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- 7621: The Great Gatsby 15
- ... to get what they want. Later, as seen in the Plaza Hotel, Jay still believes that Daisy loves him. He is convinced of this as is shown when he takes the blame for Myrtle's death. "Was Daisy driving?" "Yes. . . but of course I'll say I was." He also watches and protects Daisy as she returns home. "How long are you going to wait?" said Nick "All night if necessary ...
- 7622: The Great Gatsby 13
- ... love. This love, however, is what led to the downfall of both Daisy and Gatsby. The author Fitzgerald warns that materialistic minds are easy to alter and may lead to pain, anguish, and perhaps even death. Finally, the character of Tom Buchanan symbolizes man s tendency towards sin. Although married to Daisy, Tom is unfaithful and has an affair with Myrtle Wilson. Tom says to Nick, We re getting off, [Tom ...
- 7623: The Grapes Of Wrath 6
- ... that had an unfortunate consequence. "Lennies greatest difficulty is remembering. While he never plans to do anything wrong, he simply cannot remember what is wrong and what is not." (Magil 89). That consequence being the death of Curley's wife, and that Curley ordered the men to kill Lennie. The workers assembled and took up arms. George knew that the men were not out to right a wrong, but out to ...
- 7624: The Crying Of Lot 49
- ... from Oedipus, the hero of Sophocles' famous play. According to the legend, Oedipus' parents found out that he was fated to kill his father and marry his mother. Therefore, they arranged for the child's death. However, he was rescued and grew to adulthood in another kingdom. As an adult, Oedipus meets a strange man on the road and kills him, never knowing that he is actually his father. When he ...
- 7625: The Count Of Monte Cristo 2
- ... because the Count is in disguise. The Count has many connections too, which help him get revenge on his enemies. For most of the cases, the Count punished most of his enemies that resolved to death. Through many events, a friend of Monte Cristo murdered Caderousse. And Fernand was prosecuted for murdering a man that was the father of the woman Monte Cristo loved. Because Fernand already lost his honor, instead ...
- 7626: The Cathedral
- ... day after day and never receive the smallest compliment from her beloved. A woman whose husband could never read the expression on her face, be it misery or something better then to slip off into death, the blind man s hand on her hand, his blind eyes streaming tears her last thought this: that he never even knew what she looked like, and she on an express to the grave. (Carver ...
- 7627: The Bogus Logic Of The Beak Of
- ... again the book tells of individual variation among finches. The average person would not notice these differences. The Grants noticed. Some of the subtle differences in bill thickness could mean the difference between survival and death. The Fortis finch, the main subject of the Grants' study, with a slightly narrower bill had an advantage in good growing years because the more general bill could eat a variety of available seeds. One ...
- 7628: The Awakening- Edna Pontellier
- ... s depression, from the beginning of the novel and all the way to the end when she commits suicide. If there had been someone who had seen this, Edna might not have been driven to death, but she felt that no one could understand her wanting to be on her own. She thought of Doctor Mandelet, that he might have understood, but it was already too late, she was too far ...
- 7629: The American Dream - Great Gat
- ... and achieve the true American Dream, but she chooses not to. When given the chance to go with Jay Gatsby and be happy with her true love, she decides to leave him, causing his premature death, "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy-they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money and let other people clean up the mess they had made" (188). Daisy is the ...
- 7630: T.s Eliot Interpretation Of Wa
- ... from Dante's Inferno. The main character, Guido de Montefeltro, confesses his sins to Dante, assuming that "none has ever returned alive from this depth"; this "depth" being Hell. As the reader has never experienced death and the passage through the Underworld, he must rely on his own imagination (and/or subconscious) to place a proper reference onto this cryptic opening. Images of a landscape of fire and brimstone come to ...
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