Essays 31 - 60
about the characters thoughts and motivations. So we are going to read the story and see what happened through Nicks eyes, which m...
retinas are one yard high" (Fitzgerald 15). The student researching this topic will note that there are divergences from the stu...
is when Gatsby holds out his arms toward a small green light in the distance, which the reader learns later is the green light on ...
in the promised land did so through the exploitation of the land, its resources, and its natives" as is the case with Jay Gatsby (...
calls friends. In particular, is his pursuit of Daisy. Why Daisy, one might ask? Simple. She was the symbol of landed wealth, of t...
family that was better off than his own. In order to make something of himself he began to write articles for various magazines. H...
This essay describes the thematic function of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Six pages in length, ...
In 5 pages this paper discusses how Franklin and Fitzgerald presented morality and the American Dream in a comparative analysis of...
intelligence and talent to work in ways that are less than reputable in order to pursue an illusion of beauty. Making his fortune ...
they have somehow missed the spiritual dimension which they purport to seek, and have been sidetracked instead into seeing materia...
In five pages this paper presents a character analysis of Nick Carraway as featured in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. T...
This essay asserts that Nick Carraway's narration presents Jay Gatsby's story in terms of Freudian psychology and as paralleling ...
as "the best of times and the worst of times" -- those of hope and optimism, but also of disillusionment and despair. It was extr...
hit-and-run death of Toms mistress, the married Myrtle Wilson. Her widower is deceived into thinking Gatsby caused the accident, ...
This paper analyzes F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel, The Great Gatsby. The author argues that the work qualifies as an excell...
illustrated in the frequent comparisons between the Long Island sections of East Egg and West Egg. As narrator Nick Carraway, a W...
In a paper containing seven pages the American Dream is compared and contrasted in these works. There are three bibliographic sou...
In five pages this character analysis compares Hamlet to Nick Carraway and Claudius to Tom Buchanan with themes also compared. Th...
As a young woman Catherine was apparently already determined to be a very powerful and effective leader. She "was ambitious as wel...
her well-loved eyes" (Fitzgerald 111). As this suggests, Gatsbys many possessions and signs of extreme wealth are not important ...
less than legal involvement. But, for the most part that did not matter, for the premise of the book, in relationship to acceptabl...
his personal life, and physically; hes a bigot, hes a racist, and he has a mistress who he makes little effort to hide from his wi...
shaped by trying to achieve the American dream, but by experiencing what occurs when others achieve and pass on the values of weal...
value into ultimately empty goals; this is indicated by the comparison of Gatsbys quest for Daisy with the "American dream" itself...
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...
two people who hold true to the notion that determination and hard work can get you ahead in the world of the American ideal. Gats...
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. ...
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 ...