An essay on who is the loneliest character in the novel the great gatsby.

Blockquote>[G]audy ... primary colors, and hair shorn in strange new ways, and shawls beyond the dreams of Castile ... [T]he air is alive with chatter and laughter, and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot, and ...

The Eulogy of a Dream James Boo

The Great Gatsby

The central theme of The Great Gatsby is the decay of the American Dream. Through his incisive analysis and condemnation of 1920s high society, Fitzgerald (in the person of the novels narrator, Nick Carraway) argues that the ...

Materialism Portrayed By Cars in The Great Gatsby Joanna Cruz

The Great Gatsby

"But as I walked down the steps I saw that the evening was not quite over. Fifty feet from the door a dozen headlights illuminated a bizarre and tumultuous scene (58)."

After the first of Gatsby's parties that Nick attends, Fitzgerald dedicates two ...

Role of Narration in The Great Gatsby Steven Rice

The Great Gatsby

Renowned author F. Scott Fitzgerald became "the most famous chronicler of 1920s America, an era that he dubbed 'the Jazz Age.'" (Phillips 1). His fame grew in part from his widely published short stories, and also from the art of his novel, The ...

A Great American Dream Jens Shroyer

The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby and "Babylon Revisited," both by F. Scott Fitzgerald, are stories about the emptiness and recklessness of the 1920s. Each story has its distinctions, but Fitzgerald's condemnation of the decade reverberates through both ...

Restless in West Egg Anonymous

The Great Gatsby

To many Americans, wealth and happiness are inextricably intertwined. After all, the democratic ideals of our country are predicated on the notion of the âself-madeâ? man. Ironically, it is sometimes the striving for wealth or the striving for ...