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- 2521: The Great Gatsby: The Green Light
- ... could see your home across the bay... You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock." Daisy is so close to fulfilling Gatsby's dream, but she falls short of what he expected. From this location in the novel, Gatsby's chances of fulfilling his dream become increasingly impossible. Before Gatsby gets killed, Nick wonders what Gatsby could have been thinking while he layed ... it is further examined in chapters four and five it becomes more evident that this green light is not Daisy, but a symbol representing Gatsby's dream of having Daisy. The fact that Daisy falls short of Gatsby's expectations is obvious. Knowing this, one can see that know matter how hard Gatsby tries to live his fantasy, he will never be able to achieve it. The green light is mentioned ...
- 2522: The Fall of the House of Usher: Poe's Writing Technique
- ... Edgar Allan Poe's greatest works. Poe uses Symbolism and analogies in both characters and setting to tell this gothic tale of death and downfall. He often drew upon memory for the setting of his stories. He combines atmosphere and analogy to form the setting which provokes to the reader a sense of insufferable gloom. Too much of the horror has been attributed to its setting. But the setting does have ... of Poe's writing techniques is anima. Anima is giving a character qualities of having an animal spirit. Madeline Usher is the anima figure in the story Poe's use of symbolism in his gothic stories is a guiding thread to his literary art. That he is not persistently a symbolist is one of his strengths, for it means that he only turns to symbolism when it has a distinct role ...
- 2523: Stephen Crane's "The Open Book": Determinism, Objectivity, and Pessimism
- Stephen Crane's "The Open Book": Determinism, Objectivity, and Pessimism In Stephen Crane's short story The Open Boat, the American literary school of naturalism is used and three of the eight features are most apparent, making this work, in my opinion, a good example of the school of naturalism ... why in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and trees. This passage is said not once, but twice in the short story, strengthening the fact that a sense of pessimism is present throughout the story while also expressing the anger the characters feel toward the ever present fate of nature. The entire story in itself is ...
- 2524: Analysis of The Most Dangerous Game
- Analysis of The Most Dangerous Game This paper will analyze the short story called The Most Dangerous Game by discussing the four main elements of a short story which are, setting, character, conflict, and theme. The story involves two main characters, Rainsford and General Zaroff. Rainsford is a celebrated hunter, who enjoys hunting animals. He does not believe that hunting animals is ...
- 2525: Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine
- ... Spaulding, is a powerful mirror into childhood, growing up, and life in general. Bradbury, generally considered one of the Grand Masters of science fiction, did not in fact write science fiction. While his books and stories had some of the overtones of science fiction, their themes went much deeper than simple space opera or shoot-'em-up action. His books were often quite surrealistic and were very emotional. (Wolfheim 42) Critiquing ... comes to Earth to try to imprison Eve in Hell. (Rosenman 84) Lavinia Nebbs represents that archetypal figure of Eve from the Biblical story of Adam and Eve in the Garden, and in most modern stories that build on the Garden of Eden / Fall / Heaven and Hell archetype, the Eve character must somehow understand herself much better than previously to understand her dark, evil, inner core. This exploration is not explored ...
- 2526: Jay Gatsby: The Dissolution of a Dream
- ... Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elation's of men." Gatsby is revealed to us slowly and skillfully, and with a keen tenderness which in the end makes his tragedy a deeply moving one. Jay Gatsby is a crook, a ... drawn to him by the sad apprehension that dreams themselves are often more beautiful than dreams fulfilled. Nick realizes this, too, when he says: "There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -nor through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything." What Gatsby and Daisy have is so much more than an ...
- 2527: Comparison of the Characters in "A Doll's House" and "The Stranger"
- ... Torvald to Italy. Together they play a type of guessing game or cat and mouse.. "There are all sorts of ways I might have got it [money]"(160) says Nora during this guessing game. A short while later, Nora reveals herself by telling Mrs. Linde that she "earned"(162) the money. "[She was] sitting there working and earning money. It was almost like being a man."(162) This finally revealed Nora ... from others as well because it was not proper or socially acceptable for a woman to work. Another obvious mask in The Stranger is very evident in Raymond Sintes. He is" a little on the short side, with broad shoulders and a nose like a boxer's"(28). At the beginning of the novel when speaking with Meursault, Raymond tells the story of him running into his mistress's brother and ...
- 2528: Female Characters In "Raise the Red Lantern", the Handmaid's Tale, and "A
- ... a community riddled by despair. Though she is not physically tortured, she is mentally enslaved by the overwhelming and ridiculously powerful government. First off, Offred reminisces about the way life used to be by remembering stories about Luke, her husband, Moira, her best friend, and her daughter. As mentioned earlier, Offred lives in a horrific society which prevents her from being freed. Essentially, the government enslaves Offred because she's a female, and she's fertile. Remembering stories of the past provide her with temporary relief from her binding situation. Also, Offred befriends the Commander's aide, Nick. Offred longs to be loved by her husband, and she feels that she can find ...
- 2529: Charles Dickens
- ... father so they just said that those characters were part of his imagination. John Dickens moved around quiet a bit. When Charles was not even two years old they moved for what would be a short stay to London and then moved to Chatam for what would be a longer stay, there Charles started school but soon all of that would change. Charles who couldnt of hardly been ten years ... arrested leaving his wife the mother of eight children to fend for herself. Charles had a sense of humiliation and abandonment that haunted him for life. He only held the shoe shining job for a short period of time but just the misery of the experience left scars for life. From 1824 to 1826, Dickens again attended school and then finally left for good when he was 14. He was self ...
- 2530: The Biography of Ernest Hemingway
- ... musical talent, hoped that Ernest would develop an interest in music. Ernest enjoyed guns and fishing trips in the Michigan north woods, and that phase of his childhood formed important impressions reflected later in his stories of Nick Adams like Indian Camp and Big Two-Hearted River. Hemingway played high school football and learned to box, incurring permanent eye damage that caused the army to reject his repeated efforts to enlist in WWI. Boxing also gave Hemingway a lasting enthusiasm for prize fighting, material for stories, and a tendency to talk of his literary accomplishments later in boxing terms. He edited the high school newspaper, twice ran away from home, and on graduating from high school, Hemingway headed for Kansas City ...
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