The Great Gatsby
.... color with nickel and has a three-noted horn.” (64) It has a “monstrous length with triumphant hat-boxes, supper-boxes, tool-boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of windshields and a green leather conservatory.” (64)
Amidst Gatsby’s possessions, he develops his personal self. His physical self appearance sets him apart form the other characters. His smile is the type “that comes across four or five times in life. One of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it.” (48) He has a collection of tailored shirts from England. They are described as “shirts of sheer linen and thick silk and fine f .....
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Canterbury Tales: Who Is The Narrator?
.... seson on a day, In Southwerk at the Tabard as I lay Redy to wenden on my pilgrymage" (1). But the fact that he is a pilgrim gives no clue to what he does in real life; beggars and kings alike could be pilgrims.
So we know the narrator not by his vocation, but by his avocations: writer and pilgrim. Why not short-circuit this elaborate search for textual clues as to what the narrator does, and just equate him with Chaucer? After all, the narrator and Chaucer are both literate, so they belong to a relatively small segment of Medieval society and are likely to have had similar interests, jobs, and education. Also, to Chaucer's c .....
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The Glass Menagerie: Symbols
.... of the other characters: Tom's habit of going to the movies shows us his longing to leave the apartment and head out into the world of reality. A place where one can find adventure. And Tom, being a poet, can understand the needs of man to long for adventure and romance. But he is kept from entering reality by Amanda, who criticizes him as being a "selfish dreamer." But, Tom has made steps to escape into reality by transferring the payment of a light bill to pay for his dues in the Merchant Seaman's Union.
Another symbol, which deals with both Amanda and Laura, is Jim O'Connor. To Laura, Jim represents the one th .....
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Young Goodman Brown / The Masque Of Red Death
.... mind and made him believe in things that were fake but when he woke he couldn't deal with the real world. He believed what happened in the dream was reality and what ever happens in reality goes against what he learned in his dreams. So whenever normal actions occurred in real life he questioned it and wondered what it really meant. In The Masque Of The Red Death Prince Prospero for some reason decorated his rooms in a bizarre way and with haunting furniture he had a eccentric yet August taste. He also wanted everyone around him to dress in masks and bizarre. This must should that he has something wrong with his internal psycholo .....
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Summary Of The Great Gatsby
.... tea parties and mysterious affairs, which he claims illustrate the shallowness of rich America. Gatsby buys the American dream which tells him money will buy him everything, only to realize that it could not buy him love. Gatsby thinks that money and culture will make him invincible, but this is proven wrong when the Depression comes and Gatsby's hopes and dreams vanish, by realizing that wealth cannot change the past. This symbolism and pure, simple entertainment proves that The Great Gatsby may not be the perfect novel, but it comes close.
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The Catcher In The Rye: Summary
.... trying to protect his old friend. This sets the scene for what life was like at Pency, which is a very important fact later in the book.
After the fight with Straddler, Holden attempts to befriend Ackley without success because he does not want to leave Pency friendless. Holden eventually decides to leave Pency early and stay in New York until the day that he is suppose to arrive home comes. On the train to New York Holden meets the mother of student at Pency and lies about him just to be sociable while all the time laughing that he is being a phony while he hates them. Once in New York at his hotel he calls a .....
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Lord Of The Flies - Good And Evil: Fight To The Finish
.... that the manager didn’t want Kurtz back, but he was brave enough to try bringing Kurtz back. the manger knew Marlow was just like Kurtz. That he will not give up so easy. The manager did everything in his power to stop Marlow. Even if they think their opponent is stronger, they don’t back away from the fear of facing them. In Lord of the Flies, Piggy knows that Jack and his tribe is stronger than him, but still he goes over to the tribe and speaks his mind out about how they were wrong. (156) when a person makes up their mind to confront their opponent, nothing can stop them.
Another comparable characteristic between the .....
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A Civil Action?
.... verdict in favor of the plaintiffs. He is well known and respected, so everyone in the team is behind him. If Schlictmann would not have had this influence, he may have settled earlier in the case, or may have limited his spending on the trial. Even Skinner recognized Nesson's authority, realizing after seeing Nesson that the case could be worth an "astronomical" amount of money.
Authority works in Schlictmann's favor when defense attorney William Cheeseman challenges Schlictmann's case with a Rule 11 motion. When Cheeseman attempts to put Schlictmann on the stand, he refuses, and asks Judge Skinner to perform the questioni .....
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All Quiet On The Western Front: An Analysis
.... recovered from the war. Two of the most common side affects of the war were shell shock and stir crazy. When suffering from shell shock a soldier’s brain doesn’t function properly and the man is a “vegetable”. This means the man is alive but he can’t do anything because he is in a state of shock because of the war. Stir crazy is a mental illness caused by the firing of so many bullets that when no bullets are heard by the victim he goes insane. Everyone was scared to go to war when it started. Young recruits were first sent because the veterans knew they were going to come back dead. "When we run out again, although I am very excit .....
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Walking Across Egypt: A Young Elder
.... And again displays it as she falls through the bottomless rocking chair. Later she displays physical inability when she asks her son Robert about helping with some yard work, which she had always taken care of before.
“I’m too old to keep a dog,” (20) she says to the dogcatcher as he is leaving with a brown fice that showed up on her doorstep. “Besides, I’m slowing down,” she says to her son during lunch.
The stereotypes of the elderly are influencing Mattie’s life. She is telling herself not to do things because of her age whether or not she is physically able to do them, simply because people associate age with i .....
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The Metamorphosis
.... things into his home, where they separate him from his family. The only way Gregor can find happiness is through the small amount of creative work he can accomplish through carpentry. This is his true love and his one indulgence and he will do anything to protect it, and he shows when his mother and sister move to clean his room and move his furniture. He fears they will remove the picture with the frame that he made so "he pressed against the glass, which gave a good surface to stick to" (Kafka, p. 35). This is the one reminder he has left of something he truly loves and he will not let it go. Thus Kafka is trying to make th .....
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Battle Royale
.... to create conflict within the black community. The narrator states "In those pre-invisible days I visualized myself as a potential Booker T. Washington." Booker T. Washington was known for advocating working within the white community, quietly and without protest to gain status in the white society. The view that makes this a possibility is discarded by the narrator later in his life, but it is important to note he believes in the theory at this point in the novel. The narrator, when speaking of the boys he is to fight, states he feels "superior to them in my way." The conflict is shown between blacks who are educated and .....
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