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to him. He merely knows that without his job he is lost, but he doesnt have the insight to look inward for the answers....
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...
shirts and strolls her through his kitchen. There, we see Daisys hand trailing along a large work table...the elegant chandeliers ...
not exist as it does in The Great Gatsby, leaves the reader without reason to involve himself in the realistic aspects of the stor...
they have somehow missed the spiritual dimension which they purport to seek, and have been sidetracked instead into seeing materia...
role in this respect. Plato held that the key agent in any sort of behavior but especially ethical or moral behavior (or lack of t...
calls friends. In particular, is his pursuit of Daisy. Why Daisy, one might ask? Simple. She was the symbol of landed wealth, of t...
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 ...
hit-and-run death of Toms mistress, the married Myrtle Wilson. Her widower is deceived into thinking Gatsby caused the accident, ...
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...
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...
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...
the major theme is far from romantic in nature. This story is all about the disintegration of the once proud American Dream. And, ...
together, ties up all loose plot ends, and eventually takes the story full circle. The participating narrator/protagonist appeale...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
In five pages this character analysis compares Hamlet to Nick Carraway and Claudius to Tom Buchanan with themes also compared. Th...
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...