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the modern world was a study in contrasts between interior and exterior, so too was modernist literature. There was often the con...
expensive roadster, and momentarily loses control of the car, striking and killing a woman, Myrtle Wilson, whom readers later lear...
In seven pages this essay analyzes the motivation behind the title character's obsession with Daisy Buchanan and what she represen...
In five pages a character analysis of Jay Gatsby and some insights into his true identity are presented. There are no other sourc...
beautiful Daisy Buchanan. His enigmatic behavior and opulent lifestyle are designed to impress Daisy and bring her back into his l...
example, Gatsby is showing her through his house and he shows her his silk shirts: "Theyre such beautiful shirts, she sobbed, her ...
and honor were really worth possessing. The Great Gatsby In first discussing Fitzgeralds story we look at the man who is Gats...
for traditional values and is attracted to the fast-life epitomized by Jay. Nick comes to understand that Gatsby, rather than the...
through Nicks eyes Nick provides the voice by which the other characters are heard. As such, he serves as a "translator of the dr...
few minutes I was going to enter into their lives, and no one would ever know or disapprove" (Fitzgerald 61). He soon finds that...
poverty to a position of wealth. While many people who wanted this particular American Dream of wealth and material possessions ...
Jazz Age"). Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda were a sort of American "royalty," known as much for their "madcap antics as for his wri...
moralism in the United States, and struggling to find worth in either of them. For this "Lost Generation", as they are commonly ca...
believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your...
and a truly brazen attitude - were in vogue, as was drinking. Although Prohibition was in force to try to prevent people from imbi...
basis for Nicks disillusionment with the decadence of east coast American society (Fitzgerald 3). Gatsbys pursuit of the American ...
has died. Beginning in the third stanza, the poet discusses the death and again addresses the deceased directly. He says the youn...
In five pages The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is examined with the focus being upon the obsessive love Jay Gatsby had for ...
of his mother during her long illness, however, he primarily, marries her because he does not want to be alone during the long New...
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...
gained on the Italian front. Although Hemingway delicately avoids telling us precisely where the wound is, we know it is around hi...
This paper consists of five pages and examines how Gatsby in The Great Gatsby, Stahr in The Love of the Last Tycoon, and Blaine in...
feel of the American youth culture, because he, and through his writing, Amory Blaine, as well, were young men of the time in whic...
the foundation of the past that Jay will always try to defy. In essence, as he grows he tries to make money, become powerful, and ...
In five pages this paper examines how society changed from individual acceptance to individual oppression in a comparative analysi...
In six pages this report examines this ancient Chinese literary essay....
In six pages this essay examines what literary tools the author employed in writing Survival in Auschwitz....
In two pages this essay examines how the theme of death is depicted in these two literary works....
none of the women in Gatsby are particularly likeable, but even so, the book retains its power. Daisy Buchanan Lets start with Da...