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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...
with the wealth he possesses, and likely also very taken with his obvious infatuation with her. She does not stop his adoration of...
This essay asserts that Nick Carraway's narration presents Jay Gatsby's story in terms of Freudian psychology and as paralleling ...
he comes back to try and win Jonquil again, and by then he is a success; in addition, he has made his fortune in civil engineering...
Augustine Chapter X). He then notes that he learned many things through such examination concerning his behavior, behavior...
An elderly pianist, Mademoiselles music arouses Ednas artistic temperament. Additionally, Edna becomes infatuated with a young man...
who does not exhibit the same or nearly the same amount of wealth and material possessions. The lost generation of America is ext...
with money, as the underlying theme is that which revolves around Gatsby using the pursuit of money, and the acquisition of money,...
is a man of honor and integrity. He represents all that is good in the world of man as he stands to be a man who follows the old r...
In 6 pages this paper discusses how the narrators of these respective texts managed to develop their own individuality through the...
In 6 pages this paper compares these novels in a consideration of how each author employed symbolism and metaphor in their respect...
In five pages this paper discusses how the novel portrays a post First World War I America and declining values. There are no oth...
as "The Jazz Age." When not numbing themselves with superficial pleasures, young people were pursuing the American Dream, as tran...
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...
takes place between Stanley and Jungle Fever in New York The wealthy elite of Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanans world were the peo...
In five pages the new criticism of this classic old character is discussed in terms of its patterns of cause and effect, compariso...
This paper consists of a 10 page essay that compares and contrast these works by arguing that the two individuals are respectively...
as "the best of times and the worst of times" -- those of hope and optimism, but also of disillusionment and despair. It was extr...
illustrated in the frequent comparisons between the Long Island sections of East Egg and West Egg. As narrator Nick Carraway, a W...
In eight pages this paper examines how Fitzgerald employs symbolism and imagery in his novel much as a lyric poem would in terms o...
In eight pages this paper analyzes this classic American novel and its confrontation of post First World War truths about the Amer...
In a paper containing seven pages the American Dream is compared and contrasted in these works. There are three bibliographic sou...
the modern world was a study in contrasts between interior and exterior, so too was modernist literature. There was often the con...
she could display for all to see. She possessed all the "shallowness" (Fitzgerald PG) of a person who knew not how to love yet kn...
In five pages this character analysis compares Hamlet to Nick Carraway and Claudius to Tom Buchanan with themes also compared. Th...
flower, hence the name chosen for her by the author; however, a brightly appealing as she might be on the outside, she harbors the...
quicksand. Daisy hide a deeper meaning to her character, and that character is evil due to the unthinking nature of her superficia...
In five pages this paper discusses the sexual orientation themes in each novels with a contrast and comparison of characterization...
In five pages this paper compares and contrasts these two supporting characters and also considers the symbolism represented by th...