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

own death and running away. Along the way, he meets Jim, a runaway slave who is traveling north in hopes of freeing his family. ...

affair. If the story were told by Gatsby, we would get the story of a poor but ruthlessly ambitious youth on the make. We would l...

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

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...

Jazz Age"). Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda were a sort of American "royalty," known as much for their "madcap antics as for his wri...

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

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...

to look first at social treatises such as Anthony Burgess, "Is America Falling Apart?". This essay was written by Burgess after sp...

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

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

This essay offers a summary and discussion of themes and characters in "Winter Dreams," a short story by Fitzgerald. Three pages i...

very influential in his work for he and Zelda essentially lived the exciting lives of the flapper generation of the 1920s. They dr...

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

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...

alcoholism. That essential plot is one filled with a powerful sense of seeking ones identity and a sense of loneliness. In...

about the characters thoughts and motivations. So we are going to read the story and see what happened through Nicks eyes, which m...

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

just get the story out. In fact, many novelists and short story writers are storytellers. They simply tell a story. That is all th...

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...

many argue saw the true beginning of a consumeristic culture as the American Dream turned to one of material wealth as a sign of s...

assignments behind them, these gatherings serve to share information of course, but they also serve to keep individual team member...

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

It is clear in this story that the greed of the Washingtons is out-of-control. Mr. Washington doesnt want anyone to find out abou...

the 1920s turned to the American Dream we know today, which involves the assumption that if we work hard we can have wealth, and w...

his aristocratic persona was largely manufactured, because although Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald had some illustrious ancestors, i...

to him. He merely knows that without his job he is lost, but he doesnt have the insight to look inward for the answers....

humanity. The action is the medium by which the man learns, but it is the learning that makes the story fundamentally interesting....