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Essays 121 - 150
no success at all; that belongs to the people who employ the hard workers. But the dream persists, and Gatsby seems to achieve it,...
move comfortably in the social circle of people like the Buchanans. Fitzgerald shows us all the trappings of wealth: the gorgeous...
important to remember that at the time Fitzgerald wrote, "immigrants were coming to the United States by the millions because they...
intelligence and talent to work in ways that are less than reputable in order to pursue an illusion of beauty. Making his fortune ...
we see him. At a military camp of King Duncans, a soldier is brought in who tells of the battle in which he was injured, and in wh...
now wealthy and has achieved all he set out to do. In this chapter we see many different things which tell us that Jay is nothing ...
This essay asserts that Nick Carraway's narration presents Jay Gatsby's story in terms of Freudian psychology and as paralleling ...
hostile public world. Yet, she confesses to a friend that she keeps her business activities a secret from him because it would be ...
Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman is compared and contrasted with F. Scott Fitzgerald's Gatsby character. The Ame...
way down the social ladder. The Shipman, i.e., the "sailor," is placed between Chaucers description of the Cook and the "Doctor of...
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...
in a most hideous way, Yossarian pleads with Doc Daneeka to ground him on the basis of insanity. Doc Daneeka replies that Yossaria...
illustrating how misery is a product of human actions. This book can be said to have more dark overtones than those of some of h...
a very well to do family. She attempts to foster a love of beauty and words to the narrator. In order to do this she encourages th...
is Miss Havisham. He believes that she is funding his education so that he can become educated and then wealthy and then be worthy...
people of Kiltaran, there is not likely end to the war that will affect them deeply one way or the other. Furthermore, it was not ...
In many ways the social failure of America as a whole at this time in history is symbolized by the personal failure experienced...
together, ties up all loose plot ends, and eventually takes the story full circle. The participating narrator/protagonist appeale...
own enjoyment so much as for the enjoyment of others, for the pride he could have when looking at what he achieved through the eye...
the major theme is far from romantic in nature. This story is all about the disintegration of the once proud American Dream. And, ...
means just that-and he must be about His Fathers business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented ...
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...
who does not exhibit the same or nearly the same amount of wealth and material possessions. The lost generation of America is ext...
with money, as the underlying theme is that which revolves around Gatsby using the pursuit of money, and the acquisition of money,...
his personality. He then discusses how he in the present, and why, then shifts to discussing the people who are Daisy and Tom. He ...
is a man of honor and integrity. He represents all that is good in the world of man as he stands to be a man who follows the old r...
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 6 pages this paper discusses how the narrators of these respective texts managed to develop their own individuality through the...
quicksand. Daisy hide a deeper meaning to her character, and that character is evil due to the unthinking nature of her superficia...
can have genuine depth. Both while their relationship is still comparatively superficial, and later when it becomes truly meaningf...