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F. Scott Fitzgerald, Truman Capote and the American Dream, a Critique of the American Dream in F. Scott Fitzgerald's “The Great Gatsby” and Truman Capote's “Breakfast at Tiffany's”

Gatsby, and in Truman Capotes Breakfast at Tiffanys, first published in 1958. Both define the American Dream as the exclusive pro...

A Conservative or Liberal 1920s?

personal look at the 1920s and the liberal changes taking place. A Decade of Change "The changes wrought in the United States ...

Comparing Daisy from The Great Gatsby with Amanda from The Glass Menagerie

flower, hence the name chosen for her by the author; however, a brightly appealing as she might be on the outside, she harbors the...

American Dream and Materialism in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

society . . . profoundly agrees with Marxs great discovery that it is social rather than individual consciousness that determines ...

American Dream in Death of a Salesman and The Great Gatsby

as "The Jazz Age." When not numbing themselves with superficial pleasures, young people were pursuing the American Dream, as tran...

Literature and Analysis of Character, Theme, Symbols, and Setting

indescribable evil. Symbols always present another layer to a story, as well as another realm for questioning. Hawthornes repea...

Fitzgerald and Williams in Terms of Style, Theme, and Characterization

In six pages the stories 'Crazy Sunday' by F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'The Resemblance Between a Violin Case and a Coffin' by Tenness...

Protagonists in The Hairy Ape vs. Babylon Revisited

Robert ‘‘Yank'' Smith in The Hairy Ape by Eugene O'Neill and Charlie Wales in Babylon Revisited by F. Scott Fitzgerald...

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Working Class

In 5 pages this paper discusses the contrasts between the affluent and the working class drawn by F. Scott Fitzgerald in his novel...

Past Revived in Works by F. Scott Fitzgerald and William Faulkner

In five pages this paper discusses how the past is revived in 'Babylon Revisited' by F. Scott Fitzgerald and in 'A Rose for Emily'...

Literary Modernism

In five pages The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Trial by Franz Kafka are compared in terms of European and American ...

Protagonists’ Voyages in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Great Gatsby, and The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

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

Role of Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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...

F. Scott Fitzgerald as Jay Gatsby’s Alter Ego

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

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...

Jay Gatsby, an American Dreamer

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

The Great Gatsby or Trimalchio or The Gold-hatted Gatsby or On the Road to West Egg

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

The Great Gatsby and The Sheltering Sky

with the wealth he possesses, and likely also very taken with his obvious infatuation with her. She does not stop his adoration of...

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, ...

The Far Side of Paradise by Arthur Mizener

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

Society and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Contemporary World

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...

F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway on the American Dream

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...

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Water Imagery

pursues a materialistic dream that is draped in romantic expectation. Nick comes to feel that Gatsbys misplaced idealism and roman...

Bernice Bobs Her Hair and The Great Gatsby

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...

'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...

Reading as a Form of Resistance

imagine a more severe disparity of power than the one that exists in present-day Iran since its revolution and the institution of ...

Symbolism in Great Gatsby & Animal Dreams

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

Fitzgerald and Hemingway

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

Analysis of a Modern Classic: "The Great Gatsby"

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