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the four most important symbols are the characters names, especially the women; the green light on Daisys dock, the so-called "val...
for traditional values and is attracted to the fast-life epitomized by Jay. Nick comes to understand that Gatsby, rather than the...
and then sued the "bad" trusts that essentially took advantage of small businesses and the people (Jensen, 2007). One of these "ba...
public transportation or carpooling with friends. To fill up the tank of this older model, low mileage car costs $75. Moreover, ...
The treatments Breuer and Freud developed for treating hysteria had an impact on the development of psychoanalysis. This is discu...
In five pages LBJ's envisioned 'Great Society' is examined within the context of Doris Kearns Goodwin's Lyndon B. Johnson and the ...
Morrisons novel this rebirth was filled with dreams and possibilities. For Joe and Violet it was a dream of better opportunities. ...
This sense of optimistic euphoria was forever captured in F. Scott Fitzgeralds 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby. Its featured charact...
retirement for older Americans, perhaps the most overlooked factor in the devastation caused by the economic crisis. Older America...
As a young woman Catherine was apparently already determined to be a very powerful and effective leader. She "was ambitious as wel...
He had a good dream. Its the only dream you can have - to come out number-one man. He fought it out here, and this is where...
they wonder why they must live less well than they did when they were young. Baby boomers find that they can no longer get jobs, t...
In five pages 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers' and 'Dream Deferred' poems of Langston Hughes are compared in a discussion of brutal re...
place he established were treated as little better than slaves, and lost their autonomy. So the cost of bringing the "white mans" ...
appropriate, but notes that there are no pharmaceutical treatments available specifically for short term memory loss. The c...
shaped by trying to achieve the American dream, but by experiencing what occurs when others achieve and pass on the values of weal...
same time he undercuts Gatsby by telling readers that he made his money illegally; he was a bootlegger (he sold illegal whiskey du...
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...
America in the 1920s" (Gibb 96). Gatsby is, in many ways, the epitome of new growth and renewal and thus of a metaphorical landsca...
ever written. F. Scott Fitzgeralds portrait of Jay Gatsby resonates with almost every reader because he is so human in his hopes a...
for that reason its possible that he colors the accounts he gives. However, he is the closest thing we have to a neutral observer,...
book, Benjamin Schreier claims that Gatsby, if not actually black-an unusual interpretation to be sure-is someone of color; he bas...
with the wealth he possesses, and likely also very taken with his obvious infatuation with her. She does not stop his adoration of...
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...
of Gatsby himself, at least in part. Gatsby is far from a worthless fool like Trimalchio, but he is surrounded by sycophants and o...
Fitzgerald was seeking in his style and the forms that were emerging in relationship to the 20s. Berman notes how many of his stor...
the city may appear attractive and it certainly attracted Nick, it is hollow. He expresses this by returning home to the midwest. ...
on the world scene. And, we know that the one individual who could perhaps sway him from his innocent and noble ways is Gatsby him...
family that was better off than his own. In order to make something of himself he began to write articles for various magazines. H...
to him. He merely knows that without his job he is lost, but he doesnt have the insight to look inward for the answers....