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so much as for the enjoyment of others, for the pride he could have when looking at what he achieved through the eyes of others. T...

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

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

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

different than those who attend his party and do little more than drink and let loose. With such a setting, as one of the most ...

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...

in the promised land did so through the exploitation of the land, its resources, and its natives" as is the case with Jay Gatsby (...

pavilions from all different nations, and its possible to buy food and authentic merchandise from the country youre visiting. The...

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

on the world scene. And, we know that the one individual who could perhaps sway him from his innocent and noble ways is Gatsby him...

the city may appear attractive and it certainly attracted Nick, it is hollow. He expresses this by returning home to the midwest. ...

basis for Nicks disillusionment with the decadence of east coast American society (Fitzgerald 3). Gatsbys pursuit of the American ...

so strong, that Browning anticipates that it will follow her after death (line 14). Scottish poet Robert Burns also relied...

even to the edge of doom" (Shakespeare 9-12). In the end he claims that if he is wrong then he never wrote and no man ever loved. ...

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...

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

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...

hit-and-run death of Toms mistress, the married Myrtle Wilson. Her widower is deceived into thinking Gatsby caused the accident, ...

he so closely identifies with him, which is precisely Poes point-the narrators is not normal, but is quite insane. The point of ...

her well-loved eyes" (Fitzgerald 111). As this suggests, Gatsbys many possessions and signs of extreme wealth are not important ...

with money, as the underlying theme is that which revolves around Gatsby using the pursuit of money, and the acquisition of money,...

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

can have genuine depth. Both while their relationship is still comparatively superficial, and later when it becomes truly meaningf...

An elderly pianist, Mademoiselles music arouses Ednas artistic temperament. Additionally, Edna becomes infatuated with a young man...

his personality. He then discusses how he in the present, and why, then shifts to discussing the people who are Daisy and Tom. He ...

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...

means just that-and he must be about His Fathers business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented ...

own enjoyment so much as for the enjoyment of others, for the pride he could have when looking at what he achieved through the eye...

together, ties up all loose plot ends, and eventually takes the story full circle. The participating narrator/protagonist appeale...