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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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

was three years old (Bailey, 2002). Although she was born in Virginia, she grew up in New York. In fact, she only lived in the sou...

each other often about literary topics as well as the war (Tender is the Night). It was during this time in France that Fitzger...

authors life, itself. What has he or she experienced in his/her lifetime that has contributed to this unique perception and turn o...

He wanted to get the country moving again in terms of the economy and in other ways as well (Past Presidents: John F. Kennedy, 20...

verified in the CIAs own records.) At the last minute, Kennedy called off the air strikes but that message did not reach the more...

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

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

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

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...

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

2000 he made some strong deals such as purchasing Ben & Jerrys, Slim-Fast Foods and Best Foods (Mullin, 2001). The deals that Fitz...

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....

attended but did not graduate from Princeton University. While at Princeton however, Fitzgerald was first exposed to the exceeding...