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Scott F. Fitzgerald and Jay Gatsby, 2002.
An examination of the similarities between the author and the protagonist of "The Great Gatsby" by Scott F. Fitzgerald.
2,080 words (approx. 8.3 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 65.95
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This paper examines the various similarities that exist between Jay Gatsby and Scott F. Fitzgerald, which are their enchantment with the fantasy of the Jazz Age due to their similar childhoods, their drive for the love of a woman, Jay's Daisy and Scott's Zelda and their submission to the illusion of their dreams. Finally, the paper compares how both men have lavish and expensive lifestyles, in order to please their women and others around them, hence submitting to the illusion of their dreams.
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"Jay Gatsby and F. Scott Fitzgerald similarly become enchanted with the fantasy of the Jazz Age due to their similar childhoods, their drive for the love of a woman, and their submission to the illusion of their dreams. Both men are raised in rural areas and enlist in the army after leaving school. When they meet the women they love, they both alter their lives and make a success to prove their worth. Over several years, both Gatsby and Fitzgerald change their lifestyles and throw lavish parties to impress the women they love."
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Jay Gatsby and Willy Loman, 2008.
A comparative analysis of how the characters of Jay Gatsby from F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" and Willy Loman from Arthur Miller's "Death of A Salesman" face their pasts.
956 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 33.95
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This paper examines how in "The Great Gatsby", F. Scott Fitzgerald created Jay Gatsby, a man with a mysterious past that is bared over the course of the novel. It also looks at how in "Death of a Salesman", Arthur Miller created Willy Loman, a man haunted by a past that he does not understand. It discusses how Jay Gatsby knew what his past was, and concealed it. Nevertheless, he could treat his father with generosity, if only from a distance. In comparison, the paper looks at how Willy Loman longs to recapture his past, but it is a past he has idealized almost beyond recognition. He does not realize that in the venality of his failing life, he already has it.
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"Fitzgerald gives only a glimpse of young Jimmy Gatz, through his father. Henry Gatz comes to New York for the funeral, "a solemn old man, very helpless and dismayed" (Fitzgerald, 111), after reading of Gatsby's death in the Chicago papers, and Fitzgerald does not explain how Mr. Gatz connected Jay Gatsby and his son. The old man confronts Gatsby's edifice with grief "mixed with awed pride" (Fitzgerald, 112), blind to the fact that "foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams" (Fitzgerald, 2). His worn-out photograph of Gatsby's house is "more real to him now than the house itself" (Fitzgerald, 115). "
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Jay Gatsby, 2002.
Explores denial as a character trait in Jay Gatsby from F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby".
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 1 source, $ 44.95
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This paper explores the concept of denial in Jay Gatsby from F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby", where the creation of an image prevented Gatsby from realizing that he was ignoring important aspects of reality.
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The Greatness of Jay Gatsby, 2007.
An analysis of the source of Jay Gatsby's greatness in "The Great Gatsby," written by Scott Fitzgerald.
1,138 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 39.95
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This paper discusses the greatness of the character, Jay Gatsby, in the novel, "The Great Gatsby," written by Scott Fitzgerald. The paper looks at Gatsby's relationships with other characters in the novel. It suggests that Gatsby is great, but not in terms of integrity and concern for others. Rather, the source of Gatsby's greatness is his drive or ambition.
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"When Tom's lover, Myrtle Wilson, is killed in a hit and run accident, everything that occurs is ironic. Gatsby is shot and killed by Mr. Wilson because the car is his. In addition, Tom believes that Gatsby was responsible for the death because Daisy continues to let Tom believe that Gatsby was at the wheel. Not one of the many guests who had attended Gatsby's parties bothered to attend his funeral. The only people in attendance are Gatsby's father, Nick, and Gatsby's servants. It is this lack of memory and respect for Gatsby that seems to deny his greatness. At the same time, Nick states that "Gatsby turned out all right at the end" (8). The reader can only be sympathetic to Gatsby if he or she holds capitalist and materialist values."
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Jay Gatsby and Jake Barnes, 2003.
A comparison of the main characters in F. Scott Fitzgerald?s "The Great Gatsby" and Ernest Hemingway?s "The Sun Also Rises".
1,935 words (approx. 7.7 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 61.95
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Both F. Scott Fitzgerald?s "The Great Gatsby" and Ernest Hemingway?s "The Sun Also Rises" center on characters who have been made, in different ways, impotent by their lives and have been left stranded in a social world in which there is no compelling sense of past, present, or future. This paper shows how the leading characters in these two novels are, in some ways, uniquely American, but in other ways, are also more representative of Modernism and of an international "lost generation" than representative of a distinctively American character. Both Jay Gatsby and Jake Barnes, the narrator of "The Sun Also Rises", are deeply flawed, and yet, by the end of the novels, we feel a great deal of sympathy with both of the characters. Both authors allow us to understand the tremendously difficult balancing act undertaken by these characters and by the other characters in the novels, and so we are sympathetic rather than scornful when they fail.
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"In The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald relates the story of Jay Gatsby, a mysterious and probably unsavory millionaire. Indeed, the more we learn throughout the book about his past actions the more we are inclined to view him as even sinister. The major action of the novel revolves around a series of grand but entirely pointless parties that Gatsby throws ? or at least seemingly pointless. We come to realize that in fact Gatsby?s life does have a purpose, which is to convince Daisy (a woman he has loved and lost) that he is this time worthy of her because he is now wealthy."
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The Story of Jay Gatsby, 2002.
The writer focuses on F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" as the tale of an unlikely hero and unrequited love, through selfish and naive characters.
1,360 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 45.95
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The paper focuses on the vibrant personalities in this novel, each giving a window into the heart of this story. The writer then discusses the tragic nature of the book making it all the more poignant in a reader?s memory. The murder of Gatsby, the unlikely hero of this tale, is caused because of the warring personalities found within the confines of this book.
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"Self-centered carelessness darkly shades the characters in this novel that plays against the backdrop of the rich. Klipspringer, one of the many freeloaders who circle Gatsby, appears at first glance to simply be an eccentric friend of Gatsby?s. We soon discover, however, when Gatsby dies, the lack of empathy Klipspringer possesses. Klipspringer comes to Gatsby?s house, after his death, not to pay his condolences but to pick-up a pair of shoes. The lack of depth displayed by this character heightens the reader?s awareness of selfishness present in other characters."
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Dred Scott vs. John F.A. Sandford, 2000.
Discusses the events leading up to the Dred Scott vs. Sandford case, in which Scott, the slave, sued his new owner, John Sandford, for freedom.
1,171 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 40.95
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This paper begins by describing Dred Scott's quest for freedom and the potential impact of the case rulings. The paper shows why Scott believed he should be free and this belief eventually led to a lawsuit against Scott's new owner, John F.A. Sanford. The case was finally brought up in the Supreme Court. The paper shows how the decision of Chief Justice Taney determined the case's outcome - and the fate of the United States.
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"Dred Scott was a Virginian slave born at the turn of the 19th century, who felt that he had a right to freedom for having lived in free territories for an extended period of time. He, in the debate about whether or not he deserved his freedom, would be the cause of many troubles before the Civil War in the United States. His case and press for liberty were extremely complex, and the Supreme Court?s response was rather typical of its era. Nevertheless, the decision was immensely important as it sealed the fate of the Civil War, angering northerners and pleasing southerners, and consequently further dividing the country. In this case Chief Justice Roger Taney delivered several rulings made on what were considered to be facts regarding equality."
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby", 2004.
A review of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel "The Great Gatsby."
2,082 words (approx. 8.3 pages), 11 sources, MLA, $ 65.95
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This is a review of "The Great Gatsby", by F. Scott Fitzgerald, which analyzes and comments on one man's personal vision of the 1920's American Dream and the dynamic yet decadent society that fueled his aspirations of wealth and happiness. The author of this paper provides comprehensive descriptions of all the characters, and reveals Gatsby's undying devotion to the pursuit of Daisy Fay Buchanan's love. The author also explains how Fitzgerald produced in his novel, set in the 1920s, a tale for any generation with the message that no one should be deterred from searching for their own piece of heaven on earth.
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"The Great Gatsby, through the honest, heart-felt narration of Nick Carraway, celebrates and criticizes the Jazz Age society, stressing its failure to reach its full potential as well as its inability to separate corruption from financial success and happiness. The corruption of this 1920's society caused the inevitable downfall and demise of Jay Gatsby, Fitzgerald's version of the heroic American character.
"From the outset of the novel, Nick Carraway is established as the mostly impartial but not passive narrator. His loyalties shift during the novel, and he becomes more critical of the individuals he previously thought to be friends and acquaintances. Nick is the straight-edged man in the Eggs, a suburb inhabited by an assortment of millionaires, eccentrics, and upstart societal darlings of the theatrical and musical worlds. Nick comes from a wealthy Mid-West family, but is indeed one of the normal, upstanding people in the novel, not a false face trying to fit into a self-chosen social coterie. Although he lives next to Gatsby's mansion, Nick is detached from the "garish, drunken-Broadway atmosphere" of the Eggs (Sutton 38). He is the most appropriate of all the characters to be the narrator because, as he explains, "...I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known"(Gatsby 64). It has been said, "Nick, who is, like us, within and without, simultaneously repelled and enchanted by the inexhaustible variety of life, is the hero we can and must become"(Gross 168)."
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?The Great Gatsby? by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 2002.
This paper discusses the theme of social oppression by the elite on the lower class in the society, as represented by the East Egg and the West Egg communities in ?The Great Gatsby? by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
1,145 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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The paper discusses the first sub-theme, which concerns the socioeconomic status of people in the East and West Egg societies, as evidenced in the illustration of the wealthy and rich lifestyle of the Eastern Egg society and the ?new money? or newly found wealth (nouveau riche society) of the Western Egg society. The author relates that the second sub-theme touches on the cultural differences between the East and West Egg communities, as presented by the rich and lavish lifestyle of Tom and Daisy and the kitschy and flamboyant display of wealth shown in Gatsby?s parties every Friday. The paper concludes that the last sub-theme is represented by the use of symbolism; wherein, Fitzgerald?s characters serve as symbols representing the ?character? of the East Egg and West Egg societies.
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"In ?The Great Gatsby,? Tom and Daisy?s lifestyle greatly contrasts the majority of households located in the West Egg. In Chapter 1, Nick explicitly expresses the social inequality existing between the East and West Egg in describing the physical and cultural features of the society: ?I lived at West Egg, the--well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them.? Nick?s description of the East Egg is also evidence how this region represents the affluence and wealth of the American society. The East Egg is characterized as the ?old moneyed sophistication? and the West Egg as ?new moneyed aggressiveness?. Although the latter?s character shows a positive portrayal of a socially mobile society, that is, a society that provides opportunities for everyone, this occurrence is definitely not agreed upon by the East Egg inhabitants, who treat West Egg ?contemptuously,? just like Nick?s description of Miss Baker?s comment when she learned that the narrator resides in the West Egg region. Thus, in this sub-theme, social conflict is expressed by assessing the socio-economic status of individuals through the places that they live in, which, in the novel?s case, is portrayed by the conflict between East and West Egg regions."
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby", 1991.
This paper discusses F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby", an American obsession with wealth.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 5 sources, $ 47.95
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" is largely concerned with the American obsession with wealth. Throughout the novel, the concept of the American dream is equated with the attainment of wealth. Even Gatsby's desire to win Daisy's love is ultimately shown to be a symbol for this dream. Fitzgerald does not glorify the American obsession with wealth in The Great Gatsby; in fact, he condemns it by emphasizing the tragic downfall of the book's title character. In this regard, Brand has noted that The Great Gatsby is "a mythic critique of the American dream" (1100). The overall message of Fitzgerald's novel is that wealth and material gain are elusive, transitory, and unreal. In addition, Fitzgerald makes the point that the desire for wealth is often a corrupting influence. Thus, in the words of Fidel-Honigman, The Great Gatsby "analyzes acquisition
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"The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1991.
This paper describes the "The Great Gatsby", F. Scott Fitzgerald the effect of the withering of American dream on the characters.
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"In "The Great Gatsby", F. Scott Fitzgerald describes three adjacent neighborhoods on Long Island. One is East Egg, where the established wealthy families live. The second is West Egg, which consists mostly of the "newly rich". The third is the "valley of ashes," a lower class neighborhood which is depicted as a "waste land" of gaudy billboards and corrosive dust. Nick Carraway and Tom Buchanan visit the valley of ashes a few days prior to the Fourth of July. Because of this reference to America's Independence Day, ... indicates that Fitzgerald's intention is to make a "comment on the new republic and the society it has fostered". ... further claims that the valley of ashes refers to "the failure of the ... "
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby", 2000.
An analysis of Gatsby's inability to accept the forward thrust of time.
1,293 words (approx. 5.2 pages), 1 source, $ 43.95
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"Time remains men?s most powerful enemy, demanding examination of an unchangeable past, denying glimpses of an unknown future, and mocking present happiness as only temperory. Like a raging river, it moves forward, sweeping nations and people into the vastness of history, leaving no place, no life, unchanged. Time travel novels owe their popularity not to quality but to humanity?s insatiable craving to dam these very waters, to gain dominance over time as mythical Neptune once ruled the sea. In Fitzgerald?s The Great Gatsby, Gatsby embodies the futile hope of such godliness; the cries of Pyrrhus rising even above the clamor of his greatest victory over time, his repossession of Daisy. Throughout the novel, Gatsby?s major weakness, indeed his only, is this fervent illusion, this simple inability to accept the forward thrust of time."
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Life Experiences of F. Scott Fitzgerald, 2003.
An examination of how F. Scott Fitzgerald's life impacted his writing of "The Great Gatsby".
1,308 words (approx. 5.2 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 44.95
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This paper examines how F. Scott Fitzgerald experienced many different hardships, romances, and personal achievements. Most characters in the "The Great Gatsby" had some link to his past, which makes each character more dynamic. It explains how F. Scott Fitzgerald called upon all his personal knowledge and past experiences to write "The Great Gatsby".
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"In The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald used many of his own life experiences including his own yearnings and lost hopes (A&E Biography). Throughout Fitzgerald?s life he met people in Great Neck, Long Island that would later become the characters in his elaborate novel that combine both truths and false pretenses that he lived. Mellow said that every scrap of experience, his own or borrowed from others; every insight, earned or overheard, was considered usable knowledge for his fictional pursuits (220). For instance, Mellow stated that nearly all of Gatsby?s shady connections with bootlegging, sport scandals, and stock swindles were related to unnamed but clearly identifiable Great Neck residents(220). In the character Jay Gatsby similarities can be seen between Gatsby and Fitzgerald."
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Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald, 2006.
This paper reviews the life and work of F. Scott Fitzgerald, focusing especially on the plots and characters in his novel "The Great Gatsby" and his short story "Winter Dreams".
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This paper relates that F. Scott Fitzgerald (Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald) was an Irish-American Jazz Age novelist and short story writer, who is regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century. The author points out that Fitzgerald's protagonists are often reflections of the author and his wife Zelda -- heroes who are handsome, confident and predestined that blaze brilliantly before exploding and heroines who are beautiful, tempting and manipulative. The paper compares the couples from the two writings, Jay and Daisy of "The Great Gatsby" and Dexter and Judy of "Winter Dreams", who want greatness but end in misery.
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"Both of these women were described as insensitive, unfaithful women, because both being involved in unsatisfactory marriages, they were having an affair with the male character, Jay Gatsby, respectively Dexter Green. Also Daisy was especially cruel when it came to significant issues. She ran over a woman and killed her, yet afterwards she simply went home and ate dinner, as nothing happened. She cared more about the heat than the person she murdered. Judy was heartless too when it came to the men who adored her."
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, 2006.
An overview of the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald.
1,222 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 41.95
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The paper begins with a short history of F. Scott Fitzgerald. The paper explains that Fitzgerald used himself, his wife and others in his close circle on whom to fashion his characters. Fitzgerald sometimes based characters on the country, the United States, as a symbol of moral decay in society. The paper has reviews of each of the following books: "This Side of Paradise", "The Great Gatsby" and "Tender is the Night".
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"Of all American writers, F. Scott Fitzgerald is considered by many critics and scholars to be unparalleled in the elegance and grace of his fiction. He wrote with a lyrical economy that elevates his work from pure storytelling to poetic beauty.
"This Side of Paradise"
Fitzgerald's first novel was groundbreaking in its candid portrayal of the behavior and thoughts of young people. One contemporary reviewer noted, "No one else has given us so real and intimate a study of college life, of the relationship at that age between boys and girls ... of the things young men in college think about and do." It tells the story of Amory Blaine's passage through adolescence and youth toward maturity. It explores his relationships with women with frankness that shocked the post-Victorian parental generation. His love interest, the beautiful Rosalind, tells him, "There used to be two kinds of kisses. First when girls were kissed and deserted; second when they were engaged. Now there's a third kind, where the man is kissed and deserted." This was a new facet in the sexual tension of the times, an early indication of the sexual revolution that was to come."
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