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Jazz Age Lifestyle in Tender is the Night, This Side of Paradise, and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

attended but did not graduate from Princeton University. While at Princeton however, Fitzgerald was first exposed to the exceeding...

Questions and Answers on New York Authors

respectively. He did perhaps change his ideology over time and student writing on this subject might say that he had softened his ...

Short Fiction Characterization

humanity. The action is the medium by which the man learns, but it is the learning that makes the story fundamentally interesting....

Literature and Analysis of Character, Theme, Symbols, and Setting

indescribable evil. Symbols always present another layer to a story, as well as another realm for questioning. Hawthornes repea...

Fitzgerald and Williams in Terms of Style, Theme, and Characterization

In six pages the stories 'Crazy Sunday' by F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'The Resemblance Between a Violin Case and a Coffin' by Tenness...

Protagonists in The Hairy Ape vs. Babylon Revisited

Robert ‘‘Yank'' Smith in The Hairy Ape by Eugene O'Neill and Charlie Wales in Babylon Revisited by F. Scott Fitzgerald...

American Dream in Death of a Salesman and The Great Gatsby

as "The Jazz Age." When not numbing themselves with superficial pleasures, young people were pursuing the American Dream, as tran...

Comparing Daisy from The Great Gatsby with Amanda from The Glass Menagerie

flower, hence the name chosen for her by the author; however, a brightly appealing as she might be on the outside, she harbors the...

Past Revived in Works by F. Scott Fitzgerald and William Faulkner

In five pages this paper discusses how the past is revived in 'Babylon Revisited' by F. Scott Fitzgerald and in 'A Rose for Emily'...

Loss of the American Dream in Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In nine pages the loss of the American dream as Fitzgerald portrays it in the moral decline and incest themes in his novel is disc...

Love and Its Power in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

her womanhood, she is one who lives at the mercy of her desires. Not aware -- or at least not caring -- about the havoc she wreak...

Walter Scott's Ivanhoe and Chivalry

in his disguise as the Black Knight, praises Locksley/Robin Hood, as he says that a man who "does good, having the unlimited power...

American Dream's Failure in The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser, and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

This sense of optimistic euphoria was forever captured in F. Scott Fitzgeralds 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby. Its featured charact...

Catherine the Great’s Accomplishments

As a young woman Catherine was apparently already determined to be a very powerful and effective leader. She "was ambitious as wel...

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Autobiography of an Ex Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson and the American Dream

"well aware of the way African American identity had become irreducible to a simple set of criteria" (Favor 28). In The Autobiogr...

Do Violent Video Games Encourage Violence Among Children

This paper reviews author Scott Shackford's defense of violent video games as published in the article Imaginary Guns Don't Kill P...

Age, Declining Cognition, and Frontal Deterioration Hypothesis

from that environment. This involves both thinking and problem solving which in turn results in memory formation and learning. T...

Is Outsourcing Leading to an Economic Decline in the U.S.?

thousands of new jobs in the United States" (Outsourcing creates jobs, study says, 2004-hereafter "Outsourcing, 2004"). Global Ins...

Pros and Cons of the US Falling Dollar

In five pages foreign investment is the primary focus in this assessment of the declining US dollar's pros and cons....

Life and Morality

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...

“The Great Gatsby” in Its Historical Context

important to remember that at the time Fitzgerald wrote, "immigrants were coming to the United States by the millions because they...

The Great Gatsby and American Greed

intelligence and talent to work in ways that are less than reputable in order to pursue an illusion of beauty. Making his fortune ...

Dreams and Authority in “The Great Gatsby”

no success at all; that belongs to the people who employ the hard workers. But the dream persists, and Gatsby seems to achieve it,...

The Eyes of Dr. Eckleburg

no face, instead, the eyes are behind an enormous pair of glasses which are sitting on a non-existent nose (Fitzgerald). Nick, who...

The Great Gatsby

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 Not-So-Great Gatsby?

for that reason its possible that he colors the accounts he gives. However, he is the closest thing we have to a neutral observer,...

American Literature and Major Common Themes

shaped by trying to achieve the American dream, but by experiencing what occurs when others achieve and pass on the values of weal...

Jay Gatsby and the Cult of Celebrity

same time he undercuts Gatsby by telling readers that he made his money illegally; he was a bootlegger (he sold illegal whiskey du...

The Great Gatsby, the Novel and the Film

book, Benjamin Schreier claims that Gatsby, if not actually black-an unusual interpretation to be sure-is someone of color; he bas...

Research Proposal: Nick in "The Great Gatsby"

his personal life, and physically; hes a bigot, hes a racist, and he has a mistress who he makes little effort to hide from his wi...