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means just that-and he must be about His Fathers business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented ...
through Nicks eyes Nick provides the voice by which the other characters are heard. As such, he serves as a "translator of the dr...
who does not exhibit the same or nearly the same amount of wealth and material possessions. The lost generation of America is ext...
on The Great Gatsby, "As Puritan values gave way to an unrestrained craving for money, power, and other forms of gratification, th...
In five pages this report examines how Gatsby depicts a corrupted variation of the American Dream in Fitzgerald's classic 1925 nov...
In four pages this paper examines how the theme of corruption is represented within the context of Fitzgerald's 1925 novel masterp...
In seven pages this paper examines the excesses of the American Dream and its criticisms signified by the characterization of Jay ...
II, Miller was able to show that the American Dream as a way of life is a sham -- and why. Death of a Salesman tells the story of...
considerations in Death of a Salesman. There are three shifts created by Millers "time bends" in the play: the historical time (19...
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...
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...
more and more about Willys life, than it is not some innate tragic flaw in his character which has led to his misfortune, but a co...
moralism in the United States, and struggling to find worth in either of them. For this "Lost Generation", as they are commonly ca...
no success at all; that belongs to the people who employ the hard workers. But the dream persists, and Gatsby seems to achieve it,...
retinas are one yard high" (Fitzgerald 15). The student researching this topic will note that there are divergences from the stu...
brother, his time away from home when he worked on ranches where he states, "theres nothing more inspiring or-beautiful than the s...
young men. One of the great ironies of the play is that Willy has sold the boys a perverted version of the American Dream. He has ...
In 6 pages this paper analyzes the male and female heroines in the texts The Ice Palace, Winter Dreams, The Last Tycoon, This Side...
play, if we only look at the man, Willy Loman, and examine him from his perspective, concerning his hopes and desires for himself ...
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...
expensive roadster, and momentarily loses control of the car, striking and killing a woman, Myrtle Wilson, whom readers later lear...
less than legal involvement. But, for the most part that did not matter, for the premise of the book, in relationship to acceptabl...
people are happy to work for practically nothing, low-skill labor is relegated to the food and service industries, which offer min...
opening, Hughes moves on to create a "crescendo of horror," which entails moving through a series of neutral questions. The questi...
This paper examines the themes of death in Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich, and Miller's, The Death of a Salesman. This five p...
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...
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...