Essays 61 - 90
In seven pages this paper examines the excesses of the American Dream and its criticisms signified by the characterization of Jay ...
5 pages and 2 sources used. This paper provides an overview and a comparison of the lives and characteristics of two central fema...
In five pages this paper examines F. Scott Fitzgerald's work in a consideration of how despite his lone critical success The Great...
of Gatsby himself, at least in part. Gatsby is far from a worthless fool like Trimalchio, but he is surrounded by sycophants and o...
Fitzgerald was seeking in his style and the forms that were emerging in relationship to the 20s. Berman notes how many of his stor...
for that reason its possible that he colors the accounts he gives. However, he is the closest thing we have to a neutral observer,...
book, Benjamin Schreier claims that Gatsby, if not actually black-an unusual interpretation to be sure-is someone of color; he bas...
went to work on the street early in life, and fell in with a teenage gang from the Lower East Side. Taking advantage of Prohibitio...
personal look at the 1920s and the liberal changes taking place. A Decade of Change "The changes wrought in the United States ...
not exist as it does in The Great Gatsby, leaves the reader without reason to involve himself in the realistic aspects of the stor...
and a truly brazen attitude - were in vogue, as was drinking. Although Prohibition was in force to try to prevent people from imbi...
Ambition and a self-made determination, and the freedom to achieve anything that one sets his or her mind to were the basic concep...
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...
same time he undercuts Gatsby by telling readers that he made his money illegally; he was a bootlegger (he sold illegal whiskey du...
not abhor, which is very important in setting up the story: "Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from...
the four most important symbols are the characters names, especially the women; the green light on Daisys dock, the so-called "val...
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 ...
to him. He merely knows that without his job he is lost, but he doesnt have the insight to look inward for the answers....
shirts and strolls her through his kitchen. There, we see Daisys hand trailing along a large work table...the elegant chandeliers ...
In twelve pages this paper examines confrontation in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and in Toni Morrison's Jazz. One othe...
In seven pages this paper analyzes how the 1920s' American Dream is presented in The Great Gatsby by author F. Scott Fitzgerald. ...
family that was better off than his own. In order to make something of himself he began to write articles for various magazines. H...
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...
society . . . profoundly agrees with Marxs great discovery that it is social rather than individual consciousness that determines ...
In 5 pages this paper discusses how Franklin and Fitzgerald presented morality and the American Dream in a comparative analysis of...
In 6 pages this paper analyzes the male and female heroines in the texts The Ice Palace, Winter Dreams, The Last Tycoon, This Side...
In 5 pages this paper examines the 1920s' significance of the party as represented in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Th...
This paper analyzes characterization and the theme of abandoned ethics seen in Fitzgerald's classic novel, The Great Gatsby. The a...