Essays 91 - 120
In six pages this report compares women's subservient status in each of these literary works. Eight sources are cited in the bibl...
In seven pages this paper analyzes how the 1920s' American Dream is presented in The Great Gatsby by author F. Scott Fitzgerald. ...
she could display for all to see. She possessed all the "shallowness" (Fitzgerald PG) of a person who knew not how to love yet kn...
In five pages this character analysis compares Hamlet to Nick Carraway and Claudius to Tom Buchanan with themes also compared. Th...
illustrated in the frequent comparisons between the Long Island sections of East Egg and West Egg. As narrator Nick Carraway, a W...
pursues a materialistic dream that is draped in romantic expectation. Nick comes to feel that Gatsbys misplaced idealism and roman...
This paper analyzes characterization and the theme of abandoned ethics seen in Fitzgerald's classic novel, The Great Gatsby. The a...
as "The Jazz Age." When not numbing themselves with superficial pleasures, young people were pursuing the American Dream, as tran...
In 6 pages this paper compares these novels in a consideration of how each author employed symbolism and metaphor in their respect...
quicksand. Daisy hide a deeper meaning to her character, and that character is evil due to the unthinking nature of her superficia...
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...
5 pages and 2 sources used. This paper provides an overview and a comparison of the lives and characteristics of two central fema...
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...
gained on the Italian front. Although Hemingway delicately avoids telling us precisely where the wound is, we know it is around hi...
feel of the American youth culture, because he, and through his writing, Amory Blaine, as well, were young men of the time in whic...
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...
of his mother during her long illness, however, he primarily, marries her because he does not want to be alone during the long New...
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 ...
none of the women in Gatsby are particularly likeable, but even so, the book retains its power. Daisy Buchanan Lets start with Da...
As a young woman Catherine was apparently already determined to be a very powerful and effective leader. She "was ambitious as wel...
same time he undercuts Gatsby by telling readers that he made his money illegally; he was a bootlegger (he sold illegal whiskey du...
Fitzgerald was seeking in his style and the forms that were emerging in relationship to the 20s. Berman notes how many of his stor...
ever written. F. Scott Fitzgeralds portrait of Jay Gatsby resonates with almost every reader because he is so human in his hopes a...
no face, instead, the eyes are behind an enormous pair of glasses which are sitting on a non-existent nose (Fitzgerald). Nick, who...
move comfortably in the social circle of people like the Buchanans. Fitzgerald shows us all the trappings of wealth: the gorgeous...
shaped by trying to achieve the American dream, but by experiencing what occurs when others achieve and pass on the values of weal...
In 6 pages this paper analyzes the male and female heroines in the texts The Ice Palace, Winter Dreams, The Last Tycoon, This Side...