

of this minister, and "his belief in Gods sense of humor and His fondness for neer-do-wells," inspired Sonny, as this fueled the ...

DeParle/American Dream

Hauptmann School of Public Affairs defines "public affairs" in terms that underscore the significance of the inter-relationships t...

Maggie’s American Dream by James Comer

the story talks of how Maggie was a determined young woman and how she actually became financially stable enough, even during the ...

Race and the American Dream

Glauser regards race more as a social construct than a physical characteristic. As such, whether "intentional or unintentional, o...

The American Dream: Harper Lee and John Steinbeck

who is noble, honest, and humble. He fights for the rights of an African American accused of raping a white woman even though the ...

The Audacity of Hope by Barak Obama

examines the values that Americans hold dear to them, as well as illustrating his own values. It is perhaps somewhat difficult to ...

Langston Hughes/Critical Response to 2 Poems

opening, Hughes moves on to create a "crescendo of horror," which entails moving through a series of neutral questions. The questi...

Themes: Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men

work and survive, this dream is simple and very powerful Throughout the Great Depression people left their land, when it was use...

Carlos Bulosan and the American Dream

xenophobic and violent, rank with discrimination and hatred for those who were different; Bulosan endured "several years of racist...

Kelly's Expanding the American Dream

able to construct homes inexpensively (Kelly, 2004). Additionally, he would bypass union workers for those who came at a lower pri...

King/"I Have A Dream" Speech

on this promissory note, but that the government has "defaulted" (King). This metaphor is extremely apt and provides both a logi...

The American Dream and Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley

that "the one who dies with the most toys wins" which is illustrative of the desire so many people have to own the best house, the...

'Lost Generation' and the American Dream in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

who does not exhibit the same or nearly the same amount of wealth and material possessions. The lost generation of America is ext...

Fools Crow by James Welch Questions Answered

(Welch 391). In both of these instances, Welch uses descriptive language to set the tone for what Fools Crow is feeling and thinki...

Dream Theory and Freud's Critics

period between consciousness and sleep. This period lasts approximately ten minutes until Stage II commences, lasting another fif...

The Idea of Dreams from Toni Morrison and Alain Locke

Morrisons novel this rebirth was filled with dreams and possibilities. For Joe and Violet it was a dream of better opportunities. ...

The American Dream as Embodied by Benjamin Franklin

commission to go to Europe to buy supplies for a new printing house, but was abandoned when he got off the ship (Kindig, 2006). A...

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Autobiography of an Ex Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson and the American Dream

"well aware of the way African American identity had become irreducible to a simple set of criteria" (Favor 28). In The Autobiogr...

The Wizard of Oz, Citizen Kane, and Cinematic Reflections of America

In five pages this paper discusses how these films reflect expansionism, individualism, success, economic wealth, the 'American Dr...

Walter Mosely's American Dream Reflections in Devil in a Blue Dress

In five pages the author's reflections of the American Dream in characterizations of the novel such as that of Easy Rawlins are ex...

American Dream in Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

In two pages Sister Carrie is examined in terms of the American Dream and Carrie's social climbing. There are no other sources li...

Works by Sinclair Lewis, Horatio Alger, Susanna Rowson and the American Dream

In 7 pages this paper examines the portrayal of the American Dream in Main Street by Sinclair Lewis, Ragged Dick by Horatio Alger,...