Essays 1 - 30
In seven pages this essay analyzes the motivation behind the title character's obsession with Daisy Buchanan and what she represen...
ensuring that Winterbourne knows that she has plenty of male friends in New York, giving him "lively eyes and...light, slightly mo...
example, Gatsby is showing her through his house and he shows her his silk shirts: "Theyre such beautiful shirts, she sobbed, her ...
through Nicks eyes Nick provides the voice by which the other characters are heard. As such, he serves as a "translator of the dr...
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...
gained on the Italian front. Although Hemingway delicately avoids telling us precisely where the wound is, we know it is around hi...
In five pages The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is examined with the focus being upon the obsessive love Jay Gatsby had for ...
5 pages and 2 sources used. This paper provides an overview and a comparison of the lives and characteristics of two central fema...
with the wealth he possesses, and likely also very taken with his obvious infatuation with her. She does not stop his adoration of...
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...
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...
flower, hence the name chosen for her by the author; however, a brightly appealing as she might be on the outside, she harbors the...
In five pages this paper compares and contrasts these two supporting characters and also considers the symbolism represented by th...
quicksand. Daisy hide a deeper meaning to her character, and that character is evil due to the unthinking nature of her superficia...
In five pages the new criticism of this classic old character is discussed in terms of its patterns of cause and effect, compariso...
expensive roadster, and momentarily loses control of the car, striking and killing a woman, Myrtle Wilson, whom readers later lear...
In five pages a character analysis of Jay Gatsby and some insights into his true identity are presented. There are no other sourc...
that he assumes Mrs. Costello is not that fond of Daisy and her mother and Mrs. Costello states, "They are the sort of Americans t...
has died. Beginning in the third stanza, the poet discusses the death and again addresses the deceased directly. He says the youn...
far more refined individual, even if he still slung to some of his impoverished perspectives. For example, he shows his need to sh...
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...
feel of the American youth culture, because he, and through his writing, Amory Blaine, as well, were young men of the time in whic...
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...
few minutes I was going to enter into their lives, and no one would ever know or disapprove" (Fitzgerald 61). He soon finds that...
of his mother during her long illness, however, he primarily, marries her because he does not want to be alone during the long New...
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 ...
hostile public world. Yet, she confesses to a friend that she keeps her business activities a secret from him because it would be ...
her well-loved eyes" (Fitzgerald 111). As this suggests, Gatsbys many possessions and signs of extreme wealth are not important ...