Essays 1 - 30
through Nicks eyes Nick provides the voice by which the other characters are heard. As such, he serves as a "translator of the dr...
gained on the Italian front. Although Hemingway delicately avoids telling us precisely where the wound is, we know it is around hi...
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...
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...
moralism in the United States, and struggling to find worth in either of them. For this "Lost Generation", as they are commonly ca...
none of the women in Gatsby are particularly likeable, but even so, the book retains its power. Daisy Buchanan Lets start with Da...
example, Gatsby is showing her through his house and he shows her his silk shirts: "Theyre such beautiful shirts, she sobbed, her ...
has died. Beginning in the third stanza, the poet discusses the death and again addresses the deceased directly. He says the youn...
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 ...
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...
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...
In five pages The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is examined with the focus being upon the obsessive love Jay Gatsby had for ...
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...
book, Benjamin Schreier claims that Gatsby, if not actually black-an unusual interpretation to be sure-is someone of color; he bas...
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...
shirts and strolls her through his kitchen. There, we see Daisys hand trailing along a large work table...the elegant chandeliers ...
This 3-page paper compares and contrasts Great Northern Iron stock as an investment with a Wells Fargo certificate of deposit....
with the wealth he possesses, and likely also very taken with his obvious infatuation with her. She does not stop his adoration of...
about, while assessing the characters he meets. In this respect both narrators must take into consideration the past lives of the ...
to him. He merely knows that without his job he is lost, but he doesnt have the insight to look inward for the answers....
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...
retinas are one yard high" (Fitzgerald 15). The student researching this topic will note that there are divergences from the stu...
In five pages The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Trial by Franz Kafka are compared in terms of European and American ...
Gatsby, and in Truman Capotes Breakfast at Tiffanys, first published in 1958. Both define the American Dream as the exclusive pro...