In the Roaring Twenties, people from all the social classes suddenly became aware of the class differences. This may be the effect of the jump on the stock market or the aftermath of a world war. It was evident that the social classes were clearly divided by location, amount of material possession...

What use does Fitzgerald make of symbolism in the novel?Francis Scott Fitzgerald is the author of the "The Great Gatsby." The novel takes place during the 1920's or as it is also known "The Jazz Age" and it is set in Long Island and New York. Many important things were happening in America. For exa...

Ernest Hemingway, author of The Sun Also Rises, and Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby, are people who have major effects on American literature. Through narrative technique, characterization, and symbolic structure, they are able to illustrate their pessimism and optimism on the world. Hemingwa...

The women in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby would likely face a difficult environment in today's modern society. Since the women, however, were the harbingers of today's worldly 'women about town' it could be an interesting conjecture as to whether they were the actual...

In society it is considered that if a person works hard then that person will attain success. In the play, "The Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller, and the novel, The Great Gatsby , by F. Scott Fitzgerald, one can see that the objective of the main characters is to attain the American dream. Trad...

David K. TireyProfessor HolmesEnglish E0714 February 2002Money and Power In The Great GatsbyDonald E. Hall, author of Literary and Cultural Theory, comments on, " The Freudian construction of women as 'castrated,' inferior versions of men". He writes "The penis, which is considered the marker of ult...

There are multiple ways to dictate a novel to a reader and the use of narration can give more incite into the characters. Narration is the use of a character to tell a story either to the reader or other characters often called the narratee. (Hawthorn, 228). Two authors that use different forms of n...