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done in their lives as they see no hope in the future. Their American Dream is one that came smashing down with the pessimistic re...

pursues a materialistic dream that is draped in romantic expectation. Nick comes to feel that Gatsbys misplaced idealism and roman...

is lives in the swanky neighborhood of town while Myrtle lives in closer proximity to the billboard noted above. Gatsby is acknow...

so much as for the enjoyment of others, for the pride he could have when looking at what he achieved through the eyes of others. T...

family that was better off than his own. In order to make something of himself he began to write articles for various magazines. H...

Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman is compared and contrasted with F. Scott Fitzgerald's Gatsby character. The Ame...

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...

affair. If the story were told by Gatsby, we would get the story of a poor but ruthlessly ambitious youth on the make. We would l...

value into ultimately empty goals; this is indicated by the comparison of Gatsbys quest for Daisy with the "American dream" itself...

the major theme is far from romantic in nature. This story is all about the disintegration of the once proud American Dream. And, ...

who does not exhibit the same or nearly the same amount of wealth and material possessions. The lost generation of America is ext...

many argue saw the true beginning of a consumeristic culture as the American Dream turned to one of material wealth as a sign of s...

so pervades The Great Gatsby that Fitzgeralds true achievement was to appropriate American legend."1 The book gives us both romanc...

In five pages this paper discusses how the novel portrays a post First World War I America and declining values. There are no oth...

In 6 pages this paper discusses how the narrators of these respective texts managed to develop their own individuality through the...

5 pages and 2 sources used. This paper provides an overview and a comparison of the lives and characteristics of two central fema...

and a truly brazen attitude - were in vogue, as was drinking. Although Prohibition was in force to try to prevent people from imbi...

In eight pages this paper examines how Fitzgerald employs symbolism and imagery in his novel much as a lyric poem would in terms o...

"Bernice Bobs her Hair," "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," "The Debutante," "Absolution," and "Winter Dreams." (http://www.sc.edu/...

In eight pages this paper analyzes this classic American novel and its confrontation of post First World War truths about the Amer...

illustrated in the frequent comparisons between the Long Island sections of East Egg and West Egg. As narrator Nick Carraway, a W...

and actually wrote several novels and short stories during the period ("F. Scott Fitzgerald"). Interestingly, his novels were neve...

moralism in the United States, and struggling to find worth in either of them. For this "Lost Generation", as they are commonly ca...

to him. He merely knows that without his job he is lost, but he doesnt have the insight to look inward for the answers....

In 5 pages this paper discusses how Franklin and Fitzgerald presented morality and the American Dream in a comparative analysis of...

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 ...

Ambition and a self-made determination, and the freedom to achieve anything that one sets his or her mind to were the basic concep...

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...

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...