The Great Gatsby Why did Daisy choose Tom in the end??? In the novel "The Great Gatsby", Daisy Buchanan was faced with an enormous decision. She had to choose between Tom; her husband and Jay Gatsby; her lover. Gatsby seemed to be the ideal man of his time. Fabulously wealthy, handsome, charismat...

At the onset of this book, the reader is introduced to the narrator, Nick Carraway, who relates the past happenings that construct the story of Jay Gatsby and Nick during the summer of 1922. After fighting in World War I, or the Great War as Nick called it, Nick left his prominent family in the West...

The Technique In The Great Gatsby I. Introduction The Great Gatsby is Fitzgerald's finest novel, it was published in1925, and Eliot considered it "to be the first step that America has taken since Henry James"1. It is a sensitive and symbolic treatment of themes of contemporary l...

"Fitzgerald's hero puts everything to a test of an overactive imagination, while Hemingway's hero puts it to the test of experience" The most notable Hemingway hero to put everything as a test to his knowledge and experience is Santiago from "The Old Man and The Sea.&q...

"I don't dream at night, I dream all day; I dream for a living." These words of Steven Spielberg echo the idea of the American Dream, where virtues of hard work and ambition can take one anywhere. Generically defined, the American Dream means someone starting low on the economic or social gamut work...